Visual Studio Profiler Patch for Intel Core i7 Processors

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Visual Studio Profiler Patch for Intel Core i7 Processors

February 26th, 2009 · No Comments

A hotfix has been issued for those of you trying to do sample profiling on Intel’s Nehalem-based processors, the most recently released being the Intel Core i7 family. Previously, trying to do so would result in a blue screen of death (i.e. Windows crash, machine lockup and reboot). Not very useful. With this patch, sampling should work as usual.

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