I read through the docs and used the commands outlined however for some reason I dont seem to be getting any symbols, just a series of "unknowns" in the function column of the summary table for everything except the topmost set of the app I was trying to debug.... I set the enviromental variable to the microsoft server and the direcories containg the pdb's for the app. I also made sure to select the "Load Symbols" item before bringing up the summary table.
Arcording to the info I was reading it should take some time for the tabl to display while it loads the symbols, however for me the table displayed almost instantly and only the top most items in sprite.exe->sprite.exe had function names, the othe rows for function were either blank or "unknown"
Im using Vista SP1.
This is the batch file I used. Did I do anything that would prevent the sybols being loaded?
REM start profiler
xperf -on PROC_THREAD+LOADER+INTERRUPT+DPC+PROFILE^
-stackwalk profile -minbuffers 16 -maxbuffers 1024 -flushtimer 0^
-f tmp.etl
REM run the app we want to profile
sprite.exe
REM stop
xperf -d profile.etl
REM set symbol path
set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH = ^
C:\Projects\C++\fl lib\bin;^ REM dlls
C:\Projects\C++\fl lib\samples\bin;^ REM main exe
SRV*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
REM display profile
xperf profile.etl