diff --git a/renderdoc/data/spv/text.vert b/renderdoc/data/spv/text.vert
index e74a9a01d..711d64326 100644
--- a/renderdoc/data/spv/text.vert
+++ b/renderdoc/data/spv/text.vert
@@ -71,17 +71,13 @@ layout (location = 1) out vec2 OUTglyphuv;
 
 void main(void)
 {
-	// VKTODOMED temporarily drawing lists
-    const vec3 verts[6] = vec3[6](vec3( 0.0,  0.0, 0.5),
-                                  vec3( 1.0,  0.0, 0.5),
-                                  vec3( 0.0,  1.0, 0.5),
-
+	const vec3 verts[4] = vec3[4](vec3( 0.0,  0.0, 0.5),
                                   vec3( 1.0,  0.0, 0.5),
                                   vec3( 0.0,  1.0, 0.5),
                                   vec3( 1.0,  1.0, 0.5));
 
-	vec3 pos = verts[gl_VertexID%6];
-	uint strindex = (gl_VertexID/6);
+	vec3 pos = verts[gl_VertexID%4];
+	uint strindex = gl_InstanceID;
 	
 	vec2 charPos = vec2(strindex + pos.x + general.TextPosition.x, pos.y + general.TextPosition.y);
 	
diff --git a/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_debug.cpp b/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_debug.cpp
index 5be7e0caa..8c73b444c 100644
--- a/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_debug.cpp
+++ b/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_debug.cpp
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ VulkanDebugManager::VulkanDebugManager(WrappedVulkan *driver, VkDevice dev)
 	
 	GetResourceManager()->WrapResource(Unwrap(dev), m_TexDisplayBlendPipeline);
 
-	ia.topology = VK_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TRIANGLE_LIST;
+	ia.topology = VK_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TRIANGLE_STRIP;
 	
 	stages[0].shader = Unwrap(shader[TEXTVS]);
 	stages[1].shader = Unwrap(shader[TEXTFS]);
@@ -1296,9 +1296,7 @@ void VulkanDebugManager::RenderTextInternal(const TextPrintState &textstate, flo
 	
 	vt->CmdBindDescriptorSets(Unwrap(textstate.cmd), VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_GRAPHICS, Unwrap(m_TextPipeLayout), 0, 1, UnwrapPtr(m_TextDescSet), 2, offsets);
 
-	// VKTODOMED strip + instance ID doesn't seem to work atm? instance ID comes through 0
-	// for now, do lists, but want to change back 
-	vt->CmdDraw(Unwrap(textstate.cmd), 6*(uint32_t)strlen(text), 1, 0, 0);
+	vt->CmdDraw(Unwrap(textstate.cmd), 4, (uint32_t)strlen(text), 0, 0);
 }
 
 void VulkanDebugManager::EndText(const TextPrintState &textstate)