diff --git a/renderdocui/Interop/CustomMarshaling.cs b/renderdocui/Interop/CustomMarshaling.cs
index 365151210..1e711e6d6 100644
--- a/renderdocui/Interop/CustomMarshaling.cs
+++ b/renderdocui/Interop/CustomMarshaling.cs
@@ -403,7 +403,8 @@ namespace renderdoc
         public static string PtrToStringUTF8(IntPtr elems, int count)
         {
             byte[] buffer = new byte[count];
-            Marshal.Copy(elems, buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
+            if (count > 0)
+                Marshal.Copy(elems, buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
             return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
         }