diff --git a/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_serialise.cpp b/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_serialise.cpp
index 3ce5767ae..fb3465647 100644
--- a/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_serialise.cpp
+++ b/renderdoc/driver/vulkan/vk_serialise.cpp
@@ -4045,12 +4045,20 @@ void DoSerialise(SerialiserType &ser, VkDescriptorUpdateTemplateEntry &el)
   if(ser.VersionAtLeast(0xE))
 #endif
   {
-    uint64_t offset = el.offset;
-    uint64_t stride = el.stride;
+    uint64_t offset = 0;
+    uint64_t stride = 0;
+    if(ser.IsWriting())
+    {
+      offset = el.offset;
+      stride = el.stride;
+    }
     ser.Serialise("offset"_lit, offset);
     ser.Serialise("stride"_lit, stride);
-    el.offset = (size_t)offset;
-    el.stride = (size_t)stride;
+    if(ser.IsReading())
+    {
+      el.offset = (size_t)offset;
+      el.stride = (size_t)stride;
+    }
   }
 #if DISABLED(RDOC_APPLE)
   else
diff --git a/util/test/demos/vk/vk_parameter_zoo.cpp b/util/test/demos/vk/vk_parameter_zoo.cpp
index edc80af0d..c9e072467 100644
--- a/util/test/demos/vk/vk_parameter_zoo.cpp
+++ b/util/test/demos/vk/vk_parameter_zoo.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 
 #include "vk_test.h"
 
+static const VkDescriptorUpdateTemplateEntryKHR constEntry = {
+    4, 0, 1, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFER, 0, 16,
+};
+
 RD_TEST(VK_Parameter_Zoo, VulkanGraphicsTest)
 {
   static constexpr const char *Description =
@@ -678,6 +682,13 @@ void main()
 
       vkDestroyDescriptorUpdateTemplateKHR(device, templ, NULL);
 
+      // try with constant entry
+      createInfo.descriptorUpdateEntryCount = 1;
+      createInfo.pDescriptorUpdateEntries = &constEntry;
+      vkCreateDescriptorUpdateTemplateKHR(device, &createInfo, NULL, &templ);
+      vkUpdateDescriptorSetWithTemplateKHR(device, descset, templ, &data);
+      vkDestroyDescriptorUpdateTemplateKHR(device, templ, NULL);
+
       entries = {
           {0, 0, 1, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLER, offsetof(refdatastruct, sampler), sizeof(data)},
           {1, 0, 1, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_COMBINED_IMAGE_SAMPLER, offsetof(refdatastruct, combined),