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* We need extra descriptors during some analysis events for patching e.g shaders for overlays and things. This is because D3D12 only allows one heap of any given time bound at once. * D3D12 also limits the size of that heap, and the limit is not queryable so the application can make a heap of maximum size that it uses all of. * There's no solution for this, in this case we just can't add more descriptors and when we try to use the last one for our own purposes we stand a small chance of stomping an important descriptor.
RenderDoc
RenderDoc - a graphics debugger, currently available for Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12, and OpenGL development on windows.
If you have any questions, suggestions or problems or you can create an issue here on github, email me directly or come into IRC to discuss it.
- Downloads: https://renderdoc.org/builds
- Documentation: renderdoc.chm in builds, https://renderdoc.org/docs, http://www.youtube.com/user/baldurkarlsson/
- Contact: baldurk@baldurk.org, #renderdoc on freenode IRC
- Information for developing/contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md, Compilation instructions, Roadmap
- Code of Conduct: Contributor Covenant
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API Support
| Status | Windows | Linux | |
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| D3D11 | Well supported, all features. | ✔️ | ✖️ |
| OpenGL 3.2 core+ | Well supported, most features.* | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Vulkan | Well supported, most features. | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| D3D12 | Well supported, most features. | ✔️ | ✖️ |
| OpenGL Compatibility, GLES | No immediate plans | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| D3D9 & 10 | No immediate plans | ✖️ | ✖️ |
| Metal | No immediate plans | ✖️ | ✖️ |
- D3D11 has full feature support and is stable & tested. Feature Level 11 hardware is assumed - Radeon 4000/5000+, GeForce 400+, Intel Ivy Bridge, falling back to WARP software emulation if this hardware isn't present.
- *OpenGL is only explicitly supported for the core profile 3.2+ subset of features, check the OpenGL wiki page for details.
- Currently the Qt UI is only used on linux. It is working well with a TODO list of remaining work. Work is on-going for it to replace the .NET UI on windows.
Downloads
There are binary releases available, built from the release targets. If you just want to use the program and you ended up here, this is what you want :).
It's recommended that if you're new you start with the stable builds. Nightly builds are available every day from master branch here if you need it, but correspondingly may be less stable.
Documentation
The text documentation is available online for the latest stable version, as well as in renderdoc.chm in any build. It's built from restructured text with sphinx.
As mentioned above there are some youtube videos showing the use of some basic features and an introduction/overview.
There is also a great presentation by @Icetigris which goes into some details of how RenderDoc can be used in real world situations: slides are up here.
License
RenderDoc is released under the MIT license, see LICENSE.md for full text as well as 3rd party library acknowledgements.
Contributing & Development
Building RenderDoc is fairly straight forward. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
I've added some notes on how to contribute, as well as where to get started looking through the code in CONTRIBUTING.md.