Version v1.39

This version contains a number of bugfixes as work continues on the foundations for future functionality.

As always binary builds with installers, zips and tarballs are available on renderdoc.org.

Python API changes

• No breaking changes to the Python API.

Features/Improvements

• UI: Adjust shader debugger colours when using the dark theme.
• D3D12: Match variable names to disassembly for resource access SSA names.
• D3D12: Ensure SSA variables are displayed until the end of their use.
• D3D12: Add support for variable length strings in PIX strings, as well as V2 PIX strings.
• D3D12: Improve DXIL disassembly for global pointers.
• Vulkan: Improve SPIR-V disassembly when basic block order is unconventional.
• Vulkan: Add support for extensions:
• VK_KHR_robustness2
• VK_EXT_dynamic_rendering_unused_attachments

Bugfixes

• Windows: Fix problems caused by windows 11 hotpatch DLLs.
• UI: Show an error if a working directory is specified but does not exist.
• UI: Detect if an application with a reserved filename such as explorer.exe is launched and show an error.
• UI: Fix interpreting pointers to basic non-structure types.
• UI: Fix a crash that could happen when making edits to shader debug locations.
• Vulkan: Fix handling of acceleration structures in push descriptors.
• Vulkan: Fix incorrect callstack being generated for inlined function calls.
• Vulkan: Fix reading from BDA pointers to basic types in push constants not correctly respecting declared array strides.
• Vulkan: Fix reads and writes from storage texel buffers in shader debugging.
• Vulkan: Fix display of texel buffers when VK_WHOLE_SIZE is specified as the size.
• D3D: Fix a potential crash debugging shaders that use groupshared memory.
• D3D: Fix a crash if a programmatic capture is triggered after presenting to and then deleting a swapchain.
• D3D11: Handle unusual arrangement of mapping and unmapping buffers across frame boundaries.
• D3D11: Fix state tracking for D3D11.1 offsetted constant buffer bindings.
• D3D12: Fix reflection of 16-bit types in external shader interfaces.
• D3D12: Fix pixel history over ExecuteIndirects that contain multiple draws.
• D3D12: Fix internal command allocator not being reset leading to a leak or potentially a crash when shader debugging.
• OpenGL: Fix separable patching in some cases where individual gl_PerVertex members are redeclared as individual globals.
• OpenGL ES: Fix an error generated during context creation.