Vulkan 1.1.82 Released With VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints
Just weeks ahead of SIGGRAPH 2018, Vulkan 1.1.82 is now available as the latest specification update to this year's Vulkan 1.1 graphics/compute API.
As is customary for these Vulkan point releases, most of the changes in Vulkan 1.1.82 deal with minor documentation corrections/improvements and other small enhancements.
There is a new extension though with Vulkan 1.1.82 and that is VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints. The VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints extension was developed at NVIDIA and allows for applications / game engines to insert custom markers into the command stream and associating them with arbitrary data. These markers or checkpoints via VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints can then be used for narrowing down problematic Vulkan commands based upon the most recent markers/checkpoints to pass implementation-defined pipeline stages when a problem occurs.
NVIDIA originally talked about VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints back at GDC 2018 while now it's finally made it into the official Vulkan extension collection. The Vulkan 1.1.82 changes are outlined in full via GitHub.
As is customary for these Vulkan point releases, most of the changes in Vulkan 1.1.82 deal with minor documentation corrections/improvements and other small enhancements.
There is a new extension though with Vulkan 1.1.82 and that is VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints. The VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints extension was developed at NVIDIA and allows for applications / game engines to insert custom markers into the command stream and associating them with arbitrary data. These markers or checkpoints via VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints can then be used for narrowing down problematic Vulkan commands based upon the most recent markers/checkpoints to pass implementation-defined pipeline stages when a problem occurs.
NVIDIA originally talked about VK_NV_device_diagnostic_checkpoints back at GDC 2018 while now it's finally made it into the official Vulkan extension collection. The Vulkan 1.1.82 changes are outlined in full via GitHub.
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