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Vulkan App enabling renderdoc layer causes ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Firestar99 opened this issue · comments

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Description

Creating a vulkan instance with VK_LAYER_RENDERDOC_Capture specified as a layer causes it to error with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, with no further detail provided.

However, every other way to start an application with renderdoc functions correctly:

  • launching through Renderdoc's UI
  • vkconfig with VK_LAYER_RENDERDOC_Capture force enabled
  • LD_PRELOAD=librenderdoc.so as env var
  • ENABLE_VULKAN_RENDERDOC_CAPTURE=1 as env var

If the vulkan application specifies the renderdoc layer, it will always error, regardless if any of the other methods listed above would have enabled renderdoc anyways.

This only started happening since I updated my Renderdoc to 1.32 today, previously I ran a 1.30 beta build with commit 3eccdc7.

Steps to reproduce

Based on SaschaWillems' Vulkan Examples

  1. In base/vulkanexamplebase.cpp l.131 change the string VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation to VK_LAYER_RENDERDOC_Capture
  2. Choose any example, like examples/triangle
  3. In it's VulkanExample constructor (l.116 in the triangle example) add settings.validation = true;
  4. run the example and observe in stderr:
ERROR: [1][

Could not create Vulkan instance : 
ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Environment

commented

Only the first method you mentioned is supported and intended to work. None of the others are documented and there is nothing anywhere to suggest these should work. Trying to hack RenderDoc to work in unsupported ways may misbehave or crash. Generally I do not recommend ever having vkconfig open at the same time as RenderDoc as it has caused a number of problems in the past.

If you want to capture your program from RenderDoc you should launch it from the UI. Never specify the layer manually or try to enable internal undocumented functionality.

commented

If the only official way to launch an App with RenderDoc is via it's UI, there does not seem to be a way an application can programmatically attach RenderDoc, is there?

commented

You can save a capture settings file for your application with 'auto start' enabled and launch the UI program with that settings file, which will then run your program.

Otherwise you can use the python replay API, which has access to do capturing, replaying and analysis all programmatically which is how the automated tests run.