{"id":1504,"date":"2020-05-01T21:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:06:03","slug":"new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about a Vulkan extension that helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues by allowing an application to query info about Vulkan tools active on a system. This extension is VK_EXT_tooling_info and is available now in the SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.135.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can query Vulkan layers and tools.\u00a0 Some tools may reside in the driver or the loader. You can find the tooling extension on the LunarG\/VulkanTools GitHub repo and it is now available for the LunarG Utility Layers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/sdk\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vulkan SDK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"27px\"><strong>Information available<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>During the query, the following information can be provided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the name of the tool<\/li>\n<li>the version of the tool<\/li>\n<li>flag bits describing the purposes of the tool (Validation, Profiling, Tracing, Adding Features, Modifying existing Features, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>a description of the tool<\/li>\n<li>and, if the tool is implemented by a layer, the name of said layer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"27px\"><strong>Benefits of the tooling info extension<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This extension will be useful for tools like RenderDoc and other Vulkan profilers\/debuggers and will offer some uniformity and assistance to developers in debugging potential compatibility issues between Vulkan tools and other problems. In addition, a developer may want an application to check if it is using the correct version of a tool or a developer might want that information while debugging an issue.\u00a0Purpose bits let the application and the developer know what effect the tool is having on the program.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"27px\"><strong>For more information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Please read the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.135.0\/linux\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for Linux<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.135.0\/windows\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for Windows<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.135.0\/mac\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for macOS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for additional information or go to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/sdk\/home\">the Vulkan SDK download site<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to download the latest SDK.<\/p>\n<p>LunarG\u2019s software engineering experts create innovative products and services for open source and commercial customers using leading-edge 3D graphics and compute technologies, including Vulkan, SPIR-V, OpenXR, and OpenGL. We have strengths in performance analysis and tuning, runtime and tools development, shader optimizations, driver development, and porting engines and applications to Vulkan.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about LunarG, please\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\">check out our website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about a Vulkan extension that helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues by allowing an application to query info about Vulkan tools active on a system. This extension is VK_EXT_tooling_info and is available now in the SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.135. Applications can query Vulkan layers and tools.\u00a0 Some tools may reside in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues - LunarG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues - LunarG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about a Vulkan extension that helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues by allowing an application to query info about Vulkan tools active on a system. This extension is VK_EXT_tooling_info and is available now in the SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.135. Applications can query Vulkan layers and tools.\u00a0 Some tools may reside in [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LunarG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-02T03:55:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-16T01:06:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dave Desormeaux\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dave Desormeaux\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dave Desormeaux\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/person\/493f4ece901c822208cfda3feb80420a\"},\"headline\":\"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-02T03:55:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-16T01:06:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\"},\"wordCount\":342,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\",\"name\":\"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues - LunarG\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-02T03:55:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-16T01:06:03+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\",\"name\":\"LunarG\",\"description\":\"3D Graphics Software Solutions\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"LunarG\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/logo.png\",\"width\":767,\"height\":304,\"caption\":\"LunarG\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/person\/493f4ece901c822208cfda3feb80420a\",\"name\":\"Dave Desormeaux\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89944424b10c09db4e6c6e62b6ef1722?s=96&d=retro&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89944424b10c09db4e6c6e62b6ef1722?s=96&d=retro&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Dave Desormeaux\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.lunarg.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/author\/dave-d\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues - LunarG","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues - LunarG","og_description":"Learn about a Vulkan extension that helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues by allowing an application to query info about Vulkan tools active on a system. This extension is VK_EXT_tooling_info and is available now in the SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.135. Applications can query Vulkan layers and tools.\u00a0 Some tools may reside in [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/","og_site_name":"LunarG","article_published_time":"2020-05-02T03:55:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-16T01:06:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Dave Desormeaux","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dave Desormeaux","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/"},"author":{"name":"Dave Desormeaux","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/person\/493f4ece901c822208cfda3feb80420a"},"headline":"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues","datePublished":"2020-05-02T03:55:48+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-16T01:06:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/"},"wordCount":342,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg","articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/","name":"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues - LunarG","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg","datePublished":"2020-05-02T03:55:48+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-16T01:06:03+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Vulkan-logo.jpg","width":600,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-extension-helps-developers-debug-unexpected-behavior-or-compatibility-issues\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New Vulkan extension helps developers debug unexpected behavior or compatibility issues"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/","name":"LunarG","description":"3D Graphics Software Solutions","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#organization","name":"LunarG","url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/logo.png","width":767,"height":304,"caption":"LunarG"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/person\/493f4ece901c822208cfda3feb80420a","name":"Dave Desormeaux","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89944424b10c09db4e6c6e62b6ef1722?s=96&d=retro&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89944424b10c09db4e6c6e62b6ef1722?s=96&d=retro&r=pg","caption":"Dave Desormeaux"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.lunarg.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/author\/dave-d\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}