Release Notes v0.19

Release Notes - v0.19

Bugfixes

• When no log is loaded, several elements in the UI could crash the program, notably the mesh output view. This was the most auto-reported crash, with 24 reports. (#1)
• Clicking edit for an unbound shader stage would crash. (#15)
• Loading a saved window layout while a log was open would likely crash. (#14)
• Loading a window layout with a restored window wouldn't un-maximise, and wouldn't maximise a floating dockwindow.
• Stencil read/write masks weren't respected in the stencil test overlay.(#9)
• Passing NULL as the output parameter of a Create function to validate the parameters would crash. (#3)
• Several crashes inside Create*Shader() with handling of embedded shader source via the _DEBUG compile flag: handling #line directives, symbols on the final line of source, filenames in SPDB chunks without a path separator, SPDB chunks with multiple sections of line numbers. (#4) (#5)
• Internal shader being compiled referenced a Texture2DMS with 64 bit samples which failed to compile.
• Speculative fix for a crash when a swapchain fails to successfully return a backbuffer from ::GetBuffer().
• Crash debugging shaders with the bufinfo opcode (Buffer.GetDimensions), as it was referencing the wrong operand.
• Return a dummy ID3D11InfoQueue interface to allow application code to silently continue if it expects a pointer, rather than returning E_NOINTERFACE (#7)
• Catch and handle exception when invalid XML is loaded either via the UI configuration or as a settings file.
• Avoid crash when FRAPS is loaded at the same time as RenderDoc (#6)
• Remove confusing error message when loading a log that fails for some reason. Now there are error messages for each problem and they're explicit about what went wrong. (#8)
• Fix a crash when auto-opening a single capture from a program if a save/delete/etc prompt was still open
• Speculative fix for running out of window handles by adding some Dispose() calls that were missing in the UI.
• Fix for capturing 32bit programs from a 64bit install not picking up any capture options.
• Several uuids like ID3D11DeviceChild, ID3D11Resource, ID3D11View etc would not be handled correctly from QueryInterface leading to unwrapped resources leaking and causing a crash.(#16)
• Several shader disassembly fixes - disassembling samplepos instruction failed to read a mystery extra DWORD on the end. Custom data class opcodes other than immediate constant buffers are now skipped rather than not being handled at all. (#4)
• Integer inputs are displayed as integers in the shader debugger. Also implemented switch/case/etc in shader debugging. (#19)
• Grab the initial contents at the start of a frame of multisampled textures without a corresponding integer format.
• Fix handling of binding resources for read that are already bound for write - rather than unbinding the write slot, they just bind NULL.
• Fix a bug with "capture all cmd lists" that causes the capture log to not include any of the command lists that were captured.
• Try and log errors better and more gracefully handle the case where CreateToolhelp32Snapshot fails and we don't find the remote location of renderdoc.dll in the target process, causing a jump to invalid code.
• Fix handling of initial 3D texture state saving - the top mip's dimensions were used for copying data out of each mip. (#24)
• Implement OpenSharedResource for opening resources from elsewhere, as well as querying for DXGI types to get handles to open the resource elsewhere. This code is not well tested as I don't have good test cases for this path. (#22)
• A couple of other crashes during captures that I can't really explain unless you know the source :).

Improvements/features/additions

• Add a 'clear' marker to the timeline bar, in grey, to visualise where a texture is cleared in the frame. (#10)
• Add an option to hide empty marker sections in the event browser and timeline bar. (#11)
• Add menu option to open the error log to more easily check for problems if they arise.
• Change the crash handler to include logged managed callstack when the user elects not to include the error log in their report.
• When a log has no markers and RenderDoc auto-generates some grouping markers, Dispatch calls will be on their own and not mixed with draws, and potentially batched into "Compute Pass #N". (#12)
• Using a custom visualisation shader, the original and new values are displayed side by side in the status bar.
• Add support for matrices in the raw buffer format specifier, as well as a few non-hlsl types like unorm & snorm (unorm(f/h/b)=32/16/8bit unsigned normalised) and uintten/unormten (unsigned integer or normalised, packed 10:10:10:2 format). Check the docs for more details. (#17)
• Pick up buffer formats correctly in the pipeline state viewer. (#18)
• Add the ability to queue up a specific frame number to capture.(#20)
• When a frame fails to capture display a message on screen. Also abandon the capture if 5 frames in a row fail. More information is available in the FAQ.