Vulkan Descriptor Buffer (VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer) support

[kyamant]

Description

VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer extension enhances the Vulkan (descriptor) api drastically and I would like to be able to use it together with RenderDoc.

Environment

• RenderDoc version: 1.25
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
• Graphics API: Vulkan 1.3.236.0

[d3-denis-zaporozhets]

Any news on adding support for this extension?

[theagentd]

I could really use support for this in RenderDoc too. Descriptor buffers are amazing for reducing the overhead of descriptor set management. The lack of support for them in RenderDoc is pretty much the only thing holding me back from making a permanent move over to descriptor buffers.

[all500234765]

Same here. Intel GPA is practically useless in terms of debugging bindless resources on either API, nsight graphics is only for NV, PIX doesn't support Vulkan and then most common and the only vendor agnostic debugger we has for vulkan - RenderDoc doesn't support descriptor_buffer extension.
That's real bummer for me right now

[nihalkenkre]

Need this. Has work started on this ? On the blogs they mention that debugging and profiling support would take a while. Why would it take longer than others. The extension docs mention that the API / usage is simplified since under the hood it was really just memory being allocated and updated, which is now being exposed to the developer.

Is it that the exposure of previously black boxed operations, would make it a tedious task to debug ? I am curious to know.

Cheers, and great work on RenderDoc until now!