Vulkan App enabling renderdoc layer causes ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

[Firestar99]

Vulkan App enabling renderdoc layer causes ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

[baldurk]

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.

[baldurk]

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.

[Firestar99]

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?