Qualcomm has released Snapdragon Profiler 2020.1. The system profiling tool for mobile devices with Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform has added a number of features and fixes for Vulkan graphics applications and games, including support for Vulkan frame captures on low memory devices, debug markers, and a number of UI improvements.
Release notes:
- Better support for Vulkan snapshot on low memory devices. This fixes an issue where the app would crash while taking the snapshot because not enough memory was available on device to support both the app and snapshot library. The app may still crash if metrics are selected with the snapshot, however.
- Add support for Vulkan debug markers and end frame markers. Both require recent graphics drivers.
- Update libraries for graphics metrics and Vulkan snapshot.
- Reset Vulkan layer and updatable graphics driver settings on Profiler exit - please let Profiler exit properly if you are profiling Vulkan.
- UI improvements for trace capture timeline:
- Add auto scale button to toggle axis height based on data in view or entire data set.
- Show addresses in Vulkan API trace as hexadecimal.
- Add multi select to Rendering Stages blocks, to summarize time spent in Inspector.
- Incrementally number each surface in a frame in Rendering Stages trace.
- Fix crash if a device is disconnected before Profiler exits (Windows/Mac only).
- Fix crash when selecting some pipelines in Resources.
- Fix hang during long Vulkan API trace. Data will load in the background.
Learn more at https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/snapdragon-profiler.
