Apitrace Alternatives

apitrace reviews and mentions

• Apitrace – trace and replay OpenGL, Direct3D, and DirectDraw APIs calls
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
• Wrong result when using OpenGL for GPGPU computing
  2 projects | /r/opengl | 8 Mar 2023

  You have several tools, this can be done by printing debug messages using extensions such as KHR_debug, or using specific tools which will inject themselves between your OpenGL calls and your driver such as apitrace or RenderDoc. I recommend running your program in RenderDoc regularly even if everything seems to work fine as it may help you catch some subtle bugs.

• Benchmark and optimization
  2 projects | /r/opengl | 16 Feb 2023

  That said, the profiling situation for non-NV users is not completely hopeless. You can still use API timer queries to get an idea of how long events take on the device. Tracy also supports GPU profiling, but I suspect it's just a fancy way of inserting timer queries. apitrace also claims to support profiling OpenGL apps, but I'd be wary of overhead as it's doing a lot of other things besides profiling.

• Opengl invalid operation error on glBindTexture (opengl 3.3 core)
  1 project | /r/opengl | 26 Oct 2022
• Total War: Shogun 2 native version by Feral Interactive crashes instantly, gives a weird error
  1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 7 Mar 2022

  At first I thought Feral probably used it accidentally, but this thread about the symbol's use in apitrace seems to shed some light:

• Help with SkiaSharp rendering in an AvaloniaUI control
  4 projects | /r/csharp | 1 Jan 2022

  I don't see anything wrong with your code, altough I'm not familiar with Avalonia or Silk. I suggest you try to use apitrace for (a probably long and painful day) debugging it.

• Godot crashes whenever I make an OpenGL 3.0 project
  2 projects | /r/godot | 17 Feb 2021

  I get that it's hard to debug without direct access, but isn't there some dump or log that they could generate and provide? Maybe something like using apitrace?

• Looking for help reporting a mesa bug with the game Indivisible
  1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 10 Feb 2021

  Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer @pepp · 6 months ago Developer https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/blob/master/docs/USAGE.markdown is the basic doc. For Steam games I usually go to the game's folder (probably $HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Indivisible) and try to run the game with apitrace (apitrace trace indivisible-executable). It should print a line to indicate where the trace file is written to (apitrace: tracing to somefile.trace.

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