New client application

Version 3.33 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). An update for the Google Play Android version is also pending and should be live soon.

New extensions

As the last release has been a while ago, this version did a rather large jump to Vulkan Headers 1.3.276 and adds support for a lot of new extension features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2:

• VK_ANDROID_external_format_resolve
• VK_ARM_render_pass_striped
• VK_ARM_scheduling_controls
• VK_EXT_nested_command_buffer
• VK_IMG_relaxed_line_rasterization
• VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read
• VK_KHR_index_type_uint8
• VK_KHR_line_rasterization
• VK_KHR_maintenance6
• VK_KHR_shader_expect_assume
• VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2
• VK_KHR_shader_maximal_reconvergence
• VK_KHR_shader_quad_control
• VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_rotate
• VK_KHR_vertex_attribute_divisor
• VK_KHR_video_maintenance1
• VK_NV_cuda_kernel_launch
• VK_NV_extended_sparse_address_space
• VK_NV_per_stage_descriptor_set

Other changes

• Completely reworked how extension information is fetched to future proof the application
• Updated extension type mappings, adding more humanreadable flags for newer extensions
• Updated the LunarG Profiles library