PowerVR SDK v5.14

General

• Updated PVRVFrame libraries (@8d3918c4d7).
• Updated Validation error policy, not anymore early application exit.

Examples

• Added new Vulkan example: YCbCrTextureSampling.
• Added new OpenCL example: PrefixSum.
• Fixed Vulkan HelloAPI for Wayland, had missing calls to wl_display_roundtrip and wl_surface_commit.
• Fixed Vulkan AmbientOcclusion segfault.
• Fixed Vulkan Bumpmap, wrongly placed beginQueueDebugLabel.
• Fixed Vulkan TimelineSemaphores, segfault on Linux Arm64 and validation warning.
• Fixed Open GLES ImageBasedLighting ASTC support test.

PVRTune v14.159

Documentation

• PVRPerfServer improve Android installation documentation.

General

• Implement new QNX710 io-sock build in addition to existing io-pkt build, for aarch64le and x86_64 only, it looks like the QNX710 toolchain does not support io-sock for armle-v7. Also add QNX800 (io-sock) build, for aarch64le and x86_64 only, it looks like QNX800 does not support armle-v7.
• Implement Android riscv64 builds.
• Implement update Android SW versions used for builds.
• Fix re-send process cmdline when it changes; fixes display for PVRPerfServer –exec processes on Linux/Android.

GUI

• Implement optimisations for loading a very large PVRTune file.
• Reduce large-file load time: reduce forced draw rate to 1FPS.
• Implement update to latest Linux build tools and Qt-6.8.1.
• Implement preferences dialog box now displays set paths and allows them to be cleared.

PVRPerfServer

• Implement set Android APK “minSdkVersion 26”.

PVRCarbon v0.14

General

• Add clFlush and clFinish as optional frame delimiters (disabled by default).
• Add eglCreateSync* calls as optional frame delimiters (disabled by default).
• Update Vulkan support to 1.4.304.

Export To C++

• Fix exporting of clCreateContext calls that make use of CL_CONTEXT_PLATFORM.
• Increase the minimum c++ version required to C++17.
• Fix the URL used for downloading the Vulkan Validation Layers.

Export to TXT

• Replace the multiline and singletext formats with a common txt format and new command-line options –multi-line and –single-line.
• Add support for exporting call data to JSON (–format=json).

Player

• Add support for glTexStorage2DEXT and glTexStorage3DEXT playback.
• Implement playback support for EGL_KHR_debug.
• Filter EGL_SURFACE_TYPE bit EGL_MUTABLE_RENDER_BUFFER_BIT_KHR from EGL config selection during playback if EGL_KHR_mutable_render_buffer is unsupported.
• Add naming of the playback threads.
• Fix VK_KHR_display playback.
• Add support for playing back incomplete calls that are recorded as a result of the host call crashing before returning.
• Add support for downscaling captured frames (–capture-frames-downscale).
• Add support for playing back eglCreateImage calls that use EGL_NATIVE_SURFACE_TIZEN client buffers.
• Add support for patching recorded buffer references with playback buffer references within push constants blocks.
• Fix playback of vkResetCommandPool.
• Fix playback of vkGetRayTracingShaderGroupHandlesKHR.

Recorder

• Fix an issue in the page_guard memory tracking implementation caused by multiple threads accessing the tracked memory at the same time.
• Add /tmp/ and /opt/ as potential paths on Linux for loading the PVRCarbon config file from.
• Change the disable_environment Vulkan layer manifest entry for VK_LAYER_POWERVR_carbon to DISABLE_VK_LAYER_POWERVR_CARBON.
• Add support for recording thread names.
• Add support on Android for starting and stopping manual recording via system property pvrcbn.record.
• Add support on Android for exiting the application while manual recording via system property pvrcbn.exit.
• Add support for recording EGL_NATIVE_SURFACE_TIZEN client buffers.
• Add support for disabling provisional extensions. This feature is enabled by default and is controlled by the disable provisional option.

GUI

• Add recorded thread names to the Threads widget.
• Add the call result to the Current Call widget.

Frame Analysis

• Improve performance in general.
• Added support for compressing large data. This feature is enabled by default and can be controlled with –large-data-compression. See –large-data-compression command-line description in the documentation for more information.

PVRTextool v5.7.0

PVRTexLib

• Rework the PVRTexLib_SaveTextureToMemory API (and PVRTexture::SaveTextureToMemory in the C++ wrapper) to allow for improved user memory allocation and management.
• Added new PVRTexLib_SaveTextureDataToMemory API to PVRTexLib (and PVRTextureHeader::SaveTextureDataToMemory to the C++ wrapper). This API is similar to the existing ‘save to memory’ routines but allows for texture data to be specified alongside a texture header. The API currently only supports saving to PVR.
• Added new PVRTexLib_CreateTextureHeaderFromData API to PVRTexLib (and PVRTextureHeader constructor to the C++ wrapper). This API allows construction of a texture header from a pointer that includes a header structure as laid out in a file.

PVRVFrame v10.17.1

• Use sized internal formats when emulating GL_LUMINANCE8_ALPHA8_OES and GL_LUMINANCE4_ALPHA4_OES.that support OpenGL 3.2 or later.
• Fix validation for textures with the internal format GL_BGRA8_EXT.

PVRStudio  v1.0.6

General

• Improved way of retrieving device details (Linux / Android).
• Switching IPv4 extraction (and extra checks) on ADB bridge.
• Fix Debugger won’t trigger proper callback notification from RSP bridge.

GUI

• Filtering out unwanted kits.
• Tooltip fix (CPU Debugger).
• Added new type of CPU register (CodeRegister / DataRegister).
• Implement Debugger plugin frontend from scratch for RSP+Dwarf bridge (Linux/Windows/Android).

IMGDebugger

• Added instruction level stepping capability.
• Added support for LLDB server.
• Added support for AArch64 target architecture.
• Added support for PE file format, enabling debugging Windows targets.
• Added support for debugging shared libraries.
• Optimized Remote Serial Protocol (RSP) communication, vastly improving performance.