PowerVR SDK v5.15

General

• Added new Vulkan example: NeuralNetworkEnvironment.
• Fixed OpenGLES HelloWorld and Vulkan HelloWorld Android compile error.
• Improved Vulkan AntiAliasing MSAA: Using subpassLoad for resolve instead of texelFetch (on-chip memory).
• Improved all Vulkan samples: Avoid segfaults if swapchain creation fails (ensuring all per-frame fences are waited on during cleanup).
• Android builds update: 16KB page size apks built as default (using Gradle 8.13.1, JDK 21, CMake 3.22.1 and NDK 29.0.14206865).
• Updated Android Vulkan validation layers.
• Avoid enabling GPU-asset-validation when it will be unsupported (only supported on Vulkan 1.1 and above).

PVRVFrame

• Fix glGetBufferParameter{i|i64}v validation for parameters introduced by extension GL_EXT_buffer_storage.
• Fix glVertexAttribPointer index validation so we fail with GL_INVALID_VALUE before any internal state is modified.
• Tidy up libEGL.so and libGLESv2.so exported symbols to not include extension functions which should be retrieved at runtime via eglGetProcAddress.

PVRTune v14.160

General

• Implement DTEC-8289 Android support 16KB page sizes.
• Implement DTEC-8325 backwards compatibility range reduced, minimum rogueddk branch supported is now 1.15, as a result the oldest .PVRTune files supported are those from PVRTune releases 21.1 onwards.
• Fix Add missing “triangles” unit to “Triangles input per second” volcanic implementation in default counters.

GUI

• Fix Remove Close button from Connect tab.
• Fix occasional unsubtle counter processing error that may occur if the user changed counter group during the recording.
• Implement remove PID attribution when zero or multiple. Do not attribute a PID value to an event or activity when the PID is zero, or when the event may contain multiple PID values.
• Fix issue with displaying lengthy Properties; both Properties and Statistics Report windows now support word wrap.
• Add display of device power state to Device State timelines.
• Support heat map display of percentage counter contributions.

PVRScope

• Implement review PVRScope introduction in documentation.
• Implement PVRScopeStats expose counter Y-axis units from PVRScopeGetCounters2 (renamed for API change).
• Implement add PVRScopeReport.

PVRCarbon v0.15

General

• Update Vulkan support to 1.4.321.

Export To C++

• Improve the export of vkWaitForFences calls so if they returned VK_SUCCESS at record time it will be reproduced at runtime.

Layers

• Add support for ASTC LDR to the Vulkan format emulation layer.

Player

• Add support for handling recorded window resizes to EGL playback on wayland.

Recorder

• Add support for overriding the reported Vulkan version variant.
• Add support for overriding the reported Vulkan vendorID.
• Add support for overriding the reported DXGI vendorID.
• Add support for overriding the maximum supported D3D11 feature level.
• Update OpenCL support to v3.0.17.
• Add support for bundling up the .pvrcbn file using zstd.
• Warnings about being unable to lock an Android hardware buffer for reading will now only appear once per buffer.
• Change the default page_guard sync option from read/write to read.

GUI

• Add a check to Android recording for PVRCarbon Recorder layers in /data/local/debug/* which if present interfere with recording from the GUI.
• Update the ‘Save As’ dialog to add support for bundling up the .pvrcbn file using zstd.
• Deploy a built-in Vulkan-Loader by default when remotely recording and playing back.
• Add support for using and deploying a built-in VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation layer when remotely recording and playing back.
• Add support for using and deploying a built-in VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_profiles layer when remotely recording and playing back.
• Add support for using Vulkan Legacy Detection using VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation.

Trimming

• Fix trimming of Vulkan calls that make use of object type/handle for referencing other objects.
• Add support for EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context.
• Improve trimming of applications that make use of glCopyImageSubData to update compressed textures.

Frame Analysis

• Add colour markers to the tasks tree to indicate the render target the tasks are writing to.

PVRTextool v5.7.1

PVRTexLib

• Add missing GL_RGB and GL_UNSIGNED_INT_5_9_9_9_REV combination to SetTextureOGLESFormat.

PVRVFrame v10.17.2

• Fix glGetBufferParameter{i|i64}v validation for parameters introduced by extension GL_EXT_buffer_storage.
• Fix glVertexAttribPointer index validation so we fail with GL_INVALID_VALUE before any internal state is modified.
• Tidy up libEGL.so and libGLESv2.so exported symbols to not include extension functions which should be retrieved at runtime via eglGetProcAddress.

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.