PowerVR SDK v5.17

General

• Added two new Vulkan Demos: NeuralSuperResolution and LUT_ColorCorrection
• Added a command line argument to capture the stderr and stdout messages (-log)
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan Multithreading demo caused by descriptor set handling
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan PostProcessing demo caused by overwriting the default GLSLang capability flags
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan TimelineSemaphore (Android) demo related to a write-after-read synchronization hazard
• Fixed a synchronization issue in the Vulkan SPHFluidSimulation (Android) demo by introducing per-frame fences and semaphores, ensuring consistent _frameId usage, preventing swapchain acquisition order mismatches, and resolving write-after-read hazards
• Fixed flickering in the Vulkan AmbientOcclusion demo by ensuring buffer updates occur only after the frame fence has been signaled
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan IntroductionPVRVK demo caused by invalid null pointer access
• Fixed a crash in the Vulkan Bumpmap demo by removing redundant safety-critical code
• Upgraded CMake to version 3.22
• Added Monolithic build
• Refactored all CMake towards new conventions
• Upgraded internal time management for QNX 8+

PVRTune v14.162

General

• Series F Meteoric support.
• Use official NDK instead of beta NDK, for all builds, including riscv64. These binaries will now build with the same standard NDK release as the other binaries.
• Crash from Monitor Window customization.

GUI

• Add Logcat support for Android Connections without Remote Deployment.

Documentation

• Improve documentation PVRTune and PVRPerfServer CLI arguments.

PVRTuneComplete v14.162

General

• Create simple script to run platform tools and generate output files.
• Enable PVRTune counters for Volcanic MM.

GUI

• Update to Qt-6.11.1.
• PVRTune Streams docking window: always allow scroll.

Documentation

• Document Custom Monitors and Override PVRPerfServer Settings.
• Document Schedule Resource Capture.

PVRCarbon v0.17

General

• Use zstd compression by default.

Player

• Add support for EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context usage as an alternative to dummy 1×1 EGL PBuffers when rendering offscreen to GL FBOs during playback via --offscreen.
• Add --gpu=<PATTERN> command-line option. This option allows you to limit playback to GPU’s whose name matches the pattern. Currently only supported for OpenGL ES and Vulkan playback.

Recorder

• Add recording of the application’s command line.

GUI

• Add displaying of the recorded application’s command line to the File Properties.

Frame Analysis

• Add support for showing eglSwapBuffers* information.

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

• Add support for GL_EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture2.

PVRStudio  v1.0.7

GUI

• Fixed stability issues on debugger widget.

IMGDebugger

• Fixed stability issues on RSP protocol.
• Added Dwarf 5.