v0.9.0-beta2

We’re excited to share the release of GPU Reshape Beta 2, hosting a wealth of additions and general improvements. Including, but not limited to:

• AMD|Waterfall Feature
  A brand new AMD-specific feature that reveals potential performance issues with regards to register indexing.
• NonUniformResourceIndex Validation
  Validation that descriptor indexing is uniform, or appropriately annotated with NonUniformResourceIndex.
• Per-Texel/Byte Addressing for Initialization and Concurrency
  Initialization and concurrency tracking now occurs on a per-texel/byte level for resources, greatly improving accuracy.
• Placed resource validation
  Validation that placed resources have been appropriately initialized before use.
• Improved Loops TDR detection
  No longer experimental, and features additional safe guarding against TDRs.
• Multi Device/Process
  Hook multiple graphical devices or entire process trees with ease.
• Improved shader symbols
  Includes SlimPDB support.
• Mesh Shader Support
  Full support for existing feature set against mesh shaders.
• And, of course, bug fixes

You can find out more on our blog.

v0.9.0-beta1

This is the initial public release of GPU Reshape, a powerful tool that leverages on-the-fly instrumentation of GPU operations with instruction level validation of potentially undefined behavior.

Standalone desktop application, no integration required.

This release includes the following features:

• Resource Bounds
  Validation of resource read / write coordinates against its bounds.
• Export Stability
  Numeric stability validation of floating point exports (UAV writes, render targets, vertex exports), e.g. NaN / Inf.
• Descriptor Validation
  Validation of descriptors, potentially dynamically indexed. This includes undefined, mismatched (compile-time to runtime), out of bounds descriptor indexing, and missing table bindings.
• Concurrency Validation
  Validation of resource concurrency, i.e. single-producer or multiple-consumer, between queues and events.
• Resource Initialization
  Validation of resource initialization, ensures any read was preceded by a write.
• Infinite Loops
  Detection of infinite loops. Experimental.

Additionally, certain features, such as descriptor validation and loops, can safeguard a potentially erroneous operation, preventing undefined behaviour during instrumentation. This is especially useful if the error would result in a GPU crash, limiting the application’s ability to write out useful debug information of the issue.

You can find out more on our blog.