baldurk/renderdoc

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11022 stars · 1748 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

RenderDoc is a free, open-source, frame-capture based graphics debugger for Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES applications. It lets developers capture a single frame, inspect pipeline state, debug shaders, and replay captures across Windows, Linux, Android, and Nintendo Switch.

Use cases

• debug a Vulkan or D3D12 rendering issue in my engine
• capture and inspect a single frame of my OpenGL application
• debug shaders with source-level stepping
• inspect pixel values and texture contents in a rendered frame
• profile GPU pipeline state and performance counters
• capture frames from an Android app for graphics debugging
• script frame capture analysis with Python

When to choose

• you are developing your own graphics application or engine on Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12, or OpenGL
• you need lightweight, quick single-frame capture and introspection
• you want an open-source tool with a Python API for automation
• you need portable captures across platforms and hardware

When to avoid

• you want to capture or analyze commercial games you did not create - this is explicitly disallowed
• you need full-frame continuous GPU profiling rather than frame capture (consider vendor tools like Nsight or RGP)
• you need 32-bit Linux support or non-x86 desktop platforms

Facets

application · maturity stable

graphics simulation developer-tools gui testing graphics developer-tools performance windows cpp cross-platform graphics-debugger frame-capture vulkan direct3d opengl shader-debugging gpu replay python-api game-development linux android

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