Wish we had something like apitrace

While I was working on the MiniGL update and the Southern ISlands Warp3D driver, I found myself wishing for a tool like apitrace. I've lost count of how many times I thought "if only I had something that could isolate the exact render operations that are misbehaving." A tool like that would have cut down on the time needed to track down various problems. I imagine that something like this would help with developing or porting apps/games too.

I hadn't heard of apitrace before, but it's more or less exactly what I wished that I had.

So, if any developer is looking for a new porting project...
HINT: With MiniGL you could intercept the API calls by patching the library.

Hans

@Hans

If I understand correctly it's something like Snoopy but for OpenGL calls instead of Exec/DOS calls?

@salass00

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Sort of, but there's more to it. What's different is that you can also replay the API calls step by step. It's that ability that I'm particularly interested in, as I could effectively step through rendering a frame in blocks, until I hit whichever render calls aren't doing what they should.

Hans