Known Driver Issues

This page lists known issues with drivers that are not, or cannot, be worked around by wgpu.

Issues are categorised by GPU vendor and backend. Where details such as "driver version" are recorded, they are not intended to be exhaustive: these are just the values where the issue has been observed. Just because your combination is not explicitly listed does not mean you aren't susceptible to the same issue.

WGSL / All

• WGSL draft Spec compliance

  As outlined in the README, section Tracking the WebGPU and WGSL draft specifications, the version of WGSL implemented by WGPU will likely differ from what is in the up to date Spec.

Intel / Vulkan

• Integrated GPU not visible to programs named cube

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit
  Driver OEM	Intel, Microsoft
  Driver Version	27.20.100.8935

  In a dual-GPU system, the driver for the Intel GPU will hide itself from programs named cube.

  The issue can be worked around by disabling the discrete GPU or by renaming the program to something other than cube.

• Hangs when the same semaphore is signaled and waited upon

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Linux 5.14
  Driver OEM	Intel
  Driver Version	Mesa 21.2.3

  Using a "relay" semaphore confuses Intel driver in Mesa. Reported in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/5508

  Can be worked around by only doing one submission per frame.

• cmd_begin_debug_utils_label_ext pointer is NULL

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 Pro 21H1
  Driver OEM	UHD Graphics 630
  Driver Version	24.20.100.6287

  The extension is supported, but pointer to a function is NULL.

  Escalated in https://github.com/MaikKlein/ash/issues/484 Still needs an upstream report.

Intel / DirectX 12

• Offset after resizing window - wgpu-rs#647

  

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit
  Driver OEM	Microsoft
  Driver Version	26.20.100.7639

  This issue affects programs running on any GPU if the Intel GPU is being used by the compositor. This would typically be the case in dual-GPU systems.

  It can be worked around by replacing the Microsoft OEM driver with the generic Intel driver.

• CreatePlacedResource TDRs - wgpu#1319

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit, build 19042
  GPU	HD Graphics 4600
  Driver Version	20.19.15.5171

  Reported in https://github.com/IGCIT/Intel-GPU-Community-Issue-Tracker-IGCIT/issues/44

Intel / DX11

• Buffer write not synchronized with draw - wgpu#1060

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows

  Buffer upload isn't being properly synchronized with the draw call that is using it. This is entirely on the driver to get right, there is no way to do manual sync.

Intel / All

• Cannot combine MSAA with Srgb resolve - wgpu#725

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Linux

  Attempting to do MSAA resolve at the same time as Srgb resolve will cause MSAA to not work and the clear color to not be properly converted into Srgb.

Nvidia / Vulkan

• Hang/panic/device loss after specific render sequence - wgpu#983

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit
  GPU	Geforce RTX 2080 Ti
  Driver Name	GeForce Game Ready Driver
  Driver Version	456.38, 457.09, 457.30

  Does not occur on driver version 452.06.

  After submitting a frame to wgpu, Vulkan seems to become unstable and this manifests itself in a few ways.

• write_buffer only works when aligned to 16 - wgpu#1323

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit
  GPU	Geforce GTX 1050, 1070
  Driver Version	27.21.14.5256, 27.21.14.6589

  We issue vkCmdFillBuffer for the uninitialized area of a buffer. If only the first 40 bytes were filled, the fill buffer is called with an offset of 40, but the driver ends up erasing all the data starting with offset 32.

  Issue reported directly to NVidia level 2 support team, ticket 210412-000661

• flat-interpolated integers come out as zeroes - wgpu#1775

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Linux
  GPU	Geforce GTX 1050
  Driver Version	390

  Fragment shader sees interpolated values as 0.

  Issue reported to NVidia Vulkan Support.

WARP / D3D12

• CPU descriptors are used after CopyDescriptors - wgpu#1002

  Property	Values observed.
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit

AMD / D3D12

• Updating partial texture data doesn't show up - wgpu#1306

  Property	Values observed
  Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit
  GPU	Ryzen 3500U
  Driver Name	?
  Driver Version	?

  When a texture only gets partially updated, sampling from it returns zeroes.

  Issue has been reported directly to AMD.

Mesa / vulkan

• Integer overflow with very large buffers wgpu#2796

Property	Values observed
Operating System	Linux
Driver Name	Mesa/lavapipe

When a buffer size or range parameter does not fit a 32 bit signed integer, mesa runs into integer overflows.