VULKANCAPSVIEWER(1)

📦 version 4.11, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 VULKANCAPSVIEWER 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the vulkanCapsViewer manual page — it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and it's about to tell you literally everything your GPU is hiding from you. grab a snack, we're going deep 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

vulkanCapsViewer — the Vulkan hardware capability viewer, aka your GPU's diary that it never wanted you to read 🔥

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vulkanCapsViewer [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this app is the moment. it displays all the hardware implementation details for GPUs that support the Vulkan API — you know, the one published by Khronos 👑. it shows you the available features, the limits, the extensions, and the capabilities. it's giving full transparency, no gatekeeping, we love to see it.

the report can optionally be submitted to the public online database at https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/, where you can browse and compare different devices and driver versions. it's like a group chat for GPUs, fr fr 🌈

here's the tea on WSI: it will use either X11 or Wayland to query Vulkan WSI (Window System Integration), and which one it picks depends on whether you're running vulkanCapsViewer or vulkanCapsViewer-wayland. lowkey iconic that they made a whole variant for it 🎀

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h, --help — shows you the help for all the commandline options. the classic. the main character of getting unstuck 🫶
  • --help-all — shows help including the Qt specific options, because Qt has its own whole thing going on and we respect it ✨
  • -v, --version — displays version information. quick lil vibe check on what you're running 💅
  • -s <savereport> — save the report to a file without starting the GUI. no window, no drama, just a file, periodt 💾
  • --upload — upload the report for the device with the given index to the database without visual interaction. fully automatic, no clicks required, ate 🔥
  • -d <db.ini> — load database connection information from an .ini file. bring your own config, we love a prepared bestie 📁
  • --deviceindex <0> — set the device index for the report upload. which GPU are we talking about? specify it here 👑
  • --submitter <submitter> — set an optional submitter name for the report upload. put your name on it, you earned it ⭐
  • --comment <comment> — set an optional comment for the report upload. say your piece 🎤
  • --log — write log messages to a text file for debugging (that file is log.txt). when things get weird, this is your bestie 🐛
  • --noproxy — run withouth proxy (overrides setting). yes that's the spelling in the original, we're keeping it exactly as-is, no cap 🙈
ngl, if you're uploading reports and something acts up, --log is right there and it wants to help you. use it. it's giving support group 🫂

and that's the whole page, bestie!! you now know more about your GPU's secret life than most people ever will 🌟

this was vulkanCapsViewer version 4.02, dated December 2025 — sending you off with all the love and zero proxy drama 💜🧚‍♀️

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