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Last active December 24, 2025 03:40

Guide to attaching to Chrome with RenderDoc (for WebGL 2 and WebGPU)

  1. Set the environment variable RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL to 0. I use the Windows Settings to set this in my User Environment Variables.
  2. Launch RenderDoc
  3. In RenderDoc, navigate to Tools -> Settings, then on the General page, check "Enable process injection (restart required)". Restart RenderDoc.
  4. Grab a copy of WinPixEventRuntime.dll from https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pix/winpixeventruntime/ (rename the .nupkg to a zip, it's in bin/x64), and copy it over to %LocalAppData%\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\$CurrentVersion. Unfortunately this step needs to be repeated every time Chrome updates, since it wipes the current directory. Would be nice if it shipped with Chrome Canary / Chrome Dev (or was statically linked into Chrome)
  5. Launch Chrome with the arguments `--disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable-direct-composition=1 --enable-dawn-features=use_user_defined_labels_in_backend,emit_hlsl_debug_symbols,disable_symbo