Hi again!
I've been experimenting with compute shaders and explicit image format bindings and ran into somewhat of a problem. I know my usage is incorrect, but it still shouldn't cause a BSOD. First I create a texture like so:
glGenTextures(1, &this->computeTexture); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, computeTexture); glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_R32F, 512, 512, 0, GL_RED, GL_FLOAT, 0); glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); glGenerateMipmap(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
And the compute shader code is:
layout(local_size_x = 16, local_size_y = 16, local_size_z = 1) in;
layout(rgba32f) restrict uniform image2D img;
uniform float roll;
void
main()
{
ivec2 storePos = ivec2(gl_GlobalInvocationID.xy); float localCoef = length(vec2(ivec2(gl_LocalInvocationID.xy)-8)/8.0f); float globalCoef = sin(float(gl_WorkGroupID.x+gl_WorkGroupID.y) * 0.1 + roll) * 0.5f; imageStore(img, storePos, vec4(1.0f - globalCoef, 0, 0, 0));
}
It's executed as such:
glDispatchCompute(512/16,512/16,1);
Whenever I run this compute shader I get a BSOD (or sometimes an non-recovering driver crash). I know that I try to bind an R32F texture as an rgba32f image, however I still only write to the red channel. This is with a 7970 on Windows 7 with the 13.4 driver.
Correction, I forgot to post how I bound the texture to the image:
glBindImageTexture(this->textureUnit, (GLint)this->currentValue[0], 0, GL_FALSE, 0, GL_READ_WRITE, GL_R32F);
This caused the BSOD, however when I changed it to:
glBindImageTexture(this->textureUnit, (GLint)this->currentValue[0], 0, GL_FALSE, 0, GL_READ_WRITE, GL_RGBA32F);
It worked fine. So it seems that whenever glBindImageTexture is supplied a format which is a mismatch with what it says in the shader, the result is a BSOD. The OpenGL specification doesn't mention whether or not this is supposed to be allowed, so I guess this behaviour is simply undefined.