# Debugging Vulkan applications with Nsight

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debugging-vulkan-applications-with-nsight/112486>\
**Category:** Nsight Visual Studio Edition\
**Created:** [February 22, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debugging-vulkan-applications-with-nsight/112486 "2020-02-22T19:41:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/system/32/68080_2.png) [@system](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debugging-vulkan-applications-with-nsight/112486/1 "2020-02-22T19:41:26Z")

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I’ve downloaded and installed Nsight for Visual studio. I’ve configured it to use secure connection on both ends and am running Visual studio and the monitor as the administrator on the same machine. I haven’t changed any other settings.

When clicking Extensions\>Nsight\>Start Graphics Debugging, the Vulkan application starts and runs normally, and the monitor says that the Debugger is connected.

However, no “Nsight enabled” overlay is displayed in the application corner and all options in Extension\>Nsight for capturing/freezing/profiling are grayed out.

Is there a step that I’m missing to get this to work?

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/system/32/68080_2.png) [@system](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debugging-vulkan-applications-with-nsight/112486/2 "2020-02-22T21:23:09Z")

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I was using Vulkan 1.2, when I reverted to version 1.1 it started working.