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Mobile & games · #vulkan
Learn how Vulkan push constants let you update small per‑draw data like matrices without costly descriptor set changes or CPU‑GPU stalls.
Learn how to implement a Vulkan sub-allocation system to bypass the maxMemoryAllocationCount limit, ensuring stable memory management and hardware alignment.
Learn how to eliminate runtime shader stutter in Vulkan by implementing Pipeline State Object (PSO) pre-caching and utilizing VkPipelineCache for faster load times.
Guide to handling Vulkan swapchain recreation during window resize, covering GPU synchronization, resource rebuilding, and recovery from surface loss.
Vulkan requires applications to manage device memory manually, typically by allocating large blocks of VkDeviceMemory and sub-allocating them to specific buffers or images. When integrating Vulkan with external OS memory allocators or third-party APIs, the application must ensure that the memory backing is compatible with the hardware's memory heaps as defin
An application utilizing the Vulkan API manages memory by requesting specific heap types based on the VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT flag. While the allocation logic functions correctly on high-capacity development hardware, it fails on production devices with smaller VRAM footprints or different memory architectures. The current implementation relies o
Vulkan applications use VkPipelineCache to store compiled pipeline state object (PSO) data, reducing the overhead of vkCreateGraphicsPipelines in subsequent sessions by providing a pre-populated data blob. The Vulkan specification allows drivers to silently ignore cache data if it is deemed incompatible. This creates uncertainty when managing persistent cach