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Instance and Devices

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Downloading Vulkan SDK
Enabling validation layers
Connecting with a Vulkan Loader library
Preparing for loading Vulkan API functions
Loading function exported from a Vulkan Loader library
Loading global-level functions
Checking available Instance extensions
Creating a Vulkan Instance
Loading instance-level functions
Enumerating available physical devices
Checking available device extensions
Getting features and properties of a physical device
Checking available queue families and their properties
Selecting the index of a queue family with the desired capabilities
Creating a logical device
Loading device-level functions
Getting a device queue
Creating a logical device ...

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