By design, Vulkan device drivers provide no error checking. However, Vulkan application developers will need a way to validate that they are using the Vulkan API correctly while developing their applications. The solution described in the Vulkan Specification was to define validation layers as a critical, if not mandatory, part of the development process. While the Vulkan Validation Layers can provide valuable information to developers, constant runtime API validation can result in performance penalties. Vulkan developers can use the Validation Layers as part of the debug process and then turn them off when running production code — eliminating the performance penalty.
October 28, 2025/
The second post in our comprehensive series on GFXReconstruct describes basic setup and usage.
