VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR - Structure specifying a surface and related swapchain creation parameters

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## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        const void*        pNext;
        VkSurfaceKHR       surface;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR;

## Members

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `surface` is the surface that will be associated with the swapchain.

## Description

The members of `VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR` correspond to the arguments to vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR, with `sType` and `pNext` added for extensibility.

Additional capabilities of a surface may be available to swapchains created with different full-screen exclusive settings - particularly if exclusive full-screen access is application controlled. These additional capabilities can be queried by adding a VkSurfaceFullScreenExclusiveInfoEXT structure to the `pNext` chain of this structure when used to query surface properties. Additionally, for Win32 surfaces with application controlled exclusive full-screen access, chaining a VkSurfaceFullScreenExclusiveWin32InfoEXT structure may also report additional surface capabilities. These additional capabilities only apply to swapchains created with the same parameters included in the `pNext` chain of VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR-pNext-02672
  If the `pNext` chain includes a VkSurfaceFullScreenExclusiveInfoEXT structure with its `fullScreenExclusive` member set to `VK_FULL_SCREEN_EXCLUSIVE_APPLICATION_CONTROLLED_EXT`, and `surface` was created using vkCreateWin32SurfaceKHR, a VkSurfaceFullScreenExclusiveWin32InfoEXT structure must be included in the `pNext` chain

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR-surface-07919
  If surface is not VK_NULL_HANDLE, and the `VK_GOOGLE_surfaceless_query` extension is not enabled, `surface` must be a valid VkSurfaceKHR handle

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR-sType-sType
  `sType` must be `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SURFACE_INFO_2_KHR`

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR-pNext-pNext
  Each `pNext` member of any structure (including this one) in the `pNext` chain must be either `NULL` or a pointer to a valid instance of VkSurfaceFullScreenExclusiveInfoEXT, VkSurfaceFullScreenExclusiveWin32InfoEXT, or VkSurfacePresentModeEXT

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR-sType-unique
  The `sType` value of each structure in the `pNext` chain must be unique

## See Also

VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2, VkStructureType, VkSurfaceKHR, vkGetDeviceGroupSurfacePresentModes2EXT, vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormats2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfacePresentModes2EXT

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2025 The Khronos Group Inc.

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