VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR(3)

# VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR - Scaling behavior when presenting to the surface

## C Specification

When an application presents a swapchain image with dimensions different than those of the target surface, different behavior is possible on different platforms per their respective specifications:

- Presentation fails and VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR is returned

- Scaling is done and VK_SUCCESS or VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR is returned

- Unspecified scaling using an arbitrary combination of stretching, centering and/or clipping.

Applications can define specific behavior when creating a swapchain by including the `VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR` structure in the `pNext` chain of the VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR structure.

The `VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_swapchain_maintenance1
    typedef struct VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR {
        VkStructureType             sType;
        const void*                 pNext;
        VkPresentScalingFlagsKHR    scalingBehavior;
        VkPresentGravityFlagsKHR    presentGravityX;
        VkPresentGravityFlagsKHR    presentGravityY;
    } VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR;

    // Provided by VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
    // Equivalent to VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR
    typedef VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoEXT;

## Members

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

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

- `scalingBehavior` is `0` or the scaling method to use when the dimensions of the surface and swapchain images differ.

- `presentGravityX` is `0` or the x-axis direction in which swapchain image pixels gravitate relative to the surface when `scalingBehavior` does not result in a one-to-one pixel mapping between the scaled swapchain image and the surface.

- `presentGravityY` is `0` or the y-axis direction in which swapchain image pixels gravitate relative to the surface when `scalingBehavior` does not result in a one-to-one pixel mapping between the scaled swapchain image and the surface.

## Description

If `scalingBehavior` is `0`, the result of presenting a swapchain image with dimensions that do not match the surface dimensions is implementation and platform-dependent. If `presentGravityX` or `presentGravityY` are `0`, the presentation gravity must match that defined by the native platform surface on platforms which define surface gravity.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityX-07765
  If `presentGravityX` is `0`, `presentGravityY` must be `0`

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityX-07766
  If `presentGravityX` is not `0`, `presentGravityY` must not be `0`

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-scalingBehavior-07767
  `scalingBehavior` must not have more than one bit set

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityX-07768
  `presentGravityX` must not have more than one bit set

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityY-07769
  `presentGravityY` must not have more than one bit set

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-scalingBehavior-07770
  `scalingBehavior` must be `0` or a valid scaling method for the surface as returned in VkSurfacePresentScalingCapabilitiesKHR::`supportedPresentScaling`, given VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR::`presentMode` in VkSurfacePresentModeKHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-scalingBehavior-07771
  If the swapchain is created with VkSwapchainPresentModesCreateInfoKHR, `scalingBehavior` must be `0` or a valid scaling method for the surface as returned in VkSurfacePresentScalingCapabilitiesKHR::`supportedPresentScaling`, given each present mode in VkSwapchainPresentModesCreateInfoKHR::`pPresentModes` in VkSurfacePresentModeKHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityX-07772
  `presentGravityX` must be `0` or a valid x-axis present gravity for the surface as returned in VkSurfacePresentScalingCapabilitiesKHR::`supportedPresentGravityX`, given VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR::`presentMode` in VkSurfacePresentModeKHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityX-07773
  If the swapchain is created with VkSwapchainPresentModesCreateInfoKHR, `presentGravityX` must be `0` or a valid x-axis present gravity for the surface as returned in VkSurfacePresentScalingCapabilitiesKHR::`supportedPresentGravityX`, given each present mode in VkSwapchainPresentModesCreateInfoKHR::`pPresentModes` in VkSurfacePresentModeKHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityY-07774
  `presentGravityY` must be `0` or a valid y-axis present gravity for the surface as returned in VkSurfacePresentScalingCapabilitiesKHR::`supportedPresentGravityY`, given VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR::`presentMode` in VkSurfacePresentModeKHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityY-07775
  If the swapchain is created with VkSwapchainPresentModesCreateInfoKHR, `presentGravityY` must be `0` or a valid y-axis present gravity for the surface as returned in VkSurfacePresentScalingCapabilitiesKHR::`supportedPresentGravityY`, given each present mode in VkSwapchainPresentModesCreateInfoKHR::`pPresentModes` in VkSurfacePresentModeKHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-swapchainMaintenance1-10154
  If the `swapchainMaintenance1` feature is not enabled, then `scalingBehavior`, `presentGravityX`, and `presentGravityY` must be `0`

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SWAPCHAIN_PRESENT_SCALING_CREATE_INFO_KHR

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-scalingBehavior-parameter
  `scalingBehavior` must be a valid combination of VkPresentScalingFlagBitsKHR values

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityX-parameter
  `presentGravityX` must be a valid combination of VkPresentGravityFlagBitsKHR values

- VUID-VkSwapchainPresentScalingCreateInfoKHR-presentGravityY-parameter
  `presentGravityY` must be a valid combination of VkPresentGravityFlagBitsKHR values

Structure Chaining

Extends the structure

  - VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR

## See Also

VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1, VK_KHR_swapchain_maintenance1, VkPresentGravityFlagsKHR, VkPresentScalingFlagsKHR, VkStructureType

## 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 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0