vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR(3)

# vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR(3) Manual Page

## Name

vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR - Query capabilities of a mode and plane combination

## C Specification

Applications that wish to present directly to a display must select which layer, or “plane” of the display they wish to target, and a mode to use with the display. Each display supports at least one plane. The capabilities of a given mode and plane combination are determined by calling:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_display
    VkResult vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR(
        VkPhysicalDevice                            physicalDevice,
        VkDisplayModeKHR                            mode,
        uint32_t                                    planeIndex,
        VkDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR*              pCapabilities);

## Parameters

- `physicalDevice` is the physical device associated with the display specified by `mode`

- `mode` is the display mode the application intends to program when using the specified plane. Note this parameter also implicitly specifies a display.

- `planeIndex` is the plane which the application intends to use with the display, and is less than the number of display planes supported by the device.

- `pCapabilities` is a pointer to a VkDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR structure in which the capabilities are returned.

## Description

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR-physicalDevice-parameter
  `physicalDevice` must be a valid VkPhysicalDevice handle

- VUID-vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR-mode-parameter
  `mode` must be a valid VkDisplayModeKHR handle

- VUID-vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR-pCapabilities-parameter
  `pCapabilities` must be a valid pointer to a VkDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR structure

- VUID-vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR-mode-parent
  `mode` must have been created, allocated, or retrieved from `physicalDevice`

Host Synchronization

- Host access to `mode` must be externally synchronized

Return Codes

On success, this command returns

  - VK_SUCCESS

On failure, this command returns

  - VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY

  - VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  - VK_ERROR_UNKNOWN

  - VK_ERROR_VALIDATION_FAILED

## See Also

VK_KHR_display, VkDisplayModeKHR, VkDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR, VkPhysicalDevice

## 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.

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