VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT(3)

# VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT - Specify validation features to disable

## C Specification

Possible values of elements of the VkValidationFeaturesEXT::`pDisabledValidationFeatures` array, specifying validation features to be disabled, are:

    // Provided by VK_EXT_validation_features
    typedef enum VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT {
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_ALL_EXT = 0,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADERS_EXT = 1,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_THREAD_SAFETY_EXT = 2,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_API_PARAMETERS_EXT = 3,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_OBJECT_LIFETIMES_EXT = 4,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_CORE_CHECKS_EXT = 5,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_UNIQUE_HANDLES_EXT = 6,
        VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADER_VALIDATION_CACHE_EXT = 7,
    } VkValidationFeatureDisableEXT;

## Description

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_ALL_EXT specifies that all validation checks are disabled.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADERS_EXT specifies that shader validation, both runtime and standalone, is disabled. This validation occurs inside VkShaderCreateInfoEXT and VkShaderModuleCreateInfo. This feature is enabled by default.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_THREAD_SAFETY_EXT specifies that thread safety validation is disabled. This feature is enabled by default.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_API_PARAMETERS_EXT specifies that stateless parameter validation is disabled. This feature is enabled by default.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_OBJECT_LIFETIMES_EXT specifies that object lifetime validation is disabled. This feature is enabled by default.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_CORE_CHECKS_EXT specifies that core validation checks are disabled. This feature is enabled by default. If this feature is disabled, VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADERS_EXT is implied.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_UNIQUE_HANDLES_EXT specifies that protection against duplicate non-dispatchable object handles is disabled. This feature is enabled by default.

- VK_VALIDATION_FEATURE_DISABLE_SHADER_VALIDATION_CACHE_EXT specifies that there will be no caching of shader validation results and every shader will be validated on every application execution. Shader validation caching is enabled by default.

## See Also

VK_EXT_validation_features, VkValidationFeaturesEXT

## 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

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