Can't run chapters 8,9,10,11,13,14 on Windows with the same error.

[MarcosDanielTorres]

Hi. I'm receiving the following errors when running chapters 8 through 15 except for chapter 12 which runs fine.

Specs:

OS: Windows 11
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Driver: 24.3.1 AMD Adrenaline
Vulkan SDK: 1.3.268.0

Error
It is the output from running chapter 8, but all other chapters in the title at least show this error

Created technique main in 0.548359 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique pbr_lighting
Created technique pbr_lighting in 0.040583 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique depth_of_field
Created technique depth_of_field in 0.016138 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique cloth
Cannot find render pass . Defaulting to swapchain
Created technique cloth in 0.011523 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique debug
temp.shader

temp.shader

 MessageID: UNASSIGNED-CoreValidation-Shader-OutputNotConsumed 101294395
Message: Validation Performance Warning: [ UNASSIGNED-CoreValidation-Shader-OutputNotConsumed ] Object 0: handle = 0x7efb46000000018f, name = debug_line, type = VK_OBJECT_TYPE_SHADER_MODULE; | MessageID = 0x609a13b | vkCreateGraphicsPipelines(): pCreateInfos[0].pVertexInputState Vertex attribute at location 0 not consumed by vertex shader.

Created technique debug in 0.302037 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique culling
Cannot find render pass culling_pass. Defaulting to swapchain
Created technique culling in 0.027143 seconds
Loaded scene Sponza.gltf in 0.481570 seconds.
Stats:
        Reading GLTF file 0.115696 seconds
        Textures Creating 0.062430 seconds
        Creating Samplers 0.000031 seconds
        Reading Buffers Data 0.002655 seconds
        Creating Buffers 0.300756 seconds
Total meshlet instances 3521
 MessageID: VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 -1094930823
Message: Validation Error: [ VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 ] | MessageID = 0xbebcae79 | vkCreateImage(): pCreateInfo The following parameters -
format (VK_FORMAT_D16_UNORM)
type (VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D)
tiling (VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL)
usage (VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT)
flags (VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT)
returned (VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED) when calling vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2. The Vulkan spec states: Each of the following values (as described in Image Creation Limits) must not be undefined : imageCreateMaxMipLevels, imageCreateMaxArrayLayers, imageCreateMaxExtent, and imageCreateSampleCounts (https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/view/1.3.268.0/windows/1.3-extensions/vkspec.html#VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251)

D:\Mastering-Graphics-Programming-with-Vulkan\source\chapter8\graphics\gpu_device.cpp(3347) : FALSE

[theWatchmen]

Hi, thanks for this report. I'll take a proper look later, but it looks like your GPU might not support a sparse texture for this format. You could try and change the format to D32_SFLOAT here and see if this works.

EDIT: I had a look at this and the GPU does support sparse binding (https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/displayreport.php?id=28910#features). So it should be an issue just with the format. Unfortunately the SDK report doesn't include support for individual formats. In a robust implementation we would query support first before using a given format :)

[MarcosDanielTorres]

Hi @theWatchmen thank you for the fast response.
I edited the format but unfortunately, that didn't solve the issue. I tried with VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT and VK_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT, the error was the same as before.


Later I tried with VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT but it failed in vkCreateImage with the same error. As shown below:

Created technique main in 0.380937 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique pbr_lighting
Created technique pbr_lighting in 0.014041 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique depth_of_field
Created technique depth_of_field in 0.003713 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique cloth
Cannot find render pass . Defaulting to swapchain
Created technique cloth in 0.004475 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique debug
temp.shader

temp.shader

 MessageID: UNASSIGNED-CoreValidation-Shader-OutputNotConsumed 101294395
Message: Validation Performance Warning: [ UNASSIGNED-CoreValidation-Shader-OutputNotConsumed ] Object 0: handle = 0x7efb46000000018f, name = debug_line, type = VK_OBJECT_TYPE_SHADER_MODULE; | MessageID = 0x609a13b | vkCreateGraphicsPipelines(): pCreateInfos[0].pVertexInputState Vertex attribute at location 0 not consumed by vertex shader.

Created technique debug in 0.178270 seconds
Parsing GPU Technique culling
Cannot find render pass culling_pass. Defaulting to swapchain
Created technique culling in 0.007678 seconds
Loaded scene Sponza.gltf in 0.456404 seconds.
Stats:
        Reading GLTF file 0.103197 seconds
        Textures Creating 0.057722 seconds
        Creating Samplers 0.000028 seconds
        Reading Buffers Data 0.002469 seconds
        Creating Buffers 0.292987 seconds
Total meshlet instances 3521
 MessageID: VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 -1094930823
Message: Validation Error: [ VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 ] | MessageID = 0xbebcae79 | vkCreateImage(): pCreateInfo The following parameters -
format (VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT)
type (VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D)
tiling (VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL)
usage (VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT)
flags (VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT)
returned (VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED) when calling vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2. The Vulkan spec states: Each of the following values (as described in Image Creation Limits) must not be undefined : imageCreateMaxMipLevels, imageCreateMaxArrayLayers, imageCreateMaxExtent, and imageCreateSampleCounts (https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/view/1.3.268.0/windows/1.3-extensions/vkspec.html#VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251)

 MessageID: VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 -1094930823
Message: Validation Error: [ VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 ] | MessageID = 0xbebcae79 | vkCreateImage(): pCreateInfo The following parameters -
format (VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT)
type (VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D)
tiling (VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL)
usage (VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT)
flags (VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT)
returned (VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED) when calling vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2. The Vulkan spec states: Each of the following values (as described in Image Creation Limits) must not be undefined : imageCreateMaxMipLevels, imageCreateMaxArrayLayers, imageCreateMaxExtent, and imageCreateSampleCounts (https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/view/1.3.268.0/windows/1.3-extensions/vkspec.html#VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251)

 MessageID: VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 -1094930823
Message: Validation Error: [ VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251 ] | MessageID = 0xbebcae79 | vkCreateImage(): pCreateInfo The following parameters -
format (VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT)
type (VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D)
tiling (VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL)
usage (VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT|VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT)
flags (VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT|VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT)
returned (VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED) when calling vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2. The Vulkan spec states: Each of the following values (as described in Image Creation Limits) must not be undefined : imageCreateMaxMipLevels, imageCreateMaxArrayLayers, imageCreateMaxExtent, and imageCreateSampleCounts (https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/view/1.3.268.0/windows/1.3-extensions/vkspec.html#VUID-VkImageCreateInfo-imageCreateMaxMipLevels-02251)

D:\Mastering-Graphics-Programming-with-Vulkan\source\chapter8\graphics\gpu_device.cpp(1243) : Vulkan assert code 4294967293, 'VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED'

[theWatchmen]

Hey Marcos, apologies for the late reply. I'll try to reproduce this on AMD card and let you know.

[thezjy]

any update on this? still can't wrong chapter 8 - 14 because this error
GPU: amd 7900 xtx
Driver: 25.3.1:
OS: Windows 11 Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100
Vulkan: 1.3.296.0

[thezjy]

Don't know if this helps, but the sparse image sample from vulkan samples works fine on this setup.

[theWatchmen]

Sorry, I know it's been a while but I haven't had a chance to look into this. As I mentioned above, it could be a format issue that the other demo doesn't run into. I'll see if I can get around to fix this.

[laycnc]

GPU: amd 9070 xt
Driver: 25.10.16:
OS: Windows 11 Version 1000.26100.128.0 Build 26100.4652
Vulkan: 1.4.321.1

It didn't work on my AMD GPU environment either.
I tested whether vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2 works with the parameters that failed with vkCreateImage.
The result of VkResult was VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED.

VkPhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2 format_info = { VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_IMAGE_FORMAT_INFO_2 };
format_info.format = VK_FORMAT_D16_UNORM;
format_info.type = VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D;
format_info.tiling = VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL;
format_info.usage = VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT| VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT| VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT | VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT;
format_info.flags = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT;

VkImageFormatProperties2 properties = { VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_IMAGE_FORMAT_PROPERTIES_2 };

VkResult result = vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2(
  gpu.vulkan_physical_device, &format_info, &properties
 );

When I tried removing the flags, the above combination resulted in VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED.

format_info.flags = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT;

[theWatchmen]

@laycnc Thanks for investigating this issue! Just to clarify, are you saying that removing the VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT flag will resolve the issue?

[laycnc]

@theWatchmen

I tried several combinations of format_info.flags.
The combination of SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT and SPARSE_BINDING_BIT will fail.

format_info.flags = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT;

NOT_SUPPORTED

format_info.flags = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT;

NOT_SUPPORTED

format_info.flags = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT;

VK_SUCCESS

format_info.flags = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT | VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT ;

VK_SUCCESS