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Vulkan loader
The middle layer that finds the right Vulkan driver and forwards your Vulkan calls to it.
An application doesn't call a GPU driver directly; it calls the Vulkan loader, which discovers the installed drivers (called ICDs) and dispatches each function call to the correct one. This lets one program run on whatever GPU is present without being rebuilt. A software Vulkan driver can be discovered by the loader exactly like a hardware one.
See also
- VulkanA modern, low-level programming interface for talking directly to graphics and compute hardware.
- WSIThe part of Vulkan that connects GPU rendering to an actual on-screen window.
- VK_TRUE / VK_FALSEVulkan's own spelling of the boolean values true and false.