vkCreateDevice(3)
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Name
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vkCreateDevice - Create a new device instance.

C Specification
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include::../protos/vkCreateDevice.txt[]

Parameters
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pname:physicalDevice::
    Handle to the physical device upon which to create the logical device.

pname:pCreateInfo::
    Pointer to a structure containing creation info.

pname:pDevice::
    Pointer to a variable to receive the handle to the new device instance.

Description
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fname:vkCreateDevice creates a new device instance on the physical device specified by
pname:physicalDevice and places the resulting device handle in the variable pointed to
by pname:pDevice. Information about how the device should be created is passed in an
instance of slink:VkDeviceCreateInfo whose address is passed in pname:pCreateInfo.
The definition of slink:VkDeviceCreateInfo is:

include::../structs/VkDeviceCreateInfo.txt[]

include::../validity/protos/vkCreateDevice.txt[]

See Also
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flink:vkDestroyDevice

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