ver 1.3.280.0 failed for 'VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER' on macOS 14.3.1

[CheneyER08]

OS: macOS 14.3.1
GPU: Apple Silicon M1 Max
Vulkan SDK: 1.3.280.0

It works well on my Windows PC. On macOS, it build successfully, but execute failed for VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER while creating VkInstance. I have tried Cmake and Xcode projects.

Below is my CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.27)
project(Tutorials LANGUAGES CXX)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
if (NOT DEFINED ENV{VULKAN_SDK})
        set(ENV{VULKAN_SDK} "/Users/cheneyshue/VulkanSDK/1.3.280.0/macOS")
        set(ENV{VK_ICD_FILENAMES} "$ENV{VULKAN_SDK}/share/vulkan/icd.d/MoltenVK_icd.json")
        set(ENV{VK_LAYER_PATH} "$ENV{VULKAN_SDK}/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d")
        include_directories("$ENV{VULKAN_SDK}/include")
        find_library(VulkanLib NAMES vulkan PATHS "$ENV{VULKAN_SDK}/lib")
endif ()
add_executable(Tutorials main.cpp
        VulkanApp.cpp
        VulkanApp.h)
target_link_libraries(Tutorials ${VulkanLib})

Below is my code to create VkInstance

    VkApplicationInfo appInfo {
            .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_APPLICATION_INFO,
            .pApplicationName = "Vulkan Tutorials",
            .applicationVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0),
            .pEngineName = "No Engine",
            .engineVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0),
            .apiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_0
    };
    VkInstanceCreateInfo createInfo {
            .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO,
            .flags = VK_INSTANCE_CREATE_ENUMERATE_PORTABILITY_BIT_KHR,
            .pApplicationInfo = &appInfo,
            .enabledLayerCount = 0,
            .ppEnabledLayerNames = {},
            .enabledExtensionCount = 0,
            .ppEnabledExtensionNames = {}
    };

    VkResult result = vkCreateInstance(&createInfo, nullptr, &instance);

Below is the statements to execute built binary.

source /Users/cheneyshue/VulkanSDK/1.3.280.0/setup-env.sh
./Tutorials

BTW, the vkcube and vulkanCapsViewer can execute well on my macOS.

[richard-lunarg]

You are missing the portability instance extension required on macOs. Some recommended reading here that will help smooth the way for you:
https://www.lunarg.com/news-insights/white-papers/the-state-of-vulkan-on-apple-devices-updated/

[CheneyER08]

You are missing the portability instance extension required on macOs. Some recommended reading here that will help smooth the way for you: https://www.lunarg.com/news-insights/white-papers/the-state-of-vulkan-on-apple-devices-updated/

Thanks. It works after add portability extension.

[rgaufman]

I fixed the problem by installing molten-vk with:

brew install molten-vk

Thank you for the heads up!