Part of the Vulkan SDK, Vulkan Configurator is a tool designed to help Vulkan application developers configuring their Vulkan system: The Vulkan Loader, Vulkan Layers and Vulkan drivers.
It's a graphical user interface (GUI) that may be launched from the console using vkconfig-gui and a command line tool vkconfig --gui. Vulkan Configurator may be used with command line arguments to configure Vulkan Loader. Use vkconfig --help in the console for more information.
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Vulkan Configurator is designed around multiple tabs, each dedicated to specific usages.
This tab allows configuring Vulkan layers. This includes enabling and ordering Vulkan layers executed by the Vulkan applications. Each layer can be configure using the Vulkan Layers settings.
The context menu of the layers configuration allows generating layer settings files of all types: documentation, vk_layer_settings.txt, environment variables scripts and VK_EXT_layer_settings C++ helper library.
This tab allows adding additional Vulkan layers, potentially Vulkan versions of the same Vulkan layer.
This tab allows adding Vulkan drivers but also either sorting or forcing Vulkan physical devices to all Vulkan applications.
This tab is an application launcher enabling to quickly test Vulkan system changes.
This tab allows generating multiple log, including Vulkan loader log, Vulkan loader configuration, Vulkaninfo, etc. These logs can be exported and shared for examples to submit issues on Vulkan github repository.