From 429f3aaacfaf6b7b8a81d6d4710f16658df66aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: unexploredtest <unexploredtest@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:25:48 +0430
Subject: [PATCH] Raises an error if 1: There is no Vulkan device 2:
 physicalDeviceIndex exceeds the device limit

---
 src/Manager.cpp | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Manager.cpp b/src/Manager.cpp
index a78cc7a34..d5e9ce9fc 100644
--- a/src/Manager.cpp
+++ b/src/Manager.cpp
@@ -287,6 +287,25 @@ Manager::createDevice(const std::vector<uint32_t>& familyQueueIndices,
     }
 
     this->mFreeDevice = true;
+    
+    // Getting an integer that says how many vuklan devices we have
+    uint32_t deviceCount = 0;
+    vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices(*(this->mInstance), &deviceCount, nullptr);
+    
+    // This means there are no devices at all
+    if (deviceCount == 0) {
+    throw std::runtime_error("Failed to find GPUs with Vulkan support! "
+                             "Maybe you haven't installed vulkan drivers?");
+    }
+    
+    // This means that we're exceeding our device limit, for
+    // example if we have 2 devices, just physicalDeviceIndex
+    // 0 and 1 are acceptable. Hence, physicalDeviceIndex should
+    // always be less than deviceCount, else we raise an error
+    if ( !(deviceCount > physicalDeviceIndex) ) {
+    throw std::runtime_error("There is no such physical index or device, "
+                             "please use your existing device");
+    }
 
     std::vector<vk::PhysicalDevice> physicalDevices =
       this->mInstance->enumeratePhysicalDevices();