diff --git a/base/vulkanexamplebase.cpp b/base/vulkanexamplebase.cpp
index e253581c..8baa27bf 100644
--- a/base/vulkanexamplebase.cpp
+++ b/base/vulkanexamplebase.cpp
@@ -830,6 +830,14 @@ void VulkanExampleBase::initVulkan()
 
 	physicalDevice = physicalDevices[selectedDevice];
 
+	// Store properties (including limits), features and memory properties of the phyiscal device (so that examples can check against them)
+	vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties(physicalDevice, &deviceProperties);
+	vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures(physicalDevice, &deviceFeatures);
+	vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties(physicalDevice, &deviceMemoryProperties);
+
+	// Derived examples can override this to set actual features (based on above readings) to enable for logical device creation
+	getEnabledFeatures();
+
 	// Vulkan device creation
 	// This is handled by a separate class that gets a logical device representation
 	// and encapsulates functions related to a device
@@ -840,14 +848,6 @@ void VulkanExampleBase::initVulkan()
 	}
 	device = vulkanDevice->logicalDevice;
 
-	// todo: remove
-	// Store properties (including limits) and features of the phyiscal device
-	// So examples can check against them and see if a feature is actually supported
-	vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties(physicalDevice, &deviceProperties);
-	vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures(physicalDevice, &deviceFeatures);
-	// Gather physical device memory properties
-	vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties(physicalDevice, &deviceMemoryProperties);
-
 	// Get a graphics queue from the device
 	vkGetDeviceQueue(device, vulkanDevice->queueFamilyIndices.graphics, 0, &queue);
 
@@ -2011,6 +2011,11 @@ void VulkanExampleBase::setupRenderPass()
 	VK_CHECK_RESULT(vkCreateRenderPass(device, &renderPassInfo, nullptr, &renderPass));
 }
 
+void VulkanExampleBase::getEnabledFeatures()
+{
+	// Can be overriden in derived class
+}
+
 void VulkanExampleBase::windowResize()
 {
 	if (!prepared)
diff --git a/base/vulkanexamplebase.h b/base/vulkanexamplebase.h
index c11d7bfc..36900844 100644
--- a/base/vulkanexamplebase.h
+++ b/base/vulkanexamplebase.h
@@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ public:
 	// Can be overriden in derived class to setup a custom render pass (e.g. for MSAA)
 	virtual void setupRenderPass();
 
+	/** @brief (Virtual) called after the physical device features have been read, used to set features to enable on the device */
+	virtual void getEnabledFeatures();
+
 	// Connect and prepare the swap chain
 	void initSwapchain();
 	// Create swap chain images