diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/device.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/device.rs
index 906943710..f34df0da3 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/device.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/device.rs
@@ -578,6 +578,13 @@ impl super::Device {
         let images =
             unsafe { functor.get_swapchain_images(raw) }.map_err(super::map_host_device_oom_err)?;
 
+        let fence = unsafe {
+            self.shared
+                .raw
+                .create_fence(&vk::FenceCreateInfo::default(), None)
+                .map_err(super::map_host_device_oom_err)?
+        };
+
         // NOTE: It's important that we define the same number of acquire/present semaphores
         // as we will need to index into them with the image index.
         let acquire_semaphores = (0..=images.len())
@@ -597,6 +604,7 @@ impl super::Device {
             functor,
             device: Arc::clone(&self.shared),
             images,
+            fence,
             config: config.clone(),
             acquire_semaphores,
             next_acquire_index: 0,
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/instance.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/instance.rs
index 572ffcd3f..6cb8515dc 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/instance.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/instance.rs
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ impl super::Swapchain {
             };
         };
 
+        unsafe { device.destroy_fence(self.fence, None) }
+
         // We cannot take this by value, as the function returns `self`.
         for semaphore in self.acquire_semaphores.drain(..) {
             let arc_removed = Arc::into_inner(semaphore).expect(
@@ -1115,7 +1117,7 @@ impl crate::Surface for super::Surface {
                 swapchain.raw,
                 timeout_ns,
                 acquire_semaphore_guard.acquire,
-                vk::Fence::null(),
+                swapchain.fence,
             )
         } {
             // We treat `VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR` as `VK_SUCCESS` on Android.
@@ -1138,6 +1140,30 @@ impl crate::Surface for super::Surface {
             }
         };
 
+        // Wait for the image was acquired to be fully ready to be rendered too.
+        //
+        // This wait is very important on Windows to avoid bad frame pacing on
+        // Windows where the Vulkan driver is using a DXGI swapchain. See
+        // https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/8310 and
+        // https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/8354 for more details.
+        //
+        // On other platforms, this wait may serve to slightly decrease frame
+        // latency, depending on how the platform implements waiting within
+        // acquire.
+        unsafe {
+            swapchain
+                .device
+                .raw
+                .wait_for_fences(&[swapchain.fence], false, timeout_ns)
+                .map_err(super::map_host_device_oom_and_lost_err)?;
+
+            swapchain
+                .device
+                .raw
+                .reset_fences(&[swapchain.fence])
+                .map_err(super::map_host_device_oom_and_lost_err)?;
+        }
+
         drop(acquire_semaphore_guard);
         // We only advance the surface semaphores if we successfully acquired an image, otherwise
         // we should try to re-acquire using the same semaphores.
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/mod.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/mod.rs
index d807411e6..1cd12ea39 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/mod.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/mod.rs
@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ struct Swapchain {
     functor: khr::swapchain::Device,
     device: Arc<DeviceShared>,
     images: Vec<vk::Image>,
+    /// Fence used to wait on the acquired image.
+    fence: vk::Fence,
     config: crate::SurfaceConfiguration,
 
     /// Semaphores used between image acquisition and the first submission