diff --git a/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKDraw.cpp b/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKDraw.cpp
index 9684569c60..8a5440c75c 100644
--- a/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKDraw.cpp
+++ b/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/VK/VKDraw.cpp
@@ -805,10 +805,12 @@ void VKGSRender::emit_geometry(u32 sub_index)
 
 	if (!m_current_subdraw_id++)
 	{
-		vkCmdBindPipeline(*m_current_command_buffer, VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_GRAPHICS, m_program->pipeline);
 		update_draw_state();
 		begin_render_pass();
 
+		// Bind pipeline after starting the renderpass to work around some validation layer spam about format mismatch
+		vkCmdBindPipeline(*m_current_command_buffer, VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_GRAPHICS, m_program->pipeline);
+
 		if (cond_render_ctrl.hw_cond_active && m_device->get_conditional_render_support())
 		{
 			// It is inconvenient that conditional rendering breaks other things like compute dispatch