diff --git a/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.cpp b/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.cpp
index 0728d7824d6..67b8d2d134a 100644
--- a/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.cpp
@@ -665,6 +665,17 @@ Q_LOGGING_CATEGORY(QRHI_LOG_INFO, "qt.rhi.general")
     mechanisms for shader/program binaries provided by Qt. Writing to those may
     get disabled whenever this flag is set since storing program binaries to
     multiple caches is not sensible.
+
+    \value SuppressSmokeTestWarnings Indicates that, with backends where this
+    is relevant, certain, non-fatal QRhi::create() failures should not
+    produce qWarning() calls. For example, with D3D11, passing this flag
+    makes a number of warning messages (that appear due to QRhi::create()
+    failing) to become categorized debug prints instead under the commonly used
+    \c{qt.rhi.general} logging category. This can be used by engines, such as
+    Qt Quick, that feature fallback logic, i.e. they retry calling create()
+    with a different set of flags (such as, \l PreferSoftwareRenderer), in order
+    to hide the unconditional warnings from the output that would be printed
+    when the first create() attempt had failed.
  */
 
 /*!
diff --git a/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.h b/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.h
index 770233bb519..f1620c11fab 100644
--- a/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.h
+++ b/src/gui/rhi/qrhi.h
@@ -1787,7 +1787,8 @@ public:
         EnableDebugMarkers = 1 << 0,
         PreferSoftwareRenderer = 1 << 1,
         EnablePipelineCacheDataSave = 1 << 2,
-        EnableTimestamps = 1 << 3
+        EnableTimestamps = 1 << 3,
+        SuppressSmokeTestWarnings = 1 << 4
     };
     Q_DECLARE_FLAGS(Flags, Flag)
 
diff --git a/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp b/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp
index 4dcda25d185..d357a6b2db0 100644
--- a/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp
@@ -291,21 +291,24 @@ bool QRhiD3D11::create(QRhi::Flags flags)
             return false;
         }
 
+        const bool supports11_1 = SUCCEEDED(ctx->QueryInterface(__uuidof(ID3D11DeviceContext1), reinterpret_cast<void **>(&context)));
+        ctx->Release();
+        if (!supports11_1) {
+            qWarning("ID3D11DeviceContext1 not supported");
+            return false;
+        }
+
         // Test if creating a Shader Model 5.0 vertex shader works; we want to
         // fail already in create() if that's not the case.
         ID3D11VertexShader *testShader = nullptr;
         if (SUCCEEDED(dev->CreateVertexShader(g_testVertexShader, sizeof(g_testVertexShader), nullptr, &testShader))) {
             testShader->Release();
         } else {
-            qWarning("D3D11 smoke test failed (failed to create vertex shader)");
-            ctx->Release();
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        const bool supports11_1 = SUCCEEDED(ctx->QueryInterface(__uuidof(ID3D11DeviceContext1), reinterpret_cast<void **>(&context)));
-        ctx->Release();
-        if (!supports11_1) {
-            qWarning("ID3D11DeviceContext1 not supported");
+            static const char *msg = "D3D11 smoke test: Failed to create vertex shader";
+            if (flags.testFlag(QRhi::SuppressSmokeTestWarnings))
+                qCDebug(QRHI_LOG_INFO, "%s", msg);
+            else
+                qWarning("%s", msg);
             return false;
         }
 
@@ -315,11 +318,19 @@ bool QRhiD3D11::create(QRhi::Flags flags)
             // still not support this D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1 feature. (e.g.
             // because it only does 11_0)
             if (!features.ConstantBufferOffsetting) {
-                qWarning("Constant buffer offsetting is not supported by the driver");
+                static const char *msg = "D3D11 smoke test: Constant buffer offsetting is not supported by the driver";
+                if (flags.testFlag(QRhi::SuppressSmokeTestWarnings))
+                    qCDebug(QRHI_LOG_INFO, "%s", msg);
+                else
+                    qWarning("%s", msg);
                 return false;
             }
         } else {
-            qWarning("Failed to query D3D11_FEATURE_D3D11_OPTIONS");
+            static const char *msg = "D3D11 smoke test: Failed to query D3D11_FEATURE_D3D11_OPTIONS";
+            if (flags.testFlag(QRhi::SuppressSmokeTestWarnings))
+                qCDebug(QRHI_LOG_INFO, "%s", msg);
+            else
+                qWarning("%s", msg);
             return false;
         }
     } else {