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GeileSockeAltF4 Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:41am
Vulkan or DX11?
My specs:

i7 10700k
3080
32gb ram

In the beta vulcan was the standard setting in the launcher, now it's DX11. What should I chose, where is the difference?
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Originally posted by Seska Larafey:
DX11 is also working on me without problems. If it's good for you stay with it, if you encounter problems try Vulkan
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Warrier70 Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:43am 
From my first few hours on a 3050 mind you, I have had a more stable experience with DX11. If Vulkan does not crash on you, go for it
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Sparhawk122 Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:43am 
I just had Vulkan crash on me. And I have very new hardware....
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Seska Larafey Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:44am 
DX11 is also working on me without problems. If it's good for you stay with it, if you encounter problems try Vulkan
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pascal.difolco Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:44am 
Originally posted by Sparhawk122:
I just had Vulkan crash on me. And I have very new hardware....
Me too but it was DX11 that crashed... AMD card
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GeileSockeAltF4 Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:46am 
Originally posted by Seska Larafey:
DX11 is also working on me without problems. If it's good for you stay with it, if you encounter problems try Vulkan

Thx m8
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Seska Larafey Aug 4, 2023 @ 4:47am 
DX11 = nVidia

Vulkan (ex-OpenGL) = AMD

But you all are free to test both out for your liking
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phlegmo Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:10am 
No problems with vulkan on 3080, not a single crash in 5 hours

And I didn't update my drivers in like 6 months
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Karanshade Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:12am 
what would be the benefit of Vulkan vs directX you noticed ? I tried both , didn't see much change so far.
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Seska Larafey Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:12am 
Do you all perhaps have no Vsync or similar active? try to activate this 60FPS Handbreak or to your max Monitor Refresh Rate

Good Luck
Last edited by Seska Larafey; Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:12am
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Doctor Hades Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:14am 
Vulkan is usually better with multi-threading and can milk more performance out of the CPU than DX11, which is a much older API with more performance overhead (especially on AMD GPUs).

I am using Vulkan and, so far, it works great albeit I have to keep selecting it manually every time I play the game because the launcher keeps defaulting to DX11!!!
Last edited by Doctor Hades; Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:15am
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Somulo Aug 4, 2023 @ 5:17am 
i dk if its accurate but it seems what vulkan got less micro stutters compare to dx11
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slantedgray Aug 4, 2023 @ 6:16am 
Originally posted by Somulo:
i dk if its accurate but it seems what vulkan got less micro stutters compare to dx11

true, i see that also in cutscenes
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peep Aug 4, 2023 @ 8:24am 
Vulkan is sooooo much smoother for me. No more micro stuttering, which was driving me crazy on dx11
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slantedgray Aug 4, 2023 @ 8:58am 
Originally posted by neocity:
Vulkan is sooooo much smoother for me. No more micro stuttering, which was driving me crazy on dx11

that's true, and i'm on nvidia, that should be better on 11
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Bio Aug 4, 2023 @ 9:00am 
First I played on Vulkan, it seemed to mostly work fine but I still noticed some screen tearing in certain areas even though I had triple buffering vsync on, and also after like 5 hours I started noticing things slowing down like there was a memory leak

Next time I changed to DX11 and didn't have any problems. Maybe just me, idk.
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