micro stuttering on vulkan

[heime2003]

but no stuttering on direct 11.
the game looks better on vulkan.

[KeepCleaving]

One of the key differences between Vulkan and Directx, is Vulkan doesn't use your gpu's control panel overides. The image quality shouldn't be better on Vulkan unless there is a forced graphic option.
1. what graphic card do you have? Nvidia or Amd?
2. if Nvidia, look in geforce experience and make sure it isn't "auto optimizing" your game. This option often makes wrong decisions sacrificing graphic visual quality for speed.
3. double check your resolutions set in game and control panel etc. without more info, I don't know what else anyone can say to help yet.

[Cirrus]

Originally posted by heime2003:

but no stuttering on direct 11.
the game looks better on vulkan.

Vulkan used to have issues more than directx if GPU runs out of VRAM.

I suggest you tune your settings so that VRAM usage does not exceed you cards natural VRAM amount. And then check again,,,

[heime2003]

Originally posted by KeepCleaving:

One of the key differences between Vulkan and Directx, is Vulkan doesn't use your gpu's control panel overides. The image quality shouldn't be better on Vulkan unless there is a forced graphic option.
1. what graphic card do you have? Nvidia or Amd?
2. if Nvidia, look in geforce experience and make sure it isn't "auto optimizing" your game. This option often makes wrong decisions sacrificing graphic visual quality for speed.
3. double check your resolutions set in game and control panel etc. without more info, I don't know what else anyone can say to help yet.

my gpu is rtx 3070 mobile and i didnt use auto optimizing

[heime2003]

i dont know why vulkan is default API in this game since directx 11 produces better image quality

[KeepCleaving]

Originally posted by heime2003:

i dont know why vulkan is default API in this game since directx 11 produces better image quality

Agreed. Early beta Vulcan had a lot of issues, it's gotten better. I think it's the default due to it having much better compatibility with linux and apple systems. So perhaps it felt the better choice. Tho some kind of system check would help auto defaulting to the more optimal executable one would think.
Sorry I couldn't get it looking better for you. I imagine you checked the resolution, should be 1440, most gaming labtops is that res. try toggling anti ailiasing modes There is a common occurance that the game might default to an extremely low resolution, then have AA on makes it super blurry.

[OoWah]

Originally posted by KeepCleaving:

2. if Nvidia, look in geforce experience and make sure it isn't "auto optimizing" your game. This option often makes wrong decisions sacrificing graphic visual quality for speed.

A year later and this promptly resolved the microstuttering I was getting on vulkan, so thank you. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling Baldur's Gate at one point and geforce had sneakily auto-optimized it when I wasn't looking. Turning that off and reverting the custom options in geforce fixed the problem.