Vulkan crash or poor DX11 performance

[Stigma]

I’m out of options! I’ve tried everything I can think of to stop Vulkan from crashing, the game runs perfectly smooth with the Vulkan exe. But then the game will close and return me to desktop, usually during dialogue scenes.

If I switch to DX11, I can get about 10 seconds of decent performance before it just ♥♥♥♥♥ the bed and stutters on camera turns. Sometimes it will smooth out if I face in a certain direction. Changing graphics options does diddly squat, even lowest resolution + performance fsr has the same terrible performance.

I made it to act 3 with 52 hours played mostly putting up with DX11, but for a while Vulkan didn’t crash so I used that til Grymforge and it never stopped crashing after that.

I can’t carry on with DX11 like that though, and I obviously can’t carry on with it crashing.

:( This blows.

[AmberBossDr]

ALRIGHT I’ve had the exact same issue with DirectX11 and Vulkan and it drove me nuts, so let me just break down everything I’ve done to boost performance dramatically.

First, if you’re using a newer card, Vulkan is recommended (but this all depends on your build as well and your CPU). HOWEVER all is not lost if it’s older, all you have to do is check on AMD or NVIDIA’s website to see if Vulkan is supported for your card. If it is newer, there is a liklihood that Vulkan is already installed for the latest driver (so your best bet would be to get rid of that .exe BUT I’ve never had to download it soooo I’m not entirely sure?? I don’t know much about it. It would be worth checking out AMD’s website.)

I highly recommend downloading MSI afterburner to keep your GPU fans HIGH- this helped me a lot and has been a game-changer for stabilizing the temperature. It might also be the reason why Vulkan is crashing- it’s getting too dang hot!

In windows control panel, there’s a setting that allows you to prioritize high performance, under power options. (Use caution unless you know your CPU can handle it.)

If your card supports it, choose FSR in game for AMD, and DLSS for NVIDIA. Then cap the frames at whatever your max fps is for your monitor. Turn Vsync off and see how it performs. if you notice a difference with it on, then by all means! :3

Also, haven’t had the greatest luck with the automatic curve function for the fans in MSI afterburner, I just manually switch the fans from mid-high depending on what I’m doing. It won’t hurt anything to do that btw, if you do decide to crank them all the way up. (Make sure it’s just the fan settings and not the overclocking/power, unless you already know how to overclock!!)

NOW additional graphics settings in game are really just personal preference- what could you live without? in my case, i have clouds set to low because I don’t care about the quality of them, as well as instance detail and animation level of detail to medium, with dynamic crowds OFF.

I really hope you can get something out of this because this game is absolutely stunning. There was also a recent patch so that might help with all of this too, good luck :)