DX12 And Vulkan

[Beward]

So I've been using vulkan and after the story mode I started playing RDO and deciced to give Dx12 a try. To be honest Vulkan makes the graphics look more blurry and give shadows and hair a pixaleted look on my pc (I have gtx 1060 6g and I'm playing on 1600x900 resolution) After switching to Dx12 graphics looked way better but there was a problem. Fps started to drop without a reason. Like it when in Saint Denis I never saw a single frame drop on Vulkan but on Dx12 framerate went crazy everytime. In the forest, swamp, valentine, mountain... It started to drop like crazy. I was getting constant 58-60 fps with vsync on on Vulkan but Dx12 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that up for me. For a reason fps drops more when I'm near a lantern or a light source. Any ideas?

[Chief Tok-Tok]

Isn't Vulcan recommended for amd and direct x for nvidia?

And the idea of Vulcan is performance while direct x is compatibility.

[Beward]

Originally posted by Chief Tok-Tok:

Isn't Vulcan recommended for amd and direct x for nvidia?

Well yes but no. In rdr Vulkan gives the best performance but for example in Doom if you have nvidia you shouldn't use vulkan. When I use DX12 my framerate drops to 30 in certain moments. I really don't understand why.

[Pain_Deluxe]

Same graphics card here... I thougt i was the only one notice that vulkan is blurryish.

And yes Performance under DX12 is worser than with Vulkan.... (And also my loading times with DX12 are crazy long ! i dont know why) so I stick with vulkan

[Eminem]

When you switch from Vulkan to DX12 and vice versa it resets all your graphic settings so yea

[Kupica]

Using Vulkan i got like 20fps more. I have Ryzen 1600x and Gtx1060 6g.
I think with vulkan the graphics are better

[Prince Vegeta]

Been wrestling with blur since buying this. Turning off TAA helped but made shadows even more pixelated as well as some other graphical artifacts. I'm about to fire it up now, gonna switch to Dx12 to see if that helps, I haven't even considered it until now.

If the game is indeed better looking on Dx12 I doubt i'll ever give Vulkan a second chance in future titles. It did seem strange to me to step away from Dx as it has always been superior to previous contenders, but then I hadn't really heard much about this vulkan thing so I thought i'd give it a try. I guess I should have expected graphical issues much like opengl in older titles.

[Beward]

Wow ok so this is a problem that Rockstar has to fix. Turning off TAA is suicide in this game. The amount of jagged edges and shimmering is unbelievable.

[Prince Vegeta]

Nah just use external aa or sample it. TAA blurs things really badly, some top offenders that come to mind are Conan Exiles and Final Fantasy 15.

OP is correct, switching to Dx12 improved clarity and removed graphical artifacts such as pixelated shadows from my screen.

Vulkan is officially banned from my PC. It's just a shame I didn't bother to try this before reaching epilogue part 1. :'(

[Beward]

Originally posted by Dank Nugs:

Nah just use external aa or sample it. TAA blurs things really badly, some top offenders that come to mind are Conan Exiles and Final Fantasy 15.

OP is correct, switching to Dx12 improved clarity and removed graphical artifacts such as pixelated shadows from my screen.

Vulkan is officially banned from my PC. It's just a shame I didn't bother to try this before reaching epilogue part 1. :'(

What about your fps? Do you have drops even when just turning the camera around?

[Beward]

Originally posted by Dank Nugs:

Nah just use external aa or sample it. TAA blurs things really badly, some top offenders that come to mind are Conan Exiles and Final Fantasy 15.

OP is correct, switching to Dx12 improved clarity and removed graphical artifacts such as pixelated shadows from my screen.

Vulkan is officially banned from my PC. It's just a shame I didn't bother to try this before reaching epilogue part 1. :'(

What kind of external aa? Like Nvidia CP AA?

[Prince Vegeta]

I am not yet experiencing any drops, I am currently in the Blackwater area and everything seems fine so far.

Yes nvidia CP is easiest way, you could also try reshade/sweetfx/enb or any similar apps.

[Beward]

Originally posted by Dank Nugs:

I am not yet experiencing any drops, I am currently in the Blackwater area and everything seems fine so far.

Yes nvidia CP is easiest way, you could also try reshade/sweetfx/enb or any similar apps.

Are you using RTX or something?

[Prince Vegeta]

Yeah I am playing on a 2080. After playing around with Dx12 i've noticed the trees are popping in kind of rough and there is some flickering in cut scenes ... It would seem that neither API can run this game perfectly. :'(

Now to decide which is the lesser evil..

[Sadistic Sweety]

2080 here as well. Did 6 benchmarks with various settings. 3 with Vulkan and 3 with DX. Vulkan always gets better frames. Decided to go with 5 more frames, rather than 5 more sharper pixelated trees and hair.

[Garudakings]

Thanks, I got the same gpu like you but when I tried to change from vulkan to directx 12 it performs much more better for me.