Doesn't work on my laptop gt650m(2gb). DirectX12 issue

[Слава ЗСУ!]

First of all sry for my bad english)

I get the same error all the time telling me that my gpu doesn't support dx12.
I searched thru all damn internet. Watched(I think) 99% of videos with fixes. But nothing works for me.

I have a list of videos. Maybe one of them will help you at least:
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQxTj61JTBw
(this one is suggesting to copy 2 dlls into game location)
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NLqwE8B50
(this one's too but in the comments there are another version of the dlls)
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUkc4CSm5M
(this one suggests to copy dlls and some other files into game location).

Instead of a repair, thanks to these videos, the game even stopped giving me an error. Silently tries to start and nothing happens. If you have same ♥♥♥♥ you should check your game files in steam and everything will returt to its previous state.

Btw I learned that this problem may apper on all old nvidia gpu series: 6xx, 7xx, 8xx and 9xx series.
And the most of the cases happened on 6xx series. I think that most of these gpus do not have dx12 support at all.
But the main rofl is that in some rare cases, people still managed to run the game on their old 6xx series gpus like gtx 660 and others. These are exceptions from hundreds of unfortunate cases.

Thank for reading this whining to the end. I hope there is a way to fix this.
I will pray to all the gods for someone who will at least try to help me and other suffering gamers.

[ED13]

Time to update your outdated hardware.....

[Seamus]

Kepler does not have dx12 support.

[seppuked]

GT 650 laptop.....dude I played this game on a GTX 1050 Ti laptop and I had 30 fps, now my GTX 1050 Ti laptop is 350% faster than your card. Do you plan to play this game at 5 FPS or something? Just to let you know, 30 FPS in Death Stranding is actually ok, with a few tweaks it actually feels smooth, but your only option here is to upgrade. Good luck

[iAmTurok]

Even if your card supports DX12, here it's the D3D feature level that matters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_levels_in_Direct3D#Direct3D_12
Your card only supports up to D3D feature level 11_0, but this game requires feature level 12_0
I learned that the hard way when I ran into the same issue with my gtx 780, and I was well aware I was below min requirements.
I got a refund without any problems though.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

There are supposedly some Feature Level 12_0 workarounds for this game - Death Stranding doesn't actually require hardware Feature Level 12_0 support to work, but it seems the developers made this an artificial and official restriction.

The game officially requires D3D12 feature level 12_0, but it doesn't actually need it.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Death_Stranding
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Death_Stranding#cite_note-52

If those workarounds don't work for you, maybe something else is the problem. Or maybe GT 650M just won't work with this game, even despite the workarounds.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR.technology:

There are supposedly some Feature Level 12_0 workarounds for this game - Death Stranding doesn't actually require hardware Feature Level 12_0 support to work, but it seems the developers made this an artificial and official restriction.

The game officially requires D3D12 feature level 12_0, but it doesn't actually need it.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Death_Stranding
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Death_Stranding#cite_note-52

If those workarounds don't work for you, maybe something else is the problem. Or maybe GT 650M just won't work with this game, even despite the workarounds.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-GT-650M-vs-GeForce-GTX-1050/122vs3596
Okay, except for the fact that mobile card is roughly 1/4 the power of the minimum.

With half the vram.

In addition to not having actual dx12 support.

[cyäegha]

even if you employed all of the extant workarounds, there is no earthly way a 650M would produce a playable experience, even with everything turned down to the minimum possible settings, mipmapping and LODs set to the most aggressive possible values in .ini, and resolution scaling reduced to half

unfortunately it's just not possible

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

I don't judge what other people want to do with their cards. I played AAA games on an Intel HD Graphics 4600. If someone wants to play with what they have, they will. So I try to focus on how to make a game work, and not on the performance (which was the OP's original problem to solve that they had).

OP didn't seem to be concerned about performance. I think they are the one person, who (owning such card) doesn't need reminding what performance of that card is. They probably know it much better than anyone here, from their own experience.

GT 650M supports DirectX 12 (software) through Feature Level 11_0 (hardware). And that is a fact. "not having actual dx12 support" sounds more like a personal opinion than a strict fact.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR.technology:

GT 650M supports DirectX 12 (software) through Feature Level 11_0 (hardware). And that is a fact. "not having actual dx12 support" sounds more like a personal opinion than a strict fact.

No. It is not an opinion.

It has dx12 support in name only. Thus it does not have actual dx12 support.

There are no features exclusive to dx12 that it supports.

It's not complicated.

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR.technology:

OP didn't seem to be concerned about performance. I think they are the one person, who (owning such card) doesn't need reminding what performance of that card is.

there is a difference between being merely unconcerned about whether a game looks good so long as it's playable - a perfectly admirable mindset - and ignoring firmly established performance metrics backed by historical precedent that all but explicitly state the game will not run
not "run well", but "run at all"

that you've immediately jumped to 'stop judging OP for his hardware' in response to a mere observation that his hardware is factually, technologically insufficient to run the game, even with the stringent performance-boosting stipulations and workarounds i've already mentioned, speaks volumes

you are also downplaying how insufficient a card, that is six generations out-of-date, which only supports feature level 11.0, is when put up against modern games
by which i mean 'games that fully utilize the directX12 or vulkan pipeline featuresets', not a very broad and exceedingly arbitrary definition of loosely-related "AAA" games, which doesn't necessarily imply any particular level of graphical demand or fidelity, as almost every AAA release in the last ten years has had to be highly scalable to meet the demands of three separate console generations

i'm not saying OP isn't "allowed" to play the game, like you imply i am, and an implication that i take particular umbrage with
i am saying OP literally cannot play the game with the hardware he is bringing to the table, as in the hardware is physically incapable of running the game at any level whatsoever

computer hardware isn't some kind of magical tim taylor technology that you can just keep stretching well past its limit while still expecting it to run
there are eventual, insurmountable brick walls that even the price/performance kings of old become incapable of scaling, and in this case a game that actually utilizes the full breadth of WDDM2 is that metaphorical brick wall
and no amount of coddling TC and telling him 'these judgmental people just don't get what your card is capable of' will change established fact

if i'm judging anyone, i'm judging you

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Okay, guys, everyone has their own personal subjective opinions and the right to voice them. I don't really care about your opinions at all. I only care about facts. I wish you a great and nice day! 🙂

[ZloVeshiy PartiZaN]

windows 10?

[Seamus]

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR.technology:

Okay, guys, everyone has their own personal subjective opinions and the right to voice them. I don't really care about your opinions at all. I only care about facts. I wish you a great and nice day! 🙂

So, you're dismissing facts because you don't like them and calling them opinions.

Fantastic.

[ED13]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Originally posted by 🉑 reznoR.technology:

Okay, guys, everyone has their own personal subjective opinions and the right to voice them. I don't really care about your opinions at all. I only care about facts. I wish you a great and nice day! 🙂

So, you're dismissing facts because you don't like them and calling them opinions.

Fantastic.

People are afraid of facts these days, because they dont go with what they are saying, to them facts are make believe lol.

At the end of the day OP your card is old ass hardware and if it does run at like 5fps, looking like a retarded potato...is that really fun to play...?

[ttv/Evilfoxxx93]

Solving the problem of launching on cards without dx 12 and an "idle" click when it is detected
I flipped through 100,000 lines of a search engine, downloaded a piece of 20 fixes, rummaged through everything, nothing helped. And now, in despair, I find this https://drive.google.com/file/d/193EfiPOlFmfmVfe8clnoZbQG0hNl804B/view
I put it without enthusiasm and voila))) CARL WORKS!
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Process XEON E 5 2440
Vidyah GTX 750 2g
RAM 16G
Windows 10
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No wonder he sweated for 4 hours. And then I bought a pancake at a discount. Change vidyuhi to idle click. I hope I can help the same rogue like me. Good luck everyone