I have a DX 12 GPU and game refuses to start

[Logan]

As stated in the the title I have a DX12 graphics card. (MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1060 6GB)

When ever I click launch the game boots up and shows the game banner while the game loads. After quite litterally 4 to 5 seconds the games banner turns White and the error,

"The current version of the game requires a Dx11 card. \n For more information please see: http://blog.marekrosa.org/2016/02/space-engineers-news-full-source-code_26.html"

pops up and I cannot click the link. After seeing this error I typed the whole link into google chrome it brought me to a 2016 open source code blog post. I did not find this suprising due to the link address /URL.

After which I have deleted the APPDATA space engineers config file, and relaunched the game after verifying the games integrity and the same error occurred. I then reinstalled the game with the same result on launch.

Space engineers Devs and/or community I need help!

[SunStormer]

Direct X12 is not backwards compatible with Dirext X11 (Do a quick google search) I beleive that would be the start of the problem. The next issue might trying to find if your video card can support DirectX11 at all.

[sPOG]

Try and reinstall DX11 ( you have the installer in the _CommonRedist). I have the same GPU and I have no issues running the game

[Thalyn]

Originally posted by SunStormer:

Direct X12 is not backwards compatible with Dirext X11

While this is technically true, any hardware which supports DX12 will also run DX11, as will any operating system (though at this point in time that's basically only Windows 10). Thus the absence of backwards compatibility is more academic than relevant.

However, you're quite right in that they're separate entities. All of their individual Direct3D libraries are still stored separately, and it's entirely possible that some of the DX11 libraries are missing on the OP's system. Hence Spogaa's idea is very much worth trying.

Given there hasn't been an updated DX Redistributable since June 2010 I have precisely zero idea why the files aren't included as standard with Win10. Yet here we are.

[Huperspace]

all Dx12 cards support dx11 or even dx9-
but not all dx12 cards support feature lvl 12

update reinstall GPU driver, check the dxdiag if feature level: 11_1, 11_0 listed

you can install:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=35
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

[Dan2D3D]

My PC is Direct 12 = no problems at all to play SE.

Make sure the game uses the GTX and not the integrated Graphic (if there is)

__________


> Some members had to Fix OR update Windows to be able to play.

> Some had to do a fresh installation of theur Graphic Driver to fix.

> Maybe have a look at the "Game wont start issues":
(some apps may prevent the game from loading)
https://www.spaceengineersgame.com/game-wont-start-issues.html


Maybe try the forum search tool here because there was other members having this problem not so long ago and some have solutions in that you could try.

[Dan2D3D]

Also you could have a look at the pinned important green messages in Troubleshooting section.

= Some have good fixes in.

[Logan]

None of these fix the error, one thing to not that i did not mention. I upgraded from windows 8.1 to 10 and it worked just fine on 8.1

[Logan]

Recent logfile reads:

2018-12-10 15:51:59.491 - Thread: 1 -> Log Started
2018-12-10 15:51:59.493 - Thread: 1 -> Timezone (local - UTC): -6h
2018-12-10 15:51:59.493 - Thread: 1 -> App Version: 01_188_104
2018-12-10 15:51:59.493 - Thread: 1 -> Steam build: Always true
2018-12-10 15:51:59.493 - Thread: 1 -> Is official: True [NO][IS][NAMP]
2018-12-10 15:51:59.494 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.ProcessorCount: 8
2018-12-10 15:51:59.625 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.OSVersion: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.17763.0)
2018-12-10 15:51:59.625 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.CommandLine: S:\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Bin64\SpaceEngineers.exe
2018-12-10 15:51:59.625 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.Is64BitProcess: True
2018-12-10 15:51:59.625 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem: True
2018-12-10 15:51:59.629 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.Version: 4.6.2 or later (461814)
2018-12-10 15:51:59.629 - Thread: 1 -> Environment.CurrentDirectory: S:\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Bin64
2018-12-10 15:52:00.819 - Thread: 1 -> CPU Info: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
2018-12-10 15:52:00.819 - Thread: 1 -> IntPtr.Size: 8
2018-12-10 15:52:00.819 - Thread: 1 -> Default Culture: en-US
2018-12-10 15:52:00.819 - Thread: 1 -> Default UI Culture: en-US
2018-12-10 15:52:00.819 - Thread: 1 -> IsAdmin: False
2018-12-10 15:52:00.826 - Thread: 1 -> MyConfig.Load() - START
2018-12-10 15:52:00.830 - Thread: 1 -> Path: C:\Users\logan\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\SpaceEngineers.cfg
2018-12-10 15:52:00.830 - Thread: 1 -> Config file not found! C:\Users\logan\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\SpaceEngineers.cfg
2018-12-10 15:52:00.832 - Thread: 1 -> MyConfig.Load() - END
2018-12-10 15:52:00.834 - Thread: 1 -> Checksum file is missing, game will run as usual but file integrity won't be verified
2018-12-10 15:52:03.457 - Thread: 1 -> DirectX 11 renderer not supported. No renderer to revert back to.

[Dan2D3D]

Send all to the Devs, here > https://support.keenswh.com/

Or > support email [e-mail]

Ref.: https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/1/1709564118765103876/

[SunStormer]

Originally posted by Thalyn:

Originally posted by SunStormer:

Direct X12 is not backwards compatible with Dirext X11

While this is technically true, any hardware which supports DX12 will also run DX11, as will any operating system (though at this point in time that's basically only Windows 10). Thus the absence of backwards compatibility is more academic than relevant.

However, you're quite right in that they're separate entities. All of their individual Direct3D libraries are still stored separately, and it's entirely possible that some of the DX11 libraries are missing on the OP's system. Hence Spogaa's idea is very much worth trying.

Given there hasn't been an updated DX Redistributable since June 2010 I have precisely zero idea why the files aren't included as standard with Win10. Yet here we are.

Thanks for that Thalyn, I was half asleep when I was writing that post of mine so not all of it came out clearly or as I intended lol :)
In the end of my reply I was trying to point out the DirectX installers (web version) usually just update to the most latest version of DirectX (not specifially what you want), however using the standalone installers of DirectX don't deviate from what you can expect.