game is buggy af. why is it using vulkan and not dx12?

[22justin]

vulkan runs at 2fps. great game! fantastic!

[MacLe0d]

Not a Vulkan issue.
You are just using graphics settings which require more VRAM that you have.
Reduce textures size according to the recommendations.

[Hash]

game works great 80-90 fps max settings, full Ray tracing, DLSS balanced, FG on 1080p 4060ti 16gb

[DrunkenMonk]

Originally posted by MacLe0d:

Not a Vulkan issue.
You are just using graphics settings which require more VRAM that you have.
Reduce textures size according to the recommendations.

Nice of the team to respond here. Thanks for the helpful input.


Also guys my game freezes when reaching the menu now, though I still hear the sound of water but I was playing fine yesterday, can you guys paste the same responses to me so I can confirm that I must actually be lying and I'm not having any issues. Thanks in advance ❤️

[NathW14]

Originally posted by Hash:

game works great 80-90 fps max settings, full Ray tracing, DLSS balanced, FG on 1080p 4060ti 16gb

How, how are possibly getting those sorts of frame rates on that hardware? Extremely hard to believe.

I'm on a 4080 Super and with DLSS performance, frame generation on and ray tracing off entirely, I'm struggling to get over 80 fps at absolute best at 1440p - regularly well below - and bizarrely almost no better at 1080p or even 720p.

[Solid Jones]

Originally posted by MacLe0d:

Not a Vulkan issue.
You are just using graphics settings which require more VRAM that you have.
Reduce textures size according to the recommendations.

What like 12GB yet it still goes over 16GB lol when FULL RT on

Impressive because I never imagined a game needing over 16GB of vram this early

[Solid Jones]

Also most games have a vram usage bar which might help

[MasterF]

16GB vram is not enough for full path tracing in 4K. I have a 4090 and sometimes I see it allocating over 19GB.. I think the amd's with 20GB are right on the edge, but with the lacking performance in RT, guess the 4090 is the only card availble that can do it.. at the moment

[CyberAngel]

"why is it using vulkan and not dx12?"
Because it's a id Tech game. First id Tech engines used OpenGL and Vulkan is an evolution of that. id Tech 7 currently supports only Vulkan on PC.

[Sonicnerd18]

This game needed more time to cook for sure. Its just too unoptimized and buggy, performance aside there were just so many strange graphical glitches and problems that occurred while I played the game. Surprised I even managed to finish it, but I had gamepass and the core game is good so I powered through.

This most recent update seemed to have screwed the game even more. DLSS and FG doesn't even seem to work half the time, and the VRAM issue is out of control. This game is beyond simple VRAM "demand" it is not optimized. There is something else with the game outside of the textures themselves that's draining so much VRAM out of systems. Compared to some of the other ID tech games like DOOM eternal and Wolfenstein 2, this game doesn't really look that much better for how it runs. The RT is really carrying it.

This is an Nvidia sponsored game as well, and it wouldn't be the first time that Nvidia has had games gimped to upsale their products, and in this case their overpriced GPUs of the recent years. It would be a shame if you guys caved into money, and this is why the game is so "demanding". No GI option to turn off RT, missing graphics options to tune performance, broken graphics, etc. Its pretty telling to be honest.

[stardust]

Originally posted by MasterF:

16GB vram is not enough for full path tracing in 4K. I have a 4090 and sometimes I see it allocating over 19GB.. I think the amd's with 20GB are right on the edge, but with the lacking performance in RT, guess the 4090 is the only card availble that can do it.. at the moment

Exactly, same thing here, around 20GB used on a 4090. People want to play with full PT on a low budget 4080 or lower, that's simply unrealistic. This game needs a GPU of atleast 20GB

[Captain Flappy]

Originally posted by 22justin:

vulkan runs at 2fps. great game! fantastic!

In my 26 hours I only had one minor bug (where the game ran at 3fps once until i toggled dlss off then on again) After that i ran the game at 4k 6fps constant with no noticeable bugs on a 3080.

[Carighan]

Originally posted by DrunkenMonk:

Also guys my game freezes when reaching the menu now, though I still hear the sound of water but I was playing fine yesterday

Man, AI troll farms have come far. This almost reads like english at this point.