Direct x12?

[brownging1]

I am using windows 10. When I operate ATS. I choose directx11. How can I upgrade to drectx12, or should I stay with directx11?
Thanks

[Wille Wilse]

The game supports dx11.1 not dx12. Dx12 is being worked on, not yet finished.

[Wolfgang]

DX12 is not yet supported.
Edit: Quoting AyMazingATS:

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

Coming sometime in 2023 is a game engine update and DX12, fixes for AA, performance improvements, and more. The game engine upgrade has been in the works for 4 years as mentioned by Pavel during the Christmas stream. Pavel first mentioned DX12 in June 2021. More information was revealed in the Christmas Stream 2021 edition. See below.

We don't have any confirmation of what date this is going to happen but below is a short timeline that I can provide on things that have been mentioned about the graphic improvements:

November 2020 - Because of a delay for Iberia and of course the start of Covid Pavel Sebor (SCS CEO) addressed the community in a blog post. In this blog he mentioned "Reaching the new stable point of version 1.40 will allow the art department to pursue their vision of a fully PBR-enabled pipeline in the future, so the visual quality should and will keep on improving further."

June 2021 - During the ETS2 DAF XG/XG+ release stream on Twitch from SCS Pavel mentioned that DX12 is being worked on.

December 2021 - During the Christmas stream which gives a general idea of what SCS is working on Pavel didn't mention DX12 specifically but what he did say can give us hope. He mentioned that there will be performance improvements along with fixing the anti aliasing.

December 2022 - Pavel confirmed that the DX12 engine upgrade has been in the works for 4 years. Pavel wanted to get this released in 2022 but the team was unable to accomplish this. He also mentioned about fixing the anti aliasing, game performance(probably referring to true multicore support), and more. Mentioned that this should be released sometime in 2023.

Hopefully the AA adjustments include TAA/TXAA.

DLSS 2.0/AMD FSR support could come but I am not counting on it. Though he did mention about a new way to render the game too. So anything is possible.

DX12 alone is not going to be a big game changer. What is going to be the game changer is what they can do if they invest the time with it. Right now one of the biggest hindrances is the game is single core. Multi core support is needed.

AA in the game is pretty bad. SSAO is a frame rate killer. SMAA and the small LOD circle is somewhat of a joke.

Majority of the hardware made in the last 5-7 years is already capable of DX12.

Remember that SCS Software is not a major game publisher. They are still a relatively small gaming studio and most employees are not in the game engine/coding area.

ETA: Post from Max on the SCS Forums that confirms the above: https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=1737223#p1737223

He says:
#112 Post by Max » 31 Aug 2022 21:48
it has ben stated more times that we are working on graphic changes.
it is just hell lot of work. for the same reason no bigger visible changes happened in last updates/years. it would be waste of time to make it