Directx 11 or 12?

[TakeiT]

Greetings, fellow veterans.

I just acquired the game and I have a question I'd like to resolve if possible, before I start.

The interface offers me 2 options DX11 or DX12. What the difference and what would be the best choice?

I have: Windows 10, Geforce GTX 960, Core I5-4460

Which of these do you know/think goes better with this PC?

[Imhotep]

In the game menu, there are Benchmark tests for Graphics and AI processing. Try doing the tests with both DX11 and DX12 and see which performs better. I think that, with games generally, DX12 is hypothetically better, but can have stability issues. If in doubt, then probably use DX11.

[TakeiT]

Ok, thanks for the info, from what you comment, I'll try the DX12, there shouldn't be any problem.

Regards!

[Dutchgamer1982]

dx 12 is better.
-but you need windows 10 to run it (won't run on win 7 or 8)
-and you'll need a GPU supporting it (basicly most cards newer than 2016, when in doupt check if yours has support for it)

-960 is in the list of supporting it (though of the 9xx series only the 980ti and 980 have full dx12 support.... the 960 has 11.2 support (meaning it does support dx 12, but not all features)
-> but it most likely will work.

[TakeiT]

Dutchgamer1982 の投稿を引用：

dx 12 is better.
-but you need windows 10 to run it (won't run on win 7 or 8)
-and you'll need a GPU supporting it (basicly most cards newer than 2016, when in doupt check if yours has support for it)

-960 is in the list of supporting it (though of the 9xx series only the 980ti and 980 have full dx12 support.... the 960 has 11.2 support (meaning it does support dx 12, but not all features)
-> but it most likely will work.

Man, you've got me doubting again. Thank's anyways for the info

[BrilliantBurrito]

Dx12 performs much worse than 11 for me so I use 11.

[Cello]

I just notice that in the "recommended Specs" on the Steam Store Page for Civ 6, they recommend DirectX11.. We know that "DX 12 is better", but maybe the Game runs better on DX11... What do you think?

[sercera]

I can't even run the game on DX 12.
But that's because I don't have a supported (or "recommended") graphics card working on my PC. The factory Intel graphics card on my 7 year old laptop is just barely good enough to run Civ 6 on DX 11 in 2D mode. It runs but stutters too badly to run in 3D mode.

It's funny because Civ 6 can run on the Intel graphics card, but Civ 5 can't. Oh well, I pretty much gave up on Civ 5 when I got Civ 6 anyway.

[TakeiT]

I'm playing with DX 11, as such there is not much difference. I've come to learn that DX12 may not be the best choice when you have a low-mid profile graphics card like mine.

[Cello]

Sorry about my noobie question: I have a NVidia GTX1060 on a Dell Laptop. Is this considered a "low-mid graphics card" as you mentioned? Thanks!

[TakeiT]

Yeah, dude, that card is a bit better than mine, but still low-mid profile. You need to step up the penultimate digit (1 0 '6' 0) to move to "mid" or "high" group.

[Alakide]

Hello, I´ve been playing testing both and this is my result

I'm playing with:
ASUS ROG GL753VD
Core i7 7700HQ 2.80 Ghz
1 TB SSD nVme
16 GB RAM
GeForce GTX 1050 4 GB VRAM
Windows 10 1909

I use all full graphics for this test and the biggest map on game.

DirectX 12
Benchmark little bit higher than DirecX 11 so... its not a real difference (2ms difference)
CPU temperature 85 C°
GPU temperature: 70 C°
Visual experience and game flow same as DirectX 11...

DirectX 12
Benchmark little bit lower than DirecX 11 so... its not a real difference (2ms difference)
CPU temperature 81 C°
GPU temperature: 68 C°
Visual experience and game flow same as DirectX 12...

In conclution (in my pc)

I´ve been playing good on both and the only difference I've noticed is that DirectX 12 usea much resources and I imagine thats why Direct 12 raise the temperature further on the system.

If you have a Powerfull PC I recomend Direct 12 unless you expect a video issue running the game.

:)

[Viper]

The game does not use any of the new DX 12 technologies. It will look exactly the same. Use whatever runs best on your PC.

[Blehh.....]

Viper の投稿を引用：

The game does not use any of the new DX 12 technologies. It will look exactly the same. Use whatever runs best on your PC.

then whats the point of including it if there are no new graphical improvements?

[Alakide]

Boltte の投稿を引用：

Viper の投稿を引用：

The game does not use any of the new DX 12 technologies. It will look exactly the same. Use whatever runs best on your PC.

then whats the point of including it if there are no new graphical improvements?

I think its not for graphical improvements but for game performance, because DX12 makes that the game in deed be capable tu use or acces to all CPU cores when the game is makeing logical and not graphical decitions.

Actually thats why if your computer do not have a good ventilation system, with DX12 CPU and GPU temperature will be heading around 90 °C :(

[Blehh.....]

Alakide の投稿を引用：

Boltte の投稿を引用：

then whats the point of including it if there are no new graphical improvements?

I think its not for graphical improvements but for game performance, because DX12 makes that the game in deed be capable tu use or acces to all CPU cores when the game is makeing logical and not graphical decitions.

Actually thats why if your computer do not have a good ventilation system, with DX12 CPU and GPU temperature will be heading around 90 °C :(

Oh i see.....shame windows 7 doesnt support dx 12.....and only dx 11.2 which apparently is a half arsed implementation of dx 12....

Does this game's dx 11 = 11.2 or just 11.0?