Game restarting forever when switching to vulkan...

[Two Raccoons In A Trenchcoat]

Just like it says. Bought the game, tried to switch to vulkan api, and it just says it's preparing to restart forever. Tried verifying files, didn't change anything.

When I say forever, I mean the first time I tried this I let it run for 45 minutes.

32gb ram, gtx1080, i7-6700k, latest drivers. Anyone know how to fix this?

[MaDShadoW]

Switch back to openGL here is how:
go to C:\Users\<your username>\Saved Games\Id Software\DOOM\base
open DOOMconfig.local with text editor
find the render_API and from 1 set it to 0
Save the file

[Guydodge]

Originally posted by 8-Bit Birdie:

Just like it says. Bought the game, tried to switch to vulkan api, and it just says it's preparing to restart forever. Tried verifying files, didn't change anything.

When I say forever, I mean the first time I tried this I let it run for 45 minutes.

32gb ram, gtx1080, i7-6700k, latest drivers. Anyone know how to fix this?

with those specs you dont need vulkan

[MaDShadoW]

Originally posted by Guydodge:

Originally posted by 8-Bit Birdie:

Just like it says. Bought the game, tried to switch to vulkan api, and it just says it's preparing to restart forever. Tried verifying files, didn't change anything.

When I say forever, I mean the first time I tried this I let it run for 45 minutes.

32gb ram, gtx1080, i7-6700k, latest drivers. Anyone know how to fix this?

with those specs you dont need vulkan

Correction with this setup and with win7 you can't even open it on vulkan

[Samael]

Originally posted by MaDShadoW:

Originally posted by Guydodge:

with those specs you dont need vulkan

Correction with this setup and with win7 you can't even open it on vulkan

You sure ? I have a friend playing it right now on Win7 vulkan and a 1080.

[Samael]

Maybe you should reinstall the Vulkan drivers.

[Two Raccoons In A Trenchcoat]

Sorry, went on a run this morning after this post. Came home and ran the game as Administrator. Worked perfectly. Now running ~200fps and this game is fun.

[Guydodge]

Originally posted by 8-Bit Birdie:

Sorry, went on a run this morning after this post. Came home and ran the game as Administrator. Worked perfectly. Now running ~200fps and this game is fun.

why strain your card like that? unnessasary IMO.

[Two Raccoons In A Trenchcoat]

Originally posted by Guydodge:

Originally posted by 8-Bit Birdie:

Sorry, went on a run this morning after this post. Came home and ran the game as Administrator. Worked perfectly. Now running ~200fps and this game is fun.

why strain your card like that? unnessasary IMO.

You're right. I should totally lower the settings to normal or whatever low is, maybe. Wouldn't want to strain my 1080.

[Katauri]

Thks a lot.

[SaveZ]

Originally posted by 8-Bit Birdie:

Originally posted by Guydodge:

why strain your card like that? unnessasary IMO.

You're right. I should totally lower the settings to normal or whatever low is, maybe. Wouldn't want to strain my 1080.

On a 980 the game runs identical booth on Vulkan/Opengl. Buth the image quality is way better on Vulkan. Use that if you don't have problems with it. Such a defined image that you can avoid the horrible tssa and use the ingame fxaa so you don't kill the detail of particles and reflections.

[LondenTower]

Hi. i really don't mean to bump an old forum thread like this, but i tried LITTERALLY EVERY FIX to make the Vulkan render API work, but it just doesn't want to. (I tried running both .exe's as administrator, trying to edit the config files, but they just don't exist somehow, and i even clean installed my PC very recently.)

The best and probably permanent fix is to add this to your launch options in steam:

+seta r_renderAPI 1 (Running as Admin apparently isn't needed when using this launch option)


AFTER 2 HOURS OF TROUBLESHOOTING, THE GAME FINALLY LAUNCHED WITH THE VULKAN API! (The funniest part is that i found this +seta option in a random reddit thread. however, i just can't find it anymore for the life of me.)

I really hope this launch option helps for anyone having the restarting problem. (Just force it down the games throat.)

[shivam13juna]

Originally posted by LondenTower:

Hi. i really don't mean to bump an old forum thread like this, but i tried LITTERALLY EVERY FIX to make the Vulkan render API work, but it just doesn't want to. (I tried running both .exe's as administrator, trying to edit the config files, but they just don't exist somehow, and i even clean installed my PC very recently.)

The best and probably permanent fix is to add this to your launch options in steam:

+seta r_renderAPI 1 (Running as Admin apparently isn't needed when using this launch option)


AFTER 2 HOURS OF TROUBLESHOOTING, THE GAME FINALLY LAUNCHED WITH THE VULKAN API! (The funniest part is that i found this +seta option in a random reddit thread. however, i just can't find it anymore for the life of me.)

I really hope this launch option helps for anyone having the restarting problem. (Just force it down the games throat.)

Thx man, you deserve award