DX11 vs DX12? Who the best?

[Enclosure]

Is the DX12 fixed?

[meheezen]

define "best"

[Soldner42]

Originally posted by meheezen:

define "best"

i guess hes talking about Optimization and how he can get the most FPS.

[Louis Cypher]

for AMD DX12 works for me much better than DX11

[Enclosure]

Originally posted by Soldner42:

Originally posted by meheezen:

define "best"

i guess hes talking about Optimization and how he can get the most FPS.

Yeah!

[shadowzerg1234]

What I can say is this. I have my settings set and did not change them between this test. Preset is Badass with some settings like fog lowered to medium but the vast majority left alone

I'm on an RTX 2070 with an I7-10750H and 16gb of RAM DDR4 on an SSD. I was skeptical of DX12 because I kept hearing about its issues and my own benchmark tests always showed it to present about 3 FPS less than DX11. I decided to just give a try though thinking, perhaps the benchmark isn't 100% representative of what I'll experience

With DX11 I hovered between 55 (when driving) to 100 (when up close to a wall). Average was about 63 and about 6 FPS higher when I turn off my NVIDIA filters (Sharpen and Colour)

With DX12 I gained a WHOPPING 20 FPS, no lie. Driving is now 79 FPS and average is 80 - 88 in gunfights

All I can say is, try it and see. I'm at the very beginning of the game and just now exploring Pandora by car. The switch has resolved all stuttering and lag issues that I was experiencing before

Also, as an aside, GPU utilization was 60%-98% with DX11. With DX12 it's legit a locked 98%.

TL;DR - DX12 gave me a flipping extra 20FPS and removed all stuttering/lag. This appears relatively common on higher end PCs

[Lizard]

DX12 only benefit is hardware instancing which is poorly implemented in this game and make it crash constantly

[shadowzerg1234]

Originally posted by Lizard:

DX12 only benefit is hardware instancing which is poorly implemented in this game and make it crash constantly

I'll let you know if I experience any crashing. Seems to function better with 20 and 30 series cards and higher end CPUs. Crash reports are pretty common with older hardware though (and some new too but best bet is to try it and see how it works)

[Shinigami]

I run DX12 and the game is stable. If I have a crash, it's once every 6 months.
DX12 supposedly should take better use of multi-core systems, thus resulting in higher framerates.
However, it's probably best that you just try it for yourself. Run the benchmark tool, switch between DX11 and DX12. Whichever gives you a higher framerate, play with that. If you experience a lot of crashes, switch to the other and then test again. If there's no crashes, use that. If it still crashes, then there's perhaps another issue.
Your mileage may vary, there's a million PC configurations out there, so it can be hard to say what works best for you.

[warmy bear]

YMMV with DX12 but DX12 hasn't been great for a lot of games, iirc. You don't really lose any features (like hwo some games lock RTX behind DX12)

[Bleydoka]

dx12 is easily the better option nowadays if the game is optimized for it.
dx11 offers higher max fps. but dx12 offers steady average fps, which means less stuttering.

i had a better experience with dx12 in this game, using a nvidia card.

[Zhifox]

Bro, dx 11 is the best! It is stable and productive. Don't choose dx 12!

[Shinigami]

Originally posted by Dr. Dro:

I wish this was an option, much rather wait 10 minutes for a stutter free experience than having this crap doing what it does nowadays.

Have you tried the -notexturestreaming option? Yes, loading times are longer, but no stutters (at least for me).

[shadowzerg1234]

Originally posted by Shinigami:

Originally posted by Dr. Dro:

I wish this was an option, much rather wait 10 minutes for a stutter free experience than having this crap doing what it does nowadays.

Have you tried the -notexturestreaming option? Yes, loading times are longer, but no stutters (at least for me).

How do you set the -notexturestreaming is that in the .ini files?

[Enclosure]

I tested it out. DX12 gives me massive fps spikes and less .01% and 1% lows. --_--
S0 dx11 IS the way to go.

[riddLedSKL]

>> " Nobody does bullets better then Marcus Munitions "

>> " You don't need to be a better shot, you just need to shoot more bullets "

>> " In a world with no guarantees, you can always count on Marcus "

oh by the way, " no refunds " :D