Enable Vulkan on DOTA 2 with Quick Test

[GPCB]

VIDEO -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-CPDAwRAE

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Requirements

1. Operating System – 64-bit Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 and Linux 64-bit

2. Vulkan Ready video card and driver

AMD – Graphics Core Next (GCN) Based Cards with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3. Visit http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/vulkan for full details.

AMD Radeon R9 Series graphics
AMD Radeon R7 Series graphics
AMD Radeon R5 240 graphics
AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics for OEM systems (HD 8570 and up)
AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series graphics for notebooks
AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics (HD 7730 and up)
AMD Radeon HD 7000M Series graphics for notebooks (HD 7730M and up)
AMD A4/A6/A8/A10-7000 Series APUs
AMD A6/A8/A10 PRO-7000 Series APUs
AMD A6/A8/A10/FX 8000 Series APUs
AMD E1/A4/A10 Micro-6000 Series APUs
AMD E1/E2/A4/A6/A8-6000 Series APUs
AMD A4-1200, A4-1300 and A6-1400 Series APUs
AMD E1-2000, E2-3000, A4-5000, A6-5000, and A4 Pro-3000 Series APUs

nVidia – with Windows driver version 368.69 and later and Linux driver version 367.27 and later. Visit https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver for full details.
Quadro Series
Quadro Series (Notebooks)
GeForce 1000 Series
GeForce 900 Series
GeForce 700 Series
GeForce 600 Series
GeForce 900M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce 800M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce 700M Series (Notebooks)
GeForce 600M Series (Notebooks)

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Steps How to Enable Vulkan on DOTA 2

1. Go to Steam LIBRARY, select Dota 2, download the “Dota 2 – Vulkan Support” on DLC section. The download size is about 300MB.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-1.png

2. Right-click Dota 2 then click Properties.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-3.png

3. Click SET LAUNCH OPTIONS.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-4.png

4. Type “-vulkan -vconsole”. Remove other parameters like “-dx9 -dx11 -gl” to avoid conflicts.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-5-2.png

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Verify if Vulkan is Enabled

1. Run DOTA 2 then open the console and type “vulkan”. If vulkan commands starts to show up, it means that Vulkan is now enabled.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/VULKAN-on-off.png

2. Press Alt + Tab. Go to “\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\game\bin\win64 “. Run “vconsole2.exe”.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-6b.png

3. If you see “Vulkan Extension Enabled: VK_KHR_swapchain” , it means that Vulkan is enabled. The “shaders.cache” error line is expected on AMD cards.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-7b.png
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[1MantisPhoenix]

Thanks I want to test later. It fails to initialize vulkan for my GTX970

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by 1🅿🅼🅰🅽🆃🅸🆂:

Thanks I want to test later. It fails to initialize vulkan for my GTX970

Got it working - and it's great, but I still think iit can be better. Not playing with any options ticked. to get 160FPS starting, and 90-120FPS by the end of a game..

[GPCB]

nice

[Mark]

why is my console hotkey isn't working?

[1MantisPhoenix]

are you even running 64bit>?

Originally posted by speedy:

why is my console hotkey isn't working?

Did you check your dota settings that the console is even the tilde key?

is -vconsole part of your launch options with -Vulkan? :?

[1MantisPhoenix]

Update?

[Mark]

Thanks

[76561198408780706]

Wow

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by speedy:

Thanks

awesome,

p.s. are you using the newest vulkan? 1.1.108?

[Chloe]

What is vulkan?

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by IvAN:

What is vulkan?

The best API you can ever experience in terms of using what is needed across the hardware you have, to balance the performance of speed, and utilization. It's mainly for phones and Linux - but Windows can experience it too. It's an add-on DLC of dota2 ; and you get the SDK on the website to run it with the Dota2 Add-on
Get it here: read about stuff on their portal too:
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home#windows

[GPCB]

Go to Steam LIBRARY, select Dota 2, download the “Dota 2 – Vulkan Support” on DLC section. The download size is about 300MB.

http://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/dota2-vulka-howto/dota2vulkan-1.png

[God Hasi]

what are you doing ???

[God Hasi]

why me baning not typing to team not voice

[Mestre Duo]

thanks man! great job.