DirectX 11 vs DirectX 12

[Nomad]

For some reason on Dx12 game runs like 8-10 fps worse for me than Dx11with the same settings at 1440p on 6700k 980ti and 16 ram. Win10 obviously.

The whole selling point of Dx12 was that it will outperform Dx11 by a mile, but it looks opposite atm. I see it's in beta, do you guys think it's just not optimized right now and they will fix it

[Sir Ian]

Runs 10 fps better for me on a 290x. But DX12 crashes in the campaign map, seems bugged.

[Zebedee]

In 1, DX12 improved performance on AMD GPUs but Nvidia ones got better performance with DX11. Would suspect it's still the same until CA announce significant changes.

[la_nague]

nvidia cards have to support dx12 on the driver level, meaning the CPU has to do some work that for AMD is not needed.

use DX11 for nvidia at least in this game.

[GR-BlacK||KnighT]

Originally posted by Sir Ian:

Runs 10 fps better for me on a 290x. But DX12 crashes in the campaign map, seems bugged.

Approved DX12 Is bugged on both brand cards .

[GeNKi]

I use dx12 even with nvidia, bc I think game looks much better.. F few fps ;D

[Azethoth]

AMD card, DirectX12 results in unusably slow loads. Like 20 seconds to a minute or more. So you can kind of play as long as you never have to fight a tactical battle because that means minutes of wasted time.

But DirectX11 has hard GPU crashes during tactical combat. This is recent from just before Sand Kings and I only see it in their games. There used to be eventual graphical corruption during campaign but that went away 5 updates or so ago.

I think there is just a general incompetence at 3D at this company. For instance Stelaris, for campaigns spanning many sleep cycles on the computer never crashes and it has a ton of 3D. Total War though may or may not sleep well, but guaranteed, eventually Windows will have to reset the GPU and you may or may not crash the game which may or may not crash windows and require a ctrl-alt-delete force quit TW to get windows going again.