Direct X 12 issues with Nvidida Card

[76561198040396127]

Planet Coaster 2 won't start because it is missing a video card with Direct X12. I have updated my Geforce GTX 950 M to newest driver (Game Ready 566.36), but still no luck. Any ideas? Thanks

[_I_]

the 950m should support dx12

but also the intel hd/uhd on the laptop would need to also

use dxdiag to see what the intel hd/uhd dx limit is

*or it might be a ryzen or amd igpu on it, that would also limit as they are used together


also update drivers from the laptop mfg site for both gpus

[r.linder]

GTX 950M doesn't meet the minimum requirements, minimum GPU from NVIDIA is a GTX 1060 6G and the minimum VRAM requirement is 6GB, GTX 950M also doesn't fully support DX12 like the 1060 does, it only goes up to feature level 11_0 while the 1060 is feature level 12_1 even though both technically support DX12.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-950m.c2642
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1060-6-gb.c2862

The game isn't going to run at all unless you're able to get the game to run on DX11, if that won't work then you're going to have to use a machine with a GTX 1000 series card or newer

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by r.linder:

GTX 950M doesn't meet the minimum requirements, minimum GPU from NVIDIA is a GTX 1060 6G and the minimum VRAM requirement is 6GB, GTX 950M also doesn't fully support DX12 like the 1060 does, it only goes up to feature level 11_0 while the 1060 is feature level 12_1 even though both technically support DX12.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-950m.c2642
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1060-6-gb.c2862

This is some very helpful information, thank you for sharing, Captain Linder.

[76561198040396127]

Thanks a lot. Bad news, but apprreciate the quick support

[r.linder]

Originally posted by marmor08:

Thanks a lot. Bad news, but apprreciate the quick support

You can get a 1060 6GB for 50 bucks or less if you find a good deal, you just need a desktop to put it into after that

Minimum requirement is a 6600K which is a 4 core 4 thread so you can get away with an older i7, they can be found in a lot of old refurbished desktops, mostly office machines, aside from that it's just a matter of finding one with a 500W power supply (or a machine that will support a PSU upgrade, many machines have proprietary hardware that wouldn't) so it can run a 1060

All in all you could get a machine that works with the game for less than 200

[_I_]

yea, the 950 is way below the min req for the game
its not just a dx limit, but vram and cpu/gpu limits also

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Set the NVIDIA GPU as Globel default in NVCP

In Winfows Graphics Settings click Browse and add game related EXE to that list, then change its Options to High Performance GPU

[GMC79]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by marmor08:

Thanks a lot. Bad news, but apprreciate the quick support

You can get a 1060 6GB for 50 bucks or less if you find a good deal, you just need a desktop to put it into after that

Minimum requirement is a 6600K which is a 4 core 4 thread so you can get away with an older i7, they can be found in a lot of old refurbished desktops, mostly office machines, aside from that it's just a matter of finding one with a 500W power supply (or a machine that will support a PSU upgrade, many machines have proprietary hardware that wouldn't) so it can run a 1060

All in all you could get a machine that works with the game for less than 200

It's a 950m he has so it's a laptop which won't be upgradeable.

You would think it would start tho and play ok to some degree at low settings, some games (rare tho these days) but on laptops can have a rare thing of using the onboard gpu as default. Happened to me on wreckfest on my old 6700HQ/1060 6GB laptop. (can change it nvidia control panel)
it didn't stop it starting tho but it was just bad!

[r.linder]

Originally posted by GMC79:

Originally posted by r.linder:

You can get a 1060 6GB for 50 bucks or less if you find a good deal, you just need a desktop to put it into after that

Minimum requirement is a 6600K which is a 4 core 4 thread so you can get away with an older i7, they can be found in a lot of old refurbished desktops, mostly office machines, aside from that it's just a matter of finding one with a 500W power supply (or a machine that will support a PSU upgrade, many machines have proprietary hardware that wouldn't) so it can run a 1060

All in all you could get a machine that works with the game for less than 200

It's a 950m he has so it's a laptop which won't be upgradeable.

You would think it would start tho and play ok to some degree at low settings, some games (rare tho these days) but on laptops can have a rare thing of using the onboard gpu as default. Happened to me on wreckfest on my old 6700HQ/1060 6GB laptop. (can change it nvidia control panel)
it didn't stop it starting tho but it was just bad!

I did say he would have to get a desktop...

[GMC79]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by GMC79:

It's a 950m he has so it's a laptop which won't be upgradeable.

You would think it would start tho and play ok to some degree at low settings, some games (rare tho these days) but on laptops can have a rare thing of using the onboard gpu as default. Happened to me on wreckfest on my old 6700HQ/1060 6GB laptop. (can change it nvidia control panel)
it didn't stop it starting tho but it was just bad!

I did say he would have to get a desktop...

ok yeah sorry didn't see that.

950m Is dx12 so the game should start, weird. I say he has to start with a full driver uninstall with DDU and go from there.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by GMC79:

Originally posted by r.linder:

I did say he would have to get a desktop...

ok yeah sorry didn't see that.

950m Is dx12 so the game should start, weird. I say he has to start with a full driver uninstall with DDU and go from there.

It doesn't have the same feature level as the 1060 and it's well below minimum requirements, more than likely a lost cause because even if he could get it running, doesn't have enough memory

[_I_]

what cpu is it?

if its an older intel with hd igpu, it may be limited to dx11

post a cpuz validation link
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
cpuz -> validate button -> submit button
it will open a browser, copy the url (address) and paste it here

[Bad 💀 Motha]

NVIDIA 9xx M series in Laptops was generally paired along side Intel 7th Gen CPUs; the Intel GPU must also support DX12 because the two work together as one when inside Laptops as the Intel GPU is always used as a Frame Buffer to feed the GPU related information to any actual Displays.

So my best guess (since I can't test this further in person) is DX12 games of any kind simply will not be able to run on such a Laptop unless it has AT LEAST Intel 10th Gen CPU (if we leave AMD CPUs out of the equation of things)

DX12 Games CAN work under Desktop GTX 9xx series GPUs w/ Win10 64bit minimum; however because of how the GPUs work in Laptops, it's more complicated with regards to that.

950M is bottom of the barrel weak GPU anyways and is generally only good for low demanding DX9/10/11 games anyways.

It might be possible to work-around this issue for some Single Player games using/injecting DXVK into the game so that it forces the game to run off Vulkan API instead. However that's still going to be hit/miss with such a Laptop as that.