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darkevilmac, do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

Running on Windows 11 with a 6900XT and Vulkan and DX11 look effectively identical as far as I can tell but Vulkan runs a lot faster and doesn't stutter when loading a new area.

Unfortunately though it tends to crash on tab out which means I need to use DX11 because I play with friends.

circuitfarmer,
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Yes. It’s not really meant as a visual improvement but as an efficiency improvement. Sadly it does seem (for some, myself included) that the Vulkan build needs a bit of work. For me it crashes all the time, and Larian themselves mentioned that it isn’t quite as stable as the DX11 build.

usrtrv, do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

I’ve been using Vulkan in Linux with an AMD card. Seems mostly fine except the occasional black boxes during cut scenes (about 15% of the edge of the screen). I haven’t tried DX11 yet.

EnglishMobster,
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I'm also in Vulkan on Linux with an AMD card. I don't get those black boxes.

The main menu has terrible framerate, but everywhere else is acceptable through Proton (45-50). DX11 has great framerate on the main menu, but like 8-10 FPS ingame (my Windows partition can hold a steady 60).

DmMacniel,

I have those strange black boxes as well (vulkan, nobara linux and amd) but when I tried DX11 today it doesnt show them anymore.

circuitfarmer,
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I’m on Linux with AMD, but Vulkan is a crashy mess for me. Can’t keep the thing running more than a few minutes. It’s fine on DX11 (a few stutters here and there, but hasn’t crashed).

usrtrv,

Dang, I’ve only had one crash.

PrivateNoob,

In Linux doesn’t DX calls get converted to Vulkan calls?

usrtrv,

Yes which is why I chose Vulkan over DX11. But depending on the Vulkan implementation for a specific game, sometimes converting DX to Vulkan might function better.

dan1101, do games w Microsoft's £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass offer cut from a month to 14 days

I subscribed for a year or so, other than the horrible client it was good. But there are just too many games to play and not enough time, a good problem to have but still. I also felt like I didn’t appreciate the games as much when I got them for “free.”

I started getting it for $1 per month by canceling and then resubscribing, now you can’t do that and I just don’t bother to subscribe at all.

Now with just 14 days for a $1 trial it’s an even worse deal. This is why I don’t think MS should be allowed to buy up all these game companies. Try contacting MS for support. If you can’t get through to someone in less than 10 minutes then they shouldn’t be buying any more companies. That should be the test for any company acquiring other companies. If they can’t serve the customers they have, how are more customers going to help?

thingsiplay, do gaming w Microsoft's £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass offer cut from a month to 14 days
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@soyagi For 1 Euros or Dollars, you can't be mad at it.

dingus, (edited ) do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?
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DirectX 11 is sometimes your only choice if you want to play splitscreen couch co-op on the PC.

Vulkan results in many graphical glitches and certain areas are unrenderable (the culprit being the black boxes so many people mention). My partner and I reached a point where we couldn’t move on anymore and graphics drivers were already updated and game was already updated so we were confused as how to move forward.

After searching for a few hours, I found a post specifically about the splitscreen and how this seems to affect lots of people trying to play splitscreen with Vulkan.

I personally prefer Vulkan and think it runs better in single player mode, but if you want to play splitscreen without major issues, I strongly suggest DirectX 11.

Nighed,
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Which GPU manafacturer was that with?

dingus,
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AMD

Nighed, do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?
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There are some instructions here on how to skip the launcher and ensure you still launch with your chosen graphics API.

terminhell, do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

I think this will vary too much between OS and hardware. For me, Vulkan feels better overall. Dx11 looks slightly better but less performant.

But I’m running all AMD hardware, Linux steam with proton.

croxis,
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I'm on linux with hyprland. With vulkan i get large black boxes that flicker in the bottom third off the screen.

usrtrv,

That’s weird, I do get the black boxes as well, but a much smaller portion of my screen. What resolution are you running? I’m at 4K.

croxis,
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1440 (whatever is between 1080 and 4k)

terminhell,

Fedora and Wayland for me. So idk.

Harlan_Cloverseed, (edited ) do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president
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That’s what Square gets for failing to read the room. Nobody wants a DMC-like. If they had made it a Souls-like people would love it. Also, this exclusivity bullshit makes you irrelevant. Make me wait years for PC? I can wait longer for a sale. Or forever.

ampersandrew,
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I think the reviews have shown that a lot of people wanted the DMC stuff. But there are only so many PS5s out there, and we live in a world where PC market share has been steadily rising for over a decade.

pipariturbiini, do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3

Modern Warfare 3 was so good they made a Modern Warfare 3 2.

Jee, do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3

If I counted correctly this is Call of Duty 20: Modern Warfare 3 2. Or is it 2-3?

shadowbert, do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3
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I really wish someone would teach these companies how to count.
My only guess is that they want to hide the insane amount of COD games there are.

gk99,

In this case, it’s because it’s a reboot. Calling MW (2019) “MW4” would’ve been arguably more confusing because the new and old games are completely unrelated to each other. Totally different stories, part of a single timeline built off of the Black Ops universe, and a reset of fan favorite characters that have been brought back. There are already a surprising amount of people who don’t understand that, I’ve seen people shocked to find out it’s not just a prequel and that new Ghost is likely to stay alive permanently for those big bucks.

Besides, it’s not like the numbers used to properly correlate, either. Despite Doom 64, there aren’t 63 other Doom games, and Doom 3 is a Doom (1993) prequel. That kind of craziness happened way before DOOM (2016).

shadowbert,
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I think one of the reasons people don't understand that is because they've pulled the same trick multiple times with far less logical reasoning, so they've kinda done that to themselves.

But thanks for explaining it.

Hadriscus,

But is Doom 64 a prequel to Windows 8 ?

teft, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president
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I tried the demo. I was bored after an hour and was thanking the devs for making a demo.

Gorejelly, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president
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I personally just don’t buy Squeenix software any longer. They’ve abandoned too many titles (mostly on mobile, but elsewhere too) and I just don’t feel good about giving them money. Last one I purchased was FF14 for the PC (which is one of the best MMOs I’ve played).

That’s just my take on things. If it happens to show up on Epic for free or Game Pass (unlikely on both, I know), then sure I’ll grab it to try.

a_cup_of_rohan, do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3
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Damn, so soon hmm

crystalcorvid, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president

It's a surprise to no one that Square is disappointed in sales numbers. As the article says near the end they are infamous for being disappointed with not meeting very unrealistic targets. I don't own a PS5 to play it on, they haven't been in stock locally consistently. But from everything I've seen about the game, it's a middling to good game. So middling to good sales numbers should make them happy. And from what I can tell the numbers say that it's selling better than that.

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