dx11 vs dxvk

[alexman91]

which is better? is native dx11 better on windows? do amd benefit more from vulkan translation?

[GHerr]

For me dx11. I tested both in a battle with fighter swarm and major frame rate drop in vulkan. I am running on a laptop gf 1660Ti so not most powerful rig

[AKicebear]

I think dxvk solved many crash and performance issues with AMD cards. I have always used DX11 and performance there has also gotten much better (Nvidia card).

[alexman91]

this is a amd specific question as amd is worse than nvidia
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6 ... r_in_dx11/
https://nl.hardware.info/artikel/8255/2 ... directx-11
amd never multithreaded their driver and just hopes devs will use vulkan

[varangy]

With AMD GPUs you should use Vulkan if you have one with the GCN architecture (cards before the RX 5000 series and with integrated processors that only says with AMD Radeon Graphics, eg before the 6000 series)

[OrnluWolfjarl]

DX11 is better. But if you have an AMD card, then the game might be crashing or showing performance issues, in which case you should use Vulkan.

[DonH58]

dxvk seems to work better for me.

[Thineboot]

Just noticed

Shader Pre-Caching

image_2022-10-28_125710940.png (117.8 KiB) Viewed 2148 times

which might improve gameplay using Vulkan.

[zebanovich]

In addition to switching renderer which is a method of a lazy person, I suggest playing with GPU options in GPU control panel.

Often you can find a setting which is a game changer.