Not the one I'm most excited for, but that won't stop me from getting it. I expect a great port, fantastic graphics, ok mechanics and terrible writing. Now that I'm properly set up, let it come. :D

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They have already said that we shouldn't expect an immediate fps boost with the new Vulkan system. The current focus is to get the basic engine functional and stable before making better use of multi-core rendering.

A big issue is also that X-Plane is not just the sim, but also a platform for third party add-ons. Some of those add-ons do direct OpenGL rendering. For the overlay stuff they're basically still rendering things on an OpenGL surface which is then displayed over the main screen. For the plugins that do actual 3D rendering there is little hope and they will break. Which pretty much guarantees that Vulkan will never be default for X-Plane 11 since there is a policy to maintain compatibility through major versions.

I'm still unsure if the beta will immediately allow Vulkan use for VR, which is what I'm looking forward to most.

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Quoting: ShmerlRay tracing is really a marketing red herring at this point. Not something that's worth a huge premium tag Nvidia puts on their cards because of dedicated ASICs for it, and at this point not worth the GPU die space used on those ASICs at the cost of less general purpose GPU compute units.

You're definitely doing the concept of raytracing short here. It could have massive benefits in lifting the shortcomings of current engines when used properly. Which is not necessarily a fully raytraced game, but enabling it for lighting/shadows. This can be done with normal compute as well. RTX would just be an accelerated version of it.

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Quoting: GuestWow, that's all over the place lol, not GPU-specific, driver-specific, or OS-specific. Sounds like Unity3D just is, or was with the version that A18 is using currently, kind of bad at doing Vulkan correctly. Hopefully things have improved and there will be another 7DtD Unity3D upgrade at some point (that hopefully won't be as painful and slow as the last upgrade!).

Could just as well be us ;)
Seeing though that it runs perfectly fine for some people and does not for others, even within the same GPU brand and almost the same driver version (though not sure about the OS versions) sounds to me like it's something between Unity and the GPU driver.

Gave it another try. This time it managed to run for about a minute before it blew up. Visually everything seemed fine and FPS was much better. However there was terrible mouse lag that made the game unplayable.

Checked the syslog and there was only one error:

NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, pid=1162, Ch 00000036, intr 00000000. MMU Fault: ENGINE GRAPHICS GPCCLIENT_GCC faulted @ 0x1_6d401000. Fault is of type FAULT_PTE ACCESS_TYPE_VIRT_READ

Did some searching and found that there was a bug that could cause this error when VRAM was full. This was fixed in the 435.19.03 Vulkan Beta driver, but hasn't been included in the long or short term support releases. However, if this is the case, then 7dtd managed to eat through my 11 GB of VRAM in a minute, which also suggests there may be other issues with either the game or Unity itself. Will keep an eye on the driver release notes.

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Can the launcher be skipped? Because this is just a needless step that I don't need.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Ehvis

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Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

May I ask what GPU/driver? My lock up was on NVIDIA as well.

I'm using 430.26 w/ a GTX 1070. You?

430.50, 2080 Ti. Will try some more when I'm tired of playing. :D

Well yeah you probably don't care about getting that performance improvement since you're probably hitting your monitor's max framerate anyway, but I'm still curious as to what the issue is w/ Vulkan.

On the contrary. Outside I'm only hitting about 40-45 fps with little change with settings, so it must be entirely CPU bound. This is actually worse than A17, so it must be due to the new terrain rendering. Inside fps went up. So having Vulkan work would make the experience much better.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

May I ask what GPU/driver? My lock up was on NVIDIA as well.

I'm using 430.26 w/ a GTX 1070. You?

430.50, 2080 Ti. Will try some more when I'm tired of playing. :D

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Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

May I ask what GPU/driver? My lock up was on NVIDIA as well.

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Lots of great stuff in this one for sure!

Noticed that Vulkan was mentioned in the launcher (with warning). But unfortunately that resulted in a hard lock up of the machine right after entering the game. Hopefully this will work at some point because this game definitely needs all the CPU cycles it can get.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerSo now there possibly is one objection for that some one who would let ones child browse this site was in favor of censorship in that thread

Because silly juvenile humour is worse than violence and horror?

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