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Vulkan or Direct11?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by OTL™, Nov 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM.

  1. OTL™

    OTL™
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    I've been wondering recently about the amount of people who use Vulkan or Direct11, I personally use D11 as I get generally better performance, but what does everyone else prefer? And why?
     
  2. Technological

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    I use the Linux native version of the game, so I can only use Vulkan. But when I did use Windows, I was still using Vulkan. It felt like it performed better on my PC, and the only issue I had with it was that occasionally the screen would flash random colors and shapes (which still happens now, and I'm hoping gets fixed soon). It seemed like it performed better when more vehicles were spawned in (like traffic for example), so I just started using it regularly.
     
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  3. ShakeandBake

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    I get noticeably better frames with Vulkan over DX. The gap is more significant with more vehicles

    5070ti + 5700x3D
     
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  4. Freerider812

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    The Vulkan API has much better CPU utilization, when I use DirectX I'm always CPU-limited despite having a 13900k.
     
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