Vulkan benchmark

Benchmark not working

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I have an i7 4970 (Haswell)  with 32GB 1866 RAM and a GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

My DirectX 11 test results for the Escalation benchmark, are not very amazing, but the numbers are all above 30, on maxed settings. I can live with that.

But I wanted to see the difference Vulkan makes to the gameplay. Sadly, every time I try to run the benchmark on Vulkan, the game crashes back to Steam. I have the latest Nvidia drivers (which include the Vulkan API, so that shouldn't be the problem), my case has enough fans to fly away if it was not so heavy, fanning at max speed. So I doubt that my problem is with overheating.

Can anyone advise me on how to get the Vulkan working? I have seen videos of the performance increase with Vulkan over Direct X, but I want to see it for myself.

Thank you. 

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Vulkan performs quite badly on Nvidia software from what I have seen so far. I have a very similar system to you and Dx11 is still the fastest API. DX12 is very close though and sometimes has better lows. I expect Vulkan to improve but this first implementation in Ashes on Nvidia isn't quite there yet.

I don't know why it isn't working for you though. Tried a clean install of the drivers?

(If you play the game on Extreme rather than Crazy settings you should much better performance for next to no visual difference, if you do feel like playing with higher fps)

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Mine was also crashing every time I used Vulkan (On AMD over here).

Any chance you're on Windows 7?

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Reply #4 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Vulkan is not exclusive to DX12/Win10.  The quick & dirty answer is that it competes with DX12. IMO, I hope it displaces DX12 since it isn't tied to Windows or any version of it. It is also supports with Linux.

That said, on my Win8 machine, which is by no means minimum spec. Vulkan currently runs about 60% (30-50 fps) of DX11 framerate (50-70 fps) @ 1200p.  Not exactly the alternative I was hoping for, but I assume further optimizations/Driver updates are on the way. 

Reply #5 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Quoting JamesDaniel, reply 3

Yes. Is Vulkan Win10 only?

No, Vulkan should work on Windows 7, but I had the exact same crash as yourself, and I'm also on Windows 7.

Reply #6 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Is your GPU Nvidia or AMD? I am curious, because Vulkan was derived from Mantle, that AMD created specifically for their hardware. If AMD, my theory falls, if Nvidia, it might be compatibility issues.