Potential fix for anyone suffering from the DX12 crashes but are unable to switch back to DX11

Community Technical Support Crashes, Connection, Update Problems & Advice
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This is a DX12 crash ive been getting constantly like several times an hour for 6 straight months now
Ive had a bunch of friends and squad mates all getting the same crash too
in this time gaijin has not fixed it sadly so ive really been at a loss here

Some days it only happens once or twice one day i had it happen 8 times in a row
The reason i switched to DX12 was for the new features like raytracing which only work on DX12
And DX11 gave me other problems albeit not the constant crashes

If this sounds like a similar crash you have had then you could try what i did hopefully it helps

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Instead of using DX12 you can use the hidden vulkan renderer Its so far been perfectly stable while supporting all the new features
but afaik you cant normally access it on windows but you can on linux and i only know it exists because the dev server had it available for some time before it updated

In order to enable it on windows you need to first make sure your graphics API in game is set to auto

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Then you close out the game and open steam properties for the game and add this launch option

“-driver:vulkan”

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Note If you are running the standalone launcher instead of the steam version im not sure of any ways to do this I know windows has a similar thing if you open properties for the exe file but i dont know if it would work with the same command or not

Now after doing that you should be able to open the game and have it running in vulkan mode You can verify by checking the settings

This might not help at all for some people but its helped massively for me I was just about ready to stop playing this game until gaijin did something cause of the constant crashes/problems both DX12 and DX11 gave me

I hope this helped!

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If what you’re saying is, true I will hope vulkan api gets implemented. Dx12 is absolutely horrid. Like for the most part my game runs fine but the moment I get into a sniper view/TGP, my frames get cut in half and eventually my game crashes.

It sucks because I just did a massive upgrade towards my gaming system and it still does this. I refuse to believe that my system is causing these issues but rather the poorly implemented API.

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The thing is vulkan has been in the game for several years at this point but gaijin does not expose it on the windows client without doing extra stuff like i said
Im sure theres a reason why but even then if they are willing to leave DX12 available with how broken it is i dont see why vulkan cant be selectable either

Anyway i do wonder has switching to vulkan helped you at all?
The issue you listed is definitely not one ive had haha i was dealing with the crashes and stability but actual performance on DX12 was pretty good aside from that

Only thing that ran poorly on DX12 for me was funny enough the raytracing with major stuttering but on vulkan the raytracing runs significantly better for me so i could actually use it if i wanted to

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sorry I misread what you said. I though you said that vulkan was only availabl linux. that was mb. I’ll let you know how it goes

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yeah for me it’s quite unstable, a lot more frame drops

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Ah that sucks Yeah i dunno what could help you then