Bit of a rez here, but I'm gaming on Linux, and NS2 runs good enough for now. I'd love to see Vulkan though so I can get some seriously mad FPS! My Windows brethren meanwhile are having fun getting like 120-200 FPS
If we add Vulkan support, your "Windows brethren" would also see that speed boost.
At any settings? I have to go to medium to get stable FPS, but if I go to all-low, my FPS doesn't go above 60, which is weird and I suspect may just be an API limitation or something. I've monitored my CPU though, it's not the bottleneck.
Buddy is on an... R9-270 in windows (IIRC) and is getting 120-200FPS on the regular, I can't recall if he's on medium or high though.
Since this is here anyway, does anyone have a grasp of how efficient Vulkan is with the CPU? At least the initial claim was that it utilizes cores well and takes away quite a bit of CPU overhead in general. Seems like a pretty cool thing for CPU heavy games like NS2 even if the actual CPU hogs are still on the script side.
At any settings? I have to go to medium to get stable FPS, but if I go to all-low, my FPS doesn't go above 60, which is weird and I suspect may just be an API limitation or something. I've monitored my CPU though, it's not the bottleneck.
Any chance it's something screen freq or vsync related? Vsync is the usual reason for 60 FPS cap.
Vsync is off, maxfps is set to 200, and the monitor is set to 120hz, so AFAIK it should go over 60fps if it can, maybe I'm missing something but I am not sure what it could be. If I could get above 60FPS currently that'd be rad!
Vulkan though is awesome for CPU load, DOOM sees massive performance gains switching from OpenGL to Vulkan. It's madness!
Since this is here anyway, does anyone have a grasp of how efficient Vulkan is with the CPU? At least the initial claim was that it utilizes cores well and takes away quite a bit of CPU overhead in general. Seems like a pretty cool thing for CPU heavy games like NS2 even if the actual CPU hogs are still on the script side.
At any settings? I have to go to medium to get stable FPS, but if I go to all-low, my FPS doesn't go above 60, which is weird and I suspect may just be an API limitation or something. I've monitored my CPU though, it's not the bottleneck.
Any chance it's something screen freq or vsync related? Vsync is the usual reason for 60 FPS cap.
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On Nvidia Side everthing under a GTX980 doesnt give any extra FPS with Vulkan.
The only Nvidia Card that has an significant fps boost is the gtx1080.
Im pretty sure that the Doom benchamrks are more of a techdemo, cause there is the MASSIVE ammount of 4 games available with Vulkan support:
The Talos Principle
Dota 2
Doom
vkQuake – A Vulkan Quake
Also you need a real fast CPU to see a noticable fps boost.
So on a low to midrange pc you wont see any difference with Vulkan.
I disagree that you need a 1080 to see gains from Vulkan in DOOM, because I've seen plenty of other GPUs see massive gaines for DOOM switching to Vulkan mode. Proof's in the pudding buster.
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At max settings? If only...
I get that...
Buddy is on an... R9-270 in windows (IIRC) and is getting 120-200FPS on the regular, I can't recall if he's on medium or high though.
Any chance it's something screen freq or vsync related? Vsync is the usual reason for 60 FPS cap.
Vulkan though is awesome for CPU load, DOOM sees massive performance gains switching from OpenGL to Vulkan. It's madness!
The only Nvidia Card that has an significant fps boost is the gtx1080.
Im pretty sure that the Doom benchamrks are more of a techdemo, cause there is the MASSIVE ammount of 4 games available with Vulkan support:
The Talos Principle
Dota 2
Doom
vkQuake – A Vulkan Quake
Also you need a real fast CPU to see a noticable fps boost.
So on a low to midrange pc you wont see any difference with Vulkan.
You disagree about the need for an fast CPU?
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/dota-2-vulkan-benchmark/#diagramm-dota-2-reborn-1920-1080-i7-6700k-replay
You disagree the fact that you cant find any new benchmarks 8 month after the 1st Hype and that there still only 4 games available aka techdemo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)#Video_games
And the guys from Computerbase cant bench also.
A gtx970 had 1 fps more with vulkan, i would not call this massive.
And as i told you, its a bit better with AMD Cards
But even there: The faster the card, the higher is the fps improvement.
So a low end to midrange system wont see much of a difference cause the CPU is also a factor.