June 16th, 2023 Video

Vulkan

https://youtube.com/embed/6H79BTIrlbc?autoplay=1&start=454&end=514

Topics

• Satisfactory Updates > Release Builds
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 8
• Technology > Vulkan

Transcript

can so we know another thing you can try and do is switch to the Vulcan Graphics API so by default the game runs on the DirectX 12 Graphics API but we also support Vulcan so you can try and switch to that but please note that if you switch graphics apis and the game crashes and then the game no longer starts up because it tries to load the graphics API that it can't support and it keeps crashing there are solutions for this and the two solutions are that you find your game user settings dot ini file and you delete it I'll put a location for that file in the description below and when you do that the next time you start the game the game will restart with default game user settings basically including reverting back to DirectX 12 and then you should be able to start the game up another way you can do this is you can actually Force Graphics apis using launch commands it's dash dx12 for DirectX 12. it's Dash Vulcan for Vulcan and dash, dx11 for DirectX 11, but we're deprecating dartx 11. it is technically supported I'll talk about that a little bit later and if you don't know how to use launch commands more information down below how to do that another thing that we've noticed with this crash is