Anyone had issues with "nightmare" settings on Doom?

[Misanthrope]

Games works fine with everything as high as ultra (1080p 60 FPS vsync on a 1070. Yes I know it's overkill) but when I enable the nightmare shadow settings the game freezes 10 to 30 seconds into the game (probably as soon as I significantly change the scene).

 

Also Vulkan mode just refuses to launch at all. Are there workarounds for these issues you might know of?

[PlayStation 2]

I'd bet cash that Vulkan being bitchy is something related to the 1070 and drivers not cooperating. Honestly, it wouldn't shock me if the shadow issues were also related to drivers.

 

I can't say too much for either one though, as both my PC and my brother's PC have AMD cards in 'em.

 

Edit: What's the CPU usage when it starts stuttering up?

[Misanthrope]

8 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I'd bet cash that Vulkan being bitchy is something related to the 1070 and drivers not cooperating. Honestly, it wouldn't shock me if the shadow issues were also related to drivers.

 

I can't say too much for either one though, as both my PC and my brother's PC have AMD cards in 'em.

 

Edit: What's the CPU usage when it starts stuttering up?

There is no stuttering at all: just an outright and unrecovereable freeze without any suttering before it just shits the bed. It freezes before it even registers on MSI afterburner btw.

 

Non-nightmare settings however (everything as high as it would go except from things that go up to nightmare) it runs flawlessly, no freezes no stuttering, running an i5 4440 (since I cap at 60 FPS i don't believe this should be an issue but I'm unsure).

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, Misanthrope said:

There is no stuttering at all: just an outright and unrecovereable freeze. It freezes before it even registers on MSI afterburner btw.

 

Non-nightmare settings however (everything as high as it would go except from things that go up to nightmare) it runs flawlessly, no freezes no stuttering, running an i5 4440 (since I cap at 60 FPS i don't believe this should be an issue but I'm unsure).

Yeah, it might just be drivers not wanting to cooperate with Doom.

[Misanthrope]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Yeah, it might just be drivers not wanting to cooperate with Doom.

I'm relunctant to upgrade due to the bugs new drivers had (though I believe those have been patched already) but I'll try that.

 

Also any idea why Vulkan just flatout refuses to launch?

[2FA]

5 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Also any idea why Vulkan just flatout refuses to launch?

As far as I know, Vulkan hasn't been implemented for Nvidia yet.

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

I'm relunctant to upgrade due to the bugs new drivers had (though I believe those have been patched already) but I'll try that.

 

Also any idea why Vulkan just flatout refuses to launch?

Vulkan support has been kind of wonky on the Nvidia side, from what I've been able to gather.

 

3 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

As far as I know, Vulkan hasn't been implemented for Nvidia yet.

Probably stupid to bring this up but I thought DigitalFoundry got it up. Maybe I'm wrong, but something to note.

[Misanthrope]

5 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

As far as I know, Vulkan hasn't been implemented for Nvidia yet.

....Why did it even gave the option to switch to it then? That's....ok I think I've gotten my full weekly dosis of stupid today with that one lol. But thanks for the tip nevertheless.

[Misanthrope]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Probably stupid to bring this up but I thought DigitalFoundry got it up. Maybe I'm wrong, but something to note.

*insert "that's what she said" joke here*

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

*insert "that's what she said" joke here*

lol

[corrado33]

1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

I'm relunctant to upgrade due to the bugs new drivers had (though I believe those have been patched already) but I'll try that.

 

Also any idea why Vulkan just flatout refuses to launch?

 

1 hour ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

As far as I know, Vulkan hasn't been implemented for Nvidia yet.

I've launched the Vulkan shortcut for doom with my 1060 and it starts up and runs just fine. I literally only played 30 seconds, so I'm not sure how stable it is. Didn't do any performance comparison or anything, but it was good enough to output 60 Hz. (vsync)

[2FA]

48 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

 

I've launched the Vulkan shortcut for doom with my 1060 and it starts up and runs just fine. I literally only played 30 seconds, so I'm not sure how stable it is. Didn't do any performance comparison or anything, but it was good enough to output 60 Hz. (vsync)

From what I remember, the game will launch but actually runs OpenGL regardless of whether or not Vulkan is selected and I couldn't find anything saying that it was ever enabled for Nvidia cards.

[corrado33]

Just now, DeadEyePsycho said:

From what I remember, the game will launch but actually runs OpenGL regardless of whether or not Vulkan is selected and I couldn't find anything saying that it was ever enabled for Nvidia cards.

Good to know. I've obviously done lots of research into it.  Is there any way to test it?

[Praesi]

Nope. Nightmare in 1440p 100 FPS all the time. No stutters or lags at all.