Vulkan API – Feedback, Known Issues, and FAQ

Some maps don't load under Vulkan and the game freezes permanently during the loading screen for the map. Not sure why. I tried doing the Fairhaven map under Vulkan and it froze after the loading screen reached the end and said "Vehicles done loading".

 

0.35 was giving me alot of very bad graphical glitches with my amd gpu in vulkan and i prepared myself to report that today. but it seems that 0.35.1 fixed it already

 

Big news for Frozen Loading Screen Users!
BeamNG Version 0.35 Vulkan renderer is FINALLY able to load up the game without crashing or freezing in the loading screen!

Specs recap:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
11th Gen Intel Core i7 - 11800H (2.3GHz)
16GB of RAM

• 0.31 on WCUSA ULTRA: 16 FPS AVG

I was also getting GPU, CPU and Game Engine Bottleneck

• 0.32 on WCUSA ULTRA: 30 FPS AVG

Now only GPU bottleneck occurs

• 0.33 on WCUSA ULTRA: Game gets stuck in loading screen
• 0.34 same thing as in 0.33

• 0.35 on WCUSA ULTRA: 4FPS AVG

Wohoo! Finally able to at least load into the game...



It's still pretty bad and not a playable experience compared to what Direct3D provides with the same setup.
What really grinds my gears is the fact that performance started out decently well and seemed like it was progressing since 0.31 until 0.33 came and broke it all... which makes no sense to me at all. Now it seems like it's slowly getting a bit better but it's still not a replacement for Direct3D

EDIT: I just realised that the game is not even using HALF of the GPU?



What's going on?!

 

There's your issue. Vulkan on Ultra needs 8GB VRAM minimum.

 

Yeah I figured the same thing was happening as in previous times with such high RAM usage and low GPU. Even with very low settings it can barely reach 60FPS unlike Direct3D which gets to 40 on ULTRA using 100% of GPU and then I'm able to squeeze some extra frames by changing some settings here and there and get to a total of 60.

I'll keep updating you every time and I wish you the best of luck with everything

 

Since last month, when launching with Vulkan, I've been experiencing visual corruption like this in multiple places. Is this a Vulkan issue or is there a problem with my GPU?

 

hi im on arch linux (cacyos) and i just download 2.5G "SHADER PRE-CACHING UPDATE" every time i open the game? and why i download CACHING with UPDATE??? i wrote game engine with vulkan and i dont make anythink like this...

 

The issue you’ve noticed:

Freeroam -> hirochi raceway - eg drag strip
Crashes just after half loading into map, it seems to work somewhat but the display doesn't update

This happens when:
load into Freeroam -> hirochi raceway - eg drag strip with vulkan

My specs are:
AMD 5800X
B550i aorus
AMD 9070XT 16GB (25.3.2 Driver) (fresh install)
Windows 10 Pro
32GB RAM
Vulkan Mode (Safe mode + extra debug data)
v0.35.3 beamng

if you need more info just ask, only happened after big update 0.35

 

While Vulkan on 0.34 was working flawlessly, I can't say the same in 0.35... I have lots of flashing visual glitches that make the game unplayable.
The issue is always there, but is more apparent when there's a generally high load on the system (traffic for example).
I've made this video, be mindful that it contains FLASHING LIGHTS:
VulkanBug.mp4

 

I cant start up the vulkan renderer at all with the 0.35 update it gives me this when i try to "there is no valid rendering device available" I have a 9070xt with up to date drivers and a 9800x3d. also windows is updated and I've verified my game files already.

 

Just FYI since i rapidly had these changes to my hardware:

Ran for years:

Intel i5 2500
8gb RAM
1050Ti

Vulkan on Low 30fps
Vulkan any higher wouldnt load 99% of the time due to my hardware and what gfx combo i did

Then:

Intel i5 2500
8gb RAM
1070Ti

Vulkan on Low 80 fps
Vulkan on High 30 fps

A week later

Intel i7 6700
32gb RAM
1070Ti

Vulkan all High ~70-80 fps

 

Vulkan finally works great on my 3060ti so happy! loving the extra performance everyone's been talking about
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i get about 30% more performance
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i`m on driver 572 and running from a egpu, win11 24h2
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I'm glad my macbook from 2019 can run any game better than the latest 6000$ macbooks lol
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but, still horrendous performance with the built in GPU (5500M 4GB).

 

Just same thing on my GTX 1660s, but much more flashing and it looks like polygons stretching for a millisecond in some frames. In career mode game actually unplayable, due much traffic loads up PC, frame rate lowers and graphic bugs appear MORE often

 

This is exactly what I was experiencing on my laptop a while back (I don't use it anymore), which has a GTX 1650. I still see this happen on my desktop, but way less often. It definitely seems to happen more frequently as your FPS goes down though.

 

I have a weak CPU (core i3 9100), so Vulkan render mode is the only way to play career mode. Sadly, I can't do it again because of bugs. Looks like I'll have to upgrade my CPU

 

Please start the game with -gfx vk debug launch argument and attach the log here. i tried that and it still gave the same message also where do i find the log after doing this.
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i tried that and it still gave the same message also where do i find the log after doing this.
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i tried that and it still gave the same message also where do i find the log after doing this.