Differences likely signal a bug, so if you find one, please send F6 screenshots to Support. We’re also interested in knowing what looks different with DirectX 12 enabled.
If you experience crashes or other problems, please check whether there’s anything interfering that you can turn off. Note: Some third-party overlays may be incompatible with DirectX 12. If you can reproduce a crash consistently in the DirectX12 driver but can’t reproduce the same crash in DirectX 11, please report the WAR-# in this thread.
There is no actual release date but from the process laminar research went through for X Plane 11 there will be a pre release of the BETA for the developers so they can update their current releases first. To that end, we’re keenly interested in having crashes reported if they only occur in the new driver. The Imminent X Plane 12 Release Date has been hinted at early in 2022 at this point. We also hope to hammer out some bugs during our initial beta test of the DirectX 12 driver. We hope to avoid that as we work on a different solution. Other games work around this process by forcing massive shader compiles in their launchers. Depending on your system, this process could appear as micro-stutters the first time a shader is needed. This difference means that as you play, the DirectX 12 driver must convert shaders from a generic format to versions optimized for your specific model of graphics card.
For example, the new driver does not yet support the shader cache that’s automatic in DirectX 11 drivers. Please keep in mind that several optimizations are still in the works. Even though Warframe’s DirectX 12 support is still in beta, you should notice slightly faster rendering on most graphics cards and faster rendering on multi-core systems! The DirectX 12 driver should look graphically alike to the standard DirectX 11 driver, but the new driver exposes several optimizations we can use in the future. We are pleased to bring you beta support of DirectX 12 this week! This beta arrives alongside The Great Ensmallening: Part 2 build.
We appreciate your patience as we continued to work on this beta support! Please see the OP on how to participate in the DirectX 12 Beta and how to report any issues you come across. Beta support of DirectX 12 is now live on PC!