AMD Polaris GPUs can’t run Forspoken: they lack DirectX 12_1

A new triple-A title, Forspoken, launched this week, and if you have a GPU AMD Radeon RX 500 or 400 SeriesDon’t bother buying it. In essence, these AMD GPUs have been found to are incompatible with Forspoken. This is because these graphs lack DirectX 12_1 API support. In essence, they are incompatible with the game.

originally released in the year 2017, and after several “refreshes”, and having a second youth in the mining epic, these graphics have aged badly, since it is not capable of running the latest Triple A game released on the market, Forspoken. While this game is literally rubbish, and gamers aren’t going to miss out on anything, this sets a precedent as it means that any modern game that makes use of the DirectX 12_1 API will not work on any of these graphics cards.

You have to remember that the AMD Radeon RX 580 It is a very capable GPU today, since it competes with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. GPU that until weeks ago, always came out in the requirements of any game. The Radeon Vega are the first AMD GPUs to support the DirectX 12_1 API.

AMD Radeon 500/400 Series can’t run Forspoken, but a 2014 NVIDIA GPU can

The main criticisms come from AMD users, and the reason you just saw it. An AMD GPU released in 2017 does not offer support to said API, but a 2014 NVIDIA GPU yes. In essence, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 Series (Maxwell) can run a modern game.

Pulling from the newspaper library, at that time, it was proclaimed that AMD had the best drivers and that their GPUs were DirectX 12 ready. But now, a few years later, the same Polaris GPUs are unable to run Forspoken because they don’t have DirectX 12_1 support. In this way, AMD will close the doors to all players who currently have a modest GPU and want to access a modern game that uses the most advanced graphics API from Microsoft.

Even if they could run Forspoken, it wouldn’t do any good either.

Luckily, all this is jumping in a game that is not relevant in no sense. At the moment of truth, when he made the most noise, it was when he revealed his requirements, which are absurd.

As a minimum requirement to play [email protected]already ask for an AMD Radeon RX 5500XT or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. Here it already makes sense that we do not see the Radeon RX 580, and it is because of the DirectX 12_1 problem. This GPU should be accompanied by nothing less than 16GB of RAM to run it at 720p.

On the other hand, in a game that is expected, perhaps the most anticipated game of the year, Hogwarts LegacyIt wouldn’t cause any problems. Although as a minimum requirement DirectX 12 API is requestedas minimum GPU to play [email protected] order an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or a AMD Radeon RX 470. So in this specific case, users with a modest AMD GPU will have no problem enjoying the game*. Of course, they will have to juggle with the graphic settings to find an optimal point between quality and fluidity.

For 1080p at 60 FPS, an NVIDIA GeForce is already possible GTX 1080 TiAMD Radeons RX 5700XTor Intel Arc A770. So even more modern graphics cards will be unable to run it decently.