The Talos Principle updated with more Vulkan stability and performance

I had that too until I upgraded to 367 drivers.

I got the black screen as well the first time I switched on Vulkan in game, I killed it restarted the game & it worked no problems, with a minimum 80fps.

They also do a giveaway at the moment:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/257510/announcements/detail/954019772527608629


Last edited by Eike on 26 July 2016 at 6:30 pm UTC

The performance in the new Beta seems much better than the last one. I was getting about 20 more FPS on the benchmark than before.

Just done the benchmark for talos in 4k with my new gtx 1070 :

Opengl average of 70fps
Vulkan average of 150fps

Both in ultra settings

Awesome :-)

No luck with the 367.35 nvidia drivers either, still impossible to switch to Vulkan. I also tried the beta.

I'm also in 367.35.I have a black screen after I apply for the Vulkan api but after I restart the game it worked for me.

Also black screen.
Tried with steam version of the game (updated), nvidia-367 driver and 1070 gtx
Restart didn't help.

Just done the benchmark for talos in 4k with my new gtx 1070 :

Opengl average of 70fps
Vulkan average of 150fps

Both in ultra settings

Awesome :-)

Huh, does that mean you could get between 500 & 600FPS @ 1080p being 4x less the performance hit :O

I'm thinking what you're not usually is a big "puzzle" fan. Not "pizzle", although I'm willing to believe you're not a huge fan of those either. :D

Just done the benchmark for talos in 4k with my new gtx 1070 :

Opengl average of 70fps
Vulkan average of 150fps

Both in ultra settings

Awesome :-)

Huh, does that mean you could get between 500 & 600FPS @ 1080p being 4x less the performance hit :O

Probably not 4 times better but should be a lot better. For a slow paced game like talos even 60-70fps is good enough :D I was impressed with vulkan in 4k with the gtx 1070. My last benchmark when I used my gtx 770 I had around 70fps in 4k.


Last edited by hidekin on 26 July 2016 at 10:31 pm UTC

For me this beta was very unstable. As in, crash within 5 seconds after continuing my game.

Also, for those getting very high framerates, check the rendering resolution. I've seen before that it sometimes switches back the rendering resolution on switching when switching to Vulkan. Not a fair comparison if that happens.

On my 960m on windows (no linux because bumblebee) dx11 is around 45 and vulkan on this update is 41 fps. So still not the best option

Need some rainy days. Have to get onwards in this game. I didn't think I'd like the game, ended up loving it.

Need some rainy days. Have to get onwards in this game. I didn't think I'd like the game, ended up loving it.

I need to get back to and finish Talos too. I think I got pretty far about 9 months ago and stopped for whatever reason. It's a good game and I'm glad they're using it as a test bench for Vulkan as it's something that needed a boost in Linux (atleast on the AMD side of things).

In order to avoid the black screen I have to remove the .ini file:

rm ./.local/share/Steam/userdata/{somenumber}/{somenumber}/local/Talos.ini

and add the following launch options to the launcher:

+gfx_strAPI "VLK"

These are my results:

Arch Linux with linux_ck kernel: 4.6.4-1 CPU: i7-6600 Mem:32GB
GTX970: 367.35 vulkan-icd-loader: 1.0.21.0-1

08:19:41 INF: - benchmark results -
08:19:41 INF:
08:19:41 INF: Gfx API: Vulkan
08:19:41 INF: Duration: 60.0 seconds (6104 frames)
08:19:41 INF: Average: 101.7 FPS (106.1 w/o extremes)
08:19:41 INF: Extremes: 366.4 max, 1.1 min
08:19:41 INF: Sections: AI=6%, physics=2%, sound=1%, scene=80%, shadows=8%, misc=4%
08:19:41 INF: Lows: 17 in 2.6 seconds (6.5 FPS)
08:19:41 INF: > 60 FPS: 100%
--
08:26:33 INF: - benchmark results -
08:26:33 INF:
08:26:33 INF: Gfx API: OpenGL
08:26:33 INF: Duration: 60.0 seconds (4625 frames)
08:26:33 INF: Average: 77.1 FPS (83.7 w/o extremes)
08:26:33 INF: Extremes: 197.7 max, 5.9 min
08:26:33 INF: Sections: AI=4%, physics=1%, sound=1%, scene=81%, shadows=10%, misc=3%
08:26:33 INF: Highs: 214 in 1.4 seconds (150.7 FPS)
08:26:33 INF: Lows: 502 in 11.8 seconds (42.4 FPS)
08:26:33 INF: 30-60 FPS: 15%
08:26:33 INF: > 60 FPS: 84%


Last edited by ridli on 28 July 2016 at 6:36 am UTC

Going down to 6.5 FPS reads like some more work is to be done...

Going down to 6.5 FPS reads like some more work is to be done...

The last line reads "> 60 FPS: 100%", so this drop could last a single frame for all we know. Might not be even noticeable if it's the first/last frame of the benchmark or something.