Rustyy117

Reply to Ashes of the Singularity escalation DX12 won't launch. in Ashes of the Singularity GalCiv3 Forums

Update, Steam has to be ran as administrator for DX12 to work for me in AOTS Escalation. I don't know what this referral thing is about, but if people are referring me to google when they know the solution then that's pretty sad, I had obviously tried many different things to try and resolve this myself before posting for help and this is a fairly bizarre problem considering other games work fine in DX12 mode without running steam as admin (including AOTS).

Ashes of the Singularity escalation DX12 won't launch. in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Hey, I can't get escalation to run in DX12 mode, when I try the launcher window closes, steam opens a window saying "Preparing to launch...", then that closes and the launcher re-opens and that's it. The game runs fine in DX11 mode, but the performance is dire in medium to large battles (high teens / low twenties FPS). Other DX12 games run fine (Deus Ex and even AOTS) just not escalation. I've tried different video drivers, I've tried validating the files and I