Before you even launch Civilization 7, there's a choice that's perplexing many gamers – the choice between DX12 or Vulkan. On the Steam version of the game, launching the game for the first time will ...

Let’s start with a short summary what are we picking – DirectX 12 and Vulkan are APIs – Application Programming Interface.

However, it only works with DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 games. In DirectX 12 and Vulkan games, “the game decides when to queue the frame” and the NVIDIA graphics drivers have no control over this.