[2021] [STEAM] DX 11/12 selection when launching the game

We recently included support for DirectX 12 and since then we have had some issues where players had to start the game forcing a specific version of DirectX. To make it easier to do this for everyone, we introduced a popup when you launch the game with the latest hotfix (Update 34, Hotfix 5). It gives you three options:

• Play Deep Rock Galactic
• Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 12)
• Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 11)

Play Deep Rock Galactic: Uses the last chosen setting. If you haven’t chosen a specific version of DirectX before then it defaults to DirectX 12. This is also the mode the game is launched in via the desktop shortcut.

Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 12): Starts the game using DirectX 12

Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 11): Starts the game using DirectX 11

The first option might seem superfluous, but we added it for two reasons:

1. To make subsequent startups easier by letting you just click ‘play’ if you already selected the version of DirectX you want to use
2. You don’t get this popup when using a desktop shortcut, it uses the first option by default. So you can set the game to start with your preferred version of DirectX by launching it through steam once and then keep using a desktop shortcut after that.

We recently included support for DirectX 12 and since then we have had some issues where players had to start the game forcing a specific version of DirectX. To make it easier to do this for everyone, we introduced a popup when you launch the game with the latest hotfix (Update 34, Hotfix 5). It gives you three options:

• Play Deep Rock Galactic
• Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 12)
• Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 11)

Play Deep Rock Galactic: Uses the last chosen setting. If you haven’t chosen a specific version of DirectX before then it defaults to DirectX 12. This is also the mode the game is launched in via the desktop shortcut.

Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 12): Starts the game using DirectX 12

Play Deep Rock Galactic (DirectX 11): Starts the game using DirectX 11

The first option might seem superfluous, but we added it for two reasons:

1. To make subsequent startups easier by letting you just click ‘play’ if you already selected the version of DirectX you want to use
2. You don’t get this popup when using a desktop shortcut, it uses the first option by default. So you can set the game to start with your preferred version of DirectX by launching it through steam once and then keep using a desktop shortcut after that.