Can't run Ghost of Tsushima The Director's Cut

[armaneng]

Hi everyone.

My specs:

Win 10 22H2
GTX 960M 4GB
Intel Core i7 4720HQ 2.6GHz
16 GB Ram
500 GB SSD

I've copied the x64 dll's from vkd3d-proton v2.14 to the game's directory.
After I click Play from the launcher, the game crashes after 3 seconds.
I've also tried earlier versions of vkd3d-proton, But they didn't work and shader model 6.6 error occured.
My GPU doesn't support feature level 12, so I want to bypass it somehow in order to be able to play new games.
This also didn't work with Uncharted Legacy of Thieves.

[mbriar]

You can try to fake the feature level by setting VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_0 VKD3D_SHADER_MODEL=6_6 as environment variables, but if the game actually uses any features from the higher feature levels, it won't work on vkd3d-proton either.

[armaneng]

You can try to fake the feature level by setting VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_0 VKD3D_SHADER_MODEL=6_6 as environment variables, but if the game actually uses any features from the higher feature levels, it won't work on vkd3d-proton either.

thanks.
how should I do that?
can you make an example?

[mbriar]

Look at https://phoenixnap.com/kb/windows-set-environment-variable or google some other guide for how to set environment variables on windows. But there is a high chance of it not helping. Vkd3d-proton doesn't emulate any features that are not supported in hardware.

[Blisto91]

Also note that you need the dxgi.dll (sometimes d3d11 too) from dxvk if you don't already have it