How to Use Rainbow Six Siege Vulkan

 Vulkan is known for targeting high-performance real-time 3D graphics. Vulkan Application Programming Interface has replaced the former 11-year-old Windows Vista DirectX engine and was made available for Ubisoft’s Shooter tactical game Rainbow Six Siege. The main aim of introducing Vulkan is to improve performance and gain more FPS. In this guide, we will discuss this new update that has been to Rainbow Six Siege. 

How to Use Rainbow Six Siege with Vulkan

The change that has been brought to Six Siege is to work at 242 FPS from 240 FPS; it allows much more direct access to system hardware which will ultimately result in better performance. The main features of Vulkan are Async Compute, Dynamic Texture Indexing, and Render Target Aliasing. Ubisoft’s main aim in introducing Vulkan was to minimize the crashes that players were facing. Here is How you can use it.

Graphics card drivers need to be updated to get the performance.

It automatically downloads before starting Rainbow Six Siege on PC.

Open your Steam account.

Get the latest updated patch of Rainbow Six Siege in your library.

Click Play from Pop up window.

Launch Vulkan, Rainbow Six Siege will run on Vulkan.

Minimum Hardware Requirements For Rainbow Six Siege

Operating System: 64-bit version of the following operating systems: Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10

Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5770 (1024 MB VRAM)

Hard Drive: 85.5 GB

Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with the latest drivers

Processor: Intel Core i3 560 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.0 GHz *

RAM: 6 GB

Multiplayer: Broadband connection with 256 kps upstream

DirectX:  11

Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with the latest drivers

Supported controllers: Compatible with X-Input.  

To conclude, the above guide can be referred to understand the Vulkan API and also how players can use it.