It is possible to run the game well in DirectX 11 if your onboard graphics card is a gaming graphics card like on an alienware or nvidia laptop. Also, if you run more than one monitor it may not function properly in opengl if you need to use your onboard and additional graphics cards to run all of your monitors. If you have a decent additional gaming graphics card installed I am pretty sure opengl is your best bet for better quality. I think if you don't get the option or it doesn't run properly in opengl you may be set to use your onboard graphics card. In response to the original post, I use opengl and it seems to run fine. Also, you may have to update your other drivers for your motherboard and bios. Try reinstalling your graphics drivers and maybe invest in more ram. If your computer is crashing when you attempt to run the game you may have a corruption in your graphics drivers or you don't have enough ram/bad ram. if you aren't getting that option you may have your computer set up to use the onboard motherboard graphics card in which case you are almost definitely running directx 11.

When I start up the game it gives me an option to choose between the two before the game runs.

My whole pc freezes and slows down when it loads up and I am running a i7 4790 with a gtx 1070. How do you load mobius using directx 11 vs opengl? I want to try to improve my load performance. Originally posted by Vinland_Krauser:DX11 loaded the game way faster for me.

Opengl vs directx 11 dolphin