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Tomb Raider PC Performance Thread
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When it doesn't bother you.
On PC the IQ is alot better than Uncharted. That not considered they both look really good. Uncharted looks a little bit better imo, certainly if you keep in mind that they managed to do some very impressive stuff even with the limited power of the PS3.
And Lara looks great with lots of details, but the animation and escpecially the facial expressions can't match those of Nathan Drake's. They're smooth and good-looking, but not THAT smooth and good looking.
Everything 30+. I'm not a hardcore 60 FPS-fan, but I'm prefering it alot to 30 FPS in this game. Some games just feel alot better with 60FPS, and this is one of them. Besides; not such a big difference between ultimate and high if your graphics card can't handle 60FPS at ultimate, and high should run just fine on any modern gaming PC.
That's subjective, 30fps is fine by me for instance but some folks have higher standards when it comes to smoothness.
On PC ? Yes.
From the high res PC thread :
Spazznid's shot.
ref
Member
Depends, whenever it doesn't bother you as others have mentioned.
Personally, I find it difficult to play if it's below 60.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
The closer the camera is in, the worse it gets - during the in-game cinematics it goes down to about 10-20 fps (just guessing here) when there are close-ups, during normal gameplay it's barely a difference compared to TressFX off. I'm far from being any kind of expert, but I get the feeling a bit of optimizing can help a lot here.
Running on said 6850, Phenom X4 BE and 8 Gigabytes (dammit) of RAM, and I honestly did not expect this running so well on high + TFX. Cinematic stuttering is kind of annoying, mostly since the difference is so harsh, but it's far from game breaking
Oh, and I had some crashes, too - 2 times, both during cinematics, both no problem the second time through.
Oh I have very similar specs so dosn't sound so bad as I expected on the first place. I hope with newer drivers and some configuartion can run better.
Spazznid
Member
That's subjective, 30fps is fine by me for instance but some folks have higher standards when it comes to smoothness.
On PC ? Yes.
From the high res PC thread :
Spazznid's shot.
Thought I recognised that...
Getting decent framerates with my 2600k@4.2 and 580, but I'm stuck on a 1360x768 screen at the moment. I have everything maxed including tessellation and tressfx. There are some pretty severe dips, but nothing that makes me want to lock it at 30. I am staying close to 60 mostly. need to try some different v sync options though, as it is tearing at times.
Oh and if anyone has the game load to a black screen from Steam, close Afterburer, then alt tab out to restart once you are in game.
Oh and if anyone has the game load to a black screen from Steam, close Afterburer, then alt tab out to restart once you are in game.
Krappadizzle
Member
4th crash. I think the crashes are happening in between transitions of story/island segments. As I can reload and it picks up right were I left off with no problems.
Started getting these. You are right it happens in transition segments. So frustrating. What sucks is I'm getting great performance at max. It's almost as if these transition parts overload. I'm wondering what setting I can lower to see if it stops the crashes. Maybe tessalation?
You might be able to scrap by but that is a pretty shitty set up. /sarcasm.
Nearly every new game thread these kinds of comments spring up. You have the fastest videocard and one of the fastest processors on the market. what kind of performance do you think you are going to get? At least you could find a more subtle way to flash your PC wang.
One thing I've noticed, if you jump back and forth between menu and game sometimes fps drops really low and won't recover. I had this happen after upgrading my skills at a campfire. So I quit my game entirely and reloaded it and fps was 75 in that area again.
So if anyone has a sudden low fps drop, it might not be the area you are in. Exit the game entirely and see if your FPS returns to full. Obviously make sure you see a save before doing it.
Edit: I don't mean exit to menu. Close the game entirely.
So if anyone has a sudden low fps drop, it might not be the area you are in. Exit the game entirely and see if your FPS returns to full. Obviously make sure you see a save before doing it.
Edit: I don't mean exit to menu. Close the game entirely.
Hey I'm serious. Even this setup wasn't able to get a consistent 60 FPS in Far Cry 3 with everything max. Same is true for Crysis 3 and just skimming the last few pages for people with 670/680 SLI setups and it looks to be true for this one as well. Though it looks like it might be something that a new driver set could really help with.
You'll get locked 60 easy, probably even with TressFX on.
Your specs?
670 SLI here. I was having crashes and massive frame rate drops. I took the advice and turned off tessellation and now the game is running like a dream. Just played for more than two hours, without a single problem to report. Running the game completely maxed at 1080p, except for tessellation and TressFX and getting a solid locked 60. Next time i boot the game up, i'll try for 1440p.
EDIT: Forgot to also mention, AA is only FXAA.
EDIT: Forgot to also mention, AA is only FXAA.
TressFX aside, the game isn't better than UC3 as far as rendering tech goes. Lara is more detailed but then it was expected, Drake isn't even the most detailed model in Uncharted in the first place.
I'm pretty sure that if you simply up UC3's rendering res it'll easily obliterate TR in looks (keeping in mind how the supersampled UC3 promo shots look)....but yes UC3 has smaller play area in general.
statham
Member
for real, any impressions from a 7850?
do you have afterburner running or any other on screen display type programs? If so, close them and see if that helps.
3770K
Gigabyte GTX 670
16GB of Corsair RAM
Samsung SSD 830
Windows 8
All the latest drivers and stuff are installed. Other games work fine.
mere_immortal
Member
670 here, 2 crashes in the first 15 mins. Gonna try without tessellation now.
Squirts Macintosh
Member
Anyone tried this with a GTX 480 on a 2500k? I'm wondering if I'll be able to play smoothly enough with Tress FX on in standard 1080p.
Probably won't be that smooth for you with TressFX on
Brerlappin
Member
Protip guys, game wouldnt load for me. Kept saying cannot initialise directx. On the eidos forums it says this is cause your card doesnt meet the specs (my 560ti 2GB doent meed the specs?? wut??), but its jsut cause of having 'fullscreen' and 'exclusive fullscreen' ticked.
Also, 560ti 2gb, Q6600, 8GB ram, running ultimate settings @ about 30-50 fps.
Also, 560ti 2gb, Q6600, 8GB ram, running ultimate settings @ about 30-50 fps.
Running an i5 760 (OC to 3.6) and HIS IceQ 7850 OCed. Everything max on 1440 x 900 = around 45 -60 fps avg. There are a few drops to 30s when in cutscenes close to lara.
Game is totally playable on 7850 though.
undercoverb0ss
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2500K @ 4.5
GTX690 Slightly OC'd running 314.14 Driver
1600p
Ultimate - except "high precision" off
Played for about 40mins, no crashes at all, SLI scaling perfectly.
55-60fps 90% of the time I'd say.
GTX690 Slightly OC'd running 314.14 Driver
1600p
Ultimate - except "high precision" off
Played for about 40mins, no crashes at all, SLI scaling perfectly.
55-60fps 90% of the time I'd say.
Should be fine with those. Like somebody before me mentioned, a third-party app like afterburner or fraps may be messing it up. Try turning off some instances running in the back and see if that does it.
That usually fixes most issues of mine
Single GTX Titan results using the built-in benchmark run
2560x1600, everything maxed FXAA, tessellation ON and tessFX ON
Average: 30.5 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed FXAA, tessellation ON and tessFX OFF
Average: 42.9 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed FXAA, tessellation OFF and tessFX OFF
Average: 44.9 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed 2xSSAA tessellation ON and tessFX OFF
Average: 30.5 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed FXAA, tessellation ON and tessFX ON
Average: 30.5 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed FXAA, tessellation ON and tessFX OFF
Average: 42.9 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed FXAA, tessellation OFF and tessFX OFF
Average: 44.9 FPS
2560x1600, everything maxed 2xSSAA tessellation ON and tessFX OFF
Average: 30.5 FPS
Thanks man, this fixed it for me. Unchecking "exclusive fullscreen" was all I did and now it's OK.
I have an Nvida 570GTX and noticed that on Ultra on a I7 2600 with 8 gigs ram (not PS4 ram 
) that I got alot of chuggyness in the cut-scenes. I lowered the settings to custom and set the AA to 8x and turned off stupid hair extensions and it plays about 45-50 fps smoothly. Hoping a patch will come out to improve that even more to get me to 60fps on highest settings.
) that I got alot of chuggyness in the cut-scenes. I lowered the settings to custom and set the AA to 8x and turned off stupid hair extensions and it plays about 45-50 fps smoothly. Hoping a patch will come out to improve that even more to get me to 60fps on highest settings.
statham
Member
good to hear, do you have tessellation on?
Yep, with tessellation on and everything. Not sure what "High Precision option" does, but it costs a few frames with no real difference. I am also running with FXAA. Playing the game downscaled from 2560 x 1600 runs around 20-30 fps which isn't too bad either.
I'm sure the game will run great with a few driver updates. ( running 13.2 beta 6 currently) Though the frequent crashes need to be fixed asap.
I'm sure the game will run great with a few driver updates. ( running 13.2 beta 6 currently) Though the frequent crashes need to be fixed asap.
Krappadizzle
Member
5th crash I've had. This time it wasn't in a story transition. Just random. Bummer.
Those that have it officially unlocked in their region, would you be so kind as to let us know as there are some of us that have it unlocked via VPN and would be unaware if there was a patch that addressed some of these release day issues. Thanks!
Those that have it officially unlocked in their region, would you be so kind as to let us know as there are some of us that have it unlocked via VPN and would be unaware if there was a patch that addressed some of these release day issues. Thanks!
toastyToast
Member
Turning off Tesselation seems to have fixed my crashing issue
Krappadizzle
Member
How long though? I've turned it off and it still crashes arbitrarily between story transitions and 1 random time. I get great performance otherwise.
Same here. Sucks that you can tell the difference with it off. But I would rather have a stable game.
Turned off tesselation and the crashes have stopped for me too.
No it's for the environment. Rocks, the ground, vegetation. It makes the environment look less blocky and instead more rounded. It looks more natural.
Tress FX on or off? I have almost identical system (i7-860 @ 3.8, 7850 2gb). And tesselation?
TressFX is the new hair thing; it's separate from tessellation
statham
Member
ok, I want that.
toastyToast
Member
I'm about 45 minute without a crash now