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Tomb Raider PC Performance Thread
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Link to fix?
Bought Tomb Raider PC last night and played about 2 hours but my computer hard locked suddenly during a rain storm in the game. I figured maybe it was because I had settings too high, but I had disabled tessellation and exclusive fullscreen and tressfx before starting. I see the fix for Nvidia users using Inspector and I just opened it and *tried* to do what it said but I've not used inspector before.
I found and deleted the Tomb Raider profile then I selected Hitman Absolution and clicked "add application to current profile", and then found the Tomb Raider exe and selected it. Is that it? I didn't get any kind of confirmation so I'm not sure that it even worked. Also, I see tons of options here for AA / AF and millions of other things but really have no idea what to select. Anyone have any standard/safe things for me to try? My computer is Intel Core i7-3960X and I have 2 GTX 580s and 32GB RAM. I don't want to explode the game so I"m cool lowering whatever I need to in order to run it ok.....
I found and deleted the Tomb Raider profile then I selected Hitman Absolution and clicked "add application to current profile", and then found the Tomb Raider exe and selected it. Is that it? I didn't get any kind of confirmation so I'm not sure that it even worked. Also, I see tons of options here for AA / AF and millions of other things but really have no idea what to select. Anyone have any standard/safe things for me to try? My computer is Intel Core i7-3960X and I have 2 GTX 580s and 32GB RAM. I don't want to explode the game so I"m cool lowering whatever I need to in order to run it ok.....
I got this results with a GTX 660 Ti 3GB
1920 x 1080 FXAA, Everything else at max settings except Tress FX which was disabled
min 61
max 111
average 78
same settings with Tress FX enabled...
min 35
max 71
average 51
so many frames lost ! please tell me it's my old CPU (doubt it since the game is GPU-bound for the most part)... if the future wave of games go with computing-accelerated effects the likes of Tress FX then my (admittedly cheap) 660 Ti will be useless...
any news on Nvida optimising Direct Compute on the 6XX cards or are these cards forever crippled ? synthetic benchmarks such as Compute Mark which uses Direct Compute put the 6XX cards in a pretty good position, seems like real word performance is a different story
1920 x 1080 FXAA, Everything else at max settings except Tress FX which was disabled
min 61
max 111
average 78
same settings with Tress FX enabled...
min 35
max 71
average 51
so many frames lost ! please tell me it's my old CPU (doubt it since the game is GPU-bound for the most part)... if the future wave of games go with computing-accelerated effects the likes of Tress FX then my (admittedly cheap) 660 Ti will be useless...
any news on Nvida optimising Direct Compute on the 6XX cards or are these cards forever crippled ? synthetic benchmarks such as Compute Mark which uses Direct Compute put the 6XX cards in a pretty good position, seems like real word performance is a different story
PowerK
Member
I thought tessellation crash was fixed with game client v1.0.730.0 update and Forceware v314.22 WHQL ??
angular graphics
Banned
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Is TressFX meant for dual GPUs only or something?
I have an 7970 with the latest drivers clean installed and the game crashes on start up if that's enabled.
I only see people mention crashes on Nvidia hardware though... Disabling exclusive fullscreen does nothing for me...
I have an 7970 with the latest drivers clean installed and the game crashes on start up if that's enabled.
I only see people mention crashes on Nvidia hardware though... Disabling exclusive fullscreen does nothing for me...
Backfoggen
Banned
TressFX 1 fps bug still not fixed. Wth.
when it´s raining, performance drops considerably, is this normal?
Texture: Ultra
AA: FXAA
Shadow: Normal
Shadow res: High
LOD: Normal
Hair: Normal
Reflection: high
DOF: Normal
SSAO: Normal
Post Processing, Tessellation and High precision, turn on.
Playing @ 1080p.
Lastest driver, and game update.
I7 920 @ 3.8
GTX580 Oced.
Texture: Ultra
AA: FXAA
Shadow: Normal
Shadow res: High
LOD: Normal
Hair: Normal
Reflection: high
DOF: Normal
SSAO: Normal
Post Processing, Tessellation and High precision, turn on.
Playing @ 1080p.
Lastest driver, and game update.
I7 920 @ 3.8
GTX580 Oced.
Not that I've noticed.
angular graphics
Banned
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ambientmystic
Member
Holy shit, source and how to apply this in the registry?
http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?p=1900809#post1900809
Start -> regedit -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Crystal Dynamics -> Graphics -> right-click in the empty space of the right-hand window -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value -> Enter MultiCoreFlushMode and hit enter -> right-click on it and select Modify -> Change the value to 1
Edit: I've added this to the OP.
ambientmystic
Member
Thanks JaseC! Just had to know whether the entry was a DWORD or a BINARY value entry.
Does it work well? I'm about to find out on my old ass laptop lol.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
How's this game (and Bio Infinite) run with the bundled AMD card (7850 1 or 2GB, I believe)? I would assume it maxes out?
ambientmystic
Member
It should, depending on your monitor/TV resolution. Might wanna tone down the LOD or even TressFX if you're aiming for that 60FPS.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Just 1080p for my TV. TressFX isn't in my goal. Sounds like 60 FPS+ for me later on.
Except Shantytown
Plus this:
Nvidia's ManuelG wrote on Guru3d:
He also said the new beta won't be out this week ... You could try the new Quadro drivers though. There are tricks to make those drivers run on regular Geforce cards.
The Hitman trick fixed all crashes and visual corruptions for me, bar one -- just after Shanty Town's closing bridge sequence, where Roth is covering you via sniper fire, there's a small cave you have to push through, and my entire screen would become a kaleidoscope of artefacts. At first I thought my GPUs were overheating, but I quickly realised the issue only occurred when going through that particular cave -- everything else before and after it rendered just fine. Odd that Nvidia is having trouble when a simple profile switch fixes most of the problems.
Also, the hair flickering was rather annoying. Nothing took me out of the experience more than seeing Lara's hair dancing.
Also, the hair flickering was rather annoying. Nothing took me out of the experience more than seeing Lara's hair dancing.
Gangxxter
Member
I ran the benchmark with my old Radeon HD 4870 with all settings set to maximum (as far as my card is capable of since it's only DX10 compatible, incl. FXAA) and I was really surprised how well the benchmark ran @1080p.
Min: 26 fps
Max: 36 fps
Avg: 33 fps
This benchmark was done without the latest patch, so I'm really kinda surprised I was totally expecting a slide show on my old card. (Luckily my brand new 7970 Ghz Edit has just arrived, time to install this baby!)
I haven't played the game yet, just tried the benchmark because I want to play the game in full glory with my new graphics card. But as far as I can tell from the benchmark I'm not really impressed by the graphics. Is there really such a huge gap between DX10 and DX11 graphics? Because it seems everyone is praising TR's graphics but so far I really can't understand that.
Min: 26 fps
Max: 36 fps
Avg: 33 fps
This benchmark was done without the latest patch, so I'm really kinda surprised
I was totally expecting a slide show on my old card. (Luckily my brand new 7970 Ghz Edit has just arrived, time to install this baby!)I haven't played the game yet, just tried the benchmark because I want to play the game in full glory with my new graphics card. But as far as I can tell from the benchmark I'm not really impressed by the graphics. Is there really such a huge gap between DX10 and DX11 graphics? Because it seems everyone is praising TR's graphics but so far I really can't understand that.
ambientmystic
Member
Kinda.
DX11 Tesselation + DX11 TressFX makes Lara's curves more rounded out and her hair pretty damn awesome. High and Ultra Shadows, Ultra Reflections, High DOF, and High SSAO are also only DX11.
Also SSAA 2x/4x is not available for DX 10 cards in this game, only on DX11. As you've noted above, only FXAA is available, which blurs out the image/textures, making it look worse.
It's the combination all of the above factors that make TR look really, really good, almost CG like in some scenes and shots.
So weird... I am getting weird artifacting using 2xSSAA. It doesn't happen with FXAA or 4xSSAA, but of course my machine cannot run 4xSSAA at a good framerate and FXAA isn't the best.
I get a constant 60 fps with 2xSSAA for about 20 seconds then this weird artifacting occurs. It only happens with exclusive fullscreen turned on, but turning off exclusive fullscreen even with Vsync + triple buffer, there is mad screen tearing.
What the hell is the best option then? Just downsample with FXAA? I am on dual GTX 670s (4GB)
I get a constant 60 fps with 2xSSAA for about 20 seconds then this weird artifacting occurs. It only happens with exclusive fullscreen turned on, but turning off exclusive fullscreen even with Vsync + triple buffer, there is mad screen tearing.
What the hell is the best option then? Just downsample with FXAA? I am on dual GTX 670s (4GB)
New Nvidia beta drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/geforce_320_00_beta_driver_download.html
BTW Already an SLI profile for Remember Me?. Nice. Looking forward to that game.
BTW Already an SLI profile for Remember Me?. Nice. Looking forward to that game.
Just got the game via GMG.
Some bad performance for my setup, SLI Titans. Terrible GPU scaling. Put up CPU-Z while playing and have noticed that my CPU will not run at it's OC speed of 4.7ghz with this game. It will fluctuate between 1.6ghz and 3ghz, but will not run at 4.7ghz. I tried the registry trick in the OP and it still does it.
Is this a known issue? Tried some other games just to make sure it wasn't a bigger issue and everything else runs at 4.7ghz as expect. So this points to a TR specific issue. Already feeling like I wasted $20 if this is the case.
Some bad performance for my setup, SLI Titans. Terrible GPU scaling. Put up CPU-Z while playing and have noticed that my CPU will not run at it's OC speed of 4.7ghz with this game. It will fluctuate between 1.6ghz and 3ghz, but will not run at 4.7ghz. I tried the registry trick in the OP and it still does it.
Is this a known issue? Tried some other games just to make sure it wasn't a bigger issue and everything else runs at 4.7ghz as expect. So this points to a TR specific issue. Already feeling like I wasted $20 if this is the case.
Disabling SpeedStep and all C-states in the BIOS should do the trick, however doing so will cause your CPU to run at 4.7GHz at all times. I didn't think to keep an eye on CPU usage while playing the game but the CPU not being asked to run at its maximum speed would certainly explain why performance takes a dive in Shantytown.
Yeah I did the C-state deal before on my old setup. I'll try it again and see if that helps. I just tried the new beta drivers and I got a bit of a bump in fps, but my GPU scaling is terrible. I suspect it's because of the core speed not sticking at 4.7ghz. As I mentioned it goes all over the place from 1.6 -> 4.7. It's really odd.
Got it running at 4.7ghz by turning off C-states and Speedstep. Tried it again and still getting some bad GPU scaling. One Titan runs in the 70% range, the other in the 90% range. SLI gives me an avg of 71fps. Single Titan gives me avg 53fps. On the newest Nvidia beta drivers 320.00.
This is on the Ultimate setting, 2560x1600, TressFX enabled etc. Going by the release notes Andy put up on Geforce.com, I'm pretty much sitting in the 680 SLI range. Something is definitely up with a difference of only 18 fps when adding a second Titan!
This is on the Ultimate setting, 2560x1600, TressFX enabled etc. Going by the release notes Andy put up on Geforce.com, I'm pretty much sitting in the 680 SLI range. Something is definitely up with a difference of only 18 fps when adding a second Titan!
A.WE.SOME!!
Ultra LOD in most cpu bounded scene goes from 47 fps to 65 fps using multicoreflush.
this tweak worked well through ShantyTown, but the section of the game after Shanty, in the caves, i started getting graphics corruption ...which of course sucks.
worked well for a while anyway, but had to remove it from the registry.
using a gtx680 btw.
luca_29_bg
Member
multi core flush mode doesn't works for me, i have an i7 860 oc at 3.7 ghz, always 46 fps with maximum detail in some scene
Some reason I can't get above 24fps on my system. Playing on Normal, my computer is a i5 2500k GTX 560. Seems like I should be able to run it better..
Edit: I don't think MSI Afterburner is showing the right FPS because it doesn't change from 24 fps when I swap to low and normal.
Edit: I don't think MSI Afterburner is showing the right FPS because it doesn't change from 24 fps when I swap to low and normal.
Terbinator
Member
Get spongy performance myself.
320.00 drivers, the multicoreflush and i barely hit over 30FPS on highest settings @ 1440p with a 2500K and Titan - both at stock. Most reviews have the Titan as better than this on highest settings @ 1600p.
Picked this up during the GOG the other day.
Using a AMD 6970 the game will be running fine for 5 minutes or so in the 50-60fps range and then will suddenly drop to like 10fps and sort of hiccups. This all happens in the opening area. Tried messing with all the settings but it still keeps happening. When I switch something it runs ok again then five minutes later the framerate goes to shit.
Any suggestions?
Using a AMD 6970 the game will be running fine for 5 minutes or so in the 50-60fps range and then will suddenly drop to like 10fps and sort of hiccups. This all happens in the opening area. Tried messing with all the settings but it still keeps happening. When I switch something it runs ok again then five minutes later the framerate goes to shit.
Any suggestions?
7850 probably can't run with TressFX and the contact hardening shadows at 1080p but everything else will be maxed or near max, plus FXAA.
Did you notice any instability or corruption using that registry tweak? Do you have an Nvidia GPU?
Turning off post-processing gets rid of AO, which can be a big performance hog, but makes a sizable difference visually, I think. I was going to say if you were stuck exactly at 24fps all the time, then it sounds like vsync is on with your refresh rate at 24Hz. Since you got it fixed, though, that must not have been it.
frontieruk
Member
My 6950 must be magic then, as it managed just that, ok was only at ~30fps but coming from console gaming it made no difference to me being at that fps but the step up in IQ...
I cant seem to launch the game
I start it, and a options windows opens
when i actually start to play, all i get is a black screen
I've tried multiple settings in the options (fullscreen, diff screen res, buffers, etc) nothing happens
tried to force dx9 (via regedit), nothing happens
checked task manager i can see it stops loading at 20mb with dx11, 42mb with dx9
also checked the integrity of the files on steam already, it's fine
i5-2500k, 6870, win7 64b with latest ati drivers (13.4)
I start it, and a options windows opens
when i actually start to play, all i get is a black screen
I've tried multiple settings in the options (fullscreen, diff screen res, buffers, etc) nothing happens
tried to force dx9 (via regedit), nothing happens
checked task manager i can see it stops loading at 20mb with dx11, 42mb with dx9
also checked the integrity of the files on steam already, it's fine
i5-2500k, 6870, win7 64b with latest ati drivers (13.4)
Coolbgdog12
Member
Upgraded to a 7870 from a GtX 550 TI and man I can play the game almost maxed out at 2560x1440 around 40fps with Sweetfx and Tressfx!
Cuban Legend
Member
Did Nvidia ever get off their ass and fix the TressFX performance issue?
Yup, and it even works with downsampling now.