I suspect how the game fares on the WinStore versus Steam will inform Microsoft's decision on what to do with Gears UE and other paid Win10 games, especially considering Gears still has no confirmed release date outside of a vague "early 2016". Its F2P titles (Fable Legends, Killer Instinct, etc.) will undoubtedly remain WinStore-exclusive regardless unless they're in dire need of a shot in the arm.
Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to PC Steam on January 28
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I suspect how the game fares on the WinStore versus Steam will inform Microsoft's decision on what to do with Gears UE and other paid Win10 games, especially considering Gears still has no confirmed release date outside of a vague "early 2016". Its F2P titles (Fable Legends, Killer Instinct, etc.) will undoubtedly remain WinStore-exclusive regardless unless they're in dire need of a shot in the arm.
flaxknuckles
Member
You'd think they'd have it for pre-order on the Windows store if they actually cared. Whatever, I bought it on Steam to stick it to the man and for potential future support of other operating systems.
EDIT: And damn, it sure doesn't help Microsoft that they only sell it on Windows 10 but ROTR is available on Windows 7,8,10 through Steam. They better have cross-buy.
Hari Seldon
Member
Does Amazon do the preorder 20% off thing on digital downloads? I got some gift cards to burn.
physx in planetside 2 as well
They don't, unfortunately.
Larson Conway
Member
Is anyone making an OT for this?
SmartWaffles
Member
Don't really think it is necessary, the game isn't far from its console version.
dgrdsv
Member
It is definitely shipping at some point though maybe not in RotTR.
NV will talk about it during GDC: Advanced Ambient Occlusion Methods for Modern Games (presented by NVIDIA)
j0hnny_385
Member
Awwwwwww yeeeeeeeea! \o/
Based GTX 970. <3
DOT DASH DOT
Member
Nice^ looking like 4K 30 for a 980ti then, bit of a shame but I'll take it.
icecold1983
Member
I feel like this game is not going to scale much over the xbone version
Seems highly unlikely
Seems highly unlikely
Caayn
Member
I think that I'm going down that road.
4K + 30fps locked Rivatuner.
Hot damn.
Double dipping from the XB1 version it is.
He meant that VXAO may not be patched in at a later date, not that it may not see the light of day at all.
GHG
Gold Member
980 Ti recommended for 2K.
970 for 1080p
Fuck yes.
Will downsample to 1080p on my OLED tv.
Might actually get this closer to the release date than I thought since it's already cheap on various websites.
And be immediately relegated to the community section with that shit OT title?
No thanks.
Exactly. I wonder why some many official outlets spoke of VXAO then. Surely they did not just made that up.
I still want to believe, but I won't be terribly surprised if VXAO is nowhere to be seen.
I mean it's not like Nvidia would remain silent if that was the case.
Anyway, I think we can look forward to a great port, mostly GPU limited on decent Intel quad cores, and with scalability above the xbone version to a degree. Otherwise why would a 970 be recommended for 60fps ? Makes no sense.
Unless Nvidia are simply trying to stick their 970 up anywhere they can.
Dictator93
Member
It may not be ultra necessary if the built-in solution is of high quality. It sounds like it was/is given that brief about it.
icecold1983
Member
i find it rather poor, and definitely worse than hbao+ despite their claims to the contrary
They claimed it was superior to HBAO, not HBAO+.
It looks good enough for me, any higher quality version would be of course welcome.
icecold1983
Member
they claimed it was better than all horizon based AOs if i remember the paper correctly
texhnolyze
Banned
What's 'screen effects'? Chromatic aberration or something?
It's such a vague term.
It's such a vague term.
Dictator93
Member
Guten Tag HBAO+.
I don't remember exactly what it does but who gives a fuck really.
The big news if HBAO+. The spanish article mentions several enhancements for the PC version :
-More dynamic foliage.
-Better draw distance.
-Higher quality textures.
-Better AO (HBAO+).
So yeah, it does scale higher than the xbone version so the 970 makes sense now.
texhnolyze
Banned
Console is 30fps. Your setup will easily exceed console settings at 30fps.
Consoles are about on par with the 750Ti, and 670 is better than that.
The xbone GPU is weaker than a 750ti going by the various benchmarks, but we don't know how much async compute can speed up things in the case of ROTTR.
NeoRaider
Member
This crap (imo) :
And similar blood, dirt and other effects. It's like you are watching recorded footage with dirt, blood and rain drops all over your screen.
KainXVIII
Member
This crap (imo) :
And similar blood, dirt and other effects. Like you are watching recorded footage with dirt, blood and rain drops all over your screen.
I like it, without these effects game looks too sterile.
So FXAA is confirmed, no alternatives?
NeoRaider
Member
It's horrible when taking screenshots. And i just don't like it.
It was confirmed that there will be more (demanding) AA options in other menu, just like it was in reboot.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Hmm, I think I'll better check the game's performance when it comes out Jan 28. Something tells me I won't be getting 60 FPS 99% of the time at max settings 1080p with my GTX 980 and I don't care about average FPS, minimum FPS is the most important here.
dgrdsv
Member
Reboot had pretty bad SSAA modes in addition to FXAA one. They were bad because they both looked like FXAA was running on top of them - blurry as hell.
Sweet that's my setup. 980Ti at 1440p on my gysnc monitor. We gonna have fun Lara. We gonna have fun.
980 Ti recommended for 2K.
970 for 1080p
NeoRaider
Member
Little bit of PC and Baba Yaga footage:
https://youtu.be/xcXPOFDcNtA
With spoilers talk.
They also talk about the improvements in PC version. So no VXAO at all i guess.
https://youtu.be/xcXPOFDcNtA
With spoilers talk.
They also talk about the improvements in PC version. So no VXAO at all i guess.
VXAO can wait, we have HBAO+ and this alone will be a substantial improvement over the AO on xbone.
At 7.13 minutes he talks about better tessellation on PC, that's cool as well.
Dictator93
Member
"having AF" hehe
Oh yeah I loved that part. He hyped it like it was the second coming of Christ.
Yeah we have this new revolutionary tech called anisotropic filtering
Do you count AA as part of the "highest" settings ?
Otherwise, seems rather realistic. Although from what we know the game scales really higher than on xbone so there may be parts which fail to hit your target.
PC enhancements include, among other things :
Dynamic foliage
HBAO+
Better LOD / draw distance
Higher tessellation factor
Higher quality textures
Higher quality shadows
Not a straight port by any means. I can see it being reasonably demanding at max settings with FXAA.
That's good to know. What about performance ?
Although I suppose they must have set up some really beefy hardware. The spanish player whose story I linked played on a Titan X at 1080p.
It was running on Nvidia supplied PCs. So I'm assuming top of the line hardware.
Still, I ended up stopping for a second just to admire a waterfall that was kicking up vapor and a small rainbow that formed overheard. First thought in my mind was "where's the screenshot button?"
If you have the hardware, the game seems to be able to take advantage of it from what I could tell during my admittedly limited play time.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Hopefully I can get a stable run in with everything on
then again my PC is hit or miss when it comes to running games properly and I think it's because of my i5 but feck knows.
Rex Griswold
Member
Where can I get this for a good discount? I loved it on Xbox, and will definitely double dip for the right price.
jim2point0
Banned
Psssst. 2k is 1920x1080 (or very nearly). Don't know where the whole calling 2560x1440 "2k" started but it's silly
980 Ti recommended for 2K.
970 for 1080p
Anyways, if SLI scales in this game like it did in the first then 2x DSR should be doable
Crimsonclaw111
Member
B/S/T thread in community, pretty sure I've seen it for $35.