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[RoKKeR]

Looks like AMD (sort of) shit the bed with TressFX. Kills FPS on all but the highest-end of cards, and the implementation looks shoddy at best. Invisible force-field around her shoulders, shadow casting is screwed up, etc. Why am I not surprised by any of this?

I'll pass.

 

[Moaradin]

I get 60 fps with this on. Of course, I do have a GTX 680...

 

[Krappadizzle]

reading about the issues with the PC version,I'd say Nixxes fault ,since they were working on two game at the same time(Hitman:Abomination),they are usually the very best in porting but I guess you can't get quality and quantity together.

I had to do a double take. hahahahaha. Too good.

 

[dreamfall]

I get 60 fps with this on. Of course, I do have a GTX 680...

Wait with hair? SLI or no?!

What settings are you using?

 

[I'm an expert]

So where is the wind blowing... left or right... must I believe Lara's hair or the ship flags?

Ssssshhhh.....hair fx... game of the year.... don't let them hear you....

 

[D4Danger]

So where is the wind blowing... left or right... must I believe Lara's hair or the ship flags?

she's standing in the middle of a tornado.

that's the final twist to the game

 

[jimi_dini]

I haven't had that happen since 2005 with Perfect Dark Zero.

SMH, CD.

CD should have used 2 saved game files for such case. One to write to and one as backup. If the first one can not be read, use the second one.

 

[Derrick01]

So where is the wind blowing... left or right... must I believe Lara's hair or the ship flags?

Oh man I didn't even notice that haha.

 

[Baconsammy]

Many people voted ME3 goty on here. Many more actually made 2 the goty on here. I wouldn't look at it too seriously.

Probably because a lot of people felt that way. Funny how that works, huh, Derrick?

 

[Pimpbaa]

Not worth it,look at the other gifs people posted, it's really bad looking hair and it move just completely wrong.

Of course YOU wouldn't like it. It looks great.

 

[strafer]

How is Camillas sexy voice?

 

[iNvid02]

whats the soundtrack like?

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Played a couple of hours, loving it.

 

[Derrick01]

Probably because a lot of people felt that way. Funny how that works, huh, Derrick?

I certainly wasn't implying they were pretending to like it.

 

[derFeef]

Looks like AMD (sort of) shit the bed with TressFX. Kills FPS on all but the highest-end of cards, and the implementation looks shoddy at best. Invisible force-field around her shoulders, shadow casting is screwed up, etc. Why am I not surprised by any of this?

I'll pass.

Sounds like early PhysX complaints. At least it will get better from here.

 

[Totobeni]

Looks like AMD (sort of) shit the bed with TressFX. Kills FPS on all but the highest-end of cards, and the implementation looks shoddy at best. Invisible force-field around her shoulders, shadow casting is screwed up, etc. Why am I not surprised by any of this?

I'll pass.

Yeah.

Developers need to do their own hair codes (Alice Madness Return for an example) the tressFX while it look really good in screenshots it's completely horrible in motion(and hurt the framerate too much).

for now tressFX is a waste of resources just like the PhysX.

 

[robotzombie]

she's standing in the middle of a tornado.

that's the final twist to the game

Don't you mean...the final twister?

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

How is Camillas sexy voice?

You'll have a very confused boner as Lara is brutalized by the enemies and elements.

Until she starts fighting back.

 

[I'm an expert]

Don't you mean...the final twister?

8/10

 

[hayabusachop]

wow!

 

[Toa TAK]

You'll have a very confused boner as Lara is brutalized by the enemies and elements.

Until she starts fighting back.

Kinky.

 

[Moaradin]

Wait with hair? SLI or no?!

What settings are you using?

Single 680. Max graphical settings.

 

[Trey]

Don't you mean...the final twister?

To be fair, if the is a large wall behind Lara, the wind could be tunneling around her. I doubt that's what they were going for, however.

 

[I'm an expert]

To be fair, if the is a large wall behind Lara, the wind could be tunneling around her. I doubt that's what they were going for, however.

What about the grass right in front of her lol.

 

[strafer]

You'll have a very confused boner as Lara is brutalized by the enemies and elements.

Until she starts fighting back.

Nice. The way mama likes it.

 

[Mononoke]

Using Aus VPN now. The update to launch the game is taking forever due to the slow speeds I'm getting on this VPN connection.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Holy fucking shit.

I...wow. This is a PROFOUND statement.

Not particularly. It being as much a step up for the series as RE4 was is much more bold.

Just tried it. TressFX looks awful. Glitchy as hell and looks weirdly highlighted against the environment, like it's not properly lit. The tech idea looks like it has a lot of potential but the implementation here is not very convincing.

TressFX dat beard, imo

 

[Derrick01]

Sounds like early PhysX complaints. At least it will get better from here.

I dunno I still think physx is mostly useless since it costs so much in performance still. In most games it seems to mostly fill the area with various pieces of junk that swirl around when you get near it.

The best use I saw of it was probably Mirror's Edge with that damn wonderful tarp.

 

[AlimNassor]

Doom isn't perfect, but the level design isn't terrible either.

i dunno. I hated most the levels. I felt the good ones were really memorable, the bad ones the majority were boring.

 

[Skilletor]

Sad that I can't have the non-shitty looking hair without performance crippling physics. :/

 

[NJBorn]

does the game control better with gamepad or mouse and keyboard for the PC?

 

[Dance Inferno]

Sad that I can't have the non-shitty looking hair without performance crippling physics. :/

That's generally how computational power works.

 

[Alcoholikaust]

So where is the wind blowing... left or right... must I believe Lara's hair or the ship flags?

in its defense on a shoreline the wind is blowing all over the god damn place soo...

 

[Serrato]

For a good laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGyY8AwBYM

(Make sure you are on headphones)

 

[Skilletor]

That's generally how computational power works.

I mean I don't understand why can't I have nice looking hair without the physics. The normal hair looks like a blob of a polygon. I don't think you need fancy ShampooFX to have hair that LOOKS like Lara's without the physics of it.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Single 680. Max graphical settings.

I'm calling shenanigans. I've got an i7-920@4Ghz/GTX 680/12gb ram set up and I get 36 fps average according to the benchmark with TressFX and everything else maxed out. 56 fps without it. You sure you don't have a few settings turned down? The general consensus is that TressFx gives about a 20 fps hit when turned on.

edit:

For a good laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGyY8AwBYM

(Make sure you are on headphones)

That's where the 20 hours of gameplay is from. 1 hour of actual gameplay, 19 of them just sitting there doing that.

 

[AlimNassor]

Many people voted ME3 goty on here. Many more actually made 2 the goty on here. I wouldn't look at it too seriously.

Why does it really anger you so much people liked ME 2/3?

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

What's a free VPN to use to unlock this?

 

[derFeef]

Why does it really anger you so much people liked games?

fixed?

 

[woober]

What's a free VPN to use to unlock this?

Incloak VPN to New Zealand.

 

[Dance Inferno]

I mean I don't understand why can't I have nice looking hair without the physics. The normal hair looks like a blob of a polygon. I don't think you need fancy ShampooFX to have hair that LOOKS like Lara's without the physics of it.

I don't think the normal hair looks THAT bad. Granted I haven't gotten my copy yet, but from what I can tell from videos it looks no worse than most other video game hair.

 

[Krappadizzle]

What's a free VPN to use to unlock this?

VpnSecure has a $2 two day trial. That's what I usually use to vpn for a game. Not free, but it's only $2. It does work for TR too. I just unlocked it myself.

 

[Dorfdepp]

For a good laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGyY8AwBYM

(Make sure you are on headphones)

Wow, pure sadist porn lol.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

So where is the wind blowing... left or right... must I believe Lara's hair or the ship flags?

Well, she's by a cliff face. Turbulence and all that.

Still...

It's also rewarding to clear out an area and then get to explore it, which I find a more satisfying than any 'kill', 'cutscene' or 'xp' could be.

There's something kinda poetic about this statement given the context. I imagine I'll agree.

For a good laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGyY8AwBYM

(Make sure you are on headphones)

That's... pretty disturbing.

 

[Moaradin]

I'm calling shenanigans. I've got an i7-920@4Ghz/GTX 680/12gb ram set up and I get 36 fps average according to the benchmark with TressFX and everything else maxed out. 56 fps without it. You sure you don't have a few settings turned down? The general consensus is that TressFx gives about a 20 fps hit when turned on.

edit:

That's where the 20 hours of gameplay is from. 1 hour of actual gameplay, 19 of them just sitting there doing that.

Well, I do have a dedicated PhysX card =P

But this isn't PhysX. I doubt TressFX is running on that card. Right now I'm at the bow section of the game and I'm getting 60 fps.

 

[Dice//]

Even more impressive is that her hair has perfect volume, sheen, and form despite the muddy terrain, burning forests, nasty swamps, dirt, blood splatters, and even cliffside gusts effecting it. You go Lara.

The game itself is pure sadist porn. Bad things seem to happen in threes, every five minutes from what I've played.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

VpnSecure has a $2 two day trial. That's what I usually use to vpn for a game. Not free, but it's only $2. It does work for TR too. I just unlocked it myself.

What is the correct process to unlocking it so Valve doesn't freeze my account?

 

[iNvid02]

What is the correct process to unlocking it so Valve doesn't freeze my account?

start vpn, start steam and unlock game, switch steam to offline mode, close vpn and play

main thing is keeping steam offline until you no longer need the vpn, otherwise it just locks the game again and starts acting strange

 

[woober]

What is the correct process to unlocking it so Valve doesn't freeze my account?

Go offline on steam.
Connect to VPN to desired location.
Go online and let steam complete the Tomb Raider download.
Launch game.
Go offline again with game on.
Disconnect from VPN.
You can freely launch and exit the game with steam offline.

Edit: Shoryuken'ed

 

[tjohn86]

You lose access to cheevs that way right?