dragonballjoseph
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My game went to PC controls once, but that was due to me pressing the keyboard. So I guess you should make sure you're not touching your keyboard.
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Tomb Raider PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter JaseC
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My game went to PC controls once, but that was due to me pressing the keyboard. So I guess you should make sure you're not touching your keyboard.
I need some help you guys. I'm trying to play this game on my laptop. It was doing fine during the beginning segments, but once I got the climbing hook, the framerate started to drop a lot. It's gotten to the point where it's almost unplayable. I put my settings on low and clicked on benchmark and it says a max of 19fps. Is there anyway I can fix this? Here are my specs
8GB of RAM
Intel Core i7 Processor @ 2.4 GHz
DirectX 11
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (I also have a Geoforce GTX 660M on board, but not sure how to access that??)
Thanks for the help.
8GB of RAM
Intel Core i7 Processor @ 2.4 GHz
DirectX 11
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (I also have a Geoforce GTX 660M on board, but not sure how to access that??)
Thanks for the help.
I doubt its the GPU (cause it was working fine before...) but make sure to force the laptop to use the 660. Probably inspector or power saving advanced settings. Thats all I got.
So the 314.14 beta drivers were released yesterday. I'm wondering if we can expect an update pretty soon for better Tomb Raider performance. I am getting 60fps the majority of the time with my 680 on Ultra without tesselation and TessFX, but it seems that I shouldn't be getting these random dips into the 45-50 range. Its distracting. Dropping the settings to High definitely helps (which is "medium" for all intents and purposes), but I don't feel like I should have to do this to get a more constant 60fps
AMD A10-4600M
HD 7660G (integrated graphics)
8 gb ram
I mostly have low settings on everything but with v-sync (triple buffering) and tessellation on and max anisotropic and texture quality. I'm getting a smooth 30 fps with occasional dips to ~28-9 fps. The game looks really good, even on my laptop. And TressFX takes 20 fps away if I activate it so maybe next time (or never until I upgrade to Jaguar cores later this year).
HD 7660G (integrated graphics)
8 gb ram
I mostly have low settings on everything but with v-sync (triple buffering) and tessellation on and max anisotropic and texture quality. I'm getting a smooth 30 fps with occasional dips to ~28-9 fps. The game looks really good, even on my laptop. And TressFX takes 20 fps away if I activate it so maybe next time (or never until I upgrade to Jaguar cores later this year).
Thanks. Glad to know its not on my side!
plumpblumpkin
Member
Will wait for Nvidia fix before I continue with this one..
For those interested on how it runs on a upper mid-range system, I got it going pretty buttery smooth at 1080:
I7-860 @ 3.8ghz
7850 2gb 920/1250
16gb ram 1800ghz
Got it all settings at max with following exceptions:
Tressfx off
Post processing off (big fps increase with little/no noticeable IQ change). I'd mess around with this setting first to increase fps in general.
Fxaa
Avg 55-60 fps can play w v sync off. this game looks pretty fantastic.
Still playable w tressfx / post processing on (avg 30-ish fps) but I prefer the butter. Add msaa and puts it in the 20s.
I7-860 @ 3.8ghz
7850 2gb 920/1250
16gb ram 1800ghz
Got it all settings at max with following exceptions:
Tressfx off
Post processing off (big fps increase with little/no noticeable IQ change). I'd mess around with this setting first to increase fps in general.
Fxaa
Avg 55-60 fps can play w v sync off. this game looks pretty fantastic.
Still playable w tressfx / post processing on (avg 30-ish fps) but I prefer the butter. Add msaa and puts it in the 20s.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
Trying disabling tesselation.
So anyone with a card similar to a 6950 able to comment on the best drivers? My friend, who pretty much has the exact same setup as me, has been playing this without a single crash, everything maxed. Whereas I'm crashing left right and center.
The only thing (I can think of) that's different about our two computers is that he hasn't updated his drivers in ages, and is still on 12.8, whereas I'm on 13. something.
The only thing (I can think of) that's different about our two computers is that he hasn't updated his drivers in ages, and is still on 12.8, whereas I'm on 13. something.
OC that thing. You can get as much as a 30% performance increase in most titles.
Actually, is there a gaf guide to overclocking thread?
plumpblumpkin
Member
Anyone else getting fps drops when just zooming in with weapons??
I think it has something to do with the DOF...
I think it has something to do with the DOF...
Since I had that "failed to initialize Direct3D with current settings" error and someone posted the subsequent workaround, I haven't had a single issue with this game after a few hours of play. I was expecting a crash or two given the comments in this thread and that I'm running an NVIDIA card, which seems to be the most problematic, but it's been great.
Baloonatic
Member
Wonder how long that will take. Only an hour or so in but I might just hold off if the drivers are likely to be within the next 24 hours.
I have the same card, latest official drivers, not a single crash in 4-5 hours of gameplay.
The word you are looking for is downgrade.....
And it is the GPU that does TressFX, not the CPU.
frontieruk
Member
I'm running http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/amdcatalyst132betadriver.aspx on my 6970 no crashes apart from when I started the game after launching FRAPS.
Well I used the AMD auto-detect drivers thing and uninstalled/installed those, and also quit out of Radeon Pro.
I don't want to jinx it, but so far everything's going smoothly.
Opposite of funny actually.
There were rumours that new betas would drop on the 7th, but this isn't the case. Given Nvidia only recently got its hand on the final build, I wouldn't expect new drivers until at least early next week (though I'd like to be wrong).
Played 5 hours yesterday and didn't have a single crash. My GTX 570 couldn't handle that hair tech for shit thou, FPS falls to <10 when Lara is "too close" to the screen and the hair is just everywhere. My game freeze for a few seconds when I enter new areas but I assume that's normal.
Nvidia says drivers as well as official performance patch incoming.
Well this is sad; the hd 7870 beats the gtx 670. Nvidia better release optimized drivers soon.
Mohonky
Member
Just tried this this evening.
Win7
i7 920 @ 3.8ghz
6ggb DDR
GTX670
Benchmarked at 32fps average on ultimate (anything above 30fps works for me) but the game stutted and jerked momentarily quite a bit, not like the frame rate was dropping because of the action but like a weird pausing.
Then as others have had, everything went to shit and I got artefacting everywhere when I exited the first cave.
Disappointing but I have Dead Space 3 to finish so maybe a new patch can sort it out before I get back to the game.
Win7
i7 920 @ 3.8ghz
6ggb DDR
GTX670
Benchmarked at 32fps average on ultimate (anything above 30fps works for me) but the game stutted and jerked momentarily quite a bit, not like the frame rate was dropping because of the action but like a weird pausing.
Then as others have had, everything went to shit and I got artefacting everywhere when I exited the first cave.
Disappointing but I have Dead Space 3 to finish so maybe a new patch can sort it out before I get back to the game.
Yeah, your shadows don't seem bugged. I suppose Nvidia's alluded to it when they said "image quality".
Those issues notwithstanding I'm enjoying the game, it's a really well executed new take on Lara's character. I'm loving pretty much everything about it right now.
Baloonatic
Member
I'll just carry on then. Only had one crash so far and performance is ok with tesselation and tressfx off.
frontieruk
Member
I've noticed the effect doesn't work with global illumination, only the fires you can light the torch with, seems a bit pointless in that regard imo.
Why bother implementing this feature then ? Sometimes I don't understand developpers.
Alex
Member
It's somewhat high, but it shouldn't be too excessive for a GPU, especially under full load. Are you overclocked? You might just be pushing your core/shaders past the peak of what it can do if you are.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Someone needs to post some gifs of the village area during the storm with lightning.
Hell, people need to start posting more gifs of everything! The game looks so good!
Hell, people need to start posting more gifs of everything! The game looks so good!
no OC except the slight one that comes with being the FTW edition of the card. I just think it was an unfortunate bug that lead to a bunch of artifacts showing up. Not toooo worried about it, just thought it looked weird interesting, haha.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Question, for Nvidia Inspector, possible to get a Hitman profile without Hitman? Trying to help a friend with a 600 series video card.
Oh yeah. The profile will be there, regardless if you have the game. The Nvidia drivers have profiles for a vast amount of games, it'll be there as long as your drivers are fairly recent.
Alex
Member
Wouldn't be what is causing the crashes, though, because it's the game's .exe that's crashing not video drivers.
I do not understand why the hair taking up a lot of the screen would slow down nvidia cards.
It does not seem to use distance bases tessellation (and even if it did it should not be a problem for nvidia cards).
The physics of the strands of hair should not change based on distance to.
So the only thing I can see that is slowing down the cards would be the pixel shader that is used to shade the hair, it is the only thing with a changing load the closer it is to the viewport and because it does not look like anything special I would say it was made to do that to nvidia cards.
It does not seem to use distance bases tessellation (and even if it did it should not be a problem for nvidia cards).
The physics of the strands of hair should not change based on distance to.
So the only thing I can see that is slowing down the cards would be the pixel shader that is used to shade the hair, it is the only thing with a changing load the closer it is to the viewport and because it does not look like anything special I would say it was made to do that to nvidia cards.
captainnapalm
Member
This is exceptionally good news.
The long and short of it is that Nixxes did the dirty on Nvidia by sending it the final, AMD-favouring build only a few days before release, offering far from enough time to get drivers in order for launch day, and Kepler cards actually saw a slight reduction in compute performance compared to their Fermi equivalents.
Brerlappin
Member
560ti owner here too. In game, with everything on, (tressfx, tesselation), im getting 35-45 fps. No crashes either, but ive only played maybe 30 mins so far.
I did 2 videos of the tressFX stuff, so any other nvidia owners can check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9A3Nw7nnM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTRF2g6iRmQ