Just lower level of detail to normal. The games becomes hugely CPU limited in large areas with a lot of objects drawn. Lower lod will use lower quality or less assets in the distance, but the difference isn't particular noticeable.
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Tomb Raider PC Performance Thread
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Just lower level of detail to normal. The games becomes hugely CPU limited in large areas with a lot of objects drawn. Lower lod will use lower quality or less assets in the distance, but the difference isn't particular noticeable.
jacksepticeye
Member
I can't stand FXAA in the game, makes it blurry as hell.
plumpblumpkin
Member
Ah, so that's why my fps is soo much lower now with the patch.
I actually had FXAA enabled instead of SSAA before the patch lol.
Still, SSAA should not be such a performance killer.
I'm still getting crashes after the patch :-(
Running on Hitman Absolution profile with all settings maxed out except FXAA @ 1080p. My setup is SLI'd 670s and a 3570k @ 4.5ghz. GPUs are running stock settings. The game runs at 60fps most of the time with TressFX, Post Processing, and Tessellation. Any other SLI users having problems?
Running on Hitman Absolution profile with all settings maxed out except FXAA @ 1080p. My setup is SLI'd 670s and a 3570k @ 4.5ghz. GPUs are running stock settings. The game runs at 60fps most of the time with TressFX, Post Processing, and Tessellation. Any other SLI users having problems?
Why would you set texture filtering to x8? Just do x16. The performance hit is negligible. I don't think I've ever set a PC game to less then x16.
SlaughterX
Banned
Runs at a consistent 30fps on my X51 (i7 ver. with GTX660) in 1080p. Everything is on ultra, TressFX are off, along with tessellation and high precision. The benchmark says the frame rate never drops under 29 and never exceeds 39 but averages 30. I was expecting it run better, but it looks good and I can't really complain about it running at the same rate as most games.
I downloaded the latest patch on Steam today and it still crashed on me a few times...
I downloaded the latest patch on Steam today and it still crashed on me a few times...
nextgeneration
Member
Can anyone who has a high end cpu comment on what kind of fps they're getting in Shanty Town? I'm just wondering how big a difference the cpu makes at this part of the game.
Well, AF set to 8x, min/max fps is 60 whereas 16x min/max fps is 56/60(this is with Tessellation enabled using Hitman Absolution profile). Anyway, I'll stick with 8x.
I have a similar set up as you but cpu@ 4ghurtz. I'm going to play some more to see if I exp any crashes.
My PC Settings:
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
4096MB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz x2 ~3000MHz
Game Settings:
1920x1080
V-sync off (Triple Buffering in RadeonPro)
Texture Quality: Ultra
Texture Filter: Anisotropic 1x (16x in RadeonPro)
AA: Off
Shadows: Normal
Shadow Resolution: Normal
Level of Detail: Normal
Post Processing: Off
Tessellation: Off
High Precision: On
Hair Quality: Normal
Reflections: Normal
Depth of Field: Normal
SSAO: Off
Only played an hour so far, but it's been a smooth performance nearly reaching 60 fps.
Any suggestions on things I could increase without any dips, or things I should decrease for an increase framerate?
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
4096MB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz x2 ~3000MHz
Game Settings:
1920x1080
V-sync off (Triple Buffering in RadeonPro)
Texture Quality: Ultra
Texture Filter: Anisotropic 1x (16x in RadeonPro)
AA: Off
Shadows: Normal
Shadow Resolution: Normal
Level of Detail: Normal
Post Processing: Off
Tessellation: Off
High Precision: On
Hair Quality: Normal
Reflections: Normal
Depth of Field: Normal
SSAO: Off
Only played an hour so far, but it's been a smooth performance nearly reaching 60 fps.
Any suggestions on things I could increase without any dips, or things I should decrease for an increase framerate?
ambientmystic
Member
Since you're only rocking a Core 2 (like I am but at 2.8 GHz), I'd advise you to take down that Level of Detail to Medium for a better framerate later on in the game for the more open ended areas. People with even quad core i7s suffer severe frame rate drops in those areas and have to take down their LOD quality. LOD is pretty dependant on CPU power.
High Precision is another framerate killer for me, I get 5 extra FPS switching it off. Otherwise you're good to go, the 5700 series is a pretty solid old workhorse for its age. I use an even older lousier 4670.
partime
Member
My settings: MBP ;(
ambientmystic
Member
You got Bootcamp set up on that thing? Does it have a dedicated graphics card made within the last 3-4 years?
If so, you could probably run it lol. If a Surface Pro with the crappy ass Intel HD 4000 integrated card can run it, your MBP can too lol.
partime
Member
It's a 2011 with NVidia 650M, 16GB RAM, i7. Runs at 1440x900 with medium/low settings with frame-drops a bit more often than I would like.
Might need to drop it down to 720.
ambientmystic
Member
Your laptop is three to 4 times times the laptop mine wishes it could be lol, and I'm running it at an acceptable level for my expectations of what archaic technology can do.
For your reference:-
Intel Core 2 Duo T9550 2.8 GHz
8 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 4670 1GB (This card has only got 1.5x the juice of the 360's Xenos)
Windows 7 Pro SP1
My settings are:-
1600x900, Textures at Ultra, Texture Filtering at 8x Anisotropic, AA Off, Shadows Normal, Shadow Resolution Normal, Level of Detail Medium, Post Processing Off, High Precision Off, Tesselation Off, Hair Quality Normal, Reflections Normal, Depth of Field Off, SSAO Off.
I get 30 - 40 FPS with this setup, and for a really old system like mine, I find that acceptable. I was actually amazed my system could run this game, it looks great. This system can't even run Crysis 3 due to the lack of DX 11 hardware.
MarshMellow96
Member
Tried out the benchmark with the 'Ultimate' setting save for FXAA and tesselation. min 42, max 60, average 53 at 1920x1080.
i5 3570k
GIGABTYE 7950
8GB Sam RAM
Windows 7 Pro SP1
I'm yet to try those settings out during the game, however. If TressFX really does halve the frame rate then I'm sitting pretty!
i5 3570k
GIGABTYE 7950
8GB Sam RAM
Windows 7 Pro SP1
I'm yet to try those settings out during the game, however. If TressFX really does halve the frame rate then I'm sitting pretty!
Brerlappin
Member
This, for sure. I dropped LOD to normal and get 30/40 in action areas, 50 in quieter areasnow with everything else on ultra/tesselation/tressfx on. LOD seems to be a real performance killer. And it doesnt really look that different between ultra-normal anyway.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Yeah, AF level never really seems to impact performance for me at all, so I always crank it up. I'm running this game on my not-exactly-mindblowing 2011 laptop with Ultra textures and 16x AF, and the performance hit compared to Low textures and no AF is minimal (if there is a difference at all). This always seems to be the case for me, which has made me wonder why console games always have such awful AF. Is it a memory thing? My laptop does have 2GB of VRAM, so I guess that's it?
Mithos
Member
So if you do set it in the CP, you turn it off in the game or it do not matter if the game setting have it on 16x also etc?
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
2600K @ 3.4
GTX 590
8GBs RAM
All settings maxed; no issues so far.
GTX 590
8GBs RAM
All settings maxed; no issues so far.
I think the CP overwrites whatever you set in game. I just leave it at 1x in game's options.
Doesn't matter.
Mithos
Member
Coolbgdog12
Member
Anybody else's Tomb Raider crashes when you hit play?? Suddenly the game stopped working adn when I hit play it looks like it would go into fullscreen and then closes. I ended up deleting and about to reinstall it. I didn't change any options since last playing it the other day.
GHG
Member
Happened to me. Close fraps/msi afterburner if you have that running. If not turn off FXAA and select the no AA option or chose SSAA.
On another note when do Nvidia have an ETA on the new drivers for this?
That happened to me when I played it with a RadeonPro profile. When I stopped using that it worked. Not sure if that helps or not.
Coolbgdog12
Member
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
1080p with 2xSSAA is roughly equivalent to running at a 4k resolution.
Coolbgdog12
Member
Okay Idk what happened but I got it to work. I went to the game's registry location and there was a value data in the "renderapi" field that was "0" for DX11. I changed it to 9 to try in dX9 mode and it came on. I changed it back to 0 for dx11 and it works also. weird.
EDIT: Spoke to soon. It actually isn't working.
I thought I changed it but when it's on "0" it doesn't come on.
EDIT: Spoke to soon. It actually isn't working.
Coolbgdog12
Member
Fixed it. Apparently sweetfx decided it didn't want to work with it today.
Mithos
Member
Well it's not only drivers that's needed a nice game patch that fixes up some stuff would be nice also.
This patch definitely improved performance a bit on my 680. Perhaps its enough to give Nvidia what they need to get a new driver out to us.
Mithos
Member
I doubt that patch is the NVIDIA holy grail patch though.
Poetic.Injustice
Member
What's the thing to turn off to get the most performance gain besides the hair.
Level of Detail to Normal.
IcyRhythms
Member
Bioshock Infinite will have already consumed me by that time.
Bioshock Infinite will have already consumed me by that time.
"Late this month" could be a mistyped "Later this month". Time will tell!
plumpblumpkin
Member
Bioshock Infinite will have already consumed me by that time.
Exactly..
ambientmystic
Member
ambientmystic
Member
They didn't have that 'special partnership' with CD and Nixxes for this port, thus they have to do it the hard way, via experimentation. Just like what AMD had to deal with all this time with the studios they didn't bribe lol.