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Although this year's Tomb Raider reboot made our latest list of most anticipated PC games, I must admit that it was one of the games I was least looking forward to from a performance perspective. Previous titles in the franchise have received mixed to positive reviews, but gameplay aside, their visuals weren't exactly mind-blowing so we've never bothered doing a performance review on one -- until now, anyway.
Those concerns were at least partially alleviated when we learned that the PC port was being worked on by Nixxes Software BV, the same folks who handled the PC versions of Hitman: Absolution and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, both of which were great examples of what we expect from decent ports in terms of graphical quality and customization. Hitman in particular really stressed our higher-end hardware.
We were also relieved to learn that Tomb Raider supports DirectX 11, which brings access to rendering technologies such as depth of field, high definition ambient occlusion, hardware tessellation, super-sample anti-aliasing and contact-hardening shadows. Additionally, compared to the diluted console versions, the PC build offers better textures as well as AMD's TressFX real-time hair physics system.
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Read expert reviews, pros & cons, and product information about Tomb Raider. There are 34 reviews available so far.
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Mike st said:
WOW ! it looks like my MSI 680 Lightining is slower than a 7870 in this game?? its either a wrong benchmarks here or a VERY ''made for AMD'' kinda game!....
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Skidmarksdeluxe said:
As usual I'll wait for the game to go on special. By that time nVidia should've released new drivers which theoretically should increase the performance.
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Qrox said:
WOW ! it looks like my MSI 680 Lightining is slower than a 7870 in this game?? its either a wrong benchmarks here or a VERY ''made for AMD'' kinda game!....As far as I've been able to gather the game wasn't optimized for any Nvidia products prior to launch. They brought out a patch yesterday which seems to have helped slightly but I think we will only be getting proper performance from Nvidia products once a new Nvidia driver comes out.
I have the same problem as a lot of people, with the game crashing every few minutes on Nvidia cards when tessellation in on. Hoping for a new patch of driver to come out soon so I can enjoy the game.
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TOMB RAIDER is among TOP 5 rated games of all times...
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/tomb-raider
(wholeheartedly appreciate the bench ON TR )
thanks Steve....
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Puiu said:
Putting aside the bugs on nvidia cards which will be fixed in future updates, the game is really good. Play it guys.
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2 people like this |As far as I've been able to gather the game wasn't optimized for any Nvidia products prior to launch. They brought out a patch yesterday which seems to have helped slightly but I think we will only be getting proper performance from Nvidia products once a new Nvidia driver comes out.
An Nvidia driver release won't fix (all) the issues. Game patch required:
Unfortunately, NVIDIA didn't receive final game code until this past weekend which substantially decreased stability, image quality and performance over a build we were previously provided. We are working closely with Crystal Dynamics to address and resolve all game issues as quickly as possible.Please be advised that these issues cannot be completely resolved by an NVIDIA driver. The developer will need to make code changes on their end to fix the issues on GeForce GPUs as well...
You can read the full announcement at Tech Report.
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Alpha Gamer said:
Of all the games released in 2013, this is my favorite so far. And from the art direction stand point, it also has the most beautiful graphics I've ever seen. When the game was released, I was playing with the same driver used for this benchmark and I crashed to desktop every 5 minutes. Then I decided to roll back to 310.90 and I've been playing happily ever after, the DOF issue still persists though.
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Anyone know how this plays on an Nvidia 690 graphics card? I have the 4GBGDDR5 one.
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I've been playing this on an AMD 6970 and it's been running fine for me. I can't play with tresFX on, so I think it's time for a new card soon(once next gen comes out) but I've only experienced one CTD with 90% of the game complete. Hope Nvidia/CD fixes the issues soon because I was not expecting this game to be so fun and I feel people need to play this asap.
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Mictlantecuhtli said:
Hmm, the first page list shows 17 graphics cards, the results 27, and of those 17 at least the 4 GB 680 is missing from results.
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Guessing this won't run very well on High with my GTX285 at 1080p
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The test is wrong
with the new driver 314,14 and the new patch ... I 680 ultimate sttings 1200p 55fps
fail.........test
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1 person liked this |The test is wrong
with the new driver 314,14 and the new patch ... I 680 ultimate sttings 1200p 55fps
fail.........test
That Driver is from March 4th?
The game hadn't even been released then? and in the release notes it has not a single mention of Tomb Raider?
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a liar but I am intrigued, do you have a screenshot to backup your claim?
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1 person liked this |The test is wrong
with the new driver 314,14 and the new patch ... I 680 ultimate sttings 1200p 55fps
fail.........test
Except you're wrong.
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.30GHz)
x4 4GB G.Skill DDR3-1600 (CAS 8-8-8-20)
Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 (Intel X79)
OCZ ZX Series 1250w
Crucial m4 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s)
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
Nvidia Forceware 314.07
AMD Catalyst 13.2 (Beta 6)
Is the settings used, they used the latest for the time that they were conducting these tests. If you'd want to request them to do a updated one, that'd make sense. But calling this review fail because the drivers/game code wasn't up to snuff in time is only fail on your part.
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StaffSteve said:
The test is wrongwith the new driver 314,14 and the new patch ... I 680 ultimate sttings 1200p 55fps
fail.........test
Although that is a silly comment to make you did spot a typo, we did test with the 314.14 drivers. As for the comment about yesterdays patch get real please.
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1 person liked this |Blkfx1 said:
Great review and great game! Thanks, Steve.
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StaffSteve said:Great review and great game! Thanks, Steve.
You guys are all very welcome thank you.
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1 person liked this |Geforcepat said:
Have Been waiting on this review thanks techspot!
btw it runs at about 45 fps ultimate on mine 7870 xt tahiti@1200
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1 person liked this |LukeDJ said:
Looks awesome, graphically and game play-wise.
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Great review Steve, nice to see AMD taking the lead by far, for a change
I haven't still decided between getting Far Cry 3 or Tomb Raider... both seem to be great titles!
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@cueto,
if you ppl look closely,then you will find amd leading in most cases with much lower price tag and way better value for money-
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also,
both TR and fc3 are among top guns-so it's your personal choice which way you go....but rating wise TR is among top 5 of all-time
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EmirSc said:
WOW ! it looks like my MSI 680 Lightining is slower than a 7870 in this game?? its either a wrong benchmarks here or a VERY ''made for AMD'' kinda game!....as you can read at the end of the article, yes the game suffer more on the nvidia cards, mainly because DOF
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The Radeons obviously have the advantage here but even so no GPU is really all that impressive, from either side.
And one thing that bugs me are the names they apply to the settings....there is no low-medium-high-ultra now, its very high, ultra, extreme, godlike, redunkulous, etc etc.
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Geforcepat said:Great review Steve, nice to see AMD taking the lead by far, for a change
I haven't still decided between getting Far Cry 3 or Tomb Raider... both seem to be great titles!
Trust me on this. you gotta get both.
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Really enjoying the game so far and actually quite surprised at the excellent day 1 AMD support - Crossfire scaling is good (60-80%) and there's no microstutter. TressFX is just way too much of a performance hit though, hard to justify for just the hair.
Btw if anyone is having problems with CF not working, make sure Exclusive Fullscreen is turned on, because turning it off makes it run in windowed mode I think (and CF doesn't work in windowed mode).
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