How to get Tomb Raider running smooth?

Drake5 · 17 Jan 2014 at 18:49

I've just purchased, downloaded and installed Tomb Raider. I set most settings on high, making sure to turn off TressFX, post processing and tesselation however I only seem to be getting about 40fps.

My spec is in sig, I thought I'd be able to get more FPS out of this if I'm honest.

Does anyone else here have a similar PC to myself. How did it run for you?

EDIT: It seems that the preset 'High' puts a few graphical settings to normal and now it seems to be maxed out at 60FPS. Still thought I could run it on higher graphics settings!

Heisenberg · 17 Jan 2014 at 20:52

It's a great looking game and a 7850 is a last gen middle range card. Will still look great on high preset.

Drake5 · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:16

True. It does play and look great on high still.

demon8991 · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:32

Yeah, as said previously Tomb Raider is a very demanding and beautiful game and your 7850 will not quite have the grunt to run everything on top settings at a decent FPS.

Drake5 · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:40

demon8991 said:
Yeah, as said previously Tomb Raider is a very demanding and beautiful game and your 7850 will not quite have the grunt to run everything on top settings at a decent FPS.

Gives me more of a reason to upgrade.

Still, looks great on high! And it's getting into one of the best games I've played on PC so far.

BriT · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:44

I loved tomb raider, hope they make another.

demon8991 · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:45

Tom_D said:
Gives me more of a reason to upgrade.

Still, looks great on high! And it's turning into one of the best games I've played on PC so far.

Couldn't agree more mate, it really is a masterpiece!

eyetrip · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:50

Currently playing it now too. Very enjoyable.

jamiehavok · 18 Jan 2014 at 00:01

yeah i had a 6950 and it ran at around 30 fps pretty much maxed out, it was still playable though, i even had tressfx enabled just on the closups of lara it just went baywatch slow mo - it was kinda atmospheric! now with a 290 i get upwards of 60 fps completly maxed out but on closups of laras hair it still sometimes drops to 35-40 ish! but thats still better than 10-15 fps baywatch mode i was getting on the 6950 - kinda

AWPC · 18 Jan 2014 at 03:15

GTX780 or higher maxes this out smoothly @ 1920x1200!

Ur round next · 18 Jan 2014 at 10:52

BriT said:
I loved tomb raider, hope they make another.

+1

kthula666 · 18 Jan 2014 at 11:47

Great game just wish they worked on the TOMB sections and made them a bit more technical. All the stuff that made Tomb Raider the iconic game it was could have been fleshed out a little in the very short TOMB sections of the game.

Still it is a good game for the rest of the time.

HangTime · 19 Jan 2014 at 21:41

Just make use of the in-game benchmark, toggling settings to see the impact they have. You don't even need to wait for the bench to finish, just memorise the approx framerate you were getting at a couple of points as it pans round.

Good starting points for tweaking any games are settings relating to shadows, dynamic lighting, ambient occlusion and anti-aliasing. Oftentimes simply choosing 'medium' or 'high' is suboptimal because it lowers more settings than you need to, compared to manual tweaking (i.e having loads of stuff on ultra but with a couple of things that really impact framerate turned down).