Tomb Raider Legend 'performance'

[juno_first]

There is a demo of this game...
Tomb Raider Legend with HDR runs very badly on my system (see sig.).
With all effects on except AA; FPS are: min=15, average=25, max=70
HDR & full screen effects really kill the FPS and my system is no slouch; I can't afford another £660 for graphics cards -wtf.
Turning off AA only improves things by 2 FPS.
FPS remain the same at all resolutions -this suggests a lack of CPU power even though I'm at 2.75 now (with dualcore patches) -the game appears to be using both cores.
Booting up on only one graphics card actually speeds things up by 3 FPS , I can't believe 16x PCI-e has such an impact -only in this game.
The FPS are erratic as in: the same viewpoint can give wildly different FPS at different times
When e.g. jumping for the first time or walking round a corner the game freezes for 2 seconds, eh -isn't 2 gig of RAM enough or 256mb local texture memory enough?
Tried different drivers etc. with no joy

Farcry with HDR in xp64 runs really sweet, even with a 5km view distance, is there an XP64 bit version of Tomb Raider Leged ?.

Before anyone says to turn off HDR, I think the game looks WAY WAY better in HDR and the thought of playing without this would be like driving a Skoda with a Porsche engine. (no offence to Skoda owners).

 

[juno_first]

when enabling *extra* ahmm content in the options, it drops fps by 90% lol

 

[juno_first]

some of the textures are really high res. , perhaps its like ultra high in quake 4 & a 512mb card would help ?, anyone try a 512mb card with the game ?
I got a speed boost by stopping depth of field.
I'm at a bit in the game now & with extra content the fps dropped to 9 at any resolution, but when stopping extra content fps go up to 140
Holy crap -for the first time ever at default clock speed my 7800's just past 115c & I got thrown back to Windows with a message stating that my clock speed had been lowered . The side of my case is soo hot I can't touch it & thats with a 12cm fan bowing out.
I find the game runs faster by booting up on 1 cpu.

 

[juno_first]

Well i am running the full game at the moment i have with nothing overclocked for now

Gigabyte KN8
Athlon 64 3700+
1 gig of ram
ATI X800 GTO 128mb

And it runs like a gem
No lag and all settings are on high but res 1024x768

But is not europe version (Imported)

Mine runs like a gem with no next gen content / full screen effecs; giving 200fps but it looks like a ps2 then. A lot of scenes with all effects on it drops to 9fps but looks fantastic.

 

[juno_first]

FPS

spec as in sig now though now clocked at 2.75 (giving 8000 in 3dmk06).

(lower resolution has little effect on FPS & no AA gives extra 2 FPS -wow)

1 cpu / 1 graphics card -All effects =20fps


2 cpu / 2 graphics cards -All effects =20fps


2 cpu / 2 graphics cards -All effects on except next gen content =96fps


Check out the higher res textures with next-gen on (could post more screenies to show).
The game obviously does not take advantage of multi-threading or 2 graphics cards as older games like COD2/Quake4 do.
A 64bit version would help as well as good programming.
I've sen the 360 version in the shops on an LCD & it looks to have blurred textures (like the PC with no next-gen) but with excessive HDR. I have
I tried the 1.1 update & found no difference, I'd guess its just an attempt to kerb the use of copied versions with extra protection.

Farcry on the 360 & the textures are really low res -like playing an xbox1, the water is good though, the 64bit PC version with HDR+5km view distance is far superior !

 

[juno_first]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17557091&page=4&pp=30

There may be a patch to fix the next-gen graphics performance hit