Tomb Raider performance

[rankftw]

Hey again, thought I'd start a thread to discuss performance in the new Tomb Raider game.

Here are my settings and benchmark results. Tessellation is set to off as it causes Nvidia cards to CTD or worse, I've experienced this multiple times tonight along with many users on NeoGAF. I also have TressFX disabled because it looks rubbish and causes my SLI scaling to fly all over the place resulting in terrible frames at random times. For the benchmark I set AA to FXAA but I have been playing using SSAA x2 and also using triple buffer vsync with my FPS capped at 58 through Nvidia Inspector and I'm holding a stable 55-58 at all times.

 

[rankftw]

Here is a fix for Nvidia users and Tessellation. I have been playing for the last 2 hours with max settings, SSAAx2 and no TressFX at constant 60fps. Before the fix using the same settings I was lucky to play for 10 mins without a complete system lock up and very sporadic fps.

Tessellation fix for nvidia users.

Download nvidia inspector
Open nvidia inspector
Delete Tomb raider 2013 profile
Find hitman absolution profile
Link tombraider.exe
Change if you want af, aa and so on
Press apply button

And now hopefully you have no crash anymore with tessellation on. Have worked for me now an hour with no crash, use to crash before after 1-2 minutes after activating tessellation.

Thanks goes to a guy on steam for this fix.

 

[rankftw]

more info please, where is the profiles and how do you link tombraider.exe

thanks

Download Nvidia Inspector from google and use the picture below.

1. click this icon
2. find tomb raider 2013 in the profile box
3. click the red x to delete the profile, once done go back to the profile box and select the hitman absolution profile
4. click the icon with the green plus and select the tombraider.exe in the game directory
5. hit apply

Spoiler

I know the picture sucks but I need to go to bed

 

[rankftw]

Oh Eidos...

We have just made public a new version of the PC version of Tomb Raider, build 1.0.717.1. This patch will be applied by Steam automatically when you next start the game. If your game does not update, please restart the Steam client.

This is a first update that addresses a variety of issues that we either found out about shortly before release or immediately after.

Fixes include:

- Addressed some stability issues on machines that have both Intel and Nvidia graphics hardware.
- Various small UI updates.
- Fix for players being unable to progress related to the boat in the beach area.
- Some fixes for crashes on startup and when selecting Options.
- Some improvements to TressFX hair rendering.
- Fixes for various smaller graphics glitches.
- Fixes related to the benchmark scene and benchmark mode.

While we expect this patch to be an improvement for everyone. If you do have trouble with this patch and prefer to stay on the old version we made a Beta available on Steam, Build716.5, that can be used to switch back to the previous version.

We expect further patches to follow fairly soon, addressing further issues we see being brought up by players, and are actively monitoring these and other forums looking for issues.

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?p=1873995#post1873995

*Edit*

We have removed this patch again due to issues people are reporting with their profiles being reported as corrupt after installing the patch. This will be investigated before the patch is put live again.

Hopefully sorted soon.

 

[rankftw]

Nvidia have released a profile update for Tomb Raider that supposedly fixes the crashing problem some users are reporting. Use GeForce Experience or the Nvidia CP to check for updates if you don't receive them automatically.

If you have deleted the Tomb Raider profile then just quickly re-install the driver and check for updates afterwards.

 

[rankftw]

I can't even play for more than 5 mins now without the game completely locking my system up, what a disgrace this release is.

 

[rankftw]

Chances are it one of your overclocks causing the lockup..

I very much doubt it's my cpu overclock and my gpu's are at stock. I should also mention that it plays fine with tess off but I didn't spend £900 on graphics cards to turn the settings down. Hopefully Nvidia or Eidos get some fixes out pronto.