Tomb Raider - Rise of the Raider PC

Michaeljcox24 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:00

Is that why with 4gb vram on mg 980, I saw 4.1 gb in afterburner and stuttering on 'very high' ?

Curious how on 'high' I see no stuttering and only 3gb usage dude.

Howling · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:02

VincentHanna said:
Some cutscenes only run at 30fps, I guess they are prerenders?

I'm talking 2fps stuttery, not 30fps

The one near the start of the game where the guy steals lara's book, I missed most of it because it was just a slideshow :/

Howling · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:03

Michaeljcox24 said:
Is that why with 4gb vram on mg 980, I saw 4.1 gb in afterburner and stuttering on 'very high' ?

Curious how on 'high' I see no stuttering and only 3gb usage dude.

Curious how I have 4gb vram and don't get stuttering on very high dude.

Michaeljcox24 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:13

To quote the official Nvidia guidelines. All I can assume is you must have a magical gpu that doesnt behave the same as everyone elses

'Those with 4GB GPUs are recommended to use High as VRAM stuttering can be observed on Very High, especially when swapping between gameplay, cutscenes and cinematics, and between gameplay zone transitions'

Howling · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:19

Cutscenes, yes - but I get that regardless of texture quality. And no, no magical GPU, just a bog standard Fury X.

Michaeljcox24 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:27

So on 'very high', with 4gb, you maintain a constant 60fps and no stuttering ?

shankly1985 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:29

Michaeljcox24 said:
Grunt isnt an issue. The game needs over 4gb of vram to run textures on very high. My 980 can max everything else out with a decent overclock at over 60fps. Forget about the AA setting. The differences are barely noticable.

Its the age old problem with pc gaming these days. You have enough grunt, but hit the vram roof.

390x has 8gb vram

Michaeljcox24 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:31

390X should be fine then

Gregster · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:34

I do believe that AMD have to write specific code for HBM, so possibly why it is stuttering.

shankly1985 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:36

Howling said:
It only uses more than 4gb vram when you have more than 4gb vram, lol. Curious how often people need telling. For example; people with 4gb vram will see 3.7gb use, people with 6gb will see 5.5gb use, and people with 12gb will see over 7gb used -- all on the same app with the same settings. And guess what? They'll all perform the same as they're not memory bottlenecked.

The game runs great for me with Very High textures - it's cutscenes that are stuttering for me :/ Can't figure it out, changing all the settings has zero effect on them...

On very high I have seen 3.9 used on vram I also noticed stutter only when entering a new area for split sec I happens. It was because of very high textures for me. Running on high I get zero stuttering.

MOOGLEYS · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:39

I'm running very high with 4GB 980m and don't get any stuttering...

churchhawk · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:41

980ti 1440p Gysnc runs amazing and looks amazing, good game

Howling · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:45

Michaeljcox24 said:
So on 'very high', with 4gb, you maintain a constant 60fps and no stuttering ?

I don't get a constant 60 on high or very high. But I don't get stuttering in gameplay on either.

Gregster said:
I do believe that AMD have to write specific code for HBM, so possibly why it is stuttering.

Could be, still on relatively old drivers. Hopefully we get new ones soon.

Michaeljcox24 · 1 Feb 2016 at 19:53

On high I get a constant 70fps. Very high I get spikes that go down to 20. And thats on cutscenes and gameplay

At 1080p, to get 60fps in both, you need a 6gb card on very high. Nvidia knows this. This is why they recommend everyone upgrades to their most expensive gpu to get the best pc gaming experience.

Howling · 1 Feb 2016 at 20:08

I'm running 3440x1440 and get 40-70 on very high. So... make of it what you will.

Ferrari100 · 1 Feb 2016 at 20:10

Can anybody here confirm whther an i5 bottlenecks a 980Ti/Fury X?

I tried this game using an i5-4460 the other day and there was some stuttering. Others here don't experience though.

Michaeljcox24 · 1 Feb 2016 at 20:17

Howling said:
I'm running 3440x1440 and get 40-70 on very high. So... make of it what you will.

Exactly. I class 60 fps plus with no stuttering as playable. The way I see it, dropping below 60 you might as well be a console boy. No offence.

craig_t · 1 Feb 2016 at 20:21

So with my CPU and a 390X or a 980Ti will it work fine?

MOOGLEYS · 1 Feb 2016 at 20:22

Michaeljcox24 said:
Exactly. I class 60 fps plus with no stuttering as playable. The way I see it, dropping below 60 you might as well be a console boy. No offence.

G-Sync keeps things all nice and smooth for me. Couldn't care less what fps it's actually running at tbh.....

Gregster · 1 Feb 2016 at 20:24

Michaeljcox24 said:
Exactly. I class 60 fps plus with no stuttering as playable. The way I see it, dropping below 60 you might as well be a console boy. No offence.

I would sooner sit at ~40 fps with better gfx than lower quality. Might as well play on console if you want to lower settings