Rise of the Tomb Raider performance, and troubleshooting

GPU Usage is almost always at 99%.

 

Yea, I thought of that too.

The game was first announced as W10 exclusive (=DX12). NVIDIA jumps in. DX12 is dropped and the game is released a lot earlier than originally scheduled, I think.

XOne version does async compute. PC version doesn't (would require DX12). AMD does async compute better than NVIDIA atm. It's said DX12 will eventually "require" 12_1 feature level, which would tip async perf towards NVIDIA nicely.

Like said, no tin foil hat here, but there's just too much "coincidences" here...

Used to be a long time happy NVIDIA owner, but now I think I'll stick to AMD just for the principle of the thing.

 

Try this (give your threads):

-D3D11mt -pthreads 6
or

-D3D12 -pthreads 6

 

And BTW what setting are you actually playing?

 

any news on that damn driver?

 

AMDCare said "soon" 6 hours ago on Twitter

 

It is a strategy of Nvidia, the PC version does not have dx 12 for Nvidia has better performance .. If the game had supported dx 12 AMD would win in benchmarks

Nvidia always plays dirty. It's the only way he can beat AMD.

 

At least they are playing. Amd ain't playing at all.

 

Yes, amd need to more agressive. Wake up AMD!

 

Dat Geothermal Valley performance! |Worse than at the Soviet Installation.. And that's at 1920x1200

Wow, what a broken POS this game is!..

PS I already have textures set to high (everything else expect AO->Very High preset).. It looks like abysmal performance there has nothing to do with vram limitations....

PPS Nvidia: "The Way It's Meant To Sh-t" on PC gamers..I wonder.. Why every single game that has this logo has a piss-poor optimization? :grin:

 

For some reason I'm finding AF the single most taxing setting on my setup, even more so than shadows and HBAO+. The difference between trilinear and 2x is like a 25% drop in fps.

 

WOW you got the game working on that mobility hd3650? You must be a wizard.

 

Similar to my Intel GT2
AMD bloody well knows this. All recent benchmarks done by AMD labs (promo material) typically use 0xAF, like we are in 1992.
Meanwhile on NV there is 5% difference between trilinear and 2xAF. 2% between 2xAF and 16xAF.
http://abload.de/img/rise-of-the-tomb-raidtqxa0.png

Also, I've noticed annoying ground shimmering in GTAV, Witcher 3 and War Thunder that closely resemble pre-GCN(HD4000/5000) AF image stability issues.

Anyone thinks something might be off with AF lately?

 

Using 980s in SLI here, can't use Very High textures no matter what. Soviet Installation stutters massively, also the areas after that.
Uses 6GBish at 1080p, also at 1440p according to 980Ti owners I know personally.

Just sad. I wouldn't care much if this was some Gameworks bull****, but Textures are the one thing I would not want to sacrifice.
What is with the huge Vram usage anyways. This might just be stupid of me but it feels as if Nvidia has something to do with this to further their 980Ti and Titan X sales.

Any tips at all? ANYTHING?
How are Fury X users doing? That card also has 4GB IIRC.
It is sad that 980s are obsolete already. This was my first high-end build and I thought it would last longer than this.. Hasn't even been a year.

 

The game is not using ALL the 6 GB VRAM from 980Ti at the same time at 1080p, a big amount of this VRAM must be old allocated memory (and not used anymore) and/or preloaded stuff (to be used later).

That's not bad at all.

The problem is when you don't have enough memory to cover the real time needs at any res.

From what i read Nvidia users can enable SLI up to 99% GPU usage...:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5226182&postcount=611

AMD users without multi-GPU support are still waiting for the "lost" 16.1.1 (16.2 now?) driver/hotfix/gift/scam.

 

FU*K them! will they release that **** or what?

 

Thank you for your reply.
I understand that it may be caching the Vram, but then why are my 980s stuttering so badly? Dropping textures to high makes everything smooth.

Performance in terms of FPS is not bad at all with custom bits thankfully. Just really want to play with V. High textures, even if I have to lower something else to really low.

I've been trying to find a workaround.

Any news on the game's DX12 Patch? And if it will have Vram stacking?
I was asking about Fury X vram usage btw. I'd be happy to play the game at 45-60 FPS with V. High textures rather than what I have now, a capped 60 with 2xSSAA and injected SMAA.

 

Might be the wrong place to ask but do you think I should sell my 980s and get a single Ti?
Now that games are getting more demanding VRAM wise and all, also considering latest games don't support SLI well. :/
AC Syndicate, JC3, etc.

 

if hold off till the next generation is released.

4GB is fine for the moment.