
This happens throughout the game and makes it a challenge to properly test the graphics cards. Albeit being a console port, the game shows a nice, and allow me to say proper graphics experience on the PC platform onder the condition that you can run it at High or Very High image quality settings.Īs explained: the game is VERY WEIRD in the sense that in scenes your FPS can be say 30 on average and then when you pan to the right all of the sudden is jumps up to 65 FPS.
RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER PC REVIEW VIDEO DRIVER
Overall Rise of the Tomb Raider offers fairly solid performance albeit future patches and driver updates always will enhance a thing or two in quality, stability and obviously performance. Square Enix made a title that certainly does not disappoint, honestly Rise of the Tomb Raider is very enjoyable to play and nice to the eyes. To the right the test bench - in the middle white chassis the FCAT system - to the left where you see no signal, that's the FCAT recording output. The upper right screen is the Ultra HD panel. The graphics card memory utilization was rather different for AMD vs. The benefit here is that there's less cached and loaded (shaders/textures/etc) from your (hopefully) SSD.

If that happens, lower AA or if really bad, drop from Very high to towards high quality mode, watch your free graphics card memory rise. Worst case scenario is that it starts swapping from the HDD/SSD. Now If you run out of memory, typically that is not per se an issue as games simply cache a lot stuff that isn't immediately used/adressed. The game will eat away what you can throw at it. At a QHD resolution of 2560x1440 a 4GB card is recommended and at Ultra HD a 4GB card or better is something you will need.

You will notice that up-to Full HD 3 GB is recommended, mind you that the 2GB cards played fine though.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is reasonably demanding in is graphics memory with the best IQ settings. Well, lets have a look at the chart below. The game offers the option to adjust the overall quality in one go, even mid-game you can change settings and resolutions without the need for a restart. How much graphics memory does the game utilize versus your monitor resolution.
