New Rise of the Tomb Raider Patch Improves Performance

#5231564

Wolf9an9

2016-02-13 12:00

Just downloaded the patch and is actually V 1.0.616.5_64

#5231570

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2016-02-13 12:35

I still get crashes 🙁

#5231578

brutlern

2016-02-13 13:44

It's actually not a new patch, it's a hotfix for the previous 616.4, they screwed up some controller related stuff (inverted axis non-sense, which I dont care about, i play on mouse+key). So there are no performance improvements, it's the same patch + a small hotfix, please Guru, change the title, it's misleading.

#5231586

NimbusTLD

2016-02-13 14:14

It's actually not a new patch, it's a hotfix for the previous 616.4, they screwed up some controller related stuff (inverted axis non-sense, which I dont care about, i play on mouse+key). So there are no performance improvements, it's the same patch + a small hotfix, please Guru, change the title, it's misleading.

No, the article is correct, albeit sort of out of date already. 616.4 was originally released with the above changes, which also happened to break the controller axis inversion you mention. It was then promptly fixed in update 616.5.

#5231597

Primey0

2016-02-13 15:02

It's actually not a new patch, it's a hotfix for the previous 616.4, they screwed up some controller related stuff (inverted axis non-sense, which I dont care about, i play on mouse+key). So there are no performance improvements, it's the same patch + a small hotfix, please Guru, change the title, it's misleading.

Nope. They are completely correct. http://store.steampowered.com/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/295353300238539604

#5231616

Raider0001

2016-02-13 16:31

I still get crashes 🙁

1 crash before update but im at 43% of the game

#5231661

JOHN30011887

2016-02-13 18:51

Never crashed once with windows 10, got 100% ingame with dlc baba yaga, but the performance barely increased, only a few fps, in the Geothermal Valley and Soviet Installation i get drops to 45fps, that only with high settings, same happens when shadows and lod is on medium

#5231672

Dafox

2016-02-13 19:21

Now im playing with a gtx 960 2GB, i5-4590 and 8 gb RAM, and playing on medium settings. I still get crashes after a while when im playing, the game completly freezes and tells me its not responding. It's really annoying. Maybe its just because i run out of VRAM, looks like 2GB isn't gonna hold it. This game is just poorly optimized, i know i don't have the strongest setup but still.

#5231688

stereoman

2016-02-13 20:30

No crashes here, completed it a while ago tho, I'm surprised how short it was once you've done the main story plus all the tombs there's not much else to do besides collect a few things, still not that well optimized tho but if it's crashing i'd look at your system, run some tests because the game never crashed once for me and that was before all these patches.

#5231702

Agonist

2016-02-13 21:43

Now im playing with a gtx 960 2GB, i5-4590 and 8 gb RAM, and playing on medium settings. I still get crashes after a while when im playing, the game completly freezes and tells me its not responding. It's really annoying. Maybe its just because i run out of VRAM, looks like 2GB isn't gonna hold it. This game is just poorly optimized, i know i don't have the strongest setup but still.

Its not poorly optimized. It runs quite good, just alot more demanding this time around. My 3rd rig is i5 4460, 8GB 1600, and GTX 670 4GB. It plays this 35 fps on average @ 1080p high setting. Never crashes. Its running windows 10 and newest driver. Game uses around 2350 vram on average with FXAA and high settings. 2GB just is not enough if your above a 1600x900 monitor and high settings.

#5231722

isidore

2016-02-13 22:53

Same as before, random crash when i hit continue game, have to start it again from steam. Other then that same performance in game. Stutter fest for 5 seconds when the game loads after that it stays above 45-50fps's. Almost done anyway, so yet another game rushed with ****ty performance. No one will care if the game will be fixed after 6 months. I wonder what's the point of buying games on PC this days.

#5231730

-Tj-

2016-02-13 23:18

Same as before, random crash when i hit continue game, have to start it again from steam. Other then that same performance in game. Stutter fest for 5 seconds when the game loads after that it stays above 45-50fps's. Almost done anyway, so yet another game rushed with ****ty performance. No one will care if the game will be fixed after 6 months. I wonder what's the point of buying games on PC this days.

So whats the prob if it has initial texture stream-in buffering? I had it too on my 780 but it wasnt really something annoying. Ok here it didnt stutter just a little lower fps then it settled at higher later. Bf3, bf4, cod ghosts, cod aw, crysis3, etc all have initial stream-in buffering so its not something uncommon. Guess its just more noticeable on amd then nv by this RoTR,plus crappy single threaded dx11 api driver limitations and thats that. Man i really wish amd would get their **** together with this dx11 bs, its the only thing keeping me from buying nonx Fury now. Saw them Saphire fury are unlockable to furyx.

#5231762

intellimoo

2016-02-14 00:44

Finished the game before the big patch, performed very well with max settings (except for aa on fxaa of course, and texture quality on normal) without a single crash, but man am I sure glad to see "Fixed Map sometimes not showing or showing the wrong region" (DAMN was that annoying!) and "Fixed game changing system screen saver settings for some users" (Why the hell do games have to mess with that at all? I still can't stand how GTA 5 and 4 always leave the screen saver deactivated after quitting the game, for example).

#5231796

MrH

2016-02-14 01:57

I'm still waiting for this to drop in price and see more patches, I really enjoyed the reboot but I'm in no massive rush.

#5231808

Agonist

2016-02-14 02:18

I'm still waiting for this to drop in price and see more patches, I really enjoyed the reboot but I'm in no massive rush.

I was gonna wait to but say someone selling a key on G2A for $37 on launch day and had the extra $40 to spend, so I gave in. Dont regret it though. Great game.

#5231821

MrH

2016-02-14 02:53

I was gonna wait to but say someone selling a key on G2A for $37 on launch day and had the extra $40 to spend, so I gave in. Dont regret it though. Great game.

I expected it to be £15ish on CDKeys as it's a short, single player game that's part of GPU promotion but it launched at £25 which is more than I want to pay. I'll get it eventually though.

#5231830

PhazeDelta1

2016-02-14 03:17

I expected it to be £15ish on CDKeys as it's a short, single player game that's part of GPU promotion but it launched at £25 which is more than I want to pay. I'll get it eventually though.

The campaign is roughly 12 hours. I wouldn't consider that short by any means.

#5231833

Primey0

2016-02-14 03:27

I expected it to be £15ish on CDKeys as it's a short, single player game that's part of GPU promotion but it launched at £25 which is more than I want to pay. I'll get it eventually though.

It isn't short at all. You shouldn't be expecting £15 for a triple AAA game which just came out.

#5231838

Agonist

2016-02-14 03:51

It isn't short at all. You shouldn't be expecting £15 for a triple AAA game which just came out.

Thats my feelings on it. Homefront, that was a game that was not that cheap when it came out. Barely 8 hour campaign, 6 if you ran threw it. But that game had a great story and fun multiplayer. Shame campaign was so short.

#5231860

stereoman

2016-02-14 07:28

The campaign is roughly 12 hours. I wouldn't consider that short by any means.

Compared to something like Witcher 3 thats 200 hours long 12 hours is short, it's a beautiful game nonetheless, graphics are something to behold and is worth the price tag but once you've done the campaign and finished all the tombs there's not much replay value.