Low FPS on Tomb Raider Legend

[Mr Deap]

I've been wondering. I have a P4 3.0E with a X1600 Pro 512MB in DDR4000 in Dual Channel. How the heck do Tomb Raider run on the Uber High End PC? Darn that game consume more power than FEAR!!!

It run in 1024*768 with all the effect on with 2X anti Aliasing.

 

[El Gigante]

It runs fine on my PC with all the settings on max. Maybe your graphics card isn't compatible or something? Try turning next-gen content off if you have it on.

 

[Mr Deap]

It runs fine on my PC with all the settings on max. Maybe your graphics card isn't compatible or something? Try turning next-gen content off if you have it on.

What you have in your PC? Does it support directX 9.0C?

 

[G.T]

The game still looks great on your PC, though. 👍

With quite a few games, though, the graphics cards of today can't properly simulate the graphics. A good example was Doom 3, when there was a 512mb of graphics memory option when a card of that memory wasn't released at that time. Or maybe it might be another problem, as mentioned above.

And yeah, I'm curious to know what's in your PC as well, El Gigante. You say it matches the 360 in most cases, so it must be quite something.

 

[Mr Deap]

Here how it look in 9.0. Without the next-gen effect.

Tomb Raider Legend without the Next-Gen content is a totally different game.

I just want to know how is the framerate with the same setting with a uber end computer. I heard in SLI they don't even past 45fps in 1280*720.

 

[Mr Deap]

The game still looks great on your PC, though. 👍

With quite a few games, though, the graphics cards of today can't properly simulate the graphics. A good example was Doom 3, when there was a 512mb of graphics memory option when a card of that memory wasn't released at that time. Or maybe it might be another problem, as mentioned above.

And yeah, I'm curious to know what's in your PC as well, El Gigante. You say it matches the 360 in most cases, so it must be quite something.

I have a X1600 Pro 512MB. Though I'm in a huge dilemma. I bought a pair of OCZ that make 1024MB, though, if I install my old memory it goes in 166mhz instead of 200mhz dual channel that goes in 400mhz. >_>

When you run games in huge quality texture, it goes on 1,5GB of memory usage alone for the game. XD

 

[El Gigante]

You won't be able to use next-gen content properly unless you have a directx 10 card. It's in the name you see, next-gen. At least that's what I heard. By the way my card is X1600XT.

 

[F1GTR]

Download the latest patch (if there is one).

 

[Mr Deap]

Download the latest patch (if there is one).

No, Tomb Raider really ask a lot of the PC. Try it & you'll see.

 

[El Gigante]

It's fine as long as you don't select next-gen content.

 

[donbenni]

Well you haven't got a really powerful pc. Your graphics card is mid-range and 512 mb ram is a little low for current gen gaming let alone "next gen".

There is no secret to getting high frame rates, you just turn the settings down. Anti-aliasing is the best way to kill frames. Turn the settings off one by one until you find a comfortable frame rate.

If you can't find a comfortable rate that looks good enough for you then your computer isn't good enough for you. Ergo you need to upgrade. An extra 512 of ram is a good start but really you might want to contemplate a new graphics card if you still aren't happy.

 

[Mr Deap]

Well you haven't got a really powerful pc. Your graphics card is mid-range and 512 mb ram is a little low for current gen gaming let alone "next gen".

There is no secret to getting high frame rates, you just turn the settings down. Anti-aliasing is the best way to kill frames. Turn the settings off one by one until you find a comfortable frame rate.

If you can't find a comfortable rate that looks good enough for you then your computer isn't good enough for you. Ergo you need to upgrade. An extra 512 of ram is a good start but really you might want to contemplate a new graphics card if you still aren't happy.

I've been wondering. I have a P4 3.0E with a X1600 Pro 512MB in DDR4000 in Dual Channel. How the heck do Tomb Raider run on the Uber High End PC? Darn that game consume more power than FEAR!!!

I'm not looking for upgrade, i'm looking for someone with a uber end PC, not my PC.

 

[Evolution.]

Nobody has a computer capable of effectively running the "Next Gen Content" in Tomb Raider: Legends.

Anyone remember the original Tomb Raider? Where you could zoom in on her.."physical features"? Me and my friends used to have fun with that .

 

[El Gigante]

Exactly, no computer can run the game well with next-gen content enabled, at the moment.

 

[donbenni]

I'm not looking for upgrade, i'm looking for someone with a uber end PC, not my PC.

Well i'm sorry but your original post makes such little sense that i read it as "I've got a powerful pc and whilst i appreciate that Tomb Raider is a resource-hungry game (more so than F.E.A.R in fact) why can't i run it on high settings with high frame rates?"

The title of the thread reads "Low FPS on Tomb Raider Legend" which suggests further that you're questioning the low frame rates you're getting in Tomb Raider Legend.

And to <i>further</i> drive home why i offered you some help, i'd like to point out that this thread is essentially just people suggesting ways of improving you're gaming experience.

So. What was wrong with my post again?

 

[Mr Deap]

Well i'm sorry but your original post makes such little sense that i read it as "I've got a powerful pc and whilst i appreciate that Tomb Raider is a resource-hungry game (more so than F.E.A.R in fact) why can't i run it on high settings with high frame rates?"

The title of the thread reads "Low FPS on Tomb Raider Legend" which suggests further that you're questioning the low frame rates you're getting in Tomb Raider Legend.

And to <i>further</i> drive home why i offered you some help, i'd like to point out that this thread is essentially just people suggesting ways of improving you're gaming experience.

So. What was wrong with my post again?

My PC is socket 478. It's kinda obvious that is not that strong. Though I get extremly poor frame rate such as 8fps.

I found some funny result on about that game with uber high end card.

Day 7. Tomb Raider: Legend

All the gamers whose hearts have been broken by Lara Croft can now give a sigh of relief. The nightmare called Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is over. The publisher Eidos Interactive took notice of the pleas and requests of the army of fans and released Tomb Raider: Legends that has not only an advanced graphics engine, but also a well-developed plot and cleverly designed levels. The developers from Crystal Dynamics have managed to make the process of solving puzzles, beating various enemies and searching for artifacts of ancient civilizations as exciting as in the previous games of the series.

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Premium

No matter what we tried, we couldn’t make the ATI multi-GPU platform work correctly with Tomb Raider: Legend. Without an opponent, the GeForce 7900 GTX SLI becomes the fastest solution in its class whereas the GeForce 7950 GX2, which doesn’t have a direct market competitor too, easily outperforms the Radeon X1900 XTX.
As for the speeds the cards provide, you may want to reduce the level of detail if you play this game in 1920x1200 on a GeForce 7900 GTX or a Radeon X1900 XTX: 25-30fps may not be enough in the most complex scenes.
High-End

We tested Tomb Raider: Legend in its Next Generation Content mode which involves Shader Model 3.0 and produces beautiful visual effects but, as is often the case, is a heavy load for the graphics card.
It seems that not all of the effects of this game consist of mathematics-heavy shaders. ATI’s formula that implies a 1-to-3 ratio of textural operations to arithmetic ones doesn’t work here well, and the GeForce 7900 GTX is considerably faster than the Radeon X1900 XT in all the resolutions. The gap is very small in 1920x1200, but the speeds of the cards are too low then for the results to be of any practical meaning. The same is true for the Radeon X1900 GT and the GeForce 7900 GT. The Radeon X1800 XT has one important advantage that helps it beat the GeForce 7900 GT – it has more graphics memory. This factor is important for Tomb Raider: Legend, especially in the Next Generation Content mode.
Speaking in general, none of the modern high-end graphics cards can ensure a comfortable speed in this game even in 1280x1024 resolution because the min speed is below 20fps. If you are going to play like this, you will sooner or later encounter situations when the game slows down too much and prevents you from accurately controlling the heroine