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DX12 update for Tomb Raider out now
- Thread starter Xyber
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new drivers
neat
That looks good but the minimums are worse.
I'll try it later on with my 980 Ti
jediyoshi
Member
The minimums are pretty irrelevant, it's more tied to outliers in hitching from initial than normal gameplay. Also, the first shot was on an SSD, second on an HDD after I moved it over.
Makes sense with all the loading stuttering.
Nice improvement then. It's finally above DX11 right?
Mine was very, very slightly above DX11 (1.5FPS) but the minimum was higher which is usually more important. Unfortunately no VXAO though which might make me choose DX11 when I finally play the game.
Pjsprojects
Member
What? Amd cards showing worse after DX12,that can't be right.
DX12 improves my performance quite a bit, probably because I have a GPU bottleneck? Installing .72 NVidia drivers now to see if they are better.
Laptop
i7 4710hq
Maxwell 860m 2gb
8gb RAM
1080p
Granted, laptop peasant that I am, I am not going for 60fps, but I am hovering around 30fps with settings between Medium and High, which is more than I had hoped for at 1080p.
Laptop
i7 4710hq
Maxwell 860m 2gb
8gb RAM
1080p
Granted, laptop peasant that I am, I am not going for 60fps, but I am hovering around 30fps with settings between Medium and High, which is more than I had hoped for at 1080p.
those are old benchmarks.
icecold1983
Member
not anymore. its pretty much equal across most perf tiers with the 980ti being a good bit faster than the furyx. in this title furyx doesnt scale beyond a 390x
edit - under dx11
TheChewyWaffles
Member
I edited. Done that. The game is totally broken. Might try a reinstall next week when I get the time.
b0uncyfr0
Member
Excellent. What about under DX12? Id most likely run DX12 for the higher minimums.
icecold1983
Member
amd perf nose dives under dx12, nvidia takes a small hit.
dr_rus
Member
You have newer ones?
dr_rus
Member
I hate HardOCP's way of presenting results so let's put them into something readable:
How are these different to what CB.de showed earlier?
icecold1983
Member
I hate HardOCP's way of presenting results so let's put them into something readable:
How are these different to what CB.de showed earlier?
the performance deltas are all reduced on later patches and drivers compared to CB
dr_rus
Member
This can easily be a result of a different testing methodology.
Nostremitus
Member
I keep seeing people posting the fps, how are the frame times? Lower overall fps, but running smoother due to more uniform frame times would be better overall.
Basically, does DX12 run smoother but at a slightly lower overall frame rate?
Basically, does DX12 run smoother but at a slightly lower overall frame rate?
Yeah, DX12 smoothed my experience out a ton, benchmark says the max fps is a bit lower, but during gameplay I can tell it doesn't dip anywhere as close as 11 does. It also get rids of a the stuttering when the game loads in new areas or assets.
Well, nobody said that coding to the metal would be easy for devs.
jediyoshi
Member
"Ambient" "occlusion" is a very "general term", "that's like just saying whether antialiasing is good or bad". In any case, you're actually saying this first image looks better than the second?
Keihart
Member
"Ambient" "occlusion" is a very "general term", "that's like just saying whether antialiasing is good or bad". In any case, you're actually saying this first image looks better than the second?
When you put that example i can't disagree, but that is not the only way the effect is achieved and i think it looks pretty unnatural on most objects when exagerated. But if my only options were those i guess i would go with it.
I kinda get that ambient oclussion is the idea of blocking the light or ambient light, i don't understand why is almost always the same cheap effect or exagerated so much. Real objects don't cast anything close to those shadows.
How about implementng something like those soft shadows that run on PS3 in TLoU.
I just find it a weird effect that gets pushed more and more with no good reason, in my opinion ofcourse.
I agree that AO used to look awful (Never forget), but most implementations in the last couple of years or so have been fine and a big leap from those early days.
Keihart
Member
That is EXACTLY what i imagine when i read "AO"
Finaika
Member
KainXVIII
Member
Yikes, looks exactly like in new game from your avatar..
b0uncyfr0
Member
Higher minimums perhaps.
LordRaptor
Member
Yeah, AO is pretty much the first thing I disable if I need better performance in a game, because to my eyes the visual gain is nowhere near close enough to justify the performance hit
dr_rus
Member
That's not AO though, it's a bug in the SSAO (HBAO to be precise) implementation in FC3 which makes the AO shader disregard the distance between the occluder and the surface behind it. This isn't really a widespread result even in the earlier implementations of SSAO technique and this is basically impossible in VXAO as it's not running in screen space.
Nostremitus
Member
Awesome, thanks. I've been curious about this. FPS isn't the "be all" of performance. Slightly lower FPS and a better overall experience is well worth it as far as I'm concerned.