Rise of the Tomb Raider Removes Exclusive Shackles

Everything is crisp enough to make the Xbox One look like the low-to-mid-tier gaming PC that it actually is. Tessellation is a technique where additional geometry is added to the scene, giving the presentation a more realistic look.

How many of you PC players are going to try it out?

Recommended PC specs for Rise of the Tomb Raider include a 3.40 GHz Intel Core i7-3770 or AMD FX-8350 gunning at 4.0 GHz, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290x graphics, 8 GB of RAM, 35 GB of HDD space and DX11. Even if you don’t have top of the line hardware, you can make some sacrifices in the name of frame rate. Sure, there’s the odd turd here and there, but generally you’re getting improved versions of console games on a machine better able to do them justice. This way, the players can experience the games as soon as it gets the engineer and publisher approval. With the last few games being such a disappointment, nobody really expected much from this latest installment but it actually ended up being a pretty solid game. Lara Croft goes on adventures in the footsteps of her missing father.

Many on Steam are crying that the game is unoptimized, but Rise of the Tomb Raider is simply more demanding than games a lot of games to date.

I’ve dropped the Level of Detail setting down from Very High to High and dropped Shadows to Medium, which keeps the game running well aside from some frame-rate drops as I enter some of the bigger open areas and some hitches in the midst of transition animations from one area to another.

Start your tuning with Maximum PC’s Rise of the Tomb Raider optimization guide. New gameplay additions, like an expanded upgrade system for your weapons, are overlaid on top of what already worked.

In the next chapter of her journey, Lara must use her survival skills and wits, learn to trust new friends, and ultimately accept her destiny as the Tomb Raider.

It’s not ideal, of course, but we can blame that largely on the industry moreso than the game. The first is that the Expeditions mode returns, and with it microtransactions, but the time to fight that fight was long ago and I guess we collectively decided we were cool with our $60 AAA games squeezing us for more cash. It also has a highly fleshed out options menu that lets you tweak a large variety of settings in order to obtain the optimal visuals and performance for your system.