Tomb Raider Running Slow On Modern Hardware, Help?

[Kschreck]

So I bought Tomb Raider 2013 for the PC and I am getting really poor framerate in the teens. My specs are as follows:

-Intel 6-core
-24gb of Ram
-Geforce 980ti (the latest driver)
-Windows 10 64-Bit

Every other game I own runs well but no matter what settings I use, the game has low frame rates. Even with TressFX turned off. Tinkered with vsync and other settings as well. When I first load into the game there appears to be some sort of graphics artifcating and a bit of graphics blinking. Can't really take a pic as it disappears quick.

Anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing the game to run so poorly?

[logicbuster]

your cpu

[Kschreck]

Intel i7 6-core. Plays all new games fine.

[Leanora]

I don't think that (s)he's asking what your cpu is ( even though you still don't answer it ) but telling that your cpu is possibly the problem.
So 6 core, that could either be a i7 970 from 2010 or a i7-6850K from 2016.

Depending on which cpu you actually have it could very well be the issue.

Anyway just run a monitoring tool next to the game and see if you have any cores that are (close to ) maxed out. Throwing more cores at it doesn't do any good if the game is not programmed for it. For that matter I still need to come across a game that is perfectly programmed to utilize all 4 cores, let alone 6 cores.

You could also try playing with your resolution.

[Kschreck]

I should have verified that the game ran fine a long time ago, even on an older GPU, I have the Intel 980x. I am able to run games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Doom, Witcher 3, etc all maxed out. I believe the issue lies in a recent driver bug. I contacted Nvidia with the issue. Hopefully they will look into it. Thanks for the feedback everyone.

[Nathan]

Hi. Did you ever find out what was causing this?

I'm having framerate problems also, with an i5 6600k and GTX 1060, so there shouldn't be any problem...

[Kschreck]

No I was unable to find a solution after hours of Google searching and asking people so I gave up. My only guess is that it's a possible Nvidia driver issue and I say this because there are brief moments of graphical glitching in the menu.

[Dr.Disaster]

With an 980ti you don't need the latest driver. Use an uninstall tool like DDU to remove any current and old driver installations. Then do a fresh install of a driver branch nVidia already finished developing like 375, 372 or 368. Pick custom install and install only what you need i.e. if you don't have a 3D display or VR stuff don't install the 3D driver part.

[Nathan]

Originally posted by Kschreck:

No I was unable to find a solution after hours of Google searching and asking people so I gave up. My only guess is that it's a possible Nvidia driver issue and I say this because there are brief moments of graphical glitching in the menu.

Ugh. Glad I didn't pay much for this game then :/

Think I'm gonna give up too. Thanks for replying!

[Smaug's Arrow.]

Originally posted by Kschreck:

So I bought Tomb Raider 2013 for the PC and I am getting really poor framerate in the teens. My specs are as follows:

-Intel 6-core
-24gb of Ram
-Geforce 980ti (the latest driver)
-Windows 10 64-Bit

Every other game I own runs well but no matter what settings I use, the game has low frame rates. Even with TressFX turned off. Tinkered with vsync and other settings as well. When I first load into the game there appears to be some sort of graphics artifcating and a bit of graphics blinking. Can't really take a pic as it disappears quick.

Anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing the game to run so poorly?

I bought a dlc skin but when i equipped it the game just lagged out. Unequiping the skin stopped the problem...

[Kschreck]

Originally posted by Facinorous reinikaboo.:

Originally posted by Kschreck:

So I bought Tomb Raider 2013 for the PC and I am getting really poor framerate in the teens. My specs are as follows:

-Intel 6-core
-24gb of Ram
-Geforce 980ti (the latest driver)
-Windows 10 64-Bit

Every other game I own runs well but no matter what settings I use, the game has low frame rates. Even with TressFX turned off. Tinkered with vsync and other settings as well. When I first load into the game there appears to be some sort of graphics artifcating and a bit of graphics blinking. Can't really take a pic as it disappears quick.

Anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing the game to run so poorly?

I bought a dlc skin but when i equipped it the game just lagged out. Unequiping the skin stopped the problem...

Yeah I never even tried any of the DLC. Game sounds like it's a buggy mess though.

[Loaded Glove]

Have you taken the advice of trying a different driver? Definitely sounds like a driver issue to me.

As for the artifacts you are seeing when the game starts, I have run this game on 3 different machines and seen the same so it's either a game or driver bug, probably unrelated to your performance issues and probably nothing to worry about.