Rise of the Tomb Raider releases in 8 days on the PC, and Square Enix has released some new screenshots from its PC version. Rise of the Tomb Raider will be powered by AMD’s TressFX tech and is bundled with NVIDIA’s GPUs, so it will be interesting to see whether Crystal Dynamics will implement any NVIDIA features post-release (like Bethesda did with Fallout 4). Enjoy!
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Latest TressFX is called PureHair now, please stop referring it to its old name. Thank you.
Nope. TressFX is still TressFX. It was just rebranded for Rise of the Tomb Raider because it’s an Nvidia sponsored game.
Alright
According GPUopen developers can use, change any tech AMD is offering, they can use any of their branding. So it is actually hard to tell if crystal dynamics actually changed anything, they could or they did not have to, they certainly did not have to use TressFX as a name of that technology, AMD specify that very clearly.
Don’t buy this game. Punish Crystal Dynamics for sucking the farts out of Phil Spencers tailpipe and agreeing to timed console exclusivity.
Please, for the love of god, grow up. Think. First of all, it was Square Enix who decided that. Second, it’s a business. Business exist to make money. Microsoft paid money for it. Done. Don’t act like the video game industry is some kind of Game of Thrones world and Squeenix backstabbed you in the back for the timid exclusive.
And top of that the game is good. So it’s like, “no, I do not want to play a good, entertaining game, because the publisher made a business decision.”
Yeah and we are still in better situtation than the PS4 guys, they have to wait even more..
Yes, I am sure Crystal Dynamics had no say whatosever on what platforms they game they created was released on. I am well aware that the decision for Xbox exclusivity was premised on Microsoft money. They received money so they turned their game into ransomware. It is bad for gaming and bad for gamers. Since financial incentive is the primary consideration here, I’ve elected to exercise my own limited financial discretion and not buy the game in order to punish Crystal Dynamics. I am only one person, but I guarantee I am not the only person who has this sentiment. I am boycotting, providing a financial disincentive to Crystal Dynamics to pull garbage like this in the future. If the game does poorly enough, other companies will take notice and hopefully decide that the benefit of taking Microsoft money is not worth the loss in sales from other platforms.
Or I could be like you and not think ahead at all and continue to give companies that treat me poorly money because “grow up”, right?
It’s really a moot point. Whoever made the decision, I disagree with it. It’s bad for gaming and gamers. Exclusivity serves no purpose for the interest of consumers. I am a consumer. I am boycotting the game so the people that made the bad decision see their is a bad financial consequence that outweighs the benefits of caving in to Microsoft.
And even if people don’t share my sentiment on the matter, the game has lost all the hype that comes with a new and heavily advertised release. The game sold like garbage on xbox one. Now it will sell like garbage on PC. Now CD/Squeenix will learn its lesson and other companies will take it into consideration the next time Phil comes around with his bribe money and oily business proposals.
Gamers should just stay out of business talk, all they care about is their games while publishers and devs care are about making money. Competition hardware and platforms need exclusives to sell them, sooner you realise that;s what he reality is, sooner people can stop crying about it.
As you said it is business and it is certainly customers choice if they will or will not support it by purchasing it. They apparently do not have grow up for that.
Would you atleast try to read what I wrote? I never said anything against his choice of purchasing it or condemn it. It’s his choice. What I condemn is this attitude that every company has to be especially nice to him and If not they “need to be punished” just because they made a 20 million business decision.
shut up shill, try to be less of an a**. but i guess you make less money for not shilling, yeah.
I do not want to punish the people who worked on the game. The higher up’s at Square? Yeah they are idiots. I think the guy responsible was canned last month. He was already punished. MS? By all means punish them. They are who paid to delay it from their own platform. This means DO NOT buy it from the Windows store. Don’t buy anything from the Windows Store. Not until MS proves they can run a competent marketplace, stops paying to delay third party games from us and disables that UAC garbage requirement as well. UAC might be the worst thing MS ever came up with, other than secure boot garbage that makes using things like Gedosato and sweetfx and all the things that make PC Gaming great a huge pain in the @$#. MS only helped develop that garbage to make installing Linux distros a pain.
Square is not the enemy to PC Gaming. MS is.
with the game on denuvo.. even modder cant save lara anymore..
Denuvo will save lara from pirates. That what denuvo will do and because of that pc version will sell much more than tomb raider 2013 pc version
Hmm … I wonder about that. With that logic, Lords of the Fallen should have sold a lot or FIFA(whatever year) should have sold much much better than it’s predecessors but nay 🙁
Lords of the Fallen is an average at best game, so I’m not surprised by the low sales, and FIFA is FIFA.
I don’t think you got my point there. I gave a game that has no fan base on PC and another that has a large one. And FIFA is FIFA? yyyeah … I don’t get it 🙁
he is a troll
if you look Steam Spy. You see that Just cause 3 that has not been cracked has sold close to half millision. MGS5 and Mad max that cracked 3 weeks after release has sold more than 600.000. But Lara is more popular than the other 3 mentioned and now pirates now that there wll not be crack for her after pirates admited defeat. As for games like Fifa Street fighter mortal kombat e.t.c piracy is not an issue because who want to play thm offline onlyagainst the pc? Evryone buys them to play online and no one cares to pirate them.
Umm … how would you explain Fallout 4 which can be pirated day 1 yet still sold millions? and other games like it?
Denuvo doesnt interfere with modding a game, Just Cause 3 have plenty of mods.
Eight more days, Can’t wait!
This “game” is NOT for FREE as they promised even if you buy a new Nvidia GPU as they raised the prices on said GPU:s.
No, my GTX 970 with this game is cheaper now then when I brought it. Instead of just saying it why don’t you prove it?
Sure go to cramgaming dot com and search for
SCAN or SCAM? Rise of the Tomb Raider Not Free with Nvidia GPU
That was Scan computers that put the price up, not all retailers.
Those other who sell Nvidia GPU:s with Rise included, any way to check what they asked before and after Rise ? Its a common trick on Steam that they like to raise their prices before the game go on sale to make it appear that the customer save more than what they actually do.
The article was aimed at Scan Computers hence the title SCAN or SCAM, I have not seen reports about other retailers (won’t say they do not exist just not seen them)and it is the retailers and not NVidia inflating prices NVidia give the game code for free.
So Scan computers is for real? Strange as the article goes on to explain:
We’re not sure if this practice is being mirrored across many
websites but it most likely is all things considered. Only last week we decided to purchase an Nvidia GTX 980 Ti from a very well known online UK retailer for a modest sum of £517.98 including VAT free next day delivery. Not a bad deal by any stretch. However, since Nvidia just announced its deal where purchasing specific Nvidia graphics cards nets
shoppers Rise of the Tomb Raider digital download code thrown in for Free something is at odds with the idea of the item being “free”. In our case looking at the identical card from the same online supplier who advertise the Tomb Raider deal and we can see they have hiked the price
to cover the cost of the game. So in this instance, the website lists the GTX 980 Ti with a cost of £557.98 (Almost 800 USD) including VAT and free delivery. If we do the maths there’s an approximate £39.99 difference between the price we paid (pre Tomb Raider promotion) and its current price. If we check the price of Rise of the Tomb Raider on Steam for example…and wait for it…it’s surprise surprise £39.99. Basically this retailer has simply added the full price of the game to the cost of
the graphics card under the guise of it being free. Sure, retailers will argue that prices change all the time as special offers and promotions come in to play, so in this instance we’re certain if pressed the retailer in question would argue the price we got the card for last week was a “special promotional price”. However, the hiking of the price to an exact match of the cost of the game seems quite obvious and
putting it bluntly takes the proverbial biscuit. We’ll assume whoever is running the promotion at Nvidia isn’t in on this but who knows such is the cagey world of online sales.
For the record, the retailer in question is usually very
competitive with a good service (which we’ve used often). It’s a shame they are tarnishing their reputation in this manner.
Yes on the day I read the article the cards were the inflated price on Scan computers matching the prices in the article, also this from what you pasted above (they say this retailer and the invoice shown at bottom of article is a Scan one):
“and wait for it…it’s surprise surprise £39.99. Basically this retailer has simply added the full price of the game to the cost of”
My EVGA GTX 970 is the same price and I got AC Unity free at overclockers. On Scan the card is £20 cheaper now than overclockers with Tomb Raider so I don’t know what you’re on about.
On scan the EVGA GTX 970 AC is £266 with Tomb Raider. The website you claimed seems to point at a particular card on the site I shop at, They’re seem to be making a claim that one card not all prices on all websites so basically it seems to be click bait.
yeah go to cramgaming dot com and search for: .
SCAN or SCAM? Rise of the Tomb Raider Not Free with Nvidia GPU
I got my new EVGA GTX 980ti Hybrid at a $39.99 discount ($719.00) on Amazon, 2 weeks ago. It’s basically a Titan X (which still retails for over $1000 ), with 1/2 the VRAM ( 6 Gb is still plenty), but with an integrated water cooler, and it’s also quieter and uses considerably less juice than the Titan X. As far as I’m concerned , my digital copy of RotTR is “free”, as long as the download doesn’t put me over my Comcast 300 GB cap, which would cost me another $10/ 50 GB.
I bet Microsoft pay so much for this game to make sure this games perform better in Win 10
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1week to launch but nothing not even the recommended systems. looks like they don’t really want to sell the game. but hey, they just announced a new story dlc for xbone version. well they are enough stupid people on steam who are pre-ordering this and division.
Ah FXAA blur. Nothing that Reshade and injected SMAA can’t fix. Hopefully the game has depth buffer access, the last one didn’t. That way we can use predication and make it look as good as a 1440p/4k dowsample with barely any cost on the hardware. 🙂