Rise of the Tomb Raider is Scalable

Last two Tomb Raider games were excellent and coded quite good as well. Very scalable. I was able to get the original 2013 Tomb Raider to run on an Asus Transformer T100TA and looked and played well. I have also been able to get Rise of the Tomb Raider to run on a 940m at reasonable frame rates as well.

800x450 resolution and low settings resulted in 40-60 FPS depending on environment. 1280x720 resulted in 30-45FPS.

While I am always impressed with what top end hardware can do, and I have a GTX 980 Ti in my desktop, I am more amazed at what can be done with lower end hardware. 800x450 sounds like crap, but when it's an engaging game like Tomb Raider you kind of forget that you're playing at such a low resolution.

In any case here's the benchmark results at 800x450 and 1280x720 as well as video on it.

 

Too bad it's sold-out around here. I'll wait for restock. There's always Steam, but for the same money, I would rather get the physical copy.

 

If you get the physical copy don't you have to run/install through Steam anyhow?

 

He probably wants a physical copy because they sometimes are cheaper than buying on Steam.

 

You're lucky you can even get a physical copy. Here in the states, it would have to be imported since the only way to get it otherwise is digitally.

 

If you're paying the same money, and it registers on steam the same way, then the disc is basically useless. You won't be able to install or play it without steam, and if you lose your account your key is worthless for any other account.

If physical is cheaper, I understand.

 

The 2013 was Steam activation, so I guess this one would be too. It's a bit cheaper and it's like I get more for the money. The collector's edition makes more sense, but I can't really afford it right now and it seems that it's no longer available here.

 

You can buy it on a key store. 26EUR on CDKeys, but if you don't feel right about it, you can check out GMG, they should have a -20% coupon or something, which would bring the price down a bit.
As for DLCs, I honestly don't think they are worth it.

 

Would wait for a Steam deal on the DLCs, that's what I did with 2013 as well.

 

Make sure it's steam. No idea if UWP comes with discs this time... and you don't want it there.

 

That's a really good advise! I would've blindly get it once available. Thanks!

 

It really scales pretty good. I was expecting to look pretty ugly, but it doesn't. Even at the lowest settings it's not that bad. Granted it looks like a ~5 year old title, but I can play it on my old M7820/MHD 5870. Having a CRT also helps