To go along with Liam’s benchmarks of the game on his Nvidia GPU, I decided to also run some tests on my RX 580 to give you a picture of the AMD performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider port. So, let’s go!
Disclosure: I participated in the closed Linux beta for ROTTR and thus received a key for the game from Feral.
Let’s first go over my gaming rig specs before we jump into the results. My system uses an AMD R7 1700 at 3.7GHz and 16 GB of 2133MHz DDR4 RAM. The GPU I am using is an Asus ROG RX 580 8 GB. On the software side I’m using Antergos with Linux 4.15.15 with Mesa 18.0.1. Feral’s Gamemode was installed and operational for these tests.
Due to time constraints I stuck to running the benchmark through the Lowest, Low, Medium, High and Very High without anti-aliasing at 1080p resolution. Benchmarks were repeated a couple of times on each preset to eliminate as many discrepancies as possible.
So, let’s have a look at the numbers:
On the Lowest preset the game quite simply ran flawlessly, maintaining an average of above 100 FPS during each of the three scenes the benchmark went through. The low minimum framerate during the Syria scene appears to be an oddity of this game that makes the minimum framerates in this benchmark largely meaningless. While monitoring the game, it never actually seemed to drop down to 24 FPS, so my guess is that some individual frames in the benchmark just take abnormally long to render and bring the minimum framerate way down. You can see similar numbers in my other benchmarks of the game but I wouldn’t consider these low minimums meaningful. I decided not to average them out so as to avoid looking like I am tampering with the results.
Low preset isn’t a big change from the Lowest in terms of performance. The game still maintains an average framerate of around 100 FPS throughout the benchmark.
On medium settings the game is finally starting to make the RX 580 work but the averages are still very much on the healthy side of 60 FPS and even according to the somewhat untrustworthy minimums the game is maintaining a stable framerate.
On High settings the gap to 60 FPS is narrowing but there’s still some wiggle room for anti-aliasing effects and possibly increased resolution here.
At Very High some of the Scenes are hitting near the desired 60 FPS average and dipping below the 60 FPS at times, although not to a point of unplayability. You could probably still enable some anti-aliasing and get away with it, but if you are unwilling to occasionally dip below the 60 mark you might need to drop some settings to achieve a constant framerate.
Overall I’d say this port is working quite wonderfully. Not only are AMD cards on the officially supported list, they would seem to be running quite well too. Do note however that 1st and 2nd generation GCN graphics cards (or older) are not supported, which makes sense considering the experimental state of the Vulkan drivers for those graphics card. According to Feral at a minimum you want an R9 285. So, if your GPU is either that or an R9 380, RX 470/570, RX 480/580 or better you should be good to go.
When it comes to the actual game, I sadly haven’t been able to test it too much. I played about 3-ish hours of the game during the beta and I didn’t run into issues, graphical or stability-wise so I think the game beyond the benchmark is also shipping in good condition. As far as the gameplay and story are concerned, I’ll leave the evaluation of the game to those with more time on their hands.
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Quoting: x_wingWell, the game was ported to PS4, so one would spect that the engine is well designed enough in order to not be so tightly embraced to a graphic API (in fact, it support two graphic APIs on Windows). As I said, wrapping not necessary means to translate low level API calls.
Well, then someone misinformed me, claiming that Feral translate D3D. It's your guess against theirs. Since they don't publish their code, it's hard to truly evaluate it. And I don't use Steam and Feral staunchly refuse to release anything DRM-free, so I can't analyze the binary either. If you have the game, you can for example check symbol names, and see if anything there hints to D3D to Vulkan translation or not.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: x_wingWell, the game was ported to PS4, so one would spect that the engine is well designed enough in order to not be so tightly embraced to a graphic API (in fact, it support two graphic APIs on Windows). As I said, wrapping not necessary means to translate low level API calls.
Well, then someone misinformed me, claiming that Feral translate D3D. It's your guess against theirs. Since they don't publish their code, it's hard to truly evaluate it. And I don't use Steam and Feral staunchly refuse to release anything DRM-free, so I can't analyze the binary either. If you have the game, you can for example check symbol names, and see if anything there hints to D3D to Vulkan translation or not.
The binary is stripped, there is no symbol I can get from it. In the other hand, probably it's a Square Enix decision to not go with GoG.
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Quoting: x_wingThe binary is stripped, there is no symbol I can get from it.
Even for dynamic calls? They should be normally preserved, since they are needed at runtime. So unless Feral make it all into a huge static blob, you might be able to find something.
Last edited by Shmerl on 20 April 2018 at 4:09 am UTC
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: x_wingThe binary is stripped, there is no symbol I can get from it.
Even for dynamic calls? They should be normally preserved, since they are needed at runtime. So unless Feral make it all into a huge static blob, you might be able to find something.
Yes, I can get dynamic calls symbols. But you won't get nothing from them:
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w _ZGTtnamLast edited by x_wing on 20 April 2018 at 4:16 am UTC
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Yeah, that's not useful. I suppose they statically link their own libs in.
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Quoting: noxPerformance on my Vega 56 is great too. Just have to remember to save often. Had one full system freeze at one point (that sucked).Yeah, same here. Had to use magic keys to reboot the system
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Quoting: MagicMythWell I've just been playing the game for the last few hours on a GCN 1.0 card: R7 370 2GB and its been working out great. The only bug I came across was with the fancy hair option making Lara's hair go punk most of the time. Turning that setting off avoids the issue and gives a good speed boost as well. I've not noticed any slow downs on Medium plus some extra bits turned on (Tessellation, Sun lighting). The resolution technically is "low" at 1360x768 as that is the TV's native resolution.
So yes GCN 1.0 hardware does work fine so long as you have the amdgpu kernel driver enabled (FYI I'm using Linux 4.16 on a Intel [email protected]).
The hair issue should be fixed on Mesa git or 18.0.1.
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Quoting: DisharmonicQuoting: noxPerformance on my Vega 56 is great too. Just have to remember to save often. Had one full system freeze at one point (that sucked).Yeah, same here. Had to use magic keys to reboot the system
Out of curiosity. Do you remember where? So far it has only happened when the cutscene triggers at the part of the snowy mountain where you start moving slower. (Trying to not risk spoiling anything here)
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Quoting: noxYeah that was the place. I didn't retry making it past it, as it was late already. I take it you made it past that point?Quoting: DisharmonicQuoting: noxPerformance on my Vega 56 is great too. Just have to remember to save often. Had one full system freeze at one point (that sucked).Yeah, same here. Had to use magic keys to reboot the system
Out of curiosity. Do you remember where? So far it has only happened when the cutscene triggers at the part of the snowy mountain where you start moving slower. (Trying to not risk spoiling anything here)
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Quoting: DisharmonicYes, After the freeze I tried again - saving every single step up the slope. After triggering the cutscenes I haven't had any more freezes, but I'm expecting more :PQuoting: noxYeah that was the place. I didn't retry making it past it, as it was late already. I take it you made it past that point?Quoting: DisharmonicQuoting: noxPerformance on my Vega 56 is great too. Just have to remember to save often. Had one full system freeze at one point (that sucked).Yeah, same here. Had to use magic keys to reboot the system
Out of curiosity. Do you remember where? So far it has only happened when the cutscene triggers at the part of the snowy mountain where you start moving slower. (Trying to not risk spoiling anything here)
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