Rise of The Tomb Raider now supports DirectX 12

This week the fans of tomb raider they had something to celebrate. There was finally new news about the next film in the franchise, the actress Daisy Ridley de The force awakens is being quoted for play Lara Croft No. reboot from the series. The news has not been confirmed, in fact there have not been official negotiations yet, but it indicates that the film has not been forgotten and we will possibly be in theaters in 2017 watching the initial adventures of Lara Croft.

And for gamers the good news is that the acclaimed and award-winning Rise of The Tomb Raider now support DirectX 12 on Steam, on the Windows Store should arrive soon.

Second Jurjen Katsman, studio head at Nixxes Software, one of the big challenges of developing games for PCs is the level of access to available hardware. There are many different PC configurations and it is important to ensure that users with older computers can still get a great gaming experience, but also that players with more sophisticated machines can get the most out of their hardware.

With DirectX 12, we're taking a huge step forward.

With the addition of DirectX 12 support for Rise of the Tomb Raider, processors will be able to spread CPU rendering work across all cores without additional overhead.

Jurjen explained that when the game is “under heavy load”, in the biggest centers of the game, for example, even though it is possible to use all CPU cores, in DirectX 11 the work ends up being concentrated on a single core. And the great advantage of Directx 12 is that the work is spread across the different cores.

With a better distribution of work CPU rendering across all cores, the game can be run at higher frame rates and graphics settings:

The update is already integrated into the NVIDIA Geforce Driver: https://www.nvidia.com.br/download/driverResults.aspx/99546/br

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