Tomb Raider PC Specs Announced

Today, Crystal Dynamics unveiled the PC Specs for their up-coming Tomb Raider release. The game, which has been extensively optimized to heighten the PC gamer’s experience is enhanced by its inclusion of Steamworks, increased detail tessellation, improved SSAO and post-filter effects, and very high resolution textures, shadows and cloths.

Tomb Raider’s full list of PC enhancements and specifications are as follow:

The game’s enhanced features on the PC version include:

General
• Full integration with Steamworks to offer cloud storage for saves, multiplayer matchmaking,
achievements, as well as automatic updates and new content.
• Support for Steam Big Picture Mode.
• Configurable mouse and keyboard support.
• Gamepad support.

High-end graphics
• Very high resolution textures with up to 16x the amount of data
• Detail Tessellation to enhance the detail on many surfaces in the game
• Higher quality shadows
• High quality bokeh depth of field with near-blur
• Tessellation algorithms used to smooth out geometry
• Improved cloth, SSAO, quality wetness effects, and post-filter effects.
• LOD quality is adjustable for better quality on higher-end machines.

Low-end graphics
• Crystal care about TR fans being able to run on older systems, unlike many other games they
still support Windows XP.

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A lot of scalability options to suit a range of machines.

Darrell Gallagher, Studio Head of Crystal Dynamics commented: “With over a decade of experience
working alongside AMD and Nixxes at Crystal Dynamics alone, we had rock solid partners on board
to create a superb Tomb Raider experience for PC gamers around the world. At Crystal we approach
each of our projects with the sole intention of creating the best possible consumer experience for
that format, and we are proud to have worked alongside two great partners who hold the very same
values.”

The full list of PC minimum and recommended system requirements is listed below:

Minimum system requirements for PC
• Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista,7,8 (32bit/64bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM:
o AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT
nVidia 8600
Dual core CPU:
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o AMD Athlon64 X2 2.1 Ghz (4050+)
Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz (E6300)
• 1GB Memory (2GB on Vista)

Recommended system requirements for PC
• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM:
o AMD Radeon HD 4870
nVidia GTX 480
• Quad core CPU:
o AMD Phenom II X2 565
Intel Core i5-750
• 4GB Memory