I found something weird with TressFX being turned on and off.

Before I booted into the game, I enabled TFX through the options menu on the launcher. Went into the game, did a benchmark and I did get 32fps avg. Then I proceeded to turn off High Precision and suddenly... I got less than 10fps?

I turned back High Precision... and the game still chugs along at 10fps. Turning off TFX got it up to 60fps locked (triple buffered). Sort of weird isn't it when my first benchmark run got 32fps and just by tweaking 1 setting in-game breaks it.

Exited the game and did the same thing by adjusting the graphics options from the launcher, I was then getting 32fps again with TressFX on. Touch any setting (this time I changed Shadows from Normal to Off) and the game becomes a slideshow. Weird?

Was playing on a Q6600 + GTX 560Ti, other settings were Textures and Detail Quality on High and everything else at Normal. Using FXAA. SSAA causes flickering on objects, driver issue I assume.


P.S
TressFX is impressive, but it's also stupidly implemented in this game. Call it a beta feature because the only character in the game that has "realistic" hair is Lara. The other characters has plastic hair.

Also, TressFX causes the hair physics to act weirdly as well. Just turn it on and the beginning scene where Lara is hung upside down, you'll see what I mean.

So in other words, as impressive as TressFX is... it still isn't ready, it's stupid in this game in fact.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Mar 6 2013, 04:27 AM

For Nvidia users who are experiencing flickering on foliage, water bug and weird performance dips, do one of the both:

1) Enable Tesselation, Disable SSAA. Use FXAA only.
2) Disable Tesselation, Enable SSAA.

For those wanting TressFX, it's broken and isn't optimized for Nvidia cards. So forget about it.

If you're dead set on wanting TressFX, enable TressFX through the Launcher but NOT in-game.
Also once in-game, DO NOT touch any of the graphical settings as doing so will break TressFX once again.

I've got similar specs to you and I do get about 32fps avg with TressFX on this way as I've mentioned in an earlier post.

The game is very much playable at 30fps since it was created with this framerate lock on the consoles anyway.

Nvidia needs to roll out a proper driver for the game quick. Getting random crashes without any particular reason at all, especially when reading journals.. yeah, journals! The game crashes in a journal page!

The only fix now is to turn off Tesselation... which kinds of rob the game's visuals IMO. Even with tesselation off, the game still has crashes though.