NVIDIA has just announced a new game bundle. If you purchase an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, GTX 980 desktop or mobile, GTX 980 Ti, GTX 980M, or GTX 970M, then you will receive a free copy of Rise of the Tomb Raider. As always, make sure the retailer is selling the participating card. If the product has a download code, it will be specially marked. NVIDIA will not upgrade non-participating stock to the bundle.
Rise of the Tomb Raider will go live on January 29th. It was originally released in November as an Xbox One timed exclusive. It will also arrive on the PlayStation 4, but not until “holiday,” which is probably around Q4 (or maybe late Q3).
If you purchase the bundle, then you graphics card will obviously be powerful enough to run the game. At a minimum, you will require a GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or an AMD HD 7770 (2GB). The CPU needs are light too, requiring just a Sandy Bridge Core i3 (Intel Core i3-2100) or AMD's equivalent. Probably the only concern would be the minimum of 6GB system RAM, which also requires a 64-bit operating system. Now that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have been deprecated, 32-bit gaming will be increasingly rare for “AAA” titles. That said, we've been ramping up to 64-bit for the last decade. one of the first games that supported x86-64 was Unreal Tournament 2004.
The Rise of the Tomb Raider NVIDIA bundle starts today.
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Phew! No gamewrecks code in
Phew! No gamewrecks code in this then, it’s just bundled keys with geforce cards right?
It actually uses TressFX,
It actually uses TressFX, like the previous Tomb Raider, which is an AMD technology.
Actually, the press releases
Actually, the press releases for the PC version apparently accidentally leaked the presence of VXAO.
So sorry, AMD fanboys (and Nvidia virtue signallers), you’ll actually have to go into the settings and turn something off if you don’t want it.
So did Nvidia pay to remove
So did Nvidia pay to remove BTOA form the PC version and insert their proprietary VXAO instead?
Will the PC version not have Async optimization?
I don’t believe the PC
I don't believe the PC version will have DirectX 12 or Vulkan support at all, which is required for Async Compute (on PC).
The Website says “Launching
The Website says “Launching on Windows 10 & Steam”
No mention of Win 8/7.
Nice to hear that Rise of the
Nice to hear that Rise of the Tombraider is coming out so soon. I thought it would be another couple months for whatever reason. Too bad there aren’t new GPUs to bundle with this though.