Rise of the Tomb Raider Now Supports DirectX 12

<p><em>Rise of the Tomb Raider<&sol;em>&comma; as of today&comma; supports DirectX 12 on Steam and soon on the Windows 10 Store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Square Enix&comma; Crystal Dynamics and Nixxes Software announced the news&period; With DirectX 12 now being supported&comma; those with high-end graphics cards with low-end CPU&&num;8217&semi;s can now run the game with &&num;8220&semi;higher frame-rates&comma; graphical settings&comma; and other technical enhancements like never before&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to the press release&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;101686" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-101686" style&equals;"width&colon; 800px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"wp-image-101686 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03222456&sol;Rise-of-the-Tomb-Raider-1-e1457720854985&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Rise of the Tomb Raider &lpar;1&rpar;" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"450" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-101686" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Rise of the Tomb Raider&comma; Square Enix&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The Studio Head at Nixxes Software &lpar;the team behind the update&rpar; Jurjen Katsman&comma; goes into further detail about how DirectX 12 improves the game&&num;8217&semi;s performance on the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;tombraider&period;tumblr&period;com&sol;post&sol;140859222830&sol;dev-blog-bringing-directx-12-to-rise-of-the-tomb" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Tomb Raider blog<&sol;a>&period; For example&comma; he compares DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 on an Intel i7-2600 processor with 1333Mhz memory&comma; paired with a GTX 970&period; While using DirectX 11 at high settings in one location of Rise of the Tomb Raider&comma; the game would only run at 46fps but with DirectX 12&comma; the game runs at 60fps&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The update is now available through <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;download&sol;driverResults&period;aspx&sol;99512&sol;en-us" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">NVIDIA&&num;8217&semi;s GEFORCE Game Ready driver<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can check out our impressions on the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;rise-of-the-tomb-raider-has-one-of-the-better-pc-ports&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">PC version of Rise of the Tomb Raider<&sol;a>&period; BagoGames&&num;8217&semi; Rob Walton said that &&num;8220&semi;Hardware specific settings like Nvidia HBAO&plus; and PureHair make the game all that much more of a marvel to look at&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Rise of the Tomb Raider<&sol;em> is now available on PC&comma; Xbox One&comma; and Xbox 360&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;rise-of-the-tomb-raider-will-be-coming-to-ps4-and-pc-after-xbox-one&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">The PS4 version will be releasing this Holiday season&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources&colon; Press Release and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;tombraider&period;tumblr&period;com&sol;post&sol;140859222830&sol;dev-blog-bringing-directx-12-to-rise-of-the-tomb" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Tomb Raider Tumblr Blog<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;