Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a singleplayer third-person action and adventure game in the Tomb Raider series.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was developed by both Eidos-Montréal and Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. The game was ported to Windows by Nixxes Software and ported to both Linux and MacOS by Feral Interactive, who also published these Linux and MacOS ports.
The Windows version received a post-launch update in March 2019 that added support for ray traced shadows and DLSS 1.0.[4] Around the end of 2021, around one-and-a-half year after the last patch released, several patches were released upgrading the DLSS implementation to to the significantly improved version 2.3.2.0. Additionally an improved shadow denoiser for ray traced shadows, improved ray traced shadows on higher settings, fixes for compatibility issues with Intel GPU-hardware, updated multiplayer infrastructure to use Epic Online Services (without the need for an Epic account), removed Denuvo from the game, and several bug- and crash-fixes were implemented.[5] In September 2022, another update was released for the game, introducing support for XeSS.[6]
Key points
- DirectX 12 is the recommended graphics API for the best performance.[7][8][9]
General information
- Official forum
- Square Enix Support Center
- Steam Community Discussions
- GeForce.com Graphics and Performance Guide
Availability
- Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM was removed from the Steam version on October 18, 2021.[10]
- A demo is available on Steam.
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Season Pass |
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Official Wallpaper |
Available by pre-ordering any edition of the game. |
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Skills Booster Pack |
Available by pre-ordering any edition of the game. |
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The Forge |
Included in Season Pass. |
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The Pillar |
Included in Season Pass. |
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Spectre Gear |
Included in Season Pass, Croft Edition and The Forge. |
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Golden Eagle Gear |
Included in Season Pass, Croft Edition and The Pillar. |
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Croft Edition Extras |
Included in the Croft edition. |
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Deluxe Extras |
Included in the Digital Deluxe edition. |
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Essential improvements
Skip launcher and fix Steam overlay
Game data
In-game gameplay settings.
Configuration file(s) location
System |
Location |
Windows |
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Eidos Montreal\Shadow of the Tomb Raider\ |
macOS (OS X) |
~/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/Shadow of the Tomb Raider/ |
Linux |
$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Shadow of the Tomb Raider |
- Any manual changes to the config files will be reset if settings are changed in-game.
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
- Steam cloud save files are not cross-platform. That is, Steam won't synchronize save files, for example, from Windows when you're running the game on Linux or Mac. You can manually copy files across different platforms and try to load, but it might unlock random Steam achievements on load.
Video
In-game display settings.
In-game graphics settings.
- SMAA4x uses MSAA 4x, SMAA and TAA.[8]
Launcher display settings.
Launcher graphics settings.
Input
In-game gamepad settings.
In-game remapping settings.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Music, Dialogs and Effects. |
Surround sound |
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Up to 7.1. Also supports spatial sound, e.g., Dolby Atmos. |
Subtitles |
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White subtitles or colored subtitles by person. |
Closed captions |
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Separate option for deaf support. |
Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Several Peruvian songs are licensed. |
Localizations
- All languages have an option to turn on native voices for some characters to improve immersion.
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Arabic |
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Simplified Chinese |
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Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Fan translation, #1, #2. |
Korean |
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Polish |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Latin American Spanish |
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Not shown on Steam. |
Turkish |
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Fan translation. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
VR support
In-game Tobii eye tracking settings.
Devices |
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Tobii Eye Tracking |
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Supports: Aim at Gaze, Character Awareness, Extended View - Eye & Head Tracking, Survival Instinct Awareness, Throw at Gaze, Trap Awareness (game pad only). |
Issues fixed
Some elements of the game do not work in higher frame rate
The following issues happen when running the game on higher frame rate:
- Cannot spin the blocks with numbers in Ix Chel and Chak Chel chamber (Windows only)
- In-game cutscene freezes when talking to the old man for the 1st time during Price of Survival's DLC quest called The Dragon and The Prince (Native Linux version)
Stabilize the frame rate in native Linux version
The game may require increasing the shader cache size in order to provide a better frame rate as by default both Mesa and NVIDIA's proprietary driver libraries use 1 GB by default which won't be enough. This can be done using the following environment variables for specific vendors into the command line (On Steam it must end with %command%
in order to pass it through):
Set the shader cache size to 2GB with environment variable
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MESA_SHADER_CACHE_MAX_SIZE=2G - When using Mesa for AMD/Intel
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SIZE=2000000000 - NVIDIA's driver (470 or newer)
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11, 12 |
Toggleable from launcher or settings. |
Metal support |
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Vulkan |
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Linux only. |
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
7 |
10 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i3-3220 AMD FX-8350 |
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.4 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB |
16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
40 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7770 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 480 6 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
10.15 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i5 2.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
40 GB |
Video card (GPU) |
AMD Radeon R9 M290 Intel Iris Graphics 540 2 GB (AMD), 1.5 GB (Intel) of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
Ubuntu 18.04 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i3-4130 3.4 GHz
| Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB |
16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
40 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 285 2 GB of VRAM
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system, as well as a Vulkan-capable GPU, is required.
The game runs on LGA775 processors, despite the minimum Processor requirements.
References