Rise of the Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Developers
	Crystal Dynamics
Windows	Nixxes Software
macOS (OS X)	Feral Interactive
Linux	Feral Interactive
Publishers
	Square Enix
macOS, Linux	Feral Interactive
Engines
	Foundation
Release dates
Windows	January 28, 2016
macOS (OS X)	April 12, 2018
Linux	April 19, 2018
Reception
Metacritic	86
OpenCritic	86
IGDB	87
Taxonomy
Monetization	DLC
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Asia, Contemporary, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Supernatural
Series	Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and adventure game in the Tomb Raider series.

General information

Official forum

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Developer website		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Publisher website		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Epic Games Store		20 Year Celebration Edition.
		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Green Man Gaming		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Humble Store		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Mac App Store		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Microsoft Store
Steam		20 Year Celebration Edition.
Amazon.com (unavailable)

Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM was removed on October 18, 2021.

The Linux version is considered a good port with a small performance gap compared to its Windows counterpart.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Advantage Pack	Included in Season Pass
Ancient Vanguard
Apex Predator Pack
Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch	Included in Season Pass.
Challenge Card Pack
Cold Darkness Awakened	Included in Season Pass.
Endurance Mode	Included in Season Pass.
Gold Pack
Hope's Bastion Pack
Prophet's Legacy	Included in Season Pass.
Remnant Resistance Pack
Season Pass	Digital Deluxe Edition includes Season Pass.
Season Pass Card Packs	Season Pass exclusive.
Silver Pack
Sparrowhawk Pack
Siberian Ranger Pack	Included in Season Pass.
Tactical Survivor Pack
Wild Pack
Wilderness Survivor	Included in Season Pass.
20 Year Celebration Pack	Included in Season Pass.

Essential improvements

Skip launcher

Use the -nolauncher command line argument[citation needed]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Dynamics\Rise of the Tomb Raider\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Rise of the Tomb Raider/preferences

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Epic Games Launcher
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\39C668CD.RiseoftheTombRaider_r7bfsmp40f67j\SystemAppData\wgs\
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\391220\remote\
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save games are not compatible between Windows and OS X/Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Launcher display settings (Steam version).

Launcher graphics settings (Steam version).

In-game general settings (Steam version).

In-game display settings (Steam version).

In-game graphics settings (Steam version).

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			Cutscenes are pillarboxed to 16:9. Use the community patcher as a workaround.
Ultra-widescreen			Cutscenes are pillarboxed to 16:9. Use the community patcher as a workaround.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See the WSGF topic (Steam version only).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Disable Exclusive Fullscreen for the Steam version. Microsoft Store fullscreen is borderless.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, SMAA, up to 4x SSAA or DLSS.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		PC Patch 1.0.668.0 (Patch #7) has disabled forced v-sync from the Microsoft Store version.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Pre-rendered cutscenes run at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See HDR (High Dynamic Range) Output

Nvidia VXAO (Voxel Accelerated Ambient Occlusion) is only available in DirectX 11.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) Output

Use Special K

Download Special K Enable global injection through the Special K UI. (Optional) Install the Special K wrapper through the compatibility menu, by holding CTRL + Shift while launching the game. In-game, open the Special K UI using CTRL + Shift + Backspace. Open the HDR Calibration menu under the Widgets tab. Enable scRGB HDR (16 bit) and restart the game. Adjust the settings in the HDR Calibration menu to your preference. If you do not install the wrapper, you will need to have global injection enabled every time you launch the game. This may cause compatibility issues with other games. Windows HDR must be enabled. This method will not work with DX12 enabled. This method will only work for the Steam version. Fullscreen may have DPI scaling issues. For this reason, it is recommended to switch to borderless windowed.

Input

In-game input settings (Steam version).

In-game rebinding (Steam version).

In-game controller settings (Steam version).

In-game controller buttons (Steam version).

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Two keys per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		May need to skip launcher.
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Also x-axis, as well as individually for aiming and free-look camera.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration		Microsoft Store version only.

Tracked motion controllers
Button/gesture prompts

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		At least XInput and DualShock 4. Microsoft Store version supports Xbox One Controller Impulse Triggers.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings (Steam version).

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, dialogue and effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Regular white or colored according to speaker.
Closed captions		Cutscenes and some of the gameplay, enabled with subtitles.
Mute on focus lost

Dolby Atmos is only available on the Xbox One version.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation, #1, #2.
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish				Not shown on Steam. Can be changed in-game.
Turkish				Fan translation.
Ukrainian				Fan translation.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		2	Co-op Only available with the Endurance Mode DLC.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D		Side-by-side, AMD HD3D (Steam only) and Windows DXGI 1.2 Stereo 3D (Microsoft Store only).
Nvidia 3D Vision		Steam version only. Use Rise of the Tomb Raider - 3D Vision Fix or Helix Mod: Rise of the Tomb Raider (improvements for the official 3D mode) for better support.
vorpX		G3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Headsets
SteamVR		VR only available in the Blood Ties story in the 20 Year Celebration Pack DLC.
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Windows Mixed Reality

Devices
Tracked motion controllers		See Input for details.
Traditional controller		See Input for details.
Keyboard/Mouse
Tobii Eye Tracking		Supports: Aim at Gaze, Clean UI, Extended View - Eye & Head Tracking, Highlight at Gaze, Throw at Gaze.

Play area
Seated
Standing
Room-scale

Issues fixed

Crash during/after ending cutscene

During the ending cutscene, the game may crash immediately after Jacob appears with an error message saying that "A problem has occurred with your display driver." If that cutscene is skipped, the game may crash immediately after selecting "Continue" at the main menu.

Disable DirectX 12[citation needed]
The first time you play the game after finishing the main story, there will be a short conversation between Lara and another character; after this conversation, DX12 can be safely re-enabled.

Low FPS after crash

FPS may be very low even on a high-powered system after crashing with an error message saying that "A problem has occurred with your display driver."

Re-enable Fullscreen-Exclusive mode[citation needed]
You may need to remove "-nolauncher" from your Steam launch options to re-enable Fullscreen-Exclusive mode.

No Sound on Linux

There is no sound being played in the menu and the game itself (but sometimes in cutscenes). When starting steam and then the game from a terminal the message ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1099:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave is printed among lots of other output.

A proper /etc/asound.conf file is missing
On Arch Linux, install the pulseaudio-alsa package. On other distributions, copy the one file this package contains to /etc/asound.conf (requires root/sudo access) or to .asoundrc in the users home directory, content here.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	Toggleable from launcher or settings.
Metal support
Vulkan	1.1	Linux Only

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Intelligent Music Systems
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-2100 AMD equivalent	Intel Core i7-3770K
System memory (RAM)	6 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	25 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 AMD Radeon HD 7770 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (1920x1080) Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti (2560x1440)

A 64-bit operating system is required.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.13.4
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5 2.3 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	27 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680MX AMD Radeon R9 M290X Intel Iris Graphics 540 2 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 17.10	Ubuntu 17.10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4130t AMD equivalent	Intel Core i7-3770K
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	12 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	28 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 285 2 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Vulkan compatible GPU is required, along with the driver and the loader.

For Nvidia users, you will need to use the latest Nvidia 396.18 beta driver. For AMD users, you will need Mesa 17.3.5 or better, However, if you are using a Vega GPU you require Mesa 18.0 or later. AMD GCN 1st and 2nd generation graphics cards are not supported, Intel GPUs are also not supported.