6. Real-World Game Performance

Tomb Raider Legends 1.1

Tomb Raider without...

...and with its Next Generation Content feature activated

Analysis Of Results

When set to normal graphics quality, Tomb Raider Legends plays fluidly on all the graphics chips in our test group. New and more demanding graphics functions may be turned on in the game menu by activating Next Generation Content (NGC). This encompasses lots of graphics functions, including improved shading, lighting and water effects. NGC makes heavy performance demands on all graphics cards. The fast GeForce Go 7800 GTX in the Alienware notebook handles this high level of 3D quality reasonably well. But ATI's Radeon X1600 and X1400 can't render these images fluidly.