[PC] RAGE

LOL! Well I gave them monehs and maybe it was a bad call. I've never seen this much texture pop-in in my life and it's running about 20fps at 1920x1080 0xAA on my 6950!! It always loads the almost-solid-color textures whenever I make a turn!

 

Well I have had quite a bit of fun to say the least, but I have already found a bug in the input. For some reason the keyboard input seems to freeze once in awhile (maybe b/c I have 2 keyboard like devices?). By freezes I mean to say it is as if I am holding down a WASD key and the keyboard (wolfking) won't respond. Anyway I have to press alt+ctrl+del and then click back on the game for it to work again. Still it is a fairly annoying bug. Not sure why it occurs yet.

The game looks great to me though. I am so far tremendously enamored with the use they made of MT.
BTW I have a Nvidia 570 and AMD 1055t processor. I enabled transcoding and have 4xAA at the moment and it seems to be running smooth.

 

Check out the pop-in textures I get whenever I look around. This is a Q6600 @ 3.0 with 6950. This was happening in little control room you start in too! I also see some white artifacts when I look around... Maybe I need to check these files and do a defrag.


Here's a shot of the overall scene.


I will try the game on the GTX 560 later.

 

Do you have transcoding on or not? Is that what it looks like regularly, or are you doing the walk backward flip around thing to try and make it look as bad as possible? IF that is what you regularly see it is pretty terrible and would really make the game worse. If you are just trying to highlight the worst case then it doesn't mean as much to me (since you don't have that hideousness shoved into your face regularly).

I am actually running old drivers (275.33) Maybe I should not update

 

the 6950 has 2gb of vram, youd think it wouldn't do that

ps: what is transcoding in regard to a game I know what it is with video files

 

Looking great here with the 150 GB texturepack:

 

It happens whenever I turn exactly as I said. There has to be something wrong here... Unless I'm only supposed to turn in a slow, gentle manner?

I don't see any transcoding option.

 

It isn't in the options graphics menu? IT has like resolution, AA, transcoding, brightness.

In that order from top to bottom I think.

 

transcoding option is nvidia only via cuda..

 

Lol what? Joking?

 

Great. More CUDA nonsense. Well I will do a comparison between the 6950 and 560 later.

 

FYI Rage is totally busted on all ATI/AMD cards (it's even worse with the Rage Hotfix drivers released last night) and also on most NVIDIA GPUs too (oh and there's no Vsync, the game forces it off..). It's agruably the worst PC release (in terms of bugs) in a last couple of years.... still waiting for an official comment from id...GPU transcoding is indeed a CUDA only option but it doesn't seem to help much...

 

id beats Crytek!

...just not in a good way.

 

Exactly...

 

Yeah, it's actually a very surprising epic fail so far. Then again I've seen youtube videos of everything running fine and looking quite amazing - 1920*1080 + 16x AA on someone's super highend system, for example...

 

Sad to see id missed the mark this much. It's near universal issues for AMD users and a not insignificant amount of Nvidia users are all posting about problems around the web. I wonder how this happened. Either Bethesda put a deadline on the release or id needs to take a serious look over their internal structure. How could these issues make it past testing?

EDIT: Wanted to throw in that apparently a new AMD driver will be arriving today to attempt to fix the Rage issues. Regardless, this should have been handled months ago. I'm not a fan of drivers tailored for a game release but how does DICE manage to get both companies releasing specific drivers for the BF3 *beta* and yet id couldn't manage it for the Rage release? Again, that's a bad sign for id's communication with industry forces outside of Nvidia.

 

Reinforces my pov to skip this game.

 

Well..,Rage specific drivers have already been released by AMD last night and they actually make things worst (edit: Oh I see that AMD posted the wrong binaries last night...EPIC FAIL). But there are other issues besides graphic:. Some people simply don't have sound at all (only a big static noise), the game also crashes at certain points in the game, Vsyng has to be force in the driver control panel, mouse acceleration can only be disable via console commands, the game no longer launches after playing for a few hours etc... It's bloody mess.... Shame on id and all involved

 

A Stem forum thread dedicated to some of the worst textures I've seen in a long time

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2154243