RAGE: That's actually what you do when trying to get the PC version to work

What's the deal with AMD's new GCN architecture regarding this? I recall reading something about "partially resident textures", and wavey described it as some sort of virtual texturing at the hardware level.

 

Weird, I'm running it on an 8800 gt and q6600, 4096 is as high as I can go w/o stuttering, flickering, or other problems. These were my tweak settings in the config vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 4096
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 4096
vt_pageimagesizeunique 4096
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 4096
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4
vt_maxPPF 16
vt_cudaBudget 16.6
vt_useCudaTranscode 0

 

lowering cuda budget gives you higher framerates but pop-ins rise.. default is 14 and i advise you set it 10.. and set cuda 1 if your gpu is not enough, game automaticaly forces cpu so you have loss there.. 0 only cpu, 1 cpu/gpu, 2 only gpu

 

That isn't true though it ran perfect for me on old Nvidia drivers as well (whql from July). I upgraded later just b/c it seemed the thing to do.

How is that a problem? They were written prior to yours

Anyway here

 

Well witty tirades are often best unpolluted by experience

But I agree that overall people are a bit silly and herd mentality most of the people whinging and complaining don't even have the game nor have they played it. It is a real challenge though b/c personally I think reviews are generally crap, but without a demo what is a person to do? BTW I actually understand why a demo could be hard to make, but they should have allowed the well level or something. Probably just doing the well or something would be feasible. Some like the ghost clan where you can see out to the wasteland from inside obviously could not work.

 

I appreciate the input, but the game actually runs very well w/ the settings I posted. I was more curious as to how swaaye got it to run w/ the 8k textures on an 8800gt and I can only get to 4k textures before studders and freezing.

 

I used:
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart

I'm sure this is going to run the card out of RAM. At the gas station it was at 500 MB. That's just too full and when it starts swapping over PCIe it's going to stutter. A 1GB card is needed. I think the game's default settings target a 512MB card.

Actually I just got done with a long session on my GTX 560 1GB and at the crazy resolution I'm using (2720x1536) I think 1GB isn't enough either. I was at 900+ MB VRAM usage.

 

I hope they will iron it out in time however this makes me wonder, if some people have bad texture pop-in now, what happens to that whole request for a higher Texture res pack from the PC crowd?

Wouldn't that just make it worse?

Spoiler

 

Even if they double what we have I wonder how much of an improvement if would be. 50GB download anyone? Carmack said in his talk that they have terabytes of art over there.

 

Rage is 100% unplayable on my PC,
on XP with 10.9 there is some artifacts and the pop in is awful, whenever you move the mouse, even if slowly,
on windows 7 is even worse, the game just freezes for a long period before working for a second or so, installing the Rage performance driver helped a bit, the artifacts are gone but the freezing remains...
the funny thing is that on XP is much better (no freezing), but the pop in still awful and AMD didn't release the Rage driver for XP...............

 

While id says XP SP3 is supported, if the graphics companies don't release drivers you are out of luck. On 7 you need that beta driver but even then AMD has problems. NV works fine though. Supposedly more new drivers are forthcoming.

 

So...should I buy the game on my PC? I have a 480GTX...and am interested in the game, as it looked great back at gamescom...however I don't want to spend all time tweaking some settings...and I don't want those texture pop ins either!

should I buy a hardcopy and install the game on my SSD (would this improve texture performance?)...my steam folder is on the standard HDD as I only have 60Gig SSD, and I am not sure if I can change the folder for RAGE download in steam...

 

It's a Steamworks game, so it's going in a Steam folder either regardless of if you download it or buy retail. That said, I'd bet you could copy the necessary Steam and game files to your SSD and run it from that. I doubt you'd feel the need though, as I've only seen very minor pop in with my GTX 470 and standard drives.

 

what card do you have? It seems like a 48xx problem.
Only thing that works is to use 11.9 drivers on win 7 and disable catalyst AI. though the fps tanks.

 

What about symlinking the game directory from the steamapps to a folder on his ssd, would that work?

 

just bought it via steam...downloading at 11.8MB/s ... yeah, me likes my 100MBit connection

my local gamestop (those idiots) did not have a ICO&Shadow of the Colossus copy left for me...so RAGE it is then...wonder how this game turns out...

 

Actually I thought about that at the very beginning of all this whining and think it fairly likely they wont bother releasing it since people with slow PCs and crappy drivers will just bitch and moan about it. Remember Crysis? People threw a fit b/c they could not max it out. I did not want to post it b/c if it hadn't crossed their minds yet I did not want to plant the seed.

Yeah but since you did not actually play it your description is lacking It is better when someone actually has experience.

 

AMD is still releasing regularly new drivers for XP, I was using the same 11.9 version on both,
and on XP it's noticeable better, a lot less freezing, but with artifacts and huge pop in problems,
but AMD only released their new "Rage fix" driver for win7, but anyway, it's not useful for me, because while it solved the artifacts the huge freezes are still there and a lot worse than on XP with the "old" driver, it's completely unplayable
I'm using a HD5750...