The RAGE Megathread

RoutedScripter · Oct 16, 2011

Hopefully thing's will get only better soon.

GStaff: Appreciate all the feedback... I'll share it with the team. We're definitely looking to make improvements to the game where we can -- sounds like you already saw Carmack's note on textures. The team also continues to work on additional fixes for future updates. Can't really discuss specifics there, as that stuff can change over time.

MainframeTM · Oct 16, 2011

techtard said:
Blame yourself and your rig, not the game.
A PC enthusiast should know how to troubleshoot and overcome these small challenges.
The fact that there are official tweak guides on several websites and forums - even this one, and you are still having problems points to one thing: User Error.

Blame himself & his pc..not the game? Seriously man? Have you not checked the official forums on this game? It's rampant with issues & problems. I'm running the ultra config from Fusedcore & I'm still getting texture popins no matter the settings so your dead wrong there. I know this pc thru and thru and the only fault lies in this game. Is this really the future of pc gaming? Some hyped up crap that looks even worse then a product released years ago and people actually defend it? Id is out of touch and have no idea what their fan base is any longer. They do not have a place in today's pc gaming market...both of which I'll be the 1st to recant (& wished it was different) if they change their direction. But to sit and defend something that's soooo obviously flawed is amazingly daft!

Also those that are now calling this game a tech demo and the real deal will be released when Doom4 hits shelves...really? Are people so snowed nowadays that they are ok with paying full price for a game...only to be reveled as a demo. Plus..with the masses showing their ok with it.. why are you gonna be surprised when the same thing happens with Doom4?

(throws hands up in pure frustration!) I'm just thankful I got the game free on steam. I think I've lost all faith in gaming companies to release on pc anymore. It's been issue after issue recently.

The_Ish · Oct 17, 2011

techtard said:
To be honest, when you said that you were not interested in doing minor troubleshooting, I dismissed you as one of the ADHD generation of babies with a false sense of entitlement.

If you spent the same amount of effort to read up on some of the tweaks as you do crying on the internet, your game would most likely be working flawlessly right now.

You are misunderstanding me here techtard (or I formulated it badly), I did troubleshoot, I just wrote that I didn't like doing it. I got the new drivers and added a custom config etc. The drivers didn't help, my guess is because it's AMD drivers. The config only made the game look more clearer, but didn't help with the performance as it said it would. There is only so much I'm willing to do to get a game running smoothly on a machine that is clearly up to the task hardware wise.

techtard said:
PC games have almost always had to be fiddled with to play nice on your computer. It comes from there being such a huge variety of hardware that the games can run on.

Even with the botched launch, RAGE was easier to get running than some of the classic PC games back in the late 80s and 90s. You guys have it so easy nowdays and you don't even know it.

This just isn't true in my experience. I've been playing PC games since -93 and such classics as Syndicate and Beneath a Steel Sky. They worked perfectly well then, and they work perfectly well today. I actually finished BaSS again just a year ago.

techtard said:
Spend some time to tweak your rig. Uninstall your drivers and run driversweeper or driver cleaner in safe mode.
Install the newest RAGE drivers. Install the newest Crossfire profiles.
Create the \id software\rage folder for a gamecache.
Maybe set some basic launch options via steam,
Maybe use a rageconfig.cfg file.

Do a little bit of work and stop bitching.

I did some of that as stated earlier. Also Rage did not ship with any official support for SLI/CF.

RoutedScripter · Oct 17, 2011

http://www.shacknews.com/article/70635/rage-pc-patch-will-improve-blurry-textures

patience

techtard · Oct 17, 2011

The_Ish said:
You are misunderstanding me here techtard (or I formulated it badly), I did troubleshoot, I just wrote that I didn't like doing it. I got the new drivers and added a custom config etc. The drivers didn't help, my guess is because it's AMD drivers. The config only made the game look more clearer, but didn't help with the performance as it said it would. There is only so much I'm willing to do to get a game running smoothly on a machine that is clearly up to the task hardware wise.

This just isn't true in my experience. I've been playing PC games since -93 and such classics as Syndicate and Beneath a Steel Sky. They worked perfectly well then, and they work perfectly well today. I actually finished BaSS again just a year ago.

I did some of that as stated earlier. Also Rage did not ship with any official support for SLI/CF.

Until they release official SLI and Crossfire support, temporarily disable multi-gpu. A hassle, but sometimes it's gotta be done.
SLI and Crossfire are still not fully supported in all games, you can blame both the gamedevs and the GPU makers.

InnocentCriminal · Oct 17, 2011

techtard said:
Until they release official SLI and Crossfire support, temporarily disable multi-gpu. A hassle, but sometimes it's gotta be done.
SLI and Crossfire are still not fully supported in all games, you can blame both the gamedevs and the GPU makers.

I highly doubt you'll see dual card support from id - the game is capped at 60FPS. It doesn't even stress a single card enough.

Animalpak · Oct 17, 2011

trying to finish it in nightmare difficult .... So easy, there is just some head to blow in more ... I love FAT mama bullets

djisas · Oct 18, 2011

Animalpak said:
trying to finish it in nightmare difficult .... So easy, there is just some head to blow in more ... I love FAT mama bullets

Ah yeah, who doesnt love fat mama??
It takes a single bullet to do what 2 sniper bullets do, best weapon (pistol with scope) for headshots at close to long range, when we cant see the head anymore then, only then one must use the better scope on the sniper riffle...

Also steel for hordes of zombies and smg feltrite ammo for "cops" and i found the rocket launcher cumbersome and useless and using the crossbow fun...

I just finished the game for the second time in around 15h, first time took 17h, got lost a few times looking for stuff...

The game has some serious graphic glitches, but i do think it looks awesome, very detailed character designs...

Races are a cool add and having to upgrade the rides makes racing even better...
Hunting bandits and jumping around is even more...

I had some fun playing cards too in wellsprings, a shame my cards where on the week side for playing hard...

Overall, i can say i loved the game, it is probably the closest to borderlands i have played on a small scale though...

Benetanegia · Oct 18, 2011

djisas said:
I just finished the game for the second time in around 15h, first time took 17h, got lost a few times looking for stuff...

I've been hearing that it is very short, but according to your numbers it doesn't look like it is very short, by today's standards. Can you tell me how mch it took you to complete other FPS, i.e HL2, Doom 3, Crysis 1/2, or any other... whichever one you prefer will probably do, I've played many if not most of them. I just want to get an idea of how long it is.

For reference it took me 18h to complete HL2 the first time.
15h to complete Doom 3, Crysis 1 == 13h; Crysis 2 10h, COD4 == 3h.

EDIT: Also if anyone else want to tell me how much it took them I would apreciate it too. I don't think I'll get it because I'm probably getting Skyrim instead, but I might change my mind and buy both. I'm definitely getting Rage when on sale on steam anyway.

Melvis · Oct 18, 2011

My game crashes to desktop after the first video, will the new drivers fix this?

InnocentCriminal · Oct 18, 2011

Melvis said:
My game crashes to desktop after the first video, will the new drivers fix this?

Have you tried disabling one of your cards?

djisas · Oct 18, 2011

Benetanegia said:
I've been hearing that it is very short, but according to your numbers it doesn't look like it is very short, by today's standards. Can you tell me how mch it took you to complete other FPS, i.e HL2, Doom 3, Crysis 1/2, or any other... whichever one you prefer will probably do, I've played many if not most of them. I just want to get an idea of how long it is.

For reference it took me 18h to complete HL2 the first time.
15h to complete Doom 3, Crysis 1 == 13h; Crysis 2 10h, COD4 == 3h.

EDIT: Also if anyone else want to tell me how much it took them I would apreciate it too. I don't think I'll get it because I'm probably getting Skyrim instead, but I might change my mind and buy both. I'm definitely getting Rage when on sale on steam anyway.

Rage can take more than 15h, if you take your time exploring every inch of the world looking for stuff and collecting cards, i only got like 40% or less of the cards...
Played hl2 dunno for how long because its been long ago...
Same for Doom, Crysis, and i think Crysis 2 was short, but forgot how long...

Melvis said:
My game crashes to desktop after the first video, will the new drivers fix this?

I did first playthrough without issues with last ati drivers, then somewhere through second playthrough game broke, i cleaned drivers with driver sweeper, put them back again, and did a clean reinstall of the game and problem fixed...

Melvis · Oct 18, 2011

InnocentCriminal said:
Have you tried disabling one of your cards?

No i haven't done that as i don't have CCC installed. I uninstall it after its installed because it conflicts with MSI afterburner argh.

djisas said:
Rage can take more than 15h, if you take your time exploring every inch of the world looking for stuff and collecting cards, i only got like 40% or less of the cards...
Played hl2 dunno for how long because its been long ago...
Same for Doom, Crysis, and i think Crysis 2 was short, but forgot how long...

I did first playthrough without issues with last ati drivers, then somewhere through second playthrough game broke, i cleaned drivers with driver sweeper, put them back again, and did a clean reinstall of the game and problem fixed...

Hmm ok well i will install the latest drivers and see what happens then.

If its just a crossfire issue then that just sux for me.

InnocentCriminal · Oct 18, 2011

Melvis said:
No i haven't done that as i don't have CCC installed. I uninstall it after its installed because it conflicts with MSI afterburner argh.

Hmm ok well i will install the latest drivers and see what happens then.

If its just a crossfire issue then that just sux for me.

Don't download the 11.9 set if you intend on playing Rage, download this set.

LifeOnMars · Oct 18, 2011

11.9 works perfect, all you have to do is put a certain opengl file in the rage installation folder and it will work flawless.

I'm currently running 11.9 with the latest cap profiles and then that file in my RAGE installation. Game is flawless with maxed config/ fov tweak and looks great.

EDIT - Here's the file you need ATI OGL RAGE

The_Ish · Oct 18, 2011

techtard said:
Until they release official SLI and Crossfire support, temporarily disable multi-gpu. A hassle, but sometimes it's gotta be done.
SLI and Crossfire are still not fully supported in all games, you can blame both the gamedevs and the GPU makers.

It's funny because I thought the exact same thing (try disabling CF). I had just installed some new hard drives and I have to remove the GPU's to get to the SATA connectors. I forgot to click the CF bridge on, so there never was any CF enabled to begin with.
Adding it obviously did absolutely nothing.

phanbuey · Oct 18, 2011

How to I get rid of that horrendous screen tearing?

LifeOnMars · Oct 18, 2011

phanbuey said:
How to I get rid of that horrendous screen tearing?

Enable the in game vsync with triple buffering or use d3doverrider

RoutedScripter · Oct 18, 2011

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2182813

Players report huge fixes with this new AMD / ATI Driver (no CFX yet, at next full release)

djisas · Oct 18, 2011

I have always been playing with the 11.10 drivers, the latest, so i dont know how bad it was before, there just remains occasional glitches like redstone character not appearing correctly or one or another issue, nothing serious though...

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Oct 18, 2011

LifeOnMars said:
Enable the in game vsync with triple buffering or use d3doverrider

He has an nvidia card. He'll just need to force it from the nv control panel by selecting the exe, then enable triple buffering and forcing vsync. No need for 3rd party apps. Worked for me.

phanbuey · Oct 19, 2011

Bjorn_Of_Iceland said:
He has an nvidia card. He'll just need to force it from the nv control panel by selecting the exe, then enable triple buffering and forcing vsync. No need for 3rd party apps. Worked for me.

Ill give that a try... i tried to enable it through the global profile but it did not want to stick.

RoutedScripter · Oct 19, 2011

djisas said:
I have always been playing with the 11.10 drivers, the latest, so i dont know how bad it was before, there just remains occasional glitches like redstone character not appearing correctly or one or another issue, nothing serious though...

preview 3 just came out days ago afaik

LifeOnMars · Oct 19, 2011

Bjorn_Of_Iceland said:
He has an nvidia card. He'll just need to force it from the nv control panel by selecting the exe, then enable triple buffering and forcing vsync. No need for 3rd party apps. Worked for me.

Say what? Nvidia or ATI should both have the in game option to enable it so why even bother with the nv control panel? With ATI you can also enable vsync/triple buffering in the CCC as it caters for open gl or use 3rd party software such as D3doverrider (if that is your preference).

I was just trying to help out, you know?

LifeOnMars · Oct 19, 2011

LifeOnMars said:
Say what? Nvidia or ATI, in game has the option to enable it so why even bother with the nv control panel, with ATI you can also enable vsync/triple buffering in the CCC as it caters for open gl or use the 3rd party software such as D3doverrider (if that is your preference).

To be honest for a PC user who has such good hardware to be asking such a rudimentary question about vsync its' a bit criminal, but I was just trying to help out you know?

EDIT -

phanbuey said:
Ill give that a try... i tried to enable it through the global profile but it did not want to stick.

Sorry phanbuey, does it not work in game for Nvidia cards? That seems a bit ridiculous if so.

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The RAGE Megathread

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