RAGE

Quote from Skjalg

People frapsing and saying that they see texture popping is so stupid since the textures are loaded from the same hardrive that they are trying to save a bmp to every frame. No wonder its slow.Its kind of like blaming low fps on the game you're playing while running 3dsmax, photoshop CS3, udk, unity, cryengine 3, 3 instances of visual studio and watching a replay of your favourite starcraft 2 match on youtube on your second monitor.

People are seeing the texture pop-in and then frapsing it to show it to other people brosef. Also what kind of scrub only has one hard drive?

It looks like, from what I've seen/heard, that the game isn't caching textures that are offscreen/behind the player/etc, and reloading that stuff every time the player turns around again instead of remembering them. Given that the texture pop-in is way less noticeable on Xbox judging by the giant bomb quicklook, that has to be some kind of bug. They only released the x86 version, so the game can only use 2GB, but still that's 4x what's available to an xbox game...

Quote from Jetsetlemming

People are seeing the texture pop-in and then frapsing it to show it to other people brosef. Also what kind of scrub only has one hard drive?

It looks like, from what I've seen/heard, that the game isn't caching textures that are offscreen/behind the player/etc, and reloading that stuff every time the player turns around again instead of remembering them. Given that the texture pop-in is way less noticeable on Xbox judging by the giant bomb quicklook, that has to be some kind of bug. They only released the x86 version, so the game can only use 2GB, but still that's 4x what's available to an xbox game...

there's a reason on why it is the way it is, and the game runs much better on consoles than it runs on PC, It's usually the other way around I know. I don't know the technical details, people talked about it at work and I've read it somewhere as well, but basically since the consoles have a fixed hardware it's much easier to allocate the textures in the memory and address them when the player needs to see them.

On PC, due to different hardwares, different GPUs, different drivers, etc, this just isn't possible, hence why It's a bit problematic to run on PC and that's why id recommends everyone playing on PC to get the latest drivers for their graphics card.

Carmack talked about it more in depth during his talk.

The latest graphics card drivers for AMD, that were supposedly specifically released for Rage, are broken, because AMD's driver people are really super dumb apparently! They included super old and broken OpenGL files. Later today apparently they're going to rerelease the drivers properly.

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lol

Maybe when it's $30 I'll think about picking it up.

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Trippy

Saw someone post this screenshot:

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It might have to do with the issues on PC. The game thinks it has no extra room for textures and is super aggressively culling everything.

Lol the build info/date on the current version of Rage is dated less than 40 minutes before its unlock on Steam

I still haven't bought the game but I've spent most of my day following the news and posts about it. It's like a train wreck by someone I considered a god and really hoped would succeed.

I went to a talk from Tim Willits at the Eurogamer Expo, and he showed us that room. He also said there's Doom and Quake rooms to find, but they will be much harder.

Hmmm so does it work fine with Nvidia cards? I'm almost considering getting it for the 360 with all these issues :G

i have been saying it all along mega textures -> worst idea ever !

Well yeah maybe, bit of a gimmick and ahead of it's time even, but the concept on itself it's genius and it's even well implemented, but we need better computers and better consoles to see it's true potential.

Todd tweeted both AMD and ATI are working on new drivers as we speak, they did not forgot about the PC crowd.

man, that sucks, why didn't carmack listen to you

exactly D:

Quote from Mazy

Hmmm so does it work fine with Nvidia cards? I'm almost considering getting it for the 360 with all these issues :G

I've still seen some reporting bad texture pop-in but not as many as AMD users and none of the really major problems.

Quake room

The idea with these rooms is outstanding !

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Awesome!! Awesome to the max!!

That is fantastic!

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Oops, completely missed Dark's post above

Quote from Mazy

Hmmm so does it work fine with Nvidia cards? I'm almost considering getting it for the 360 with all these issues :G

Yeah, it works fine with my Nvidia GTX 470. There is still a little texture pop-in after updating to the latest Nvidia beta driver, but nowhere as dramatic as before - I imagine that will be patched soon. Forcing V-sync on through the Nvidia control panel fixed the tearing issues. There are also a myriad of tweaks you can run via console or rageConfig.cfg to make everything even prettier.