Rage info

Damn, det ser ikke godt ud med Rage på PC, både i bogstavlig forstand og i overført betydning...!

[H]ardOCP er virkelig gået i dybden, hvor de har testet spillet både på et GTX 580 og på et Radeon HD 6970, selvfølgelig med de Rage-optimerede drivere installeret, og det ser stadig frygteligt ud!

Her et screenshot i 3600x1920 og det ligner jo noget fra Quake 2 eller Quake 3...

De har også smidt en video op, hvor man ser starten af spillet spillet igennem, først på et GTX 580 og bagefter på et 6970, og især på ATi kortet er der artifacts, så det skriger til himlen!

Du kan se videoen her.

Det er så slemt, at Kyle (Mr. [H]ardOCP himself) har forlangt sine $60 tilbage, hvilket du kan læse om her.

Sidst men ikke mindst er det officielle forum også 'stærkt aktivt', hvilket du selv kan tjekke ud her.

Jeg vil ihvertfald vente med at investere i det, som minimum...

Jeg tror div trailere fra Rage er fra en af konsollerne...id Software har altid brystet sig af, at være forkæmpere for PC platformen, men noget kunne tyde på, at de i praksis har ændret standpunkt...

Anyways, her er en sammenligning af grafikken fra Rage (2011) og DOOM III (2005), begge titler lavet af id Software, og det siger ligesom det hele, når vi snakker grafik i Rage...:

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Der er også dukket et uautoriseret 'fix' til texture-popping problemet op, med en tilhørende video som illustrerer hvor godt det virker! Du finder videoen her:

Rage Texture Fix

Selve fixet finder du i beskrivelsen til videoen og det er selvfølgelig på eget ansvar at prøve det!
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Moderselskabet bag id Software, Bethesda, har sendt noget info ud omkring indstillinger i Rage man bør prøve, for at opnå bedst mulige grafik og færrest mulige problemer, men siger samtidig, at man bør prøve een indstilling af gangen, ifald den nu ikke gør det bedre...samtidig arbejdes der hårdt på patches...

Issues w/ screen tearing:

* RAGE currently does not have a menu option to turn V-sync on or off.




* If the graphics driver supports a so called "swap-tear" extension then RAGE will use it and RAGE will V-sync when running >= 60 FPS and RAGE will tear when < 60 FPS. Unfortunately at the release of RAGE, none of the graphics drivers have the "swap-tear" extension enabled.




* The user can force V-sync on or off in the graphics vendor control panel. Right-click on the desktop to access the graphics vendor control panel.




* If V-sync is forced on then RAGE will always V-sync.




* If V-sync is forced off then RAGE will auto-detect that V-sync is not working and RAGE will instead synchronize to real-time and screen tearing may occur.




* Alternatively you can force V-sync on by adding the following to the RAGE launch options in Steam:+r_swapInterval 1




* The launch options can be found by right-clicking on RAGE in Steam and selecting "Properties". Then click on "Set Launch Options" in the dialog that pops up.

Blurry Textures and Texture Popping:

* The texture streaming is limited by the performance and number of cores of the main processor (CPU).




* The higher the resolution at which the game renders and the higher the anti-aliasing setting, the more texture data is needed to texture the environment. If you do not have a high end CPU you may momentarily see blurrier textures and texture popping when the view changes quickly.




* If you have a processor with few cores and you have a high end NVIDIA graphics card then you can try turning on the "GPU Transcode" menu option in the video settings menu in RAGE. By enabling this option a large percentage of the texture calculations are moved to the graphics processor (GPU). However, this option is not available on all graphics hardware and may not appear in the menu if your hardware does not support the necessary features.




* On processors with few cores without the ability to turn on "GPU Transcode" you can significantly improve the texture streaming performance by adding the following to the RAGE launch options in Steam: +vt_maxPPF 16




* The launch options can be found by right-clicking on RAGE in Steam and selecting "Properties". Then click on "Set Launch Options" in the dialog that pops up. If you have very few cores like a dual core processor then you can set a lower value like: +vt_maxPPF 8




* If setting these values does not improve the texture streaming performance for you then consider lowering the anti-aliasing setting in the video settings menu in RAGE. You may, for instance, observe slow texture streaming at high resolutions like 2500 x 1600 with anti-aliasing set to 16X. In some cases lowering the anti-aliasing to 8X fixes the problem but lower settings may further improve the texture streaming. Alternatively, or in addition, you can lower the resolution.

We hope these help. The teams at id and Bethesda continue to work solutions to help you guys. More to come!

Du finder forumtråden hvor det er postet her.
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Der er tilsyneladende masser af Easter Eggs i Rage, hvilket er typisk id Software, og temaet må siges at være 'tidligere id Software klassikere' for der er hemmelige 'rum' i Rage, 'Wolfenstein', 'Doom' og 'Quake' rum helt præcist!

Rage Wolfenstein room

Rage Quake room

Rage DOOM room

Rage er blevet frigivet i Europa idag, og i den forbindelse er der også blevet frigivet 2 trailere hvor man ser hele den første mission i spillet blive spillet igennem, i HD, med voiceover, i Xbox-udgaven!

Hvis interesseret kan du se dem her, men for nogle vil det ødelægge fornøjelsen ved at spille det selv, at se det nu, så det må du lige gøre op med dig selv, inden...

RAGE - First mission with voiceover, part 1

RAGE - First mission with voiceover, part 2

Ja, 'CUDA' er noget NVIDIA står bag så jeg vil regne med det 'kun' virker på NVIDIA kort. John Carmack har meddelt, at der bliver arbejdet hårdt på patches til PC-udgaven for at få forbedret grafik indstillinger og lign. + for at få rettet grafik-fejl etc.

Patchen er så blevet frigivet via Steam og den kommer med nogle detaljerede instruktioner i hvad de forskellige indstillinger gør og medfører:

RAGE defaults to lower video settings to allow the game to work on a wide variety of hardware and software configurations.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to anticipate all possible graphics driver issues in combination with unique end user hardware and software configurations. For this reason RAGE does not automatically increase video/graphics settings as this could result in negative side effects on specific hardware and software configurations.

The original release of RAGE does not expose many video/graphics options for people to tweak because some of these settings, although desirable from a quality perspective, simply will not work on specific configurations either due to hardware limitations and/or driver bugs. Due to popular demand for more video and graphics options, this patch updates the video settings menu and exposes several quality and performance settings.

However, not everyone may be able to increase the settings due to hardware limitations and/or driver bugs.

Du finder alle instruktionerne her.

Change list

•Implemented workaround for AMD driver crash right after intro cinematic on Win 7 32-bit systems.
•Disabled UBOs because they are causing animation issues with AMD drivers. Don’t allow swap-tear to be enabled on AMD while the extension is not exposed because it may crash.
•Support for new video settings: “texture cache”, “vsync”, and ”anisotropic filter”
•Automatically adjust vt_maxPPF based on the number of available cores.
•Improved performance for SLI cards when GPU transcode is enabled.
•Fix for GPU Transcoding option being disabled after exiting gameplay.
•Added safe mode to restore video settings to default values.
•Allow g_fov to be changed from the RAGE launch options in Steam.
•Server now forwards text chat from clients to all other clients while in-game.

John Carmack har også udtalt sig lidt om problemerne med Rage i et interview med Kotaku, du finder interviewet her.

John Carmack har nu afsløret via en tweet, at id Software arbejder på endnu en patch til PC-udgaven af Rage og denne patch vil være rettet mod blurry textures, altså den uskarpe 'billedekvalitet' som Rage er kritiseret for i PC-udgaven:

Great news for PC gamers as the man himself has stated a few minutes ago that the upcoming patch of RAGE will resolve all texture bluriness. As John Carmack tweeted, the new update for RAGE will include a bicubic-upsample plus a detail texture option that will eventually help alleviate the blurry textures in Rage.

Der er også meldinger fra brugere om, at f.eks. V-Sync ikke virker, selvom man slår det til, er det det ikke, så der er vist masser af arbejde videre på for udviklerne hos id Software før Rage er klar til at blive spillet...

Du kan se artiklen om den nye patch her, hvis interesseret.