Report: Rage Runs Faster on 360, Carmack Confirms

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Update: id has shed more light on the situation, clarifying that, once the game has been optimized, the studio expects it to "be 60 hertz on every supported platform."

Original: Edge magazine has found that the Xbox 360 version of id Software's shooter Rage matches the PC target of 60 frames-per-second, while the PlayStation 3 currently only manages to run the game at 20-30 FPS, a discrepancy that id's John Carmack does not deny.

"The PS3 lags a little bit behind in terms of getting the performance out of it," said Carmack in the latest issue of Edge according to CVG. "The rasteriser is just a little bit slower--no two ways about that." Added the 'Mack: "The RSX is slower than what we have in the 360. The CPU is about the same, but the 360 makes it easier to split things off, and that's what a lot of the work has been, splitting it all into jobs on the PS3."

It is unknown whether PlayStation 3 performance will improve significantly before the game ships. There is still plenty of time for Carmack to work his optimization magic: Rage currently has no release date, and is expected to arrive in 2010 at the earliest.

From The Chatty
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    July 30, 2009 4:03 PM

    So, how fast is it running on a PC? That's a pretty misleading headline.

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      July 30, 2009 4:04 PM

      I'm sure it runs great on PC....

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      July 30, 2009 4:05 PM

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      July 30, 2009 4:06 PM

      .. Of course it will run as fast as any particular machine can handle it. It's the PC.

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      July 30, 2009 4:07 PM

      I would guess that if it's running at a solid 60fps on 360, then it would run pretty damn good on PC at max detail. Sounds like id tech 5 is the shit.

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      July 30, 2009 4:10 PM

      It's in the article: "matches the 60fps framerate of the PC version"

      But Nick's statement is more correct anyway. It will run as fast as the machine's specs allow. What we really need to know are the specs of their test rig ;)

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      July 30, 2009 4:12 PM

      Obviously it runs faster as well as looks better on a PC... the PC provides a benchmark at particular settings, which the XboX 360 meets, the PS3 apparently can't.

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      July 30, 2009 5:26 PM

      It runs at 60fps on my 386 with 4MB of RAM. Oh wait I forgot about how there ISN'T ANY CONTEXT TO THE PC STATEMENT.

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