Rage PC patch to improve 'blurry' textures

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  Can't see this helping much- also, how the heck are detail textures going to be implemented in a megatext... : cptincognito
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    Carmack Magic (TM) : Clay
    • hahah win! : RuskiSnajper
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    It's very easy to apply the same detail texture everywhere. This will look better than nothing, but it's ... : shurcool
    • They have a material buffer, no? Could that not be used to index into a set of detail textures? : jake
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  Out of the blue Rage is freezing for a second every minute or so. It was working fine and i didn't change... : baron calamity
  • mine did that after i applied the last patch. ended up restarting my computer and it hasn't done it since... : waxthirteen
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    What is your VSync set to? And is your graphics card trying to override it? : Schnapple
    • I'll check that. : baron calamity
  • I got this when I had GPU Transcoding ON. Turn that off if you have a decent processor. That option is ... : Jobos
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  And what's it matter PC gamers are the 1% : Ziz
  • damn yous! but yeah... : uebersoldat
• This is really unfortunate that it wasnt being implemented on release date. The blurry texture really det... : p34nk
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  This is another reason I don't buy games on release data anymore, more so lately it appears better to wai... : ShXIII
  • Agreed. Much cheaper too! I've got enough in my queue to wait for $20 or less : pockets71
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    Are you buying Skyrim on launch? : Schnapple
    • Skyrim is going to be the first game that is at the top of my to-buy list but I won't purchase around the... : ajvitaly
    • I am, although I'm hoping my Dark Souls fever subsides a little by then. It isn't looking too likely. ... : Rehevkor
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      No, right now I'm gaming on a budget. ME3 will probably be the only game I get on release day for while. ... : ShXIII
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        ...but you just said you don't buy games on release date anymore? : Schnapple
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          I said "probably" I really want to finish the ME series (great games). : ShXIII
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            So in other words you're just doing what everyone else does (hold off on buying a game on release unless ... : Schnapple
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              Fishing for an argument or what? I just posted a comment. Have a nice day. : ShXIII
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                Nah, I'm just seeing a lot of people decrying preordering in the wake of the RAGE debacle and then talkin... : Schnapple
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                  Oh I see, no I wasn't bashing RAGE, damn I still want to play it despite all the hate. I was just saying ... : ShXIII
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                    The problem I had with buying RAGE when it came out is that I completed the game with blurry textures and... : Jobos
                    • When I use to buy games new that's how I felt a lot of the times. : ShXIII
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    Witcher 2, Portal 2, Deus Ex were all fine at launch for me. it's pretty random which company is going to... : thebigbeefsandwich
    • That's good to hear, those 3 games are still on my to get list. : ShXIII
  • This is an even bigger problem on the on the PS3... : pgharavi
• Yeah it's bullshit, everything looks great if you're far away from it. : jingletard
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  I don't get it, why weren't all these options available from day one? : lightly inclined
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    because we're the 1% : uebersoldat
    • sardonic, yet true answer. : master_disaster_17
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    As much as I love the game, the truth is they did not give a shit about the PC version what so ever. C... : valcan_s
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      Lol from your post you make it sound like it's one of the worst console ports ever. It's nowhere near ... : moe6
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        :) I know but its freaking JC and id that made the game. You are 100% right its NOT the worst port by far... : valcan_s
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          Most newer games are not ports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting : garthhendy
          • would you prefer if he qualified that by writing "for want of a better word"? : Ducky_dky
        • There was an article in where Carmack basically said it was a mistake to develop on the consoles and hes ... : DewFuel
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      But you played it with a controllerrrrrrrr!! So did I, for the driving parts. Analog controls made th : Wadmaasi
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        I play the driving parts with mouse and keyboard. It's not Gran Turismo; you can e-brake turn anywhere i... : the archvile
        • I played the first few hours sticking with M+KB for the driving as well as the FPSing. I'm not sure what : Wadmaasi
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        I played the whole game with a controller and it worked out lovely. I've got a GTX460 and at 1080 and eve... : Rauol Duke
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          Same, but I have a GTX 260. I wonder if the 460 is basically a 260 with more vRAM... : Jobos
          • 460 is a bit better: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/170?vs=180 : aethyr
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          The smoothness of it really got me. I'm not one of those guys who turns everything down in order to get 1,000 fps, but I also never understood people who could stare at a 60hz CRT all day long without their eyeballs melting; I needed 85 to not get uncomfortable. I tinkered with the AA settings in RAGE (I usually force AA off in the driver) and hit a couple places where the fps would drop down to 50 or so and it was so immediately jarring that I went back and turned AA off to keep that silky 60 fps.

          Oct 17, 2011 9:36am PDT
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          The smoothness of it really got me. I'm not one of those guys who turns everything down in order to get ... : Wadmaasi
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            Refresh rate on CRT's is different, though. Low fps is crappy, but low refresh rate is a physical assault... : Marrbe
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              I know, but I was trying to make the point that I can tell the difference between fps/refresh rates up to : Wadmaasi
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                I can tell the difference up to about 110. I think the Doom 3 engine took an unusually steep performance ... : Marrbe
                • I'll mess with it when I go for a Nightmare play through. I wanted to play it naively once, since I rare... : Wadmaasi
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      Blame Tim Willits for that; he was the one who was (figuratively, if not literally) slapping a developer'... : the archvile
      • Oh, probably because if you turn around too fast you'll see textures load. If you watch the demos they p... : Jobos
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      valcan, it pains me at how wrong you are. : daVinci1980
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        I know they could of not bothered with the Cuda stuff if they really didn't care so maybe its a bit harsh... : valcan_s
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          You play on an extremely non-standard platform. Do you know how many gamers I know of that have 3 screens : daVinci1980
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            I don't think I am the only one, but fine if you say so. Those issues I mentioned happened on 1920x1080 i... : valcan_s
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              http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey - 5760 x 1080 - 0.63% Of all users in the world who have multip... : lord cecil
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                No need to get hung up on the Surround setup. The game lacked basic options and shipped in a state well b... : Marrbe
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                  This I don't know of for sure, so I'm neither representing id or nvidia when I say this. My feeling is... : daVinci1980
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                    If so, that should've been communicated well in advance. But isn't it true that a 1000 player closed beta... : Marrbe
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                      Well in advance? Try every time carmack opened his mouth to talk about the engine. It's been well communi... : wickoattack
                      • I mean more concretely. "If you are wondering about the lack of video options, it's because the game dyna... : Marrbe
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              You can post what you want about RAGE, it's your right as a consumer. You laid down your money and was no... : ShXIII
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                I agree, some times I wish I was not so nice and would let out some of my other thoughts that I usually c... : valcan_s
                • Yeah I had a hard time containing myself with Homefront, in fact I don't think I did : ShXIII
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            Curious side note: why did you say "nominal" 16:10? Do you mean to infer that there are no true 16:10 asp... : ughhhhhhh
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              Whoops, I totally misused nominal. I just mean that it's a common, accepted aspect ratio, but not nearly ... : daVinci1980
              • haha it's okay, I just thought I had missed something horrible and now I was in the twilight zone : ughhhhhhh
              • I understood it in the context of the sentence. : shirif
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          The game was running fine on their end due to them having the proper drivers, which unfortunately were no... : wickoattack
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            Did you try AFR 2? It helps sometimes. : Marrbe
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              I have not tried that - i will give it a go. I also have a sneaking suspicion that there is something ... : wickoattack
              • That is, "Force alternate frame rendering 2" under the SLI rendering option in nVidia Control Panel for e... : Marrbe
        • I played Rage at release on an nvidia system. Initially I did not force vsync or triple buffering. Th : walker270
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        Also I am curious was Cuda feature your guys initiative or ids? Also I take back this "they did not gi... : valcan_s
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          The pc version is fine, it just sucks that they thought they could get away with not doing a pc specific ... : cptincognito
          • This is exactly what I posted before(totally agree), I have no idea why it was left out. For that fact I ... : valcan_s
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            If you're referring to graphics options, this is my take on that: http://www.shacknews.com/article/70635/... : daVinci1980
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              Why on earth would you ever want to employ such a feature for a PC game? Are you saying its a good idea o... : valcan_s
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                I think it's a brilliant idea for the PC--if you can get it to work properly. If you decide that a p0 fea... : daVinci1980
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                  What if you don't like: -AA -Depth of Field -HDR - Bloom -Motion Blur -Want to sacrifice AF setti... : valcan_s
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                    Creating a comprehensive UI for all that shit would be unwieldy, and unused for everyone except you. And... : walker270
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                      It is not unwieldy at all and has been done for many years. I've done it myself. There's nothing to it. Y... : Tchest
                      • He's increasing the normal number of options by quite a bit, and then leaving it open ended with "...". : walker270
• guess I'll wait a bit for my second playthrough : Frush81
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  Man it looks beautiful on my machine. Does this effect everyone? GTX 570. : nukewinter
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    Go right up to a bunch of different things in the game. Many things in the game look muddy up close, but ... : Schnapple
    • I've noticed that 7 gigs goes to JUST the multiplayer portion. I wonder if I can safely delete that. Th... : Jobos
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    It looks fantastic on mine, too, GTX 560. I honestly haven't noticed anything worse than the majority of ... : terylene
    • Non-tiling textures as such sounds very appealing, pity that they didn't get a better entrance. : Marrbe
  • I'm on a GTX 285 and it looks like Fallout 3. : the archvile
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    You must be blind. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2154243 : Saldrin
    • OK, they're not as high as they could be, but I completely failed to notice that while playing, because t... : terylene
  • lol, virtually everything except for player models look like GARBAGE up close - GTX 570 here too. : Milleh
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    Rage isn't beautiful on any machine. Go fire up Metro 2033 and you can partake in realtime rendered beaut... : AgentPothead
    • I was actually playing Metro 2033 right before Rage came out. Rage is a beautiful game, the vistas are g... : timmie
    • Technical beauty, maybe. Rage will lose any comparison of raw resolution but its artistry is first-rate. : Arceihn
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  Hey Dognose have you played RAGE yet? : at0micgarden
  • No :( : dognose
  • rage is cute : creeping-death
• "Our first test of a higher res page file didn't help much, because most source textures didn't actually ... : RuskiSnajper
• Techno-wizard. Love it. Carmack's a real cyber-guru. : dumb.
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  Okay, but are there any plans to overhaul the PC version UI? I don't know if "Press Enter" is part of th... : the archvile
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    That "Press Enter" crap gets on my nerves. Don't even get me started on non-skipable intros, GAH! : Jobos
    • cant help you with the press enter bit but if you add the below command line to your launch options you w... : scotthallisgod
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    I hate games that do this. Fallout 3 was a good example, while it was a good game (with mods) the PC ui... : creeping-death
    • DarnifiedUI for Fallout 3 is all you need m8. Fixes that console interface nightmare made for people with... : rottdcorpse
• Does this mean stuff like the license plates in the garage at the beginning will be clearer? : duffman03
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  Here is a great example of what detail textures are and how they can help: http://blog.wolfire.com/200... : jake
  • Clever. Looks pretty good. : Marrbe
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  We still love you Mr Carmack . : Cashh
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    speak for yourself, Gabe is now going to get all my lovins. : uebersoldat
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      sends viagra your way. You'll be needing it. : shirif
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        This one time while I was working at a hospital, one of the ward patients was so fat that she had mold in... : creeping-death
        • Did it get absorbed into her body? I read a story about that once, where the sandwich was actually absorb... : Donborvio
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  i "love" "unnecessary quotes" : boring gegtik
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    what? she's quoting carmack: http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/124916837791186945 : DrFlammable
    • Shhhh! It's more fun when you don't point out the critics error. : dookiebot
• I am just amazed that I get 60fps on my 4870 and it looks phenominal. I had to install the beta driver... : Derringer
• It was bad initially, but after the day one AMD driver release and the day 2 or 3 (or whatever) patch it ... : Freon
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  Can't wait to see what this engine can do in future id and bethesda games, the smoothness of all the anim... : drac01
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    That's not a good idea or realistic. Do you really want to waste 20 gigs of space and the associated pro... : capt tripps
    • Well, you only need the high-res textures for those things you can get close to, which the designers and ... : jake
    • Disk space is a non-factor these days. : Marrbe
  • Bethesda has shitty animators and character artists. No engine will help that. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
• "Kola-Kong"? Wow, real original. : aoleon