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Rage PC patch to improve 'blurry' textures
by Alice O'Connor, Oct 17, 2011 1:15pm PDTRage's "blurry" textures got you down? Fret no more, for id Software's techno-wizard John Carmack says that a new option in the next PC patch "will help alleviate" the problem.
"We have a bicubic-upsample+detail texture option for the next PC patch that will help alleviate the blurry textures in Rage," Carmack revealed on Twitter. It'll look prettier, you see.
Asked whether id would also be releasing higher-resolution textures, Carmack's reply made it look unlikely.
"Our first test of a higher res page file didn't help much, because most source textures didn't actually have any more detail," he responded.
There's no word yet on when this PC patch will arrive, nor what else might be in it.
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Rage's "blurry" textures got you down? Fret no more, for id Software's techno-wizard John Carmack says that a new option in the next PC patch "will help alleviate" the problem.
Rage's "blurry" textures got you down? Fret no more, for id Software's techno-wizard John Carmack says that a new option in the next PC patch "will help alleviate" the problem. : Shacknews
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Nowadays you get penalized for being the first to play a game, or play on release. First-time buyers on the PC are what I call Beta Testers. Of course, there's no real way to protect against this, or to know beforehand what problems may occur (Radeon owners were surprised with RAGE, I hear).
I knew what I was getting into, and my anticipation of the game won out, but by a rule of thumb is it's probably better to wait until the first major patch, or at least give the smarter ones on the message boards time to come up with a workaround (which may take a day or two, at least) than to be the first to play a hobbled gaming experience.
Man, I hope that made sense - I haven't had my coffee yet today.
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