Rage: First Impression

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Hmm..I didn't pay attention to the date on the article. I assumed it was a new thing, as it was being circulated as such.
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The main problem with the game that it's a shitty console port, you don't even have graphic options lol and the megatexture only looks good from faraway if you get close to something then it's fucking ugly.
The gameplay is ok though. I even found the wolfenstein 3d, quake secret places.
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This makes me sad, I didn't expect this to see in an id game:

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Gecko wrote:This makes me sad, I didn't expect this to see in an id game
It's a Bethesda game now, unfortunately. They have left their mark quite glaringly on it.
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That is lame.

But more so for this.

If iD and Bethesda were going to operate distinctly from one another, and both pursue different niches or styles and just be related on Zenimax' balance sheet, I'd be behind the move. Assuming they'd offer diverse stuff and maybe even push innovation forward.

If they're (and I'm not really a fan of either one) just going to meld into two studios that pump out the same crap to scratch the common gamer's ass, I have no use for either one.

I thought the two could've complemented each other. Id makes a good engine, Bethesda can't to save their lives. Bethesda is good at.....ummm... marketing.

I don't know, you'd hope that something of value could come out of their union other than just some move to improve Zenimax' bottom line.
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Surprisingly, Rage runs flawlessly on my system. No texture "pop-in", no screen tearing, not a single graphical glitch or crash and all at a constant 60fps. Meanwhile Fallout 3 crashes every 15 minutes unless I run it through a custom batch file with water shaders turned to low. And it still randomly crashes and gets weird graphical corruption.

Rage was obviously designed for Nvidia cards. If you have one you're halfway there. The rest comes down to tweaking the game itself. Here is my command line launch properties of Steam:

+cvaradd g_fov 20 +set com_skipIntroVideo 1 +set com_allowConsole 1 +fc_maxcachememoryMB 1024 +ik_enablesmoothing 0 +image_usecompression 0 +jobs_numthreads 4 +mem_phymemblocksizem 3072 +m_smooth 0 +m_rawinput 1 +r_swapInterval 1 +vt_maxPPF 16

Next, in the rage\base folder create a Rageconfig.cfg file then open it with notepad. Add all of this shit and save:

seta com_videoRam 1024

seta g_showplayershadow 1
seta r_useHighQualityPostProcess 1
seta r_shadowsHighQuality 1
seta r_renderer "best"
seta r_useHBAO 1
seta r_useRenderThread 1
seta r_visDistMult 1
seta r_useMotionBlur 1
seta r_shadows 1
seta r_skipBump "0"
seta r_skipSpecular "0"
seta r_skipNewAmbient "0"
seta r_shadows "1"
seta r_cgFragmentProfile "best"
seta r_cgVertexProfile "best"

seta image_anisotropy 4
seta image_lodbias "-1"
seta image_usecompression 0
seta image_screenshotquality 100
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta image_useCache 1
seta image_cacheMegs 125
seta image_cacheMinK 50
seta r_swapInterval 0
seta r_displayRefresh 0
seta r_multiSamples 32
seta r_shadows 1
seta jobs_numthreads 4

seta ik_enablesmoothing 0
seta m_smooth 0

seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
seta vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
seta vt_qualityhdplossless 1
seta vt_qualityhdppower 0
seta vt_qualityhdpspecular 0
seta vt_qualityhdpnormal 0
seta vt_qualityhdpdiffuse 0
seta vt_qualitydctpower 100
seta vt_qualitydctspecular 100
seta vt_qualitydctnormal 100
seta vt_qualitydctchroma 100
seta vt_qualitydctluma 100
seta vt_usecudatranscode 2
seta vt_maxppf 32
seta vt_maxlockedpages 256
seta vt_lodBias "-1"
seta vt_minlod "-1"
seta vt_uncompressedvmtr 1
//seta vt_uncompressedphysicalimages 1 // 4Gb RAM is not enough :)
seta vt_vmtrcompression none
seta vt_maxaniso 4
seta vt_restart



All of that above crap eliminated what little texture pop-in I had before I tweaked anything as well as forcing high(er) quality textures on objects. If you have AMD hardware you are totally fucked in the ass.
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Yeah, I hate ATI cards.
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"We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games"

I don't even care about Doom 4 anymore. I'm sure it will be a shitty Dead Space like console game.
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