Bethesda has announced that a patch for RAGE on PC has been released on Steam.
The patch comes after there were a series of complaints around the net that the PC version of RAGE was near unplayable due to texture problems, which had been blamed on ATI/AMD cards. The patch includes the following:
- 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.
RAGE released in the UK October 7th on PS3, PC and Xbox 360.
Source: Bethesda
Burgess_101
hopefully i wont be too effected by this whole thing cant wait to get my copy later !
Burgess_101
or affected…
bacon_nuts
Good, it sounded awful.. hopefully this will sort it out. They MUST have noticed pre release though. God knows how anyone could have let it be released..
bunimomike
It’s how I felt on reading this. You can’t help but sit here and think “um… guys… what were you thinking? This is terrible”.
bacon_nuts
Exactly, I might expect it from a half baked film tie in for kids, but id are meant to be quite good…
jikomanzoku
Now I remember why I moved over to console gaming – this, prohibitive DRM and the ability to play on a couch and massive Telly, rather than hunched over a keyboard. Having said that I still love Shogun II :D
KeRaSh
That’s why I have my PC hooked up to the big screen in the living room. That way I can play from the couch with a wireless mouse and keyboard set. :P
The Lone Steven
How on earth did they miss those problems that are being fixed in this Patch? Surely they would have noticed it during testing. I would assume that they rushed it out but i haven’t hear of any problems on the console version so it’s a shoddy port(kinda atm).
Gadbury
Carmack was interviewed here about the situation, and described the PC Launch as a ‘clusterf**k’:
http://kotaku.com/5847761/why-was-the-pc-launch-of-rage-such-a-cluster
Worth reading.
Tuffcub
Great now fix the Xbox and PS3 versions..
Gadbury
What do you mean? Console versions run very well – almost rock-solid 60FPS actually. Granted, the PS3 in particular suffers with pop-up which I hated at first but then I subconsciously started turning a blind eye to it. I saw a video of Rage on PS3 with SSD and there is no pop-up. Expensive way to solve it, though.
Interesting Face-Off article on Rage, here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-rage-face-off