official Rage

[LingeringSoul]

Just read Ben Kuchera's review a few minutes ago. Even if it is just one person's opinion, the specific complaints he listed were enough to dissuade me. I'll probably wait until a price drop before picking this up on the 360 (because apparently the PC version has been heavily consolized). As for right now, I have more than enough games to play in the meantime (Dark Souls, Forza 4, Gears 3, etc...). Such is the nature of the Fall gaming season.

[svnO.o]

Latest Rage performance driver from AMD just out (today): http://support.amd.c...PerfDriver.aspx - downloading/installing now!

[svnO.o]

I'm happy to report the latest driver has fixed most of my issues. I still see texture loading when I turn around too fast but it's greatly improved overall. I'm running it at 2560x1440 at 2xAA with smooth gameplay now.

[Neo003]

No love for nVidia users yet, hopefully soon.

[NoLiMiT06]

Glad to hear the 360 version looks good, might give it a rent some time and see if I like it.

[Ravensky]

I am running 3 Nvidia GTX470's in SLI and so far it's been smooth as silk...no issues other than some slight tearing, which I fixed by using the Nvidia driver console to force vsync and triple buffering. So far I am loving this game, fun as hell and it looks awesome!!!

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

No love for nVidia users yet, hopefully soon.

Yep, just found that out myself, looks like no SLi support yet, which is slightly disappointing as I really would have loved to bump the graphics up as high as I possibly can.

I did find a thread on the official Nvidia forums saying to run the update their the driver control panel to get an SLi update profile which sure enough I did download with a date of Today. I did that, launched Rage again, but still no SLi.

So I just quit Steam completely and restarted my comp, about to see if that somehow enables SLi.

But later in the same thread I found people were saying this update indeed installed an SLi profile from Nvidia. That it purposely was only enabling 1 card. also I found others who said when they forced SLi, the frame rates were unplayable, so it sounds like me not seeing an SLi profile when I first installed it is indeed accurate, and a real one still needs to be released.

Going Slightly OT (but on topic since it relates to this game and all games overall), This is BY FAR the thing I hate most about having an SLi setup. SLi support is weak at best, and almost no games launch with a proper SLi profile.

One eventually usually comes out, but still, it means I have a setup that I am not capable of fully utilizing more often than not on launch day of most games. Once I can utilize it, it is fantastic, I get pretty much the performance of 1 580, but it really sucks that sometimes, hell most of the times, I have to wait. That wait has been just a few days to a few weeks, which the latter is not acceptable to me for them to release an official SLi profile. They created and market the technology of SLi, so IMO they should fully support it. It is honestly making me heavily consider going back to a 1 card solution in the future. Thing is when I purchased these cards a few months back, they were much cheaper together than an individual 580 on it's own. Looking back now though, not sure the cost savings was worth the headache of having an SLi rig.

With the above said, hoping I get somewhat decent performance out of my 1 460. I am about to find out shortly.

I honestly have not been this excited to play a new game in quite some time. I have great respect for id and their influence on the First Person Shooter genre, and I have a funny feeling based on what I have read that this game is going to be literally right up my alley game-play wise. Hope I am not disappointed, but I will post my impressions regardless of the fact if they are positive and negative.

[rajputwarrior]

Going Slightly OT (but on topic since it relates to this game and all games overall), This is BY FAR the thing I hate most about having an SLi setup. SLi support is weak at best, and almost no games launch with a proper SLi profile.

and that's why i'll always argue one really really good video card is better then two really good ones. support for SLI/Crossfire sucks...

[mattmatik]

Please, do post your thoughts DL after you get some time with it. I've always respected your opinion on games.

[nominak]

Its too bad the PC version doesnt have graphics option and that you can only get high graphic settings with config tweaks

[Dashel]

New AMD drivers were the ticket. Texture popping is gone and framerate took a noticable dive upwards. Its buttery now. iD, I apologize for doubting you. Even the wonky UI mouse movement is loads better.

[metal_dragen Veteran]

I just spent around 2 hours playing the 360 version. This game looks amazing. I can't really even describe how beautiful the game is. The combat is also fantastic (as per usual id). The animations are also great and the enemy AI is also very good with enemies using different tactics and retreating when overwhelmed, etc.

The only real complaint I have so far is the lack of a checkpoint or autosave system.

I'm playing with the game installed on the hard drive given what some reviewers said about slowness and texture pop-in on the 360 (8GB install). So far, I've only noticed texture pop-in in one area and it's the same area in the video earlier on top of the dam. It's nowhere near as bad as the video, but is noticeable.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

My very initial impressions, almost all to do with performance, is it really is disappointing there are no advanced graphics options in the game menu on the PC version. There is AA, Brightness, Resolution, Display (Full | Windowed) and GPU Transcode (On | Off). That is it as far as settings without going into a config or text file. Just expected more from such a PC centric company like iD. With that said, the only real issue I am having is with tearing. It is pretty damn bad. Other than that, even with just one of my two GPU's working right now thanks to no SLi, the game is looking and running pretty damn good actually. It is just the tearing. And if I turn the AA up to 16x, the tearing is better, but I lose about 13-15 fps. Once SLi is working though, that would not be an issue. But it really does run and look great, will post a few screens at the end of the post. I have AA to 4X, and GPU Transcode on, even though I am not sure what it does LOL.

Gameplay so far is stellar. Real tight. I am not that far in though, so going to wait until I get some more playing time under my belt to talk about the gameplay experience. But so far, so good. The PC version also does have the option to Quick Save, which indeed is a nice bonus over the console version. That and I have to imagine the graphics are much better on the PC version.

Note, these screens were before I realized I had the brightness up way to high, and I also do save them out through Photoshop to cut the file size down some, so they are slightly compressed.

Will post back either later on tonight or tomorrow morning when I get to work with more impressions about the actual game. I got the graphics out of the way tonight, and I am faithful once SLi is enabled, I will get them to look even better. But right now they look pretty damn good to me considering I am getting a very steady 60 frames per second.

Please, do post your thoughts DL after you get some time with it. I've always respected your opinion on games.

And will do once I play a bit more. Still early so do not want the jump to any rash impressions. Thanks for the kind words as well. :yes:

[TeeeJaay]

http://cdn.gamefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/rage-console-pc-comparison.jpg

[Kyle A]

LOL'd, so true. I've finally learned my lesson when it comes to games - I will never preorder again.

Until the texture pop-in is completely resolved and we get a hi res texture pack, the game belongs in the recycle bin, all 22gb of it.

[bjoswald]

I just submitted a support ticket in Steam for a refund. This is inexcusable garbage and I wholeheartedly regret pre-ordering it. I have learned my lesson: I will wait for reviews before pre-ordering anything. :-(

[Mr. Gibs]

I really don't get people's hatred towards this game.

1. It's an amazingly optimized game. If you name me one other game that looks as good as runs as well, go ahead (bugs aside).

2. Sure theres a bug with texture loading for some systems (mine doesn't have it) and a screen tearing bug (mine has it) but you know as well as I do that it will be patched.

I will agree though that the lack of a graphic settings was a bit daft.

I don't exactly have a top of the line computer by any means. But still I can play RAGE on maximum settings (forced by the config file) at 8x AA, and GPU transcoding on at a near steady 60fps (drops down to 53 when I'm in very crowded areas). By comparison, I can't even play Metro 2033 on DX11 medium at 60fps and it doesn't even look as good.

I've attached the config file I use for those of you who want to give it a shot. Rename it to .cfg and put it in your Rage\base folder.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

well got to wellspring and was able to get the Armor and Buggy when there, Buggy was in garage, armor was after talking to mayor.

[bigbas]

I gotta say...I'm running 280.26 drivers on a 9800gtx+, i7 920, 7200rpm hdd, and 6gb ram and the only problem I had was tearing. Once I add rage.exe to the nVidia profile page and forced vsync it went away. I am playing at 1600x1050 with a constant 60fps and I don't have any of the texture fill problem that people are talking about.

I haven't gotten to far into the game but my expections for a storyline and a real deep game were not very high. I only expected a good FPS with decent graphics and so far it is delivering FOR ME.

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones :)

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

I gotta say...I'm running 280.26 drivers on a 9800gtx+, i7 920, 7200rpm hdd, and 6gb ram and the only problem I had was tearing. Once I add rage.exe to the nVidia profile page and forced vsync it went away. I am playing at 1600x1050 with a constant 60fps and I don't have any of the texture fill problem that people are talking about.

I haven't gotten to far into the game but my expections for a storyline and a real deep game were not very high. I only expected a good FPS with decent graphics and so far it is delivering FOR ME.

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones :)

Indeed, I guess I can say I am one of the lucky ones as well. The screens I posted a few pages back were from the PC version, they look phenomenal and the only issue I have was the tearing as well. Will see about forcing vsync when I get home tonight. As far as textures not loading in, literally have not encountered it once. Seems as if it is the ATi users who are really having a huge issue with that, so hopefully AMD or Id release either a patch or drivers to take care of that issue sooner than later.

So moving on to the gameplay, I really am not that far into the game, on the 4th or so mission, but so far I am also enjoying it a whole lot. It is a classic First Person Shooter. AI seems very good, animations are superb, no complaints at all really from a gameplay point of view. Well that is not entirely true, I guess my one and only complaint would be the fact that so far it is only "go here and fetch this and/or do this" and the missions have been limited to the same areas. So going back and forth right now between the same 2 areas basically, but honestly because it is so early on in the game, I feel as if I am still in the introduction to the game itself missions. I also have to say that so far the driving mechanic seems really good. Very simply controls, but I feel as if the controls are very tight, and although it is an arcade racing mechanic, I do not feel as if I am all over the place and I am in tight control of driving.

So I will post again once I really get some time to play it and things start picking up, but my initial impressions are exactly what i expected... A really, really good First Person Shooter.

Good luck to everyone having graphical issues, hopefully they get sorted sooner than later and you can just enjoy the game itself. (Y)

[Lexcyn]

So I've managed to resolve the texture issues with config file settings, but I am getting crazy screen tearing with a weird line across the top and bottom of the screen. I have VSYNC and triple buffering forced in the NVIDIA control panel but I'm wondering if it's an OpenGL issue or maybe VSYNC isn't forced at all.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

loving the easter eggs in this game greatly.

[shakey]

Ok, so there are tons of different reviews and opinions about this, and a friend of mine is really pushing for me to buy it..... So let me ask you guys this one question.

Bugs aside, Is this a fun game?

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

loving the easter eggs in this game greatly.

Yea i missed the wolfenstein 3d room and doesnt seem like i can go back to the floor its on, just past the arera for the Quake 1 room and going to go back in the wasted garage to find it.

And i want a DoomGuy Bobble Head

Ok, so there are tons of different reviews and opinions about this, and a friend of mine is really pushing for me to buy it..... So let me ask you guys this one question.

Bugs aside, Is this a fun game?

Fun depends,, i didnt care for Duke Nukem, but i find Rage verry fun so far. The 3rd town called wellspring has 4 mini games that i have found so far. As well as races for items/upgrades/cash, and delivery missions for cash.

From whay i have seen and read of Fallout Rage seems alot like, so if you loked Fallout, then youll like rage.

Only thing i can really recomend is if your friends have it, check it out on their rig and "test" if youll like it

[Lovell]

Ok, so there are tons of different reviews and opinions about this, and a friend of mine is really pushing for me to buy it..... So let me ask you guys this one question.

Bugs aside, Is this a fun game?

Can't say, I haven't even been able to get passed the bugs, crashing etc. if it's a close friend get him to use his steam account on your PC and try the game.