Rage

[Narw]

Hmm, did someone get Rage to work on an AMD card?
I get 10 sec freezes every 5 secs on my Radeon 6850. Tried the new "rage performance drivers", same shit. Fail!

Had same 10 sec freezes as you (also using ATI), what "helped" was disabling catalyst AI (used rage performance fix drivers). This got rid of freezes, but caused massive texture problems. Maybe in some version of drivers on some rare machines this game is looking/running well. Not in my case. Witcher 2 problems at relase, Dead Island problems at relase, now this. I aint happy. And considering Bethesda aproach to relasing games (fallout 3, fallout NV, now this) im not even sure if i look forward to Skyrim. Maybe 2 months after relase game will be playable.

[Narw]

Ok, i've managed to make this game run smooth and look decently.

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1237804-i-got-my-copy-working-very-well-with-dual-amd-6870/

Follow this (i skipped the part about windows something uninstaler blablabal i dont think this is needed with how catalyst uninstall works those days), and i think most crucial is adding that

Now we go into our Steam game library and right click Rage and click properties. Click on "Set Launch Options" and copy and paste the following into it.

+r_swapInterval 1 +vt_maxPPF 16 +vt_pageImageSizeUnique 8192 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly 8192 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly2 8192

[Goza]

Cool, will try this after work. I followed a similar guide yesterday that had less driver settings and more rageconfig settings, but that didn't help.

I like how the game is apparently unable to create it's own cache folder under C:\User\AppData\Local. I did that too and once it's user-created, that dir gets filled with a 1GB file. Wtf.

[Narw]

Cool, will try this after work. I followed a similar guide yesterday that had less driver settings and more rageconfig settings, but that didn't help.

I like how the game is apparently unable to create it's own cache folder under C:\User\AppData\Local. I did that too and once it's user-created, that dir gets filled with a 1GB file. Wtf.

Yeah, noticed that too. Also, the fix i've found didnt fixed slow textures loading... it's way better then it was with catalyst AI disabled but still somewhat... disapointing. What a mess of a game.

[Goza]

Btw which card/chip (as in 6850 etc) do you have?

[Narw]

Ohh, i wish i had 6850. Using 2 or 3 years old Radeon HD 4850.

EDIT:I think problems with this game will be solved when ATI finally relase some driver that works as it should, like i told perfomance wise after applying those band aid fixes its uber smooth, 30+ fps for sure (maybe even 60). Just the textures loading... disabling catalyst AI solves problems with texture loading but creates artifacts.

[Daekesh]

Game seems to be running fine in the room you start in.  Noticing a lot of tearing, though.  Will try some stuff.

(6870)

[Daekesh]

Had a few crash issues on the 6870.  These seem to be fixed using the following driver:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU122AMDCat1110PreDriverV2.aspx

Had the following graphical error with 11.8's and the rage performance driver:

Also seems fixed with the above driver.

[kagir]

Is it any good? Saw it for 30 pounds in Sainsbury

[Goza]

Lol, it's still not running on my system with any of those drivers/settings.

Maybe it's not only the AMD card but also the CPU. Got a Core Duo E8500, according to some Bethesda forum thread Duo+AMD card seems to be the worst case scenario for Rage.

[Daekesh]

Did you do the pff setting for dual cores?

[Goza]

Uh, the +vt_maxPPF stuff? Yeah. Guess I'll just wait for a game update.

[Goza]

id software released Rage Update 1:

- If you have an AMD graphics card with a dual core CPU system you may
experience severe hitching and low frame rates. This has been
identified as a driver problem. We are actively working with AMD on
a solution to this problem. As a temporary workaround you may add the
following to the RAGE launch options in Steam:

+jobs_numThreads 0

Fixes my stutter/freeze problem, but game runs like shit. So waiting for that new AMD driver.

[Narw]

it should be -1 in not 0.

ULTIMATE FIX!

1 Step: Download and Install new ATI (AMD) driver: AMD Catalyst? 11.10 Version 2 Preview Driver
Bookmark this Site "You have to Restart "

2 Step: Enable the A.I. in Catalyst

3 Step: Setting Game Launch Options in "Steam":
- Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.
- Under the General tab click the Set launch options... button.
- Enter the launch options
+cvaradd jobs_numThreads -1 +com_skipIntroVideo 1 +set com_allowconsole 1 +vt_maxPPF 8 and click OK.
- Close the game's Properties window.

4 Step: Create rageConfig.cfg:
- HOWTO: To use the file copy the code below and put it into a new text file named "rageConfig.cfg" in these Locations:
- For Single-Player - "Steam\steamapps\common\rage\base"
- For Multi-Player - "Steam\steamapps\common\rage\mp\base"
- The first line "1024" is for ATICards with 1GB Ram if your Card has 512kb change to "512" or "..."like ram.



seta com_videoRam "1024"
seta image_anisotropy "4"
seta image_usecompression "0"
seta image_lodbias "-1"
seta image_useCache "1"
seta image_cacheMegs "200"
seta image_cacheMinK "50"
seta m_smooth "0"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192"
seta vt_maxPPF "8"
seta vt_lodBias "-1"
seta vt_minlod "-1"
seta vt_maxaniso "2"




Save the .cfg

And Start the Game in Steam.


Now, what this did to Rage and my 3 years old computer.

60 FPS IN 1900x1024 RESOLUTION WITH NO TEXTURE ISSUES AND NO STUTTERING AND BASICLY MAX DETAILS.

Link to orginal thread - http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1239310-ati-hd-4980-or-4xxx-and-intel-core2duo-c2d-fix/

I did it on patched version of Rage, dont know if it works without patch. Only thing i had to change was disabling adaptive antyalasing, as it was causing game to run slow as hell (ss of my catalyst settings) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/sdsdsh.jpg/

[Sintrael]

Is that first line regarding the video ram needed for nvidia cards?

i have a 560 ti and i get the thing where textures unload when u look away from them and then pop in when you look back. I did the config file with these so far after reading some threads:

seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192"
seta vt_maxPPF "8"
seta vt_lodBias "-1"
seta vt_minlod "-1"
seta vt_maxaniso "2"