Rage Linux Port Is Not Likely Until 2012

[curaga]

The story sucks though. And the characters are entirely unbelievable.

Hey, does this mean Life(tm) is an id game?

[Setlec]

you forgot raycasting, much more complicated physics engine true AI with some bots... Openworld as default!

[RealNC]

If you can't play Rage because you can't handle the visual information than you need to get your brain checked (I mean, how do you cope with real life, or are you so autistic that you need to rest every two hours or so in a small room?). It's not id's fault people suck at thinking and gaming.

Hey, real life runs with 500FPS and 5000DPI. And I suspect it uses a voxel engine. Makes shooting at people very easy ^_^

[V!NCENT]

Just wait for the patches to roll in. Carmack has been ranting about fake OpenGL functionality in drivers for ages and since OpenGL is so underapreciated in games, this shit just happens. It will get fixed in two months. And if your computer can't handle the texture speed with 64bit Windows (or compatible) adn texture cache on large, than your computer is seriously outdated.

If you can't play Rage because you can't handle the visual information than you need to get your brain checked (I mean, how do you cope with real life, or are you so autistic that you need to rest every two hours or so in a small room?). It's not id's fault people suck at thinking and gaming.

[Setlec]

that's a big bollocks!

Complete bollocks.

http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/1 ... 2731599872

Re: DOOM 4 rumor, games are done when they are done and no title under development at id has been postponed ? indefinitely or otherwise.

http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/1 ... 7755635712

[Desti]

id is mostly dead now. http://kotaku.com/5851953/doom-4-ind...ointing-launch

[deanjo]

I get shot at by bandits and have no freaking clue where they're shooting from since I can't see them in all that visual mess.

No, no, no, you can't hit them because they are ninja mutants.

[RealNC]

John Carmack posted this on Twitter:

"We have a bicubic-upsample+detail texture option for the next PC patch that will help alleviate the blurry textures in Rage."

Rage's game world to me is a confusing mess of too many different textures. I get shot at by bandits and have no freaking clue where they're shooting from since I can't see them in all that visual mess. Making textures "sharper" by upscaling isn't going to improve things in this regard.

[RealNC]

I installed the drivers. The game is now playable. Previously it would freeze every few seconds. Speed isn't that great though; previously, between the freezes, it would give me 60FPS. Now it's about 30-40.

We'll see how it runs with the new i5 2500K system I'm expecting for next week.

[jcgeny]

You should have linked to the actual web page, not the direct download :-/

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...eDriverV3.aspx

links come from Rage3D http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33982817
where they wrote : "They are not officially posted yet on AMD's site so no idea what new changes."

by the way , this new driver is not that good and i found a good change to do to make t3xtures look good .
the trick is to add "+s_streamBufferSizeK 128" after rage.exe .
by default the value is 42 . i did not check if 256 gives better results yet as 128 is quite nice .

i tried to change some others cvars but no success

cm_memoryMap "0"
cm_backFaceCull "0"
fc_maxCacheMemoryMB "96"

the 2 first to 1 and the last to 4096 but no luck