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RAGE: id, AMD, Nvidia “actively working” to resolve PC issues

Bethesda’s Pete Hines has said that id are working with graphics card manufacturers to resolve the issues plaguing the PC version of RAGE.

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gravemaker5321d ago

Can't they do this BEFORE release? No? Morons.

ATi_Elite5321d ago

NO because it's good to get crash reports back from thousands of different PC configurations so they can pin point the problem and also find other issues to correct.

Dude seriously chill out it's not like you never patched a game a week or two after launch

Torinir5321d ago

Had there been an open beta for RAGE, we may not be having this discussion. Proper in-house QA testing prior to release may also have prevented these kinds of showstopper bugs from rearing their heads on release.

While I do agree that plenty of games have had week 1 and week 2 patches, I think on-release major crash issues are much fewer and further between than generic gameplay bugs.

evrfighter5321d ago

I'm usually with you ati but this is just downright embarrassing. Makes carmack look like a chump.

Orpheus5321d ago

Bro this din happen with doom , quake or wat ever. Well there were issues but this time its an unusual case ... guess wat. Carmack was too busy catering to the dino - tech toys.

But these truths are better not spoken in n4g othrwise u loose bubbles like me . Lost one today lol ..... i never knew console fans loved Crytek soooo much.

gamingdroid5321d ago

A lot of these issues don't show up until it gets to peoples hands. The fragmented nature of PC gaming is rearing it's ugly head.

A moving platform might give you the best performance, but only when it is working right.

Pay me now or pay me later!

kevnb5321d ago

Its screwed up on every amd card with any driver... that bs doesnt fly since we have apis to keep things standardized.

aaaaaaaaa5321d ago (Edited 5321d ago )

Me I'm hoping windows 8 sorts allot of these driver issues out if it does then i can start to enjoy PC gaming again because the past 2 years have been a bit of a joke

gamingdroid5321d ago

It won't, because the driver issue is related to the number of different flavors of graphics card out there.

It's not because of Windows itself....

kevnb5321d ago

It helps some, but its mostly amds poor opengl support in this case.

Zephol5321d ago

7 years development!!! 7 years!!

kevnb5321d ago

Amd cant ever seem to get opengl right anymore.

Johnny_Cojones5321d ago

Playing on an Nvidia card, and not having any technical issues, BUT I have to add that the environmental textures are really disappointing. Megatextures? O LAWLZ. 22GB installation, & game is still a mixed bag, visually.

ATi_Elite5321d ago

22GB....Gee Whiz!!

GTAIV w/ Icenhancer mod + real car, clothes, and weapon mods is that big...wait maybe 30GB!

Anyway i'm sure a Patch is gonna fix everything. I'm not buying Rage until they patch it anyway.

Johnny_Cojones5321d ago

Yeah, if I'd known, I'd have waited, obviously. It's not a huge deal, because I'm more patient than most, but it does make me worry a bit about Skyrim's PC release.

Ranich5321d ago

"but it does make me worry a bit about Skyrim's PC release."

Exactly. I'm so worried I'll get it for the PC and I'll run into shit like this. I'm already VERY disappointed with my purchase of RAGE, despite getting for the PlayStation 3. I'm full aware it was not going to be superior or whatever, but the pop-ins, the AI, the lack of story line, etc. It's just a totally bad experience that I was hoping the game would never be.

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Firezide Chat with Pete Hines

Pete Hines: “Truthfully, I still think Bethesda is just part of something that is not authentic and is not genuine. And that shouldn't be a surprise to you.”

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Veteran artist behind Mass Effect, Halo, and Overwatch 2 weighs in on Nvidia DLSS 5

Darryl Linington from Notebookchect.net writes, "The backlash around Nvidia’s AI push and DLSS 5 has opened a broader question in game development. Beyond performance and image quality, veteran artists are now weighing what AI-driven rendering means for authorship and visual control. If a system can add or reinterpret detail after the fact, the issue is no longer just technical. It becomes a question of how much of the final image still belongs to the people who built it."

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NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Frame Gen 5x & 6x Come to RTX 50 Series GPUs + Dynamic Multi Frame Gen

The latest GeForce driver introduces DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation 5x and 6x alongside Dynamic Multi Frame Generation to RTX 50-series GPUs. The former increases the number of interpolated frames to 4 and 5 (between every two rendered frames), further reducing reliance on the CPU.

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blacktiger27d ago

Big corp bowing down to another big corp is nothing more than helping each other. But try any games it doesn't work

Smellsforfree27d ago

I don't mind frame gen but only use it if I'm already >70fps without it. It is kinda nice but if I see any visual artifacts I will turn it off. Whenever I'm playing games on my 120Hz LG C3 I will almost never use it because frame rates >120fps look really bad. I think spatial super sampling is a far more interesting and beneficial tech than frame gen. Boosting 30fps to 60fps with framegen is just garbage.

SimpleDad27d ago

Tvs were doing this 15 years ago with their telenovela effect... Idk how anyone can play with this on.

There is definitely input lag there and artifacts.

CornholioX26d ago

It's commercial how they show it. Typical any company does that.

Goodguy0126d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Frame gen just has too much latency and visual glitches for me, don't think I can ever use it for most games. I'd compare with it on and off and it's a world of difference in the feel. I need the very least input lag in my gaming. Companies should rely on actual optimization. As for potato hardware, I suppose it could have it's use.