1621

My ATI/Rage/Catalyst A.I. problem remains, so I still have to run without it on. The patch fixed the Mutant Bash problem for me so I was able to complete it, and now I can continue playing - at least until I hit another game breaking bug :) . The texture streaming problems have almost completely vanished no matter how fast I spin around. (I still have texture problems because of having Catalyst A.I. turned off but that’s something else again)

Is there still anyone that cannot play no matter what they try?

Edit. A lot of people with dual-core processors are being helped greatly by adding +jobs_numThreads 0 as the first line of the default.cfg files. I’m able to play with Catalyst A.I. turned on using this, but barely. For me it’s still better to have it off.

Edit 2: Actually add +jobs_numThreads 0 to Steam Rage launch options. I am up and running 100%. If you have a 5770 this should solve all of your problems.

1622

Is anyone with a Radeon card (5770 by any chance?) not having any problems?

1623

That’s what I have, and seems to be the most problematic of the entire ATI line.

Edit: No problems anymore. See my post above yours, doing that should fix whatever problems you are having.

1624

The new patch has done wonders for the texture streaming problems for me. I started getting used to the pop in when turning (not even turning fast in my case) but now its completely gone. I set the texture cache up to high and everything is loaded now.

nVidia 260 GTX w/ 896 MB RAM in case anyone is wondering.

1625

Yeah, it was pretty minimal for me before, but still noticeable in tight spaces. After changing it to high, I don’t see it at all.

1626

Thinking a bit about the end, and how it compares to other games, i think Quake 4 had a much stronger ending, with your ship being attacked by Stroggs, having to run to individual dropship and doing the final assault, with some very epic fights near the end.

1627

No spoilers please! I want to discover the awesome story for myself! ;)

1628

Those were spoilers from Quake 4, not Rage :D.

1629

So I want to capture a few screenshots from within the Dead City (I really like the atmosphere in here) but Print Screen doesn’t seem to be working. Any other way to capture images in Rage?

1630

F12 takes screenshots (for all Steam games, I believe)

1631

Where does it save them?

1632

Right click on RAGE in Steam and select View Screenshots. From there there is a button to view the file on disk, upload to Steam Cloud, and other stuff.

1633

Does “\bind [key] screenshot” not work anymore?

1634

Right click on it on the library list? I’m not seeing a View Screenshots option there.

1635

Yeah. That’s how I’m doing it. It looks like Steam is handling the Screenshots. Have you taken any yet?

1636

Yes, I went in and did a couple hitting f12. There was a bit of a pause, leading me to think it saved them. I just can’t find them.

Edit: Ok, figured it out. I had Steam Community disabled and turning that back on solved the issues.

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1637

Started on the 360 tonight. Beautiful game but the mechanics are a bit of a throwback so far. Fun game but i hope there are other types of quests than fetchquests.

1638

Well, once again against my better judgement, I picked up RAGE.

I must build rock-solid PCs, or something, as I have had zero technical issues with the game – other than a strip of corrupt graphics across the screen, easily resolved by deactivating “smart” VSYNC. This is on a bog-standard i3/GTX460 setup.

Graphics are fine and smooth at medium settings, and if there’s noticable texture fill-in ala UE3 games, I don’t see it.

As for the gameplay itself: So Dan from Rosanne rescues me from the Vault, er, Ark, about 20 seconds after I wake up. He sees something about me (calloused trigger finger perhaps? “I LIEK SHOTING MANS” tatooed on my forehead?) that would indicate that I should be shooting mans even before I have a chance to get my first morning cup of coffee. HEY, WORKS FOR ME.

Opinion? You shoot mans. The manshootery is pretty decent. There’s some frippery about quests and building stuff and whatever, but if you want a postapocalyptic world that’s more about character arcs and stuff (and weak manshooting), well jesus didn’t you guys already play F3 and FNV? The sound is OK on my new speakers and the game didn’t crash or nothin’. OK, sure, maybe those of us who have played Borderlands a couple of times are wondering where the little dancing robot is in Rage, but yeah.

Score: x-5 quatloos.

1639

I’m not sure what a pair of RPGs have to do with an expansive corridor shooter. What am I missing here?

1640

Bethesda publishing along with some “RPG elements” comments by id about Rage suggested it was going to be deeper then just a typical shooter. It is, in some ways, but as story shooters go it doesn’t rise to the level of the best ones.