If you're still struggling with the heavy flawed PC build of RAGE, there's a new patch out that will fix a few things and allow you to tweak (and tone down) some settings.
While we only reviewed the console version of Rage (only the Xbox 360 build was made available to GamePro at press time), the PC version released with a ton of glaring performance issues: screen-tearing, poor texture loading, and glitches being among many of them.
If downloading, uninstalling, and re-downloading the latest drivers for your Nvidia and AMD/ATI cards isn't sorting things out, there's thankfully a patch out! According to Steam's news service and the Bethesda Blog, various bugs have been combed over. With these updates, users can also tweak their graphical settings so that the game isn't always firing on all burners -- although even the most high-end PCs still seem to have trouble.
Here's the full list of fixes:
- Implemented workaround for AMD driver crash right after intro cinematic on Win 7 32-bit systems.
- Disabled UBOs because they are causing animation issues with AMD drivers.
- Don't allow swap-tear to be enabled on AMD while the extension is not exposed because it may crash.
- Support for new video settings: "texture cache", "vsync" and "anisotropic filter"
- Automatically adjust vt_maxPPF based on the number of available cores.
- Improved performance for SLI cards when GPU transcode is enabled.
- Fix for GPU Transcoding option being disabled after exiting gameplay.
- Added safe mode to restore video settings to default values.
- Allow g_fov to be changed from the RAGE launch options in Steam.
- Server now forwards text chat from clients to all other clients while in-game.
Better late than never, right?
[Source: Bethesda Blog, Steam]
Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Monday, October 10, 2011