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[CaryMG]

It's due out this year ....

... the Xbox 360, Windows, and Mac versions will ship on either two or three dual-layer DVD discs ....
John Carmack has revealed that an uncompressed software build of RAGE is one terabyte in size ....


ONE TERABYTE.
This is unimaginably huge ....
Compressed, t'll be in the neighborhood of 30GBs.
Yes, I said 30 -- as in the number between 29 & 31.  lol
With a game this big, is a demo feasible or even doable ?

RAGE will use idTech5.
For perspective, the iD graphic engines are ....
iDTech1
DOOM

idTech2
Quake

idTech3
Quake III: Arena

iDTech4
DOOM 3

iDtech5
RAGE & DOOM 4

Incidentally, the father of FPS engines, John Carmack, says iDTech6 will be as far as graphics can go & will involve realtime raytracing in some way.
Here's hoping the idTech6 game will be "Woflenstein" ....

[Eric5h5]

"As far as graphics can go"?  Isn't that kinda like "Everything that can be invented, has been invented"?

--Eric

[J'nathus]

Eric5h5, on January 26th 2010, 04:45 PM, said:

As far as graphics can go"?  Isn't that kinda like "Everything that can be invented, has been invented"?

"No one will EVER need more than 950K of RAM."

[teflon]

The idtech6 engine won't be coming out for at least another 5 years after Rage is released, if not even longer than that. (the gap between Doom 3 and Rage is going to be 6 years) All guesswork as to what it'll be is just that, guess work.

Of course, since it's Carmack, and it'll be him creating it, it's an informed guess, and it's based upon what he wants to do next go round. Even so, we don't know if raytracing will be feasible in 5 years time, or even 10 years.

The final step in graphics rendering tech is going to be the ability to completely synthesise reality so that it's indistinguishable. Considering that films barely manage that even right now, and they've got massive render farms, I feel quite comfortable in saying that it's a way off. Specially when you consider that the next generation of games consoles will come out well within the next 5 years, and so precede idtech6 by quite a way, leaving it to be a PC only endeavour.

So, it's all speculation and gibberish talk.
Anyway, I thought Carmack was retiring after idtech5?

[Frost]

Quake 5 Quake 5 Quake 5!

[Sneaky Snake]

Dang, that's big!

This may seem like a strange request, but I hope we'll be able to install it instead of swapping discs. I'll have to buy a another internal drive though just to play

[teflon]

Sneaky Snake, on January 27th 2010, 01:27 AM, said:

Dang, that's big!

This may seem like a strange request, but I hope we'll be able to install it instead of swapping discs. I'll have to buy a another internal drive though just to play

Why would we be swapping disks? No, it'll be an install, probably some lame form of DRM and Disc 1 in the DVD drive.

The 360 will have disc swapping, but there too, you might be able to install to the HDD. Not sure, but you'll probably have to swap discs anyway there.

The PS3, though, will have everything on a single disc and hopefully no install, or only something very small.

[Sneaky Snake]

teflon, on January 26th 2010, 09:52 PM, said:

Why would we be swapping disks? No, it'll be an install, probably some lame form of DRM and Disc 1 in the DVD drive.

The 360 will have disc swapping, but there too, you might be able to install to the HDD. Not sure, but you'll probably have to swap discs anyway there.

The PS3, though, will have everything on a single disc and hopefully no install, or only something very small.

Well seeing as its 1 TB uncompressed an install good be quite the pig on the HDD, but your right, I'm sure they'll have some kind of install.

[Tesseract]

Why would it have to be decompressed to install to the HDD?

[Janichsan]

Tesseract, on January 27th 2010, 09:58 AM, said:

Why would it have to be decompressed to install to the HDD?

I don't think it would have to. Most modern engines use some kind of on-the-fly decompression of textures and stuff anyway, so the data could as well be stored compressed on the hard disk. But since hard disks are in all cases faster than DVD (or Blu-ray) drives, the game would of course profit tremendously from an installation.

[teflon]

Guys, you should read the text that isn't in bold...
It says right under "ONE TERABYTE!", quite clearly, that the final product will be about 29-31GB when it's compressed.

If there is an installation on the PS3, then it hopefully wont be too big. For one thing, the megatextures themselves will have to be kept on the disk, since they'd be waaaaay too big. Which leaves you with all the traditionally textured objects in the game. Also, don't forget that the PS3 and 360 versions will have lower potential texture quality on show than a half decent PC. Because of that, the amount of data being streamed will be much lower than a PC on max settings.

On 360, there's no mandatory installs, either, so the game will have to be able to stream from the discs. The PS3 might only have an install because the disc drive is a touch slower, but games like Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 have shown that if it's done right, you don't need one.

But I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[UmarOMC1]

Link (original source)?

[dr.zeissler]

1TB 1.000 GBytes, that is really HUGE!!!

[Magnum]

Frost, on January 26th 2010, 06:40 PM, said:

Quake 5 Quake 5 Quake 5!

Or perhaps Quake 1/2 remakes?

[UmarOMC1]

THE BEST TRAILER I'VE WATCHED FOR THIS GAME SO FAR! I really freaking hope it makes its way to OS X!!! Damn Bethesda...

[DaveyJJ]

CaryMG, on 26 January 2010 - 04:40 PM, said:

It's due out this year ....

... the Xbox 360, Windows, and Mac versions will ship on either two or three dual-layer DVD discs ....
John Carmack has revealed that an uncompressed software build of RAGE is one terabyte in size ....


ONE TERABYTE.

Wow, that's a lot of lines of BASIC, eh?

10. Goto 20.
20. Print "John Carmack is cool "
30. Goto 10

[the Battle Cat]

UmarOMC1, on 20 April 2011 - 03:47 AM, said:

THE BEST TRAILER I'VE WATCHED FOR THIS GAME SO FAR!

Hey, remember wall textures and scenery objects?  Yep, those were the good old days.  ::Jumps up and runs to the door shouting::  HEY YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!

[teflon]

Wait... What the frak is "Woflenstein"?

[the Battle Cat]

teflon, on 20 April 2011 - 10:05 AM, said:

Wait... What the frak is "Woflenstein"?

It's a copmuter game.

[bobbob]

the Battle Cat, on 20 April 2011 - 12:31 PM, said:

It's a copmuter game.

It's a wofl dwinking game made up by Bawy Kwipke