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[Wumpus]

I'll comment more later, but this blog post basically details everything I also thought wrong with the story: http://www.shamusyou...edtale/?p=15060

The only thing that impressed me about the engine was the variety of texturing, but I don't even think that's worth the constant streaming issue that 99% of players seem to have with the game. Unless you have a beast of a gpu/cpu you're going to see texture lag. For a new engine release I find that rather disappointing.

Shooting was fun for me, as well as the racing. My complaint there was lack of difficulty even on the highest level of it.

[Wumpus]

I swear there was a discount/coupon thread somewhere but I can't find it. So posting here.

Rage 50% for the next 22 hours and some odd minutes. http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1827/rage

Great buy at $20 I'd say. Go for it if you've wanted to but haven't cause of price.

[Manu]

Anyway to change the default FOV? In the Windows version, you can use the Steam Command Line Options to change it, as well as skipping the Intro videos (without deleting them).

[Smoke_Tetsu]

The only way I know of off the bat is to launch RAGE from the terminal and adding +set g_fov "insert number here" to the command line as an argument while launching like this example "/Applications/RAGE.app/Contents/MacOS/RAGE +set g_fov 90"..... if you enable the console via that method and then change g_fov from the console in the game it's not permanent.. the next time you run it normally it returns to the default FOV. I tried writing it into the cfg file located in ~/Library/Application Support/RAGE/base/ but it gets removed when the game is run and I tried making an autoexec.cfg like in other id tech games but it gets ignored.

If you are using the command line argument method you may also be able to skip the intros without deleting them by adding +set com_skipIntroVideo 1 to it.

It may be possible to write an applescript that passes along those arguments to RAGE.

[jeannot]

To make permanent changes, the file to edit is "default.cfg" in the base folder of the application bundle.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Yeah, that works... I added a FOV setting to it and it applied right away when I relaunched the game. For this game a FOV of 90 works the best for me and my 16:9 screen.

[UmarOMC1]

1.01 Update Available. NON-Mac App Store update link (35MB). Havent tried it, yet.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I tried it and the changes for me are:

1) A detail texture option that says I don't have enough cores to run and causes pausing\more texture pop-in when enabled and mostly just adds a generic noise detail texture over everything that sort of resembles the noise on an empty TV station
2) Antialiasing is enabled but only 4x and 8x are made available and they tank performance.

Other than that it's pretty much the same as before... I could select antialiasing before but it wasn't functional so it made no difference either way.

[UmarOMC1]

I was able to enable Detail Textures but not GPU Transcoding (Radeon). I noticed the performance hit and heavy texture pop-in when FSAA was enabled at all, other than that its ultrasmooth, texture pop-in is nigh unnoticeable with FSAA off. I think Ill have at it again while I wait for Serious Sam to be fixed. At least I got The Darkness II (hella fun so far) and Diablo III is around the corner... theres also Lone Survivor...

[Smoke_Tetsu]

How many cores do you have? I guess four isn't enough. You probably have dual CPU with four cores each right? On my system with it on it's almost playable but not quite... I get small pauses and a little more pop-in which just doesn't match the performance of it with it off.

I completed The Darkness II yesterday btw and I thought it was pretty amazing from a gameplay and story perspective especially.

Also there's Deus Ex HR in the wings too..

[ikir]

I think GPU transcode works only with Nvidia cards. I can't enable it with my iMac with Radeon 6970.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

That's right, it uses CUDA which is only available for Nvidia and only on windows from what I hear. Before anyone mentions it.. OpenCL is not CUDA and vice versa.... they are not interchangeable.

[jeannot]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 24 April 2012 - 01:48 AM, said:

2) Antialiasing is enabled but only 4x and 8x are made available and they tank performance.

Rather than a uniform drop in framerate, AA causes some stuttering as if I was not moving at constant speed (VSync lessens the issue). But in some areas, the game is much smoother. Strange.
Have you tried AA + Vsync? It's much better than AA alone in my experience.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Yeah I have vsync on since it's adaptive\smart vsync which syncs if it is able to maintain a certain frame rate but tears if not. But for me.... antialiasing just doesn't work very well. But yeah... it's like depending on where I'm looking it's more or less laggy. It was simpler for me to just turn it off.

[ltcommander.data]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 24 April 2012 - 02:14 AM, said:

How many cores do you have? I guess four isn't enough. You probably have dual CPU with four cores each right? On my system with it on it's almost playable but not quite... I get small pauses and a little more pop-in which just doesn't match the performance of it with it off.

I believe id recommends at least 6 cores for Detail Textures although quad core + HT probably works well too.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Maybe, although my system doesn't have HT AFAIK..... although Dolphin claims each of my cores can do 2 threads. I think HT was mostly in the generation of Core CPUs after mine was released. Either way... the amount I have isn't sufficient for detail textures in RAGE from what I can tell having tried it.

[JaguarGod]

Janichsan, on 28 February 2012 - 03:32 AM, said:

RAGE has so many parallels to Borderlands that I can't but compare these two, and Borderlands simply comes far ahead as the much better game.

I liked Rage as the gunplay, character animations and slick visuals show what the id and the id Tech 5 engine can do. But if you are going to compare Rage to Borderlands (right down to how similar the Mac game icons between the two are!), you are correct, Borderlands is simply a better game in my opinion. The gunplay is better and I like the visual style more. But the greatest thing about Borderlands is its ability to stay fresh and keep you wanting to play even after you finish the game. Once I finished Rage, I felt a bit disappointed and also unsatisfied. But I am still playing Borderlands to this day.

I did enjoy the racing aspect of Rage though. It was a little deeper than I thought it was going to be and the car upgrades were a nice touch. It is very challenging on the harder levels.

Rage has a lot going for it. But it truly feels like the game may have been fully finished, but was cut in half and the other half will come later in the form of Rage 2. It just ends so peculiarly and abruptly. But I will admit that I am very happy to have the game available on my Macs.

[dr.zeissler]

anyone played RAGE with an imac 24" ati 4850 ? does it run fine or do i need a better newer imac ?

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I never played it on a 24 inch but I have played it on a 27 inch with the same GPU... runs great.... I do run it at 1600x900 though as I feel that gives me the most bang for the buck in that game with the amount of VRAM I have. Also look in my specs... I have a Core i5 Quad not a Core 2 Duo.