Rage Progress Towards Being Playable on AMD/ATI
UPDATE: Installing AMD 11.10 Preview 3 drivers improved performance a bit more. The game is now finally running very good, with only minimal texture pop-in.
UPDATE: If you are still having trouble getting Rage to run, I suggest downloading several different versions of your graphics driver and try each one. Create the cache folder as mentioned below. Go into services.msc (in run or search) and disable any unnecessary services related to your GPU (I disabled AMD External Events Utility and AMD FUEL Service). Defrag your hard drive and make sure nothing unnecessary is running in the background (torrent, virus scan, etc). In the Rage menu in-game, disable AA and put texture cache to large (if you have a 1GB video card or greater; if not, you may want to think about upgrading).
UPDATE: I managed to get the game running decently using AMD 11.6 drivers and disabling the two AMD services. There is still a lot that doesn't feel good about the game. Mouse acceleration, textures, etc.
I made some progress on getting Rage to run. It is still currently unplayable, but I reduced the stuttering/freezing from nearly constant to just every couple seconds. Between freezes I now get very noticeable texture pop-in, which is the main problem other PC players are experiencing.
System specs:
AMD Phenom II X2 @ 3.7 ghz
HD 6850
4GB DDR3 (2x2GB)
Windows 7 64-bit
While I haven't been able to get my game playable, these tweaks and changes I've made may help other PC players to get their version running. I've scoured the net to find all of the tweaks that people are claiming to work.
Create the following folder if it doesn't exist:
Windows 7:
Windows XP:
On my Windows 7 system this is what it looks like:
That folder likely wasn't created on install. Once you create it and run Rage, it will be used for cache files.
See this Steam post for a run-down on settings you can set in your launch options and a custom config file.
I've tried the 11.9, Rage Performance (first & current), 11.10 Preview, and 11.10 Preview 2 drivers. So far they haven't made much of a difference, except the first Rage Performance drivers that brought the game to a halt. You may want to try it with a few different drivers, but you'll probably get the best performance with the latest, which are the 11.10 Preview 2 drivers.
UPDATE: If you are still having trouble getting Rage to run, I suggest downloading several different versions of your graphics driver and try each one. Create the cache folder as mentioned below. Go into services.msc (in run or search) and disable any unnecessary services related to your GPU (I disabled AMD External Events Utility and AMD FUEL Service). Defrag your hard drive and make sure nothing unnecessary is running in the background (torrent, virus scan, etc). In the Rage menu in-game, disable AA and put texture cache to large (if you have a 1GB video card or greater; if not, you may want to think about upgrading).
UPDATE: I managed to get the game running decently using AMD 11.6 drivers and disabling the two AMD services. There is still a lot that doesn't feel good about the game. Mouse acceleration, textures, etc.
I made some progress on getting Rage to run. It is still currently unplayable, but I reduced the stuttering/freezing from nearly constant to just every couple seconds. Between freezes I now get very noticeable texture pop-in, which is the main problem other PC players are experiencing.
System specs:
AMD Phenom II X2 @ 3.7 ghz
HD 6850
4GB DDR3 (2x2GB)
Windows 7 64-bit
While I haven't been able to get my game playable, these tweaks and changes I've made may help other PC players to get their version running. I've scoured the net to find all of the tweaks that people are claiming to work.
Create Cache Folder
Create the following folder if it doesn't exist:
Windows 7:
DRIVE:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\id software\rage
Windows XP:
DRIVE:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Application Data\id software\rage
On my Windows 7 system this is what it looks like:
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\id software\rage
That folder likely wasn't created on install. Once you create it and run Rage, it will be used for cache files.
Launch Options and Config
See this Steam post for a run-down on settings you can set in your launch options and a custom config file.
AMD Graphics Drivers
I've tried the 11.9, Rage Performance (first & current), 11.10 Preview, and 11.10 Preview 2 drivers. So far they haven't made much of a difference, except the first Rage Performance drivers that brought the game to a halt. You may want to try it with a few different drivers, but you'll probably get the best performance with the latest, which are the 11.10 Preview 2 drivers.
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Z | October 24, 2011 | 1:47 PM PST
Still not works. :-(
In the meantime I committed my previously (of course not because of playing Rage, but generally) scheduled HW upgrade to an HD6970 and the result projected to this game had not changed.
If I start to play, everything looks good at first sight but after I change the "act" (meaning I move toward one hundred meters) the game is going to be unplayable. Sad, very sad, because I really think this is a really cool game, but how it had been implemented on PC is... :-( Okay, I understand that there is maybe a sh*t support from driver producer side but... OMG then why Bethesda released the game on PC?? I don't get it... Just for money? :-(
In the meantime I committed my previously (of course not because of playing Rage, but generally) scheduled HW upgrade to an HD6970 and the result projected to this game had not changed.
If I start to play, everything looks good at first sight but after I change the "act" (meaning I move toward one hundred meters) the game is going to be unplayable. Sad, very sad, because I really think this is a really cool game, but how it had been implemented on PC is... :-( Okay, I understand that there is maybe a sh*t support from driver producer side but... OMG then why Bethesda released the game on PC?? I don't get it... Just for money? :-(
Nick | October 24, 2011 | 2:02 PM PST
Be sure to try older versions of the AMD graphics driver, like 11.6. I had troubles with the latest drivers.
It is AMD graphics cards in general that seem to be having the most problems, so even the highest end AMD card isn't immune.
Carmack says they're (id) coming out with another patch that adds more graphics options. I hope it fixes the crashing/stuttering issues.
Just so you know, Bethesda is only the publisher. They market the game and put up the money for it. id is the developer, and has been developing the game for 5+ years as a cross-platform game. Unfortunately it looks like they skimped on the PC side of things.
It is AMD graphics cards in general that seem to be having the most problems, so even the highest end AMD card isn't immune.
Carmack says they're (id) coming out with another patch that adds more graphics options. I hope it fixes the crashing/stuttering issues.
Just so you know, Bethesda is only the publisher. They market the game and put up the money for it. id is the developer, and has been developing the game for 5+ years as a cross-platform game. Unfortunately it looks like they skimped on the PC side of things.
Z | October 9, 2011 | 1:56 PM PST
Oh, and besides this the mouse movement in menu and in game tools is erratic, sometimes don't move, sometimes moves too fast.
Nick | October 9, 2011 | 1:59 PM PST
The mouse speed between in-game and menu is way off for me.
Z | October 9, 2011 | 1:49 PM PST
I have a similar configuration (but Intel core i5 CPU) and I've installed Rage patch, the latest diver, tried so many configuration but it absolutely doesn't matter what I do the performance still sucks. I can set resolution to 1920x1080 or even 800x600, set anti-aliasing off or 8x, play with caches, hacking whole day the f*cking config params, all the same.
In the opening scene when the guy drives into the garage the game starts to run on ~10 fps and doing the same every time if I enter to a "new place".
And Carmack dares to say that the drivers are problematic.. :-(
Very disappointing.
In the opening scene when the guy drives into the garage the game starts to run on ~10 fps and doing the same every time if I enter to a "new place".
And Carmack dares to say that the drivers are problematic.. :-(
Very disappointing.