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    Rage settings and performance

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by RugbyPlayer, Feb 23, 2012.

  1. RugbyPlayer

    RugbyPlayer Notebook Consultant

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    Hello everyone, i just recieved the laptop in my sig today. I wanted to test it out with rage and it seemed to have pretty intense graphics with the draw and how it scales when you look away.

    Im...underwhelmed. I would expect this baby to be able to handle it much better than it seems to, its rather choppy and i do get quite a bit of screen tearing.

    Is it just that rage is too intensive of a game for even this laptop set up?

    Is there a specific driver i need to run it properly? some time ago i saw a rage performance driver,is that what im missing? i dont really want to mess with drivers without some feedback because i know crossfire driver support isnt perfect
     
    RugbyPlayer, Feb 23, 2012
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  2. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Unless you roll Nvidia then RAGE is gonna throw a fit.
    Its something to do with a CUDA feature that helps decompressing textures.
     
    DEagleson, Feb 23, 2012
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  3. Kingpinzero

    Kingpinzero ROUND ONE,FIGHT! You Win!

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    Yep. AMD hasn't fixed rage performance yet in their drivers.
    The game uses cuda parallel processing named Gpu Transcoding that you can disable into options.
    It's not totally nvidia dependent btw, but on AMD isn't performing as it should.
    As a comparison I'm running the game fully maxed out on my 485m @ 700/1700 and I had to vsync otherwise the screen tearing would kill me.
    Based on AMD users experience a single 485/580m performs around 30-40% better than a 6990m.
    I really hope AMD finds a solution otherwise the list of worst performing games will grow bigger and bigger.
    Skyrim is another game that has issues with AMD. Latest 295.73 basically let you run ultra preset at solid 60fps (almost, some dips here and there) even on a mid range desktop card like gtx560ti which is the desktop counterpart of 485/580m albeit higher clocked.
     
    Kingpinzero, Feb 23, 2012
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  4. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Skyrim was fixed with AMD Catalyst 12.2 preview + v1.4.
    But i will reinstall RAGE and check how it is later.
     
    DEagleson, Feb 23, 2012
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  5. bubzers

    bubzers Notebook Evangelist

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    I wasted about a dozen hours trying to get Rage to be playable, but the AMD OpenGL driver keeps crashing. It's the first game I've ever rage-quit because of driver issues. Hopefully you have more luck.

    Sent from my Nexus One using Tapatalk
     
    bubzers, Feb 23, 2012
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    I never had any issues with rage on my laptop with ati drivers,but than the game was a big let down for me, I was looking forward for some thing as good as doom or quake but what we got was a console port with lots of bugs in
     
    Portugeeza1, Feb 23, 2012
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