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So i just played about 20 minutes or so of Rage on my PC...

...and it was underwhelming to say the least.

The graphics were really buggy-

As in some of the characters were literally blinking in and out of reality

There was weird tearing of some of the HUD that would flash up

There wasn't just a little texture pop-in, but every single time your would rotate your vision, all the textures that you weren't looking at would pop-in....every single time. Worst pop-in I've ever seen.

Oh...and there aren't ANY video settings in the game other than brightness and anti-aliasing. Nothing at all.

I'm playing on an Athlon X4 955 / 4GB Ram / HD 6950 2GB rig with the most recent drivers.

Anyone else having problems? Because I've never even thought of asking for a refund on Steam, but I just might for this one.

So i just played about 20 minutes or so of Rage on my PC...

...and it was underwhelming to say the least.

The graphics were really buggy-

As in some of the characters were literally blinking in and out of reality

There was weird tearing of some of the HUD that would flash up

There wasn't just a little texture pop-in, but every single time your would rotate your vision, all the textures that you weren't looking at would pop-in....every single time. Worst pop-in I've ever seen.

Oh...and there aren't ANY video settings in the game other than brightness and anti-aliasing. Nothing at all.

I'm playing on an Athlon X4 955 / 4GB Ram / HD 6950 2GB rig with the most recent drivers.

Anyone else having problems? Because I've never even thought of asking for a refund on Steam, but I just might for this one.

@REIGN: Yep, same issues and a lot of people in the Steam forums are having the same issues as well with a variety of system set ups including ATI/AMD & Nvidia cards.

I'm about to install the ATI Rage Performance drivers but everyone in the Steam forums say it doesn't fix the problem and some say it makes things worse.

Man, this is disappointing.

#Update: Rolling your ATI Catalyst Drivers back to 11.8 ( found here ) will help with a lot of the problems but not all of the problems if you absolutely have to play the game right now and the flickering is making your brain hurt. I'm going to wait it out for some patch work.

The game probably just has issues because they're just a small developer with very little experience making first person shooters on PC.

@MustacheRides420 said:

I don't care about the texture pop-in, having played plenty of unreal engine 3 games, but the constant texture flickering is making it unplayable.

Whole sections of the world disappearing, even the letterbox during cutscenes flickers in and out.

I mean if everything else ran perfectly, I could ignore the pop-in, but honestly it should not be happening at all.

@nmarchan said:

somebody posted this video of the pop-in issues on youtube. As far as I can tell from comments on another board, these issues are happening for a majority of players, if not UNIVERSALLY.

Buyer beware.

Also, guess we know why they were just showing the console versions, huh?

Yeah that's exactly what is happening :[@Sin4profit said:

@REIGN: Yep, same issues and a lot of people in the Steam forums are having the same issues as well with a variety of system set ups including ATI/AMD & Nvidia cards.

I'm about to install the ATI Rage Performance drivers but everyone in the Steam forums say it doesn't fix the problem and some say it makes things worse.

Man, this is disappointing.

Let me know how the drivers go for you.

It really is a bummer, because the game looks amazing while standing still (^screenie I just took- the textures look super clean, but the pop-in just kills the immersion)

To hopefully lighten the mood a little, I did see a funny thread on the RAGE Steam forum titled "The System Requirements have Changed"

And it said:

"Minimum: XBOX360 or PS3

Recommended: XBOX360 or PS3"

:P

@REIGN: As it has been reported the drivers do nothing at all. Carmack tweeted "John CarmackEveryone, make sure you have latest Nvidia/Ati drivers to play Rage!" So it sounds like he's at least aware of the problem.

@nmarchan: Uh oh. That doesn't look good. I just got my copy of Rage today. Hope I don't get this problem.

Game performs well and looks good on a i5 2500k, gtx 570, 8gb ram. I have beta nvidia drivers cause of the BF3 beta. Maybe it's an AMD thing?

PC FTL amirite?

@BeachThunder said:

Just putting it out there that this is what the video options screen looks like:

Wow. As someone who's played a decent amount of PC games, the lack of custom settings is pretty shocking!