Dread612

@rebgav:

Maybe.

What is funny is if you look at the blades of the turbine, they look fine, you can see the texture on the tips of the blade, even see the red markings on the blades. Lol I don't know what happened to the turbine's body. I would it expect it to be the other way around.

Another example:

Looking pretty good, not OMG awesome but pretty good, lets zoom in on that wind turbine:

Oh dear, wtf is that? Click on that picture to enlarge it, seriously wtf is that?

So I have a Nvidia GTX 260 216. It's about 2-3 year old card. Installed latest Nvidia beta drivers. So far not having any performance issues, solid 60 FPS, everything turned up, added all the customizations to the .cfg files that been going around. The problem I'm having with this game is that some texture's look amazing, and in the same scene you have textures that look like mud. If it was kinda all the same it wouldn't bother me as much, see Bioshock and Bioshock 2, muddy textures all around. But when you have these awesome textures and then you see a wall of mud, its jarring.

For example:

In the beginning of the game you meet Dan Hanger and he looks like this.

Now turn to your right about 90 degrees. And then you will see this, arggg my eyes:

So is this just my setup or does everyone's look like this? This is pretty earlier in the game so if you could give a quick glance and let me know or upload a screen shot. Interested to hear from the xbox/ps3 players as well.

Hopefully this will address any major outstanding issues. Still kinda silly that these options weren't there in the first place, but to their credit they patched it in pretty quickly.

There is good detailed explanation of each of the settings in the patch notes. Maybe because of the embarrassment they suffered they felt like detailing the notes so they can demonstrate that they still know a thing or two about graphics.

Another thought, did console gamers ever care about Rage? The impression I got from my console centric gamers friends was a big "meh" even before the game came out. I only recall my PC centric gamer friends getting all hyped because of the mega textures and OMG its John Carmack so you know its going to be good.

None of my console gamer friends bought this game and probably wont, yet 2 of my PC gamers friends did. Both who had ATI cards.

I've been a PC centric gamer for a very long time. I remember buying Doom and coming home and being blown away by it.

As I read that article and I kept thinking to my self, when did anyone think the PC was the lead platform for Rage? It was always about making the console versions look amazing compared to similar console games.

PC gamers understand the market is different than it was 5 - 10 yrs ago. We understand that the console versions are going to be the lead platforms and that most multi-platform games will out sell the PC version. That's fine, that is how things are today. We all have our preferred platform, no problems, I prefer mouse and keyboard controls and high resolution graphics. Whatevers, to each their own.

Regardless, do you know why they still put out a PC version? They don't put it out because they think they owe us and they certainly don't care that we played Doom 20 yrs ago. THEY PUT IT OUT BECAUSE IT STILL MAKES THEM MONEY. They know 15-25% of their sales will be on the PC and the ROI is much higher on the PC. Its relativity easy to port the Xbox version to PC. So they don't sell as many copies, but each copy sold nets them more percentage of that $60. I would speculate that PC market also has a longer sales tail, because of the lack of used games sales and the eventual Steam sales, get RAGE 50% off etc.

Having said that, PC gamers aren't pissed because it isn't the lead platform, we are pissed because it was FUCKING broken. ATI users could not play the game. PERIOD. We played our $60 and got a broken product. They can blame the drivers all they want, that's bullshit. Establish better relationships with the 2 graphic cards vendors are build your product to be FUNCTIONAL to the previous major build of the drivers. Then have the beta drivers come out and that make improvements here and there.

Stop shipping a broken product and PC gamers will be fine and happy to buy then next console port you send our way. Why? Because we like games.

Couple of my friends that got this game both have ATI cards and both are getting terrible texture pop in.

id, look you idiots, ATI makes up 32% of the market, how about you make the game functional to a sizable portion of your potential customers.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

See what I did there? I own a Nvidia card and I personally dislike ATI products because they burnt me with their driver bullshit back in the 90s. However, rather than troll ATI owners, how bout we stand up for our fellow gamers against the companies that do this and demand a better product for our $60 regardless of platform or video card.

Hey guys, saw this and thought to pass it along.

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Links:

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Mostly agree with you, except the damage balance as well, seems off. I put about 200 Hrs total in BFBC2.

Now Battlelog, it is a complete piece of shit. Its so messy. You need Origin open and you need the browser open for Battlelog. Constantly need to alt-tab to switch servers and alt-enter to go full screen. I dunno what there were thinking. Seems like they taking a step back here. Reminds me of back when I used to run a server for UT2k4.

That screen shot of that dude(?) pointing at Link's face removes any interest in playing this game for me.