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| [Oct 07, 2011, 9:33 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments |
Kotaku asks the musical question "Why Was The PC Launch of Rage Such A "Cluster!@#$"?," getting answers from id on the topic, who express frustration with problems that were largely caused by driver issues. Along the way they also address how the game being designed for consoles holds back the PC edition. "You can choose to design a game around the specs of a high-end PC and make console versions that fail to hit the design point, or design around the specs of the consoles and have a high-end PC provide incremental quality improvements," John Carmack tells them. "We chose the latter." He also bluntly addresses why this makes sense for id (emphasis Kotaku's): "We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games," Carmack added. "That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version. A high end PC is nearly 10 times as powerful as a console, and we could unquestionably provide a better experience if we chose that as our design point and we were able to expend the same amount of resources on it. Nowadays most of the quality of a game comes from the development effort put into it, not the technology it runs on. A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases."
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Re: id On RAGE |
Oct 8, 2011, 00:10 |
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^Drag0n^ wrote on Oct 7, 2011, 23:32:
Reading Creston's experience with ATI makes me really glad I stuck with nvidia 
(sorry man <g> )
It's fine. 
I've only ever had... three games that were a huge issue with AMD. KOTOR, Rage (both OpenGL), and I can't quite remember the third.
I've had one game that would never work on an Nvidia card (That RTS that also got turned into a book, about the US being invaded. Act of War?)
In general AMD works just fine, but their OpenGL support is worthless. Again, though, the driver they released today seems to have fixed all my issues. It now runs smoothly, and I'm finally able to do some races, which are quite fun.
However, I didn't buy rockets, and now the only races I have left open are rocket races, and I don't have the Flags to buy rockets. Errr... So, I'm fucked?
And can someone tell me how to assign quick items to a car BEFORE a race?
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