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System requirments for RAGE?
- Jan 22, 2013 3:42 pm GMT
They recommend a 5550 video card to play rage but I have a 5750 which is twice as strong and I get waves on my screen when I play. I loaded Quake4 and I have a nice steady screen. So I can't figure how they can recommend a 5550 video card when my 5750 won't do the job. I'm going to have to buy a 7850 if I want to have a steady screen. Has anyone had this problem?
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- Jan 22, 2013 3:56 pm GMT
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Fanboy: People who refuse to own a product made by a company in competition with the company who made the product they bought and supported because "it sucks". Then they treat the item(s) they do own as being creations of perfection (NOTHING IS PERFECT). They also can't provide any real reason why the other product does "suck"..."It just does!"...I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "waves". Do you have a video or is there something similar on YouTube of the problem? I do know that if you're referring to 'minimum requirements', then that is supposed to be so a user can 'run' the game, often on low settings.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jan 22, 2013 4:33 pm GMT
Desktop - i3770K@ 4.5 (100 x 45) - Gigabyte Sniper.3 quad Xfire UEFI Mobo - 16 GB DDR3 RAM - AMD MSI 6990 and Nvidia 9800GTX for PhysX - Three Dell u2711 27" IPS monitors running plus one u2412m 24" IPS monitors and one Mitsubishi HC5500 1080P Native Projector on an 80" screen/Sharp 37" LCD TV in another room as the 5th monitor.
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Sounds maybe like screen tearing? If so, turn on vsync.
As for Rage requirements, it would be helpful to know the rest of your specs and what you're running the game at (resolution, detail, AA, AF, etc).
That being said, even after all the patches, Rage doesn't run that well on many systems at high resolutions and detail. Even with my desktop in my sig, I can't get 60FPS consistently outdoors even with no AA. It's a poorly optimized game, overall.
-Byshop
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- Jan 22, 2013 4:42 pm GMT
[QUOTE="Stinger78"]I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "waves". Do you have a video or is there something similar on YouTube of the problem? I do know that if you're referring to 'minimum requirements', then that is supposed to be so a user can 'run' the game, often on low settings.[/QUOTE]
Waves means that there are moving lines across my screen that blends in with the picture and only happens with Rage and nothing else meaning that my video card just does not have the power it needs.
Requirements means what they are recommending. I believe my AMD 955 CPU and RAM has plenty of power for Rage but I don't believe my video card does and I was wanting to know why they state a recommended video card for games that don't have the power needed. Google any game system requirement and look at the video card that is recommended.
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- Jan 22, 2013 4:44 pm GMT
PC Specs: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO, AMD Phenom II 1055T, 8GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX 1600mhz, EVGA GTX680 Superclocked+, Windows 7 premium 64-bit, Corsair TX750M, Samsung SyncMaster BX2235, Razer BlackWidow Ultimate, Razer Imperator 2012.
Not sure about that waving you're talking about put try to turn Vsync on maybe ? Also this game needs at least 8GB of ram, I used to have 4 while playing it and it ran terribly even tho I have a gtx680.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jan 22, 2013 4:51 pm GMT
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Fanboy: People who refuse to own a product made by a company in competition with the company who made the product they bought and supported because "it sucks". Then they treat the item(s) they do own as being creations of perfection (NOTHING IS PERFECT). They also can't provide any real reason why the other product does "suck"..."It just does!"...The waves you're talking about, as others said, is probably just Vsync. Other id-tech games like Doom 3 and Prey had the same issue. Try turning on Vsync in the game, and you can also check for any settings in your video card 'control panel'. Maybe your card isn't powerful enough, but maybe Quake 4 has vsync on by default and RAGE doesn't. It may also be a case where the game runs better on Nvidia. For reference, I'm using a GTX 560 card, and I'm running RAGE with 4xAA, vsync ON, Texture Cache Large, Texture Details High, Anisotropic Filter (AF) High, and GPU Transcode Enabled, and at close to 1080P resolution the game is nice and smooth.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jan 22, 2013 4:52 pm GMT
[QUOTE="Byshop"]
Sounds maybe like screen tearing? If so, turn on vsync.
As for Rage requirements, it would be helpful to know the rest of your specs and what you're running the game at (resolution, detail, AA, AF, etc).
That being said, even after all the patches, Rage doesn't run that well on many systems at high resolutions and detail. Even with my desktop in my sig, I can't get 60FPS consistently outdoors even with no AA. It's a poorly optimized game, overall.
-Byshop
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Thank You. I played Rage for 100 hours and my settings were wrong. I turned on vsync and now it's OK. I need to study up my quit a few things if I want to play these games right. I'm an old man who's background is computers but games are new to me. Thanks again.
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- Jan 22, 2013 4:54 pm GMT
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Fanboy: People who refuse to own a product made by a company in competition with the company who made the product they bought and supported because "it sucks". Then they treat the item(s) they do own as being creations of perfection (NOTHING IS PERFECT). They also can't provide any real reason why the other product does "suck"..."It just does!"...[QUOTE="lostsoul039"][QUOTE="Stinger78"]I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "waves". Do you have a video or is there something similar on YouTube of the problem? I do know that if you're referring to 'minimum requirements', then that is supposed to be so a user can 'run' the game, often on low settings.[/QUOTE]
Waves means that there are moving lines across my screen that blends in with the picture and only happens with Rage and nothing else meaning that my video card just does not have the power it needs.
Requirements means what they are recommending. I believe my AMD 955 CPU and RAM has plenty of power for Rage but I don't believe my video card does and I was wanting to know why they state a recommended video card for games that don't have the power needed. Google any game system requirement and look at the video card that is recommended.
[/QUOTE] Recommended and minimum don't always mean "Max details" and "Low details" - and it's the video card, CPU, and RAM that all work together to run the game. Minimum might just mean the minimum they tested the game on and/or it's more a matter of how much video memory they mention with those particular cards. In my case, my 560 card is a 2GB EVGA model.
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- Jan 22, 2013 4:58 pm GMT
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Fanboy: People who refuse to own a product made by a company in competition with the company who made the product they bought and supported because "it sucks". Then they treat the item(s) they do own as being creations of perfection (NOTHING IS PERFECT). They also can't provide any real reason why the other product does "suck"..."It just does!"...Vsync on and off can vary quite a bit on a per-game basis. Generally I will always run games with it disabled, and I actually only enabled it in RAGE to see if that was the issue. The main reason I run with it disabled is because it seems to give me better overall performance, so I can run new games on an older card for quite a while. I will also run most games without Anti-Aliasing (AA) as I've been a gamer for over 30 years, and have become accustomed to 'jaggies'. Again, AA is another setting I'll leave low or off, most of the time, to keep the performance of my hardware up.- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jan 22, 2013 5:00 pm GMT
Desktop - i3770K@ 4.5 (100 x 45) - Gigabyte Sniper.3 quad Xfire UEFI Mobo - 16 GB DDR3 RAM - AMD MSI 6990 and Nvidia 9800GTX for PhysX - Three Dell u2711 27" IPS monitors running plus one u2412m 24" IPS monitors and one Mitsubishi HC5500 1080P Native Projector on an 80" screen/Sharp 37" LCD TV in another room as the 5th monitor.
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Alienware M17X R2 17" Laptop - Core i7 920XM ES - 2.0/3.6ghz - 8 GB RAM - 500 GB Hybrid SSD - 5870 Xfire - 1920x1200 RGBLED
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[QUOTE="Byshop"]
Sounds maybe like screen tearing? If so, turn on vsync.
As for Rage requirements, it would be helpful to know the rest of your specs and what you're running the game at (resolution, detail, AA, AF, etc).
That being said, even after all the patches, Rage doesn't run that well on many systems at high resolutions and detail. Even with my desktop in my sig, I can't get 60FPS consistently outdoors even with no AA. It's a poorly optimized game, overall.
-Byshop
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Thank You. I played Rage for 100 hours and my settings were wrong. I turned on vsync and now it's OK. I need to study up my quit a few things if I want to play these games right. I'm an old man who's background is computers but games are new to me. Thanks again.
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Glad that worked. Vsync is a feature that basically caps your frame rate to your refresh rate. It doesn't make your games run faster, but when there is a large rift between your (probable) 60hz refresh rate and the actual frame rate, that's when screen tearing can occur. Many games ship with that feature turned on by detault which is why you may not have experienced this before.
-Byshop
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- Jan 22, 2013 5:03 pm GMTI asked you about v-sync in another thread!lostsoul039 wrote:Byshop wrote:
Sounds maybe like screen tearing? If so, turn on vsync.
As for Rage requirements, it would be helpful to know the rest of your specs and what you're running the game at (resolution, detail, AA, AF, etc).
That being said, even after all the patches, Rage doesn't run that well on many systems at high resolutions and detail. Even with my desktop in my sig, I can't get 60FPS consistently outdoors even with no AA. It's a poorly optimized game, overall.
-Byshop
Thank You. I played Rage for 100 hours and my settings were wrong. I turned on vsync and now it's OK. I need to study up my quit a few things if I want to play these games right. I'm an old man who's background is computers but games are new to me. Thanks again.
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[QUOTE="Byshop"]
Sounds maybe like screen tearing? If so, turn on vsync.
As for Rage requirements, it would be helpful to know the rest of your specs and what you're running the game at (resolution, detail, AA, AF, etc).
That being said, even after all the patches, Rage doesn't run that well on many systems at high resolutions and detail. Even with my desktop in my sig, I can't get 60FPS consistently outdoors even with no AA. It's a poorly optimized game, overall.
-Byshop
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Thank You. I played Rage for 100 hours and my settings were wrong. I turned on vsync and now it's OK. I need to study up my quit a few things if I want to play these games right. I'm an old man who's background is computers but games are new to me. Thanks again.
[/QUOTE] I asked you about v-sync in another thread!:x
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- Jan 22, 2013 5:29 pm GMT
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[QUOTE="jack00"]Not sure about that waving you're talking about put try to turn Vsync on maybe ? Also this game needs at least 8GB of ram, I used to have 4 while playing it and it ran terribly even tho I have a gtx680.[/QUOTE]
It does not need 8GB RAM. I run it perfectly with a maxed out custom config with 16xAA with my 570 and 4GB.
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- Jan 22, 2013 6:13 pm GMT
I asked you about v-sync in another thread!
I'm sorry, I know you did but I didn't know what it was. I need to pay more attention.
I asked you about v-sync in another thread!
I'm sorry, I know you did but I didn't know what it was. I need to pay more attention.
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- Jan 22, 2013 6:22 pm GMT
[QUOTE="Stinger78"]The waves you're talking about, as others said, is probably just Vsync. Other id-tech games like Doom 3 and Prey had the same issue. Try turning on Vsync in the game, and you can also check for any settings in your video card 'control panel'. Maybe your card isn't powerful enough, but maybe Quake 4 has vsync on by default and RAGE doesn't. It may also be a case where the game runs better on Nvidia. For reference, I'm using a GTX 560 card, and I'm running RAGE with 4xAA, vsync ON, Texture Cache Large, Texture Details High, Anisotropic Filter (AF) High, and GPU Transcode Enabled, and at close to 1080P resolution the game is nice and smooth.[/QUOTE]
Anisotropic Filter is something I don't understand because it is suppose enhance the image quality but in Rage you can set it on low so why would anyone set it to low? or why would that option even be there?
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