Rage PC patched

10 Oct 2011 at 12:15:13 by Paul Younger

id have been busy sorting out the PC version of Rage.

Yesterday id and Bethesda released a new patch via Steam to address the on-going driver issues that have plagued the game since last week. The Bethesda blog summarises what's included in this update and a lengthier version of the notes are also available on Steam.

• Implemented workaround for AMD driver crash right after intro cinematic on Win 7 32-bit systems.
• Disabled UBOs because they are causing animation issues with AMD drivers. Don’t allow swap-tear to be enabled on AMD while the extension is not exposed because it may crash.
• Support for new video settings: “texture cache”, “vsync”, and ”anisotropic filter”
• Automatically adjust vt_maxPPF based on the number of available cores.
• Improved performance for SLI cards when GPU transcode is enabled.
• Fix for GPU Transcoding option being disabled after exiting gameplay.
• Added safe mode to restore video settings to default values.
• Allow g_fov to be changed from the RAGE launch options in Steam.
• Server now forwards text chat from clients to all other clients while in-game.

Gamers are rporting that while the patch fixed issues for some, they have created problems for players who were not experiencing any problem. The joys of patches.

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