How To Unlock Rage's High Resolution PC Textures With A Few : Othor Games

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:26 am

This fixed everything for me atleast. Dont forget to read all the way to the bottom. they have 2 or 3 extra items down there I added and they worked wonders!! I was having extream texture pop, this fixed it.

It may fix every glitch but it doesn't fix the SLI workload, do you know, someone with a SLI would like to use two cards instead of one

please show your config file tham, what do you adedd?

In any case I bump my question:
is there a way, a console command to see if we are using 4K texture or 8K texture?

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:44 pm

I said it fixed my problems, sorry about the SLI problems. Here is my Config that fixed my texture pops.

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4
vt_useCudaTranscode 2
vt_maxPPF 16

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:58 am

As Transcoding doesn't work on AMD cards, because they lack CUDA Cores, the only tweak in that section that will help is vt_maxPPF, unfortunately. As such, your Transcoding is being done entirely by your CPU, hence why AMD users are experiencing so many issues.

Thanks very much for this clarification!

» Mon May 14, 2012 1:57 pm

HELP

After creating rageconfig.cfg file RAGE starts but force closes after i press continue,any ideas? When i remove rageconfig.cfg it loads...

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:15 am

It may fix every glitch but it doesn't fix the SLI workload, do you know, someone with a SLI would like to use two cards instead of one

please show your config file tham, what do you adedd?

In any case I bump my question:
is there a way, a console command to see if we are using 4K texture or 8K texture?

If you have not implemented the rageconfig.cfg tweak then you are using the Auto level. Only the .cfg can force 4k or 8k. To date, I have never seen the Auto setting match 8k.

As for SLI/CrossFire, that is something NVIDIA, AMD and id are going to have to work on together.

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:34 am

HELP

After creating rageconfig.cfg file RAGE starts but force closes after i press continue,any ideas? When i remove rageconfig.cfg it loads...

What's in your config file?

» Mon May 14, 2012 2:28 am

What's in your config file?

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4

its getting interesting ive removed rageconfig.cfg, start RAGE everything is ok, so i exit and in rage shortcut target line i add skip intro line, so i start RAGE, no intro i try to continue game and same problem doesnt load.

OK after this crash rage it self copied to clipboard this line:

idVertexBuffer::MapBuffer: failed

6950 2GB

» Mon May 14, 2012 1:29 pm

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4

its getting interesting ive removed rageconfig.cfg, start RAGE everything is ok, so i exit and in rage shortcut target line i add skip intro line, so i start RAGE, no intro i try to continue game and same problem doesnt load.

OK after this crash rage it self copied to clipboard this line:

idVertexBuffer::MapBuffer: failed

6950 2GB

Very weird, that shouldn't be giving you issues...

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:30 pm

I tried this several times, but the textures keep looking exactly the same. Any ideas on how to make it work?

» Mon May 14, 2012 1:03 pm

I tried this several times, but the textures keep looking exactly the same. Any ideas on how to make it work?

If you're in the mayor's office, for example, you won't see any difference. Where it works is mainly outdoors and large indoor areas.

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:37 pm

If you're in the mayor's office, for example, you won't see any difference. Where it works is mainly outdoors and large indoor areas.

Yeah I know, but even outdoors it still looks the same. I did side by side screenshot comparisons and nothing.

» Mon May 14, 2012 2:34 am

8192. I would suggest disabling AA in the options menu and not using AF in the config file, seeing how it works at 8K, then gradually adding AA back in. I've seen reports from people saying it works fine with 1GB and other saying that it doesn't, so it's totally hit and miss at 1GB.

Also, I updated our story with some Transcoding tweaks that until now were a tad mysterious: http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/how-to-unlock-rages-high-resolution-textures-with-a-few-simple-tweaks

Andy there is also Commands:

image_anisotropy 16 "set the maximum texture anisotropy if available"
image_usecompression 0 " forces everything to high quality"

edit: er sorry just image_usecompression 0 " forces everything to high quality" which im not sure if it does anything or not. world model textures are still really poor...

» Mon May 14, 2012 2:00 pm

Hello folks,

Been using the said config file on a Sapphire HD5770 with 1GB of VRAM, running on a core I7 950 with 8GB of RAM.

The card is running on the RAGE performance AMD catalyst driver and I must say these changes are awesome, texture pop-in is almost gone and the textures at least look acceptable now.
So far I encountered only a minor case of artifacts (blue colored textures where there should not be blue

).
Now and then there is an occasional freeze for a split second but nothing worth mentioning.

All in all these changes make the game playable for me with just minor glitches that need ironing out.

Thank you Andy for this solution that will at least fix a lot of texture problems for some of us.

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:32 pm

Hello folks,

Been using the said config file on a Sapphire HD5770 with 1GB of VRAM, running on a core I7 950 with 8GB of RAM.

The card is running on the RAGE performance AMD catalyst driver and I must say these changes are awesome, texture pop-in is almost gone and the textures at least look acceptable now.
So far I encountered only a minor case of artifacts (blue colored textures where there should not be blue

).
Now and then there is an occasional freeze for a split second but nothing worth mentioning.

All in all these changes make the game playable for me with just minor glitches that need ironing out.

Thank you Andy for this solution that will at least fix a lot of texture problems for some of us.

Can you post the text of your config file?

I have the mobility 5830 (based on the same die as your desktop 5770 card), so I'd like to try your settings.

» Mon May 14, 2012 7:01 am

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4

its getting interesting ive removed rageconfig.cfg, start RAGE everything is ok, so i exit and in rage shortcut target line i add skip intro line, so i start RAGE, no intro i try to continue game and same problem doesnt load.

OK after this crash rage it self copied to clipboard this line:

idVertexBuffer::MapBuffer: failed

6950 2GB

Very weird, that shouldn't be giving you issues...

exactly the same problem here. I got HD4870 2GB
any ideas?

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:53 pm

Andy there is also Commands:

image_anisotropy 16 "set the maximum texture anisotropy if available"
image_usecompression 0 " forces everything to high quality"

edit: er sorry just image_usecompression 0 " forces everything to high quality" which im not sure if it does anything or not. world model textures are still really poor...

id Tech 5 (the Rage engine) can only utilize 4x AF, so anything extra is a waste and/or might slow your game down (check the story for more details). Will check out the second config though, not used that before.

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:17 pm

Can you post the text of your config file?

I have the mobility 5830 (based on the same die as your desktop 5770 card), so I'd like to try your settings.

Certainly, here it is:

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4
vt_maxPPF 16

This is the one I'm currently using.

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:55 pm

Certainly, here it is:

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4
vt_maxPPF 16

This is the one I'm currently using.

Thanks, also do you have any settings forced in the Catalyst Creator options menu, such as vsync, Catalyst A.I., AF, etc.?

» Mon May 14, 2012 11:12 am

Thanks, also do you have any settings forced in the Catalyst Creator options menu, such as vsync, Catalyst A.I., AF, etc.?

Would be very helpful if noticed which of them should be OFF or ON or smth?

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:31 am

Thanks, also do you have any settings forced in the Catalyst Creator options menu, such as vsync, Catalyst A.I., AF, etc.?

The only setting I have forced on is vsync, Catalyst A.I is enabled (Quality setting). AA and AF are controlled by the application (game).

EDIT:

Full catalyst 3D settings I use atm:

SMOOTHVISION HD: Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings
SMOOTHVISION HD: Anisotrophic filtering: Use application settings\
Tessellation: AMD Optimized
Catalyst A.I.: Quality + Enable Surface Format Optimization
Mipmap Detail Level: Quality
Wait for Vertical refresh: Always on
Anti-Aliasing mode: Adaptive Multi-Sample AA
OpenGL: Triple buffering disabled.