How to get Rage working

Post » Wed May 16, 2012 1:56 am

I purchased Rage when it first came out, but it was such a mess. The game ran at about 1 fps, and was completely unplayable for me. So, I considered my money a waste, and I decided to come back to it hoping all of my problem would be fixed in a later patch. I decided to come back to it today, and the game is still unplayable for me even with all the "new" graphical options on the lowest settings. I have never had a problem playing any other game.
I simply do not want to feel as though my money has been wasted, and I was really excited to play Rage.

Is there anyway to get the game running at all? any tricks? anything?

My specs:
Windows 7 64bit
AMD Athlon II X4 620
6GB DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon 6790
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stacy hamilton
 
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Post » Wed May 16, 2012 5:29 am

You may be able to get it working by making a custom config.

Start by opening notepad copy & paste the below.

ik_enablesmoothing 0
seta vt_maxlockedpages "256"
seta com_videoRam "1718"
seta com_maxfps "60"
fs_cachepath "C:\Users\TheWolf\AppData\Local\id software\rage"
jobs_numThreads 4
vt_splitTranscodeJobs 0
vt_maxPPF 8
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "4096"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "4096"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "4096"
seta vt_pageimagesizevmtr "4096"
vt_restart

Edit lines with your correct info such as video ram on your video card.
Edit the cachepath line with the correct info, usually your login.

Looking around there are lot of threads here about Rageconfig.cfg

Save the file to your rage base folder. Mine looks like this: D:\Stream\SteamApps\common\rage\base
but save it as Rageconfig.cfg not .txt.
When you launch Rage it will auto load the Rageconfig.cfg

Edit: Come to think of it there is another way.
Open Steam, right click on Rage on the left side of the screen.
A popup will come up, go to properties click it, then click Set Launch Options.
copy and paste this: +set com_skipIntroVideo 1 +r_swapInterval 1 +vt_maxPPF 8 +vt_pageImageSizeUnique 4096 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly 4096 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly2 4096 +fc_maxcachememoryMB 4096 +ik_enablesmoothing 0 +fs_cachepath "C:\Users\TheWolf\AppData\Local\id software\rage"

You will still need to fix the cachepath with the correct name.
Click Start in w7 and the name should be at top right side of that menu.
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