Texture Issues

Post » Sun May 13, 2012 8:16 pm

Walmart will only let you swap it out for the same game. Sorry for the bad news man.


Thought I would chime in Also. First install, got through the opening movie and then took over 10 minutes to get to the point where the ArC door could open. Freezing link crazy and unusable. Installed the AMD Rage performance drivers, no help at all. Uninstalled all ATI drivers, uninstalled Rage. Rebooted, reinstalled ATI Drivers, Reinstalled rage, got through the ARC seen much more quickly, even got to the point where the guy picked me up in the buggy and brought me back to his place, then gave up. Graphics and movement are so choppy that the game is unplayable. Don't know what to do. Is it possible to get your money back?

P.S. I bought and installed the 3-DVD retail game from WalMart.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3Ghz
ATI HD 6870 1GB GDDR5
4GB RAM
Windows 7 Pro 32 bit

HELP
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 8:28 pm

lol satanmart
Seeing as how you got it from walmart, NO. They will NOT give you a refund for PC games/software. It took me 3 weeks of constant fighting with the to get my money back on the MGS triple pack when two of the three disks didn't work and they [censored]ed me out about the games not working.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:54 pm

Figured I would register to add to the list of people unhappy with how the game has turned out. Specifically that you cannot play the game due to graphical issues...
How the heck was a game in this state released? And from iD software no less, wow

anyway, my setup, you tell me if I should have any problems running this game...
AMD Phenom II 6-core 3.2 GHz cpu
G-Skill 8gb DDR3 1600 RAM
Corsair H70 H2O cooling
Radeon HD 6870 x 2 running in crossfire
running game off 120gb SSD

So far I have updated CCC, now I am about to try the rage amd patch - if it does any good I will quote this post and update. If not, thank god I also bought Dark Souls for my ps3 today.

Well the rage driver helped enough I thought I should reply. I am now running at a steady 60fps, but I still get the occasional screen freeze up for half a second. The unloaded textures to the left and right when you turn are almost gone, but now that I am lookign for that specifically I still see it most of the time. Plus I have screen tearing still.
Better, but not good enough that I am going to play this game now. So definitely on to Dark Souls for me. I am betting this will be improved on by the time I get back to Rage.
Good luck to everyone without any other options :/
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:28 am

Seeing as how you got it from walmart, NO. They will NOT give you a refund for PC games/software. It took me 3 weeks of constant fighting with the to get my money back on the MGS triple pack when two of the three disks didn't work and they [censored]ed me out about the games not working.

Ha, had to reply to this. I triumphed over wal mart once. Way back in sega genesis days though. I bought mortal kombat, played it for a while, and decided I wanted something else. So I asked my mom to go in with me and act like an angry parent who did not like that wal mart sold me such a game. worked great heh. I don't recall if they did actually sell it to me as a minor, or if it was my parents who purchased it for me in the first place. Might work for Rage too - but it might get someone fired now that all receipts have cashiers name and id on them...
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 8:26 am

Thought I would chime in Also. First install, got through the opening movie and then took over 10 minutes to get to the point where the ArC door could open. Freezing link crazy and unusable. Installed the AMD Rage performance drivers, no help at all. Uninstalled all ATI drivers, uninstalled Rage. Rebooted, reinstalled ATI Drivers, Reinstalled rage, got through the ARC seen much more quickly, even got to the point where the guy picked me up in the buggy and brought me back to his place, then gave up. Graphics and movement are so choppy that the game is unplayable. Don't know what to do. Is it possible to get your money back?

P.S. I bought and installed the 3-DVD retail game from WalMart.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3Ghz
ATI HD 6870 1GB GDDR5
4GB RAM
Windows 7 Pro 32 bit

HELP
Did you try the new AMD drivers that were released a couple of hours ago?

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:58 am

Did you try the new AMD drivers that were released a couple of hours ago?

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx


Well I did and it didn't seem to help much. Sure the textures loaded a little bit faster but if you were moving fast enough they still wouldn't load fast enough and there were weird blocks of texture missing. I can only guess that the missing texture was screen tearing. Yes forced vertical sync was enabled in my video driver control software. So I am left with a $60 game that can't be played currently. Perhaps it's too late for those devs to see our issues but I bet they will have a fun day of fixing tomorrow. Back in the good ole PC days of Carmageddon companies would release demos before the game came out, the reason why was to let people test the game, report back to the companies that made them to fix stuff. It's time to get back to the grass roots I think, let people test stuff, alpha, beta, etc. After all, that's the best way to ensure this stuff like today doesn't happen in the future. I'm just a number to them, so I hardly doubt I will make the difference.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 6:44 am

Alright, I'll chime in.

My specs:

AMD Athlon II X3 3.0GHz Tri-core processor
ATI Radeon HD 5740 1GB PCI-E card
8GB DDR3 10600 RAM
1TB 7200rpm Western Digital Caviar Black SATA HDD
Windows 7 Professional 64bit

Without the new optimized AMD driver, I get horrible framerate, horrible screen tearing, horrible texture pop-in when I turn, and the game locks up as soon as I exit the pod into the wasteland.

With the new optimized AMD driver, I get a good stable framerate, random lock ups, horrible screen tearing, and horrible texture pop-in when I turn.

With the cache folder trick, I get basically the same thing as above except for very slightly faster texture loads, but the problem is still horrible.

Yeah, this game needed to be in the oven for another month or so I believe. Shame, because what I've played of it so far seems really fun.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:18 am

Have the new driver but the quality of the textures is still very VERY low. I refuse to play with the textures so low.

6970 2gb.

Horrible. I want a refund.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:57 pm

Oh [censored] is dark souls out?
lolololol Oh yes, and you better believe if Nvidia doesn't fix this game soon, I will be a slave to that game instead.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 2:43 am

lolololol Oh yes, and you better believe if Nvidia doesn't fix this game soon, I will be a slave to that game instead.
Awesome, just gotta wait for Block Buster to get a copy in. Also [censored] RAGE, I'm done. I waited long enough and paid enough to get a good damn WORKING game and I get this... No, not doing it. I don't care if it gets fixed and id already has my money so I'm just gonna erase this entire thing fro my memory and HDD.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 6:07 am

Have the new driver but the quality of the textures is still very VERY low. I refuse to play with the textures so low.

6970 2gb.

Horrible. I want a refund.

Quality of the textures is low? As in the texture resolution? Yeah...if that is gonna keep you from enjoying the game you might as well shelf it for now and hope they release the internal uncompressed textures soon.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:22 pm

Quality of the textures is low? As in the texture resolution? Yeah...if that is gonna keep you from enjoying the game you might as well shelf it for now and hope they release the internal uncompressed textures soon.

Yes. I'm still seeing low quality textures in game. I dont think high quality textures exist in the download. That famous phone picture still looks like that even with the fixed drivers.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 7:24 am

We need a direct comparison of the 360/PS3 versions matched to the same screen shots and screen resolution 1920x1080 to truly understand just how low quality the textures are on the PC.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:29 am

In the future, remember not just to store food, water, and weapons...

but hide your textures too... Apparently apocalyptic-sized asteroids can destroy those too!
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:22 pm

We need a direct comparison of the 360/PS3 versions matched to the same screen shots and screen resolution 1920x1080 to truly understand just how low quality the textures are on the PC.

I want textures that are better then what you will see on the 360. Right now they are horrible. Do you see better textures then this? Because I still see the phone in this state after updating drivers.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/T3STN.jpg[/img]

Have you seen what a game like the witcher 2 looks like? Maybe I'm spoiled but this will not due. especially when they drop all those high res screen shots on us.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:24 am

OK make a better engine or get out whining under your moms skirt! IM TIRED OF CHILDISH Americans moaning and screaming like "ive spent zillion$s" on my rig and didnt get a 110% done game! Cmon its release day ffs live with it! Seriously im out of here since noone (except Stewox maybe) could handle this "serious trouble" DAY1 RAGE causes in his pathetic life...lTS GOING TO GET FIXED I KNOW!!!


You're unbelievable...YES WE SHOULD STOP WHINING ABOUT THE BROKEN GAME WE JUST BOUGHT FOR 60 DOLLARS IN THIS BOOMING ECONOMY
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 8:41 pm

Ok, I've played the game for about two hours now with the new AMD driver, and here's my experience:

-Absolutely zero freezes, despite what so many people are reporting. Not sure why.
-Still getting texture pop-in, albeit not quite as much. Still very distracting, though.
-Terrible screen tearing until I forced vsync and triple buffer through Catalyst.
-And most frustrating, character models in Wellspring flash very quickly. That's the best way I can describe it; I've never seen anything like it before. Anyone else?
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:24 am

I have bad news everyone. It seems that this problem is not only on our beloved PC version but is across all three platforms. It seems that the developers made some special version of the game to record gameplay videos and show off at events but released a shoddy version to eveyone else. False advertising to the fullest extent.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:15 am

I have bad news everyone. It seems that this problem is not only on our beloved PC version but is across all three platforms. It seems that the developers made some special version of the game to record gameplay videos and show off at events but released a shoddy version to eveyone else. False advertising to the fullest extent.

do you have proof of this? What is your source?
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 6:45 pm

OK make a better engine or get out whining under your moms skirt! IM TIRED OF CHILDISH Americans moaning and screaming like "ive spent zillion$s" on my rig and didnt get a 110% done game! Cmon its release day ffs live with it! Seriously im out of here since noone (except Stewox maybe) could handle this "serious trouble" DAY1 RAGE causes in his pathetic life...lTS GOING TO GET FIXED I KNOW!!!

I am going to make this post as useful as the one I quoted.
You are a [censored] BAG!
Take your childish anti-American sentiments and move to/stay in France.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 2:16 am

I have registered to vent my frustration. Never done that before. There are a few people here calling us childish...well their opinion in the matter is so pointless, I don't even know what to say. As for me, I have never had such a terrible experience. I have gone to college for PC repair, and my current computer is my third build. i7 2600, 8 gigs RAM, SLI 580's, 1200 Watt Corsair PSU. I just reinstalled Windows 7, as I wanted a faster HD. This install is only 3 days old. ALL OF MY DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE. In fact, I always check the version of my drivers before playing a big release (I get insulted when somebody suggests this). The game runs at 50 - 60 FPS for me (although there is a strange stutter that's hard to explain, even after disabling SLI, which I shouldn't have to do). I have not had any crashes, but have only played for an hour, because: Insane texture pop in (Granted it only takes a second to load in, but is still severly distracting, no matter how much I want to ignore it), and the most low res textures I have seen in a LONG time. Honestly, I thought something was wrong with my install, cause no textures could look THAT BAD in 2011. If it wasn't for some extremely friendly, disappointed, NON CHILDISH gamers determined to help other gamers, I would be having these problems too: bizarre seams all over the place and unacceptable tearing. And I am not even an ATI user! (sorry ATI users, it's a [censored] shame the state this game is in for you guys...some of you LITERALLY cannot play this)

I can live with the disappointing storyline, the non open open world, the weird physics (try and find the lowest speed you can, driving into a barrier on your ATV with your guy still shooting up into the air...it's pretty funny), and the small non-game destroying bugs. But I WILL NOT live with this pathetic texture pop in and the extremely low res textures (we are literally talking quality somewhere between N64 and PS2). The economy blows, and I just spent 60 dollars on this mess! And no John, your honest reflection on this game a year from now in an interview fixes NOTHING. How about saying something now? Or are the crafty Bethesda PR reps advising against it? Ya, you wouldn't want to sympathize with us or reassure us, that would be terrible, right? Well, I am not going to look for a refund, as I want this huge mistake left in my library to remind me never to preorder anything, especially from you, Bethesda/ID.

Sincerely

Ex Fan in Utter Disbelief
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 2:17 am

Intel Core i7 920
XFX Radeon HD 5870 1GB
6GB DDR3 RAM

Just posting my specs and adding to this thread that textures atrociously pop on my system. Why did we pay money for this?
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:26 pm

Just for kicks I cranked up a bunch of settings in Catalyst to the max. What I got was a really nice image quality with a buttery smooth framerate. I can tell the game is going to look superb and play super smooth on my machine. It just keeps freezing up every so often, but underneath whatever is making it do that I can still tell its handling the actual game just fine.

I overrode or enhanced game settings where possible. Morphological Filtering at 8xEQ with standard Filter, Tessellation AMD optimized, Catalyst A.I. at High Quality and enable Surface Optimization, Force V-sync on, Anti-Aliasing mode at Quality (Super-sample AA), tripple buffering off and Anisotropic Filtering I have to leave at Use Application Settings. If I choose anything other than that for Anisotropic Filtering, I lose that buttery smooth framerate.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 8:01 am

I can confirm screen tearing/slow loading textures on head turn. I used the driver package posted in the sticky specifically for this game and the tearing became worse. Going to try rolling back to 11.8

Phenom II quad @ 3.6Ghz
8gb 1066
ATI 5770 (1GB)

Edit: 11.8 drivers did not fix this problem. Hopefully a patch is released very soon.

Dang Lol, I just backdated to 11.8 drivers, no point in trying now, thanks for post! haha, I have no issues with the framerates as long as I turn off my second GPU in crossfire, 60 FPS or more easy, just the horrible texture loading, tears, blinking, sound shuddering, and other graphical glitches that plague this game. My specs are: 1055t X6 OC, 8 GB RAM, Saphire VaporX 5770 (x2) with crossire enabled, (except for this game)
ps I haven't been able to play past the beginning of the cave battle with the ghost bandit gang. I was getting a headache from frustration that I just dropped 60 bones into this piece of crap.
Hope this gets fixed, peace out peeps
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 2:34 am

do you have proof of this? What is your source?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kg1rCk5snU

Xbox 360 users are also reporting the issue on these forums.

This makes it less likely that it will ever be patched out because it seems to be a design flaw that is deeply rooted in the engine. I just want the version of the game that produced videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVX9V_Uf30Q
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