Rage System Requirements Are Fittingly Barren

33 responses to “Rage System Requirements Are Fittingly Barren”

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   Paddington

   September 7, 2011 at 11:02 am

   Sweet, my PC’s above the Recommended! 8D Still going to wait for reviews on this one though before I decide whether to buy it or not (and on what platform).

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      Chris

      September 7, 2011 at 11:27 am

      Hell yes my ancienct 8800 gtx has still got it

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         alinos

         September 7, 2011 at 1:29 pm

         of course it does until we get to the next console generation any game that goes on console will basically have to have 8800GT as a min spec.

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            Adrian Milano

            September 7, 2011 at 6:38 pm

            My brother has SLI 8800’s and its been hanging on for years lol. Lucky him. my xfire 5870’s though smash him 😛

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         Nicholas

         September 7, 2011 at 9:18 pm

         I’m one step above you with a 9800. Best (and only) card I ever bought. Sure it can’t run Crysis or Metro at full spec, but everything else it’ll gun quite happily.

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   Skidd

   September 7, 2011 at 11:04 am

   Smells rather fishy of the console port kind…

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   1. 

      Chazz

      September 7, 2011 at 11:08 am

      Indeed. My eagerness for this game has been somewhat dampened.

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   2. 

      Glenn

      September 7, 2011 at 11:14 am

      Don’t let it fool you, they have been working on this game for 6 years. Carmack is a firm believer in PC gaming and he’s said in interviews he hopes he’ll be able to release high res texture packs in the future.

      This game will still eat machines alive at the highest settings.

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         Water Bear

         September 7, 2011 at 11:16 am

         Also remembering Carmack’s amazing ability to produce wonderfully optimised game engines, i would have been surprised if the specs were any higher!

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         Skidd

         September 7, 2011 at 11:31 am

         You forget that Carmack has spent the last 6 years praising the current console generation every chance he gets. He has openly said that he would love to get in on the sheep console sales….

         It would not surprise me at all that when we finally get this game installed on our PC the first thing it will do is ask us to press start.

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            Skidd

            September 7, 2011 at 11:36 am

            PS: The doom3 engine wasn’t exactly optimized either. It ran like a dog and could only do enclosed areas. Hence the reason it hasn’t been used extensively as a game engine base for any third party games as much as say the unreal engine of the same time period.

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            1. 

               NotoriousR

               September 7, 2011 at 12:01 pm

               But Carmack has also stated he doesn’t make Id Tech to license out, and Unreal’s explosion in popularity is because they’re damn determined to get it out there and get everyone using it.

               Also, just out of curiosity how long was Doom 3 (and id tech 4(?)) under developemnt for?

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               Thom

               September 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm

               I take that with a grain of salt. Game engines are effectively their own product, and requires a separate team of specialists. Companies rarely build engines without being open to the option of leasing.

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               NotoriousR

               September 7, 2011 at 12:20 pm

               I should clarify that and say that (or rather, Carmack says) that when they make the id Tech engines, they make it with the intent for making their game. With unreal, they’ve clearly spent a great, great deal of effort from day one making it as generic and user accesible as possible so any developer can use it. I think Carmack said in an interview that the licensing happened only because people came up them and asked if they could, and they were like, sure, why not. Where as Unreal is standing there yelling out how awesome their engine is (and deservedly so).

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               Thom

               September 7, 2011 at 1:17 pm

               Yeah, OK, given your clarification, I think we’re on the same wavelength.

            5. 

               Wesley Franc

               September 7, 2011 at 7:53 pm

               It was a PC game …not for retards. I remember it running badly, until I googled for which settings I should apply for my video card … some tweak about vertex rendering in the config file and it ran like magic.

               Also, the “only does enclosed areas” is kind of a cheap shot in hindsight. It was the first game to do nice dynamic lighting … that is like saying pong “didn’t even have realistic handles on the paddles”,

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               waterbear

               September 7, 2011 at 12:41 pm

               I seem to remember the recommended card for doom 3 when it came out was the 6600gt, which I recall was a completely middle of the road card at the time. It was capable of high settings at a decent (for the time) resolution.

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      Awnshegh

      September 7, 2011 at 11:43 am

      Wouldn’t surprise me if the ‘recommended’ settings are what’s required to get this game running at console level. IE 1080P. But I’m sure for those of us running high end setups we’ll be able to ramp the detail well above the ‘recommended’ level for a great result.

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         alinos

         September 7, 2011 at 1:45 pm

         thats what im thinking the 9800GTX isn’t a powerhouse card.

         in fact unless you were upgrading constantly you should basically have missed it. Since the 200 series came out 6 months after it.

         I really wish they would mention screen resolution when doing these thing’s.

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   Azza

   September 7, 2011 at 11:08 am

   25GB??

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      #35

      September 7, 2011 at 11:25 am

      ^this
      wow. how many discs does it ship on?
      Im still keen as mustard to get this, but im thinking the download from steam will be a bit too much… gotta go try & remember where these mythical ‘retail stores’ are…

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         f4ction

         September 7, 2011 at 11:44 am

         Also remember file compressions for downloads.

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      shodannet

      September 7, 2011 at 11:30 am

      And to think it wasnt that long ago a game taking up 9GB was huge…

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4. 

   KidCynic

   September 7, 2011 at 11:37 am

   Woo! Sli GTX 580’s!

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5. 

   Pioneer

   September 7, 2011 at 11:42 am

   Twenty… five… gig. Something tells me this is NOT a game to buy on Steam.

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      NotoriousR

      September 7, 2011 at 11:59 am

      Oooh, is it the 2GB memory requirement? I bet that’s why!

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6. 

   Merus

   September 7, 2011 at 12:09 pm

   Interesting: Rage appears to benefit from quad core processors. Most games generally stick to a couple of threads.

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7. 

   Ynefel

   September 7, 2011 at 12:48 pm

   Recommended graphics cards are 3+ years old? Sus.

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   1. 

      OzHuski

      September 7, 2011 at 1:36 pm

      The 9800 is pretty old but it was going out for cheap a while ago.. The 5550 is about a year and a half, but to see a mid range recommended I guess is fair, that wouldnt be for highest settings of course.

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         Chazz

         September 7, 2011 at 2:15 pm

         Yeah but for an up and coming title in the DX11 era you’d expect for the recommended to at least be a GTX260.

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            706

            September 7, 2011 at 4:55 pm

            You would expect that, but then you remember that games don’t seem to be pushing PC hardware very hard at all lately. I am loathe to blame that solely on old consoles and PC’s getting ports but I don’t really see any other reason.

            It is kind of ironic that the only games that are PC exclusive and could push the boundaries, ie Blizzard and Valve games, are games that are specifically going to be made to look relatively simple to appeal to a greater audience or to prevent lag, ie Diablo 3 and DOTA2.

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8. 

   moloko

   September 7, 2011 at 7:00 pm

   Who cares it will be buggy and unplayable on release.

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9. 

   Otacon

   September 7, 2011 at 7:18 pm

   It would be nice with the release of these figures that they include what settings said figures are based on.

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