Rage: Performance Analysis On The PC
Equipped with new id Tech 5 graphics engine, Rage is an ambitious game that tackles first-person and vehicle combat. We take a close look at performance with different graphics hardware and CPUs, so that you know exactly what you need for smooth play.
Test System And Benchmarks
In our experience, the highest frame rates in Rage are encountered inside of towns and structures. Even low-end graphics hardware can manage 60 FPS at 1080p in these areas. So, we went outside to the wilderness in order to generate our worst-case numbers.
With a 60 FPS cap, it's more important to spend time playing with low-end hardware, which is able to tell us how much graphics processing muscle is needed before hitting that magic number. Of course, we’ll increase texture, anisotropic, and anti-aliasing detail to see what happens when we make things more difficult for the GPU.
Test Hardware | |
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Processor | Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge)Overclocked to 4 GHz, 6 MB L3 Cache, power-saving settings enabled, Turbo Boost disabled. |
Motherboard | MSI P67A-GD65, Intel P67 Chipset |
Memory | OCZ DDR3-2000, 2 x 2 GB, at 1338 MT/s, CL 9-9-9-20-1T |
Hard Drive | Western Digital Caviar Black 750 GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache, SATA 3Gb/sSamsung 470 Series SSD 256 GB, SATA 3Gb/s |
Graphics Cards | GeForce GT 430 DDR3GeForce GT 240 GDDR5GeForce GTX 550 Ti GDDR5GeForce GTX 460 1 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 560 Ti GDDR5GeForce GTX 570 GDDR5Radeon HD 6450 DDR3Radeon HD 5570 DDR3Radeon HD 6570 GDDR5Radeon HD 5770 GDDR5Radeon HD 6970 GDDR5 |
Power Supply | Seasonic X760 SS-760KM: ATX12V v2.3, EPS12V, 80 PLUS Gold |
CPU Cooler | Cooler Master Hyper TX 2 |
System Software And Drivers | |
Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
Renderer | OpenGL |
Graphics Driver | GeForce: 285.38 Beta |
Row 11 - Cell 0 | AMD Catalyst Rage Performance Driver |
Games | |
Rage | id Tech 5 engine Engine, wilderness, Fraps runs |
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MasterMace This is an instance of a company making a game for consoles and expecting it to work in PCs. This company will be abandoned by PC gamers, and it will settle in on the consoles. Eventually, they'll die off or change, just like the Red Faction series. This applies for the graphics and the quality of the game.Reply -
crisan_tiberiu Piracy doesn't make the PC world very atractive. Thats the only reason why game developers turn away from the PC, they dont make money.Reply -
dbonetrain 9521547 said:Piracy doesn't make the PC world very atractive. Thats the only reason why game developers turn away from the PC, they dont make money.
Carmack said they make for the consoles is for money. You are mistaken if you think piracy is what drives developers away from the PC. -
cbeermann Any1 know why its running so bad on my PC. I have a Phenom X2 550 3.1 Ghz, and a HD 6950.According to this review, it should be able to run it fine but whenever im playing my CPU is at 100% and it runs choppy as hell. I've installed the new RAGE performance driver, as well as that 11.10 thing, neither helped. I added the cache folder for textures, still choppy. I am curious however, that since I have my Steam on my K drive and not on my C if that could be screwing with the cache, anyone know?Reply -
dlsmoker You missing that console games too are downloaded "illegal", don't think that only pc games are.Reply -
Darkerson This game was a big "meh" for me. Hopefully they do a better job on the next game they make.Reply -
killerclick MasterMaceThis company will be abandoned by PC gamersReply
You mean Bethesda? I've already broken up with my girlfriend so I don't have to make up illnesses when Skyrim comes out on 11.11.11
Or did you mean id Software? In which case you're right, they can go to hell.