RAGE specs (pc)

[Venom20]

I am unsure if this has already been posted. I looked quickly and couldn't find it.

Minimum:

• OS: Win XP SP3, Vista, Win 7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or Equivalent AMD
• Memory: 2GB
• Hard Disk Space: 25GB
• Video Card: GeForce 8800, Radeon HD 4200

Recommended:

• OS: Win XP SP3, Vista, Win 7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad or Equivalent AMD
• Memory: 4GB
• Hard Disk Space: 25GB
• Video Card: GeForce 9800 GTX, ATI Radeon HD 5550

Source: bluesnews

 

[exar333]

Looks pretty on-par with most recent demanding titles. Hoping the game is good...

 

[Arkaign]

lol, the minimum and recommended video gpus are hilariously strange.

8800, even the puny 320mb model, is much better than an HD4200/HD4250/4290. Probably on the order of twice as fast. I'm not sure what's even with the 4200, maybe a 8500GT?

The 9800GTX is most certainly head and shoulders above the 5550 as well.

Maybe they're trying to tell us that ATI > NV for this title? Or they're just throwing darts.

 

[exar333]

lol, the minimum and recommended video gpus are hilariously strange.

8800, even the puny 320mb model, is much better than an HD4200/HD4250/4290. Probably on the order of twice as fast. I'm not sure what's even with the 4200, maybe a 8500GT?

The 9800GTX is most certainly head and shoulders above the 5550 as well.

Maybe they're trying to tell us that ATI > NV for this title? Or they're just throwing darts.

I noticed that too. Not sure if they may be hinting at a ATI advantage here or not...

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

HD 4200 is such a slow card. It came for free with my mobo and can hardly run anything at all.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Did anyway see Rage in Breaking Bad?

It was a rail shooter. If it's anything like it was show it will be shit.

Looks like it wont be like it was shown.

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/09/02/rage-featured-on-this-weeks-episode-of-breaking-bad/

" RAGE does not support light gun play — that’s just artistic expression from Breaking Bad’s creative team."

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Last I knew, AMD had a relatively significant OpenGL performance lead

 

[Red Hawk]

Those recommendations are hilarious. A Radeon HD 4200 is the AMD minimum? Ok, ok, so they've done some serious optimizations to get the game working on an integrated graphics chip with the settings all dialed down. I can accept that. But...why then make a Geforce 8800 the Nvidia minimum? What can a Radeon HD 4200 do that a Geforce 8400, 8500, or 8600 couldn't? As dedicated cards, all of those should be better than a 4200, which is half a Radeon HD 5450 with no discrete memory.

The recommended makes sense for Nvidia. 9800 GTX/GTS 250. Yeah, OK. I can see a top-of-the-line, well-optimized shooter running at full spec at a mid-HD resolution on that hardware. But the AMD card? Get out of town. A Radeon HD 5550 -- the forgotten little brother of the 5570/5670 -- pales in comparison to the 9800 GTX in every respect. 128 bit GDDR3 memory, 320 VLIW5 shader processors, 28.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth, only 16 texture units -- heck, I don't think this thing could run it at graphics settings to match the console versions at any reasonable performance level or resolution!

It has to be a type-o. They must have meant to type "5750", or at least 5570.

 

[WMD]

lol, the minimum and recommended video gpus are hilariously strange.

8800, even the puny 320mb model, is much better than an HD4200/HD4250/4290. Probably on the order of twice as fast. I'm not sure what's even with the 4200, maybe a 8500GT?

The 9800GTX is most certainly head and shoulders above the 5550 as well.

Maybe they're trying to tell us that ATI > NV for this title? Or they're just throwing darts.

Even if the game is heavy biased, there is no way a 5550 is as fast as a 9800gtx. I am just glad they don't work with hardware vendors to add gimmick DX11 effects.

 

[Rifter]

wow MASSIVE FAIL on the GPU reccomendations, 9800 GTX or 5550?? WTF.

Thats like saying you should buy a Nissan 350Z or maybe a Honda Civic.

 

[Rhezuss]

Did anyway see Rage in Breaking Bad?

It was a rail shooter. If it's anything like it was show it will be shit.

Looks like it wont be like it was shown.

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/09/02/rage-featured-on-this-weeks-episode-of-breaking-bad/

" RAGE does not support light gun play — that’s just artistic expression from Breaking Bad’s creative team."

Hahaha saw that too and was like WTF!!!!
But good publicity nontheless hehehh.

 

[sandorski]

Ya, must be a typo there.

 

[Arachnotronic]

http://ashgamepcs.blogspot.com/2011/09/id-softwares-rage-system-requirements.html

This is ridiculous, and I know that many mainstream gamers will try to run this on their HD 4200s (integrated POS) and then scream about how the Xbox and PS3 are better and that you need a $2000 PC to play RAGE, yadda yadda.

This is pretty indicative that the publishers probably saw, "oh, the HD 4290 has about 40 stream processors and the 8800 has from 96-128...that's equal, right?"

 

[busydude]

Maybe they're trying to tell us that ATI > NV for this title? Or they're just throwing darts.

Last I knew, AMD had a relatively significant OpenGL performance lead

^^ This must be the only logical conclusion.

 

[wuliheron]

There is nothing conventional about this game engine whatsoever and to expect it to have conventional requirements is absurd. It produces cutting edge graphics at 60fps using as little as 2gb of ram, a core 2 duo, and a radeon 4200. The price you have to pay is 25gb of HDD space. However, this is the most streamlined version of the engine they intend to produce. Future games will shoot for 30fps and then we'll get a better idea of just how big a difference it makes to use AMD or Nvidia graphics cards.

 

[WMD]

Nvidia hardware has always been much faster at OGL. Does this mean Rage will use DX9 instead of OGL?

Edit: I think the answer is yes. This game will be DX9 based on PC.

From John Carmack interview:

MPC: Are you using DirectX 9 equivalent? For Doom 4 as well?
JC: Yes to both. It’s one of those things I get asked a lot. What’s big and exciting for DirectX 10 or DirectX 11? There’s not a whole lot of… really not a whole lot. The big touted geometry shaders were in many ways, a mistaken belief that people desperately wanted to create stencil shadow volume.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fe...ge_id_tech_6_doom_4_details_and_more?page=0,1

 

[CPA]

There is nothing conventional about this game engine whatsoever and to expect it to have conventional requirements is absurd. It produces cutting edge graphics at 60fps using as little as 2gb of ram, a core 2 duo, and a radeon 4200. The price you have to pay is 25gb of HDD space. However, this is the most streamlined version of the engine they intend to produce. Future games will shoot for 30fps and then we'll get a better idea of just how big a difference it makes to use AMD or Nvidia graphics cards.

Yeah, 25GB of disk storage is what caught my eye. Damn!

 

[busydude]

Edit: I think the answer is yes. This game will be DX9 based on PC.

DX9 equivalent != DX9

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

The engine is openGL based so that is probably why there is such a large gap.

We shouldn't look at the requirements as we would for a DX game.

 

[Arkaign]

The engine is openGL based so that is probably why there is such a large gap.

We shouldn't look at the requirements as we would for a DX game.

Maybe, but it doesn't explain the absolutely massive discrepancy enough. Even in other OpenGL titles, the 4250 is a dog. A 4250 will crawl with Quake 4, why are we to believe that it won't with Rage?

 

[mmntech]

Yeah, 25GB of disk storage is what caught my eye. Damn!

Me too. I'd hope there will be some serious compression for the Steam version. That'd take all day to DL, and blow half my cap. D:

And it's DX9? I smell another console port.

 

[coreyb]

mmntech, you live in ontario and have a cap? why?

 

[Red Storm]

mmntech, you live in ontario and have a cap? why?

And why is it only 50GB?

I get mad at Comcast with their 250GB cap! D:

 

[coreyb]

I'm with teksavvy cable and have an unlimited cap...I suggest you sign up with them!

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Nvidia hardware has always been much faster at OGL. Does this mean Rage will use DX9 instead of OGL?

Edit: I think the answer is yes. This game will be DX9 based on PC.

From John Carmack interview:


http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fe...ge_id_tech_6_doom_4_details_and_more?page=0,1

you're living in the past, nVidia's OpenGL supremacy went down the toilet with the GF100 and has yet to fully recover, a Radeon 6850 is often as fast if not faster (sometimes significantly faster) than a GTX470 in OpenGL, and even a lowly 5770 can hold its own against much faster nVidia GPUs.

also, he said DX9 equivalent, not DX9 itself