Carmack confident RAGE will be 60fps on all platforms

RAGE

John Carmack of iD Software reveals that RAGE's framerate suffers considerably on the PlayStation 3.

In the latest Edge magazine, programming wizard John Carmack states that the Xbox 360 version of RAGE just about matches the 60fps framerate of the PC version, while the PS3 only runs the game at around 20-30fps at this stage in development.

"The 360 version matches the PC's 60 fps," Carmack told Edge. "But the textures on many surfaces currently flick visibly between resolutions as you move toward and away from them, while the PS3's framrate runs at just 20-30fps.

"The PS3 lags a little bit behind in terms of getting the performance out of it. The rasteriser is just a little bit slower - no two ways about that.

"The RSX is slower than what we have in the 360. The CPU is about the same, but the 360 makes it easier to split things off, and that's what a lot of the work has been, splitting it all into jobs on the PS3."

Previously Carmack has stated that the PS3 is a little bit slower at running RAGE, but this is the first time we've been told by just how much. However, iD Software still intends to release all three versions at 60fps and they're confident they can achieve this:

"Everything is designed as a 60 hertz game. We expect this to be 60 hertz on every supported platform," Carmack added

"The work remaining is getting it locked so there’s never a dropped frame or a tear, but we’re confident that we’re going to get that."

Carmack has also previously stated the advantages of Blu-ray for their game, where the Xbox 360 version would need to be included on two DVDs or more.

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^ funny how in last nites article they missed out the red.

either way im sure they will get all versions upto scratch, the ps3`s frame rates and the 360 juggling of textures.

When does the game release

Yeah it could happen.

its out in 2010, from what i know its a gigantic game and a massive world. i cant wait to hear more about it.

hopefully ID can surpass thier last console attemps, ie quake 4 on 360 and quake wars on ps360

Ok, I thought it was coming out this year. They should have more than enough time to fix both the versions. Also with Zenimax's financial backing it should be no problem

Hopefully the release more info at quakecon 2009

That's odd, because CoD4 ran at 60fps on all platforms with no difficulty.

very very narrow corridors, Small maps, not that great textures and it's 600p


OT: I will still get the PC version after all it's id.

Let's hope.

I'm pretty annoyed at Edge reporting on this. They totally misrepresented him with how they chose to present his words, causing the usual internet fanboy shitstorm, only to look silly as now the news is being updated they didn't quote him fully and for whatever reasons badly edited his words such that his meaning was twisted.

Poor form, really.

So basically what he said was PC is fine (no surprise there), 360 framerate is fine but texture handling isn't optimized yet so there's work to be done there, PS3 framerate isn't there yet to there's work to be done there...

Oh, and we fully expect the final shipped game running of the final, optimized engine built, to perform equally on all released platforms.

Nice one Edge, I really got that from the original article.