Après le quasi arrêt de mort pour STALKER 2 chez GSC, et la fin brutale du Fallout Online de Interplay, voici que Metro 2033 Last Light a des soucis. Soit les développeurs ont besoin de plus de temps pour le finir, soit c’est parce que l’éditeur, THQ, bat de l’aile actuellement. En tous cas THQ se voit obligé de reporter Last Light à début 2013. C’est donc un jeu postapo supplémentaire qui ne sortira pas finalement en 2012.
Le sympathique RAGE de Bethesda / ID Software, qui n’a pas eu vraisemblablement le succès escompté l’automne dernier, vient néanmoins d’être patché, en plus d’être aussi adapté sur Mac. Sans le mode multijoueurs toutefois, pour l’instant. Aussi, la déclinaison iPhone de RAGE est passé de son coté en version 2.0, pour ceux que cela intéressait .
Le futur de RAGE est incertain. Si les bugs liés aux cartes ATI devraient disparaitre tôt ou tard (AMD améliore petit à petit la compatibilité des pilotes Catalyst avec RAGE ; cf. les beta driver 12.1a sortis début janvier), et faire oublier donc le mauvais départ qu’a pu connaitre le jeu à cause de problèmes techniques, on peut espérer voir sortir cette année un DLC venant étoffer un peu plus le jeu (voire le multi, ce serait bien). Jeu qui n’était qu’un premier pas de ID avec son nouveau moteur graphique (le ID Tech 5), moteur plutôt réussi même si il est probablement encore en phase de rodage. En théorie un RAGE 2 était prévu, mais il est difficile d’imaginer qu’il arrive cette année. Seul certitude, les outils de modifications de RAGE sont toujours au programme. Si jamais il n’y a pas d’extension, on aura alors peut-être quelques mods sympas. Patience !
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The 1.2 update adds new features and addresses various compatibility and performance issues. At this time, if you have an ATI card, we recommend using these preview drivers.
Read the release notes from id below…
New Functionality
Texture Detail: Enabling Texture Detail will improve up-close texture quality by performing upsampling with adaptive sharpening. This does not update or increase the resolution of the base textures included with the game but improves the perceived resolution and crispness of textures. This is an intensive operation and is only recommended if you have a six core CPU or higher. Please disable this feature if you encounter poor performance, stability issues or are given a notification that the game has run out of memory after loading a map. The Texture Detail option can be found in the Settings -> Video Menu.
Transcode Benchmark: A new benchmark has been added that determines how quickly texture data can be translated from the compressed format on your hard drive to a format that can be used by your video card. The higher your score, the faster your PC is able to make higher detail texture data available. This is not a traditional benchmark that runs through a scene of the game and returns a min/max/average framerate based on hardware and video settings. Other than the GPU Transcode option, the score will not be affected by changing any video settings. The Transcode Benchmark option can be found in the Settings -> Video Menu.
Error Messaging: If you attempt to apply video settings on a system that is not capable of handling them, an error may come up stating that your system ran out of memory. You will be allowed to continue, however, it is recommended that you either reduce your video settings until this message no longer occurs or you will be asked to restart the game with lower video settings. If you ignore this error and continue playing without altering your settings you will likely encounter texture corruption and/or system instability.
Automatic Video Settings Fallbacks: When an advanced video setting fails to apply, the setting may be set back to a safe default. Anti-aliasing will fall back to NONE if the allocation of a multi-sampled FBO fails. Texture Cache will fall back to SMALL when the allocation of a large texture cache fails. Texture Detail will fall back to OFF when large page table allocations fail. On failure these settings will automatically fall back to safe values without the need for user input.
Changes / Fixes
• Fixed crash from potentially having stale transcode jobs in flight when switching between texture cache sizes.
• Fixed crash from using SIMD optimized memcpy with a PBO pointer that is not 16-byte aligned.
• Fixed GPU transcode option always turning off when restarting the game.
• Fixed progression in Dead City where player could not advance through sliding door to en route to the defibrillator upgrade.
• Fixed CPU feature detection.
• Fixed issues with launching MP by using double quotes around path name.
• Fixed lack of texture detail on parts of the screen at high resolutions due to limited feedback analysis buffer.
• Fixed thread stack space usage and freed up 700 MB of virtual address space.
• Re-enabled UBOs.
• Adjustments to default VDM values for balance.
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