Turn off 'Texture Detail' in the options.

I'm pretty sure this feature is broken. It is pretty much the "high rez texture option" but if I remember correctly it only worked on a few versions of the Nvidia and ATI drivers, once they updated them it broke that feature. So if you try to turn it on it makes the game run horrible.

I have AA turned ON, Vsync ON, Texture Cache to Large, and Anisotropic Filter to High and it runs like a dream with very little pop in, if any, at 60fps no drops.

The texture cache option is what effects the texture pop in. Set it to large.

I'm pretty postive you probably did what I did once and enabled the "texture detail" thing without even thinking twice about it. I had the same run around trying to figure out why the game ran like trash on a computer that should eat this game alive.

yeah, I just tested it, I turned 'texture detail' ON and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the game and as soon as I walked into a open area the frame rate tanked and I was getting micro stuttering the entire time.

You know what...? That looks to have made it much better. :D Thanks. I had no idea that Texture Detail was broken. Disabling that has actually helped with the frame times/pacing. I think setting my monitor's refresh rate to 60Hz has contributed as well. Before changing the refresh rate I was getting frame times ranging from 16.6-17.1 according to MSI Afterburner. Changing the refresh rate I was getting 16.6-16.7.
Oddly enough before, putting Texture Cache to low helped with the pop-in, but high made it worse. Tried it just with Texture Detail off and having Texture Cache at high and that made it better with low making it worse. Odd. Either way, having Texture Cahce on high combined with all the config commands I have enabled, the pop-in still happens, just no where near as much. It seems more noticeable at the beginning once you step out of the Ark.

Thanks again

no problem.

Yeah, the texture detail thing makes the video ram go crazy. So you will get all kinds of janky results.

Texture Detail and Texture Cache all has to do with your Video Ram. When you use Texture Detail it uses a TON of video ram. I've heard it actually uses to much because of a memory leak with the video drivers itself.

So yeah, if you turned Texture Detail ON and with a Large Texture Cache it will run horrible and the pop in would be insane because you will be running our of Video ram like crazy fast.

With Texture detail off, and texture Cache on High, your video ram wont run out like it was.

You can also try running the game in 64 bit (if you are running on a 64 bit OS). It looks better (way better lighting) and it will probably run better too.

Just add this to your 'Steam Launch Options' for Rage.

+logfile 0

This is if you run in 64 bit, it will load much faster like it should.

Originally posted by Crafty:

no problem.

Yeah, the texture detail thing makes the video ram go crazy. So you will get all kinds of janky results.

Texture Detail and Texture Cache all has to do with your Video Ram. When you use Texture Detail it uses a TON of video ram. I've heard it actually uses to much because of a memory leak with the video drivers itself.

So yeah, if you turned Texture Detail ON and with a Large Texture Cache it will run horrible and the pop in would be insane because you will be running our of Video ram like crazy fast.

With Texture detail off, and texture Cache on High, your video ram wont run out like it was.

You can also try running the game in 64 bit (if you are running on a 64 bit OS). It looks better (way better lighting) and it will probably run better too.

Just add this to your 'Steam Launch Options' for Rage.

+logfile 0

This is if you run in 64 bit, it will load much faster like it should.

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I believe I was testing it out with the 64bit version, but I'll add that to the launch options. It's ridiculous they never fixed this. I have 8GB of VRAM and it runs like ass due to this issue.

thank you so much for this, I'm playing on Linux CachyOS with an RTX4090 and even after using id5tweaker and unlocking it to 240fps, the frame pacing was making me sick!
Turning off "Texture Detail" it is now as smooth as glass!!