{"id":14466,"date":"2011-10-05T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"id-software-tells-rage-players-to-grab-latest-amd-drivers-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14466-id-software-tells-rage-players-to-grab-latest-amd-drivers-immediately","title":{"rendered":"id Software tells RAGE players to grab latest AMD drivers \u201cimmediately\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick, there&rsquo;s no time to explain!<\/p>\n<p>id Software has told PC gamers to download the latest AMD drivers right now, and it&rsquo;s best to do as id Software says. Why are you still reading this?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have an AMD\/ATI graphics card, the new RAGE Catalyst drivers are out! BE SURE to grab them immediately,&#8221; shouts the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RAGEgame\/status\/121335003111112706\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"official RAGE Twitter feed\">official RAGE Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.amd.com\/us\/kbarticles\/Pages\/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"AMD&rsquo;s download page\">AMD&rsquo;s download page<\/a>, the new drivers include the latest OpenGL bits and pieces for special &ldquo;Rage performance optimisations&rdquo;, feature significant performance boosts for single GPU configurations, and are compatible with the AMD Radeon 6000 and AMD Radeon 5000 series of video cards.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia has also recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14292-Nvidia-and-AMD-release-new-drivers-just-for-Battlefield-Rage.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Nvidia and AMD release new drivers just for Battlefield 3, Rage\">new drivers<\/a> for the game.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up tweet that I just made up, id Software adds that, &ldquo;If you have a PS3 or Xbox 360, simply put the disc in the tray and start the game.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>RAGE hit the dirt in America yesterday, and is due out here on Friday. The reviews are out, so head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14418-Rage-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"RAGE review round-up\">RAGE review round-up<\/a> to see how it&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"190\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pGKtahzXRXU?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pGKtahzXRXU?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18526-id-Software-says-RAGE-players-should-grab-the-latest-AMD-drivers-&ldquo;immediately&rdquo;\" target=\"_self\" title=\"id Software tells RAGE players to grab latest AMD drivers &ldquo;immediately&rdquo;\"><strong>id Software tells RAGE players to grab latest AMD drivers &ldquo;immediately&rdquo;<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go go go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}