Wanted to assure you we're taking comments from you guys very seriously. We're looking into the problems you're reporting and looking for solutions. There's a lot that goes into that, including testing to new fixes to make sure they're not causing greater problems. For that reason, we prefer to hold off on updates until we have something substantive and helpful to share with you guys.

At this very moment, I do have some good news for folks with ATI cards. I'm told that AMD should have new drivers available very soon. Once we're able to test against those, we should have more to share.

Wanted to assure you we're taking comments from you guys very seriously. We're looking into the problems you're reporting and looking for solutions. There's a lot that goes into that, including testing to new fixes to make sure they're not causing greater problems. For that reason, we prefer to hold off on updates until we have something substantive and helpful to share with you guys.

At this very moment, I do have some good news for folks with ATI cards. I'm told that AMD should have new drivers available very soon. Once we're able to test against those, we should have more to share.

Wanted to assure you we're taking comments from you guys very seriously. We're looking into the problems you're reporting and looking for solutions. There's a lot that goes into that, including testing to new fixes to make sure they're not causing greater problems. For that reason, we prefer to hold off on updates until we have something substantive and helpful to share with you guys.

At this very moment, I do have some good news for folks with ATI cards. I'm told that AMD should have new drivers available very soon. Once we're able to test against those, we should have more to share.

This is where so many of us are. We're trying to be patient and understanding and respectful, but how about a little acknowledgement and apology from Id, huh? All I've heard so far is "While many people are having NO problems with the game...blah blah blah" and "There are just SO MANY pc configs out there it's hard to make sure it works for them all....blah blah blah" and "yes it must be those darn drivers....blah blah blah...." I have no doubt that they are scrambling around trying figure out what went wrong but they're doing it while refusing to man up and take the blame. I know it's the launch of their labor of love and this is their bread and butter and they need to make money and prove to everyone that this is a great game so people will buy it... BUT, if they really respect the PC gaming community as much as we WANT to respect them, they'd give us a statement announcing that they dropped the ball, they messed up, they know this has been a HUGE disappointment and they ARE working feverishly to make it up to us. That's all we want. While I don't know if I'll ever drop $60 on an Id pre-order again, I might still be a fan and supporter of this developer. They just have to give me a reason to. I gave them $60. They gave me a pretty box with a frisbee in it. All I want is to know that YOU (Id) understand where I'm coming from and tell me that you are going to give me the rest of what I paid for. I can be patient. Tell me what's going on. Please.

New driver is here:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU122AMDCat1110PreDriverV2.aspx

Update brings the following:

• Improves performance in Rage on single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
  
• Resolves intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
  
• Resolves flickering of NPCs in Rage
  
• Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
  
• Driver support for Windows XP

Wanted to assure you we're taking comments from you guys very seriously. We're looking into the problems you're reporting and looking for solutions. There's a lot that goes into that, including testing to new fixes to make sure they're not causing greater problems. For that reason, we prefer to hold off on updates until we have something substantive and helpful to share with you guys.

At this very moment, I do have some good news for folks with ATI cards. I'm told that AMD should have new drivers available very soon. Once we're able to test against those, we should have more to share.

If Id is listening, this is a heartfelt message to them about RAGE.

Id, there are somethings you need to realize about most gamers:

Most gamers aren't going to check twitter feeds to find out what graphics card driver they have to download. Most gamers aren't going to manually input code into the launch options just to get a game running correctly. Most gamers are probably stumped and in the dark. They don't know about all this graphics driver, manual fix BS that some PC gamers including myself know about.

With that said. At the very moment, without those manual fixes, the game is utterly unplayable, and even with said fixes, the game is still buggy, at points broken, and potentially dangerous to run. The game has crashed at least 10 times on me now for no reason. Some quests don't even work without glitching out the game. This is NOT my graphics card driver doing this. This is the game.

As developers, Id has a responsibility to deliver a quality product. I payed over $60, and I received an unfinished product. I have yet to be more disgusted with a port in my life. Congratulations Id, RAGE makes GTA4 seem like a godsend in comparison. As I'm writing this, it is about an hour away from midnight - nearly 3 days since the game was launched. We have heard nothing but complaints about graphics drivers, empty, broken promises, and the occational help from not Id employees, but Nvidia, AMD, and Bethesda moderators. We don't want more of your [censored] manual fixes; we want a patch.

Now many of you may be saying to yourself that a patch to fix all of these issues being released so soon would seem nearly impossible. If you are one of these people, I say one thing: DEAL WITH IT. Like I said, As developers, Id has a responsibility to deliver a quality product and they have failed to do so on the PC end. They should have launched a scaleble, stable, and working game at launch for whoever had a rig that fit the profile, and instead they gave us a nearly unplayable, sloppy port.

This is all coming from a developer who built their success from the support of a giant community of PC gamers - people who believed in what Id was doing, and would always buy their products no matter what. You have single-handedly just said "[censored] you" to each and every one of those people who supported Id from the ground up. Me included. I'm 20 right now, but when I was only 5, I can remember using my allowance to buy the newest installment of Commander Keen, instead of just getting the shareware version or demo of said game. I ordered that game because Commander Keen 4 is still my favorite game of all time - it brought me so much joy that I wanted more, and I wanted to support the company that brought me into gaming. Same goes for Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein. This was back in the mid-1990's where most of these games were still mail order deals, and I was only a young kid, but I still supported Id from the start. And I'm sure many others like myself did the same.

As it stands, this is what PC gamers have received from a cherished and celebrated developer of games that define PC gaming:

-No 64bit executable.
-No graphics options.
-Horrific Pop-in.
-Potentially hazardous instability.
-Screen Tearing and Framerate Issues
-Graphical bugs and artifacts galore.
-Freezing and crashing.
-An unplayable game without manually modifying the game yourself or installing new drivers.

To say that this is a slap in the face is a mere understatement. I am both disgusted and saddened by the lack of quality in this product, and by the way that Id has tried to sidestep the situation by blaming it on drivers and procrastinating on updates. At this point, I have lost most of my faith in this game, this engine, and this developer. If there is not permanent patch or fix by next Tuesday, I am going to refund my purchase, because this is NOT worth the $60+ I spent on it. At this point, anyone who wants a refund, deserves one, and we all deserve an apology from Id because this is inexcusable.

4 days out, game still isn't working.

No feedback to people waiting on whether they are even aware of the freezing issue with the new drivers.

id, just like 90% of all developers out there now, doesn't give a [censored] about PC gamers anymore. The real money is in consoles. PC gamers are just relics of the past to these people. What's sad is this is id... they are supposed to be the effing vanguard of PC games development. The so-called Tech God has just taken a giant dump on all of PC gaming, as far as I see it.

I just register myself to bump this post as well.

Well said OP! I just wonder that why the game isn't tested properly before moving up to the shelf? Don't the developers really test the game on different consoles or PC before selling? If the developers are aware of the bug, why dont just delay the release date until it is playable? Blaming on "many PC players can still play RAGE with perfectly fine" should not be the statement to address this issue, this only enrage us. Tell us what you are currently doing, update us constantly with the patch development on the blog or something, at least we need to know that the developer is aware of the situation instead of posting on how critically acclaimed the game is while we can only sit and wait for a patch for days after days.

Also, if the developers are able to create a patch that include video setting, why dont they do it in the first place before releasing the game? If the developer can put a little more love for PC gamers, I believe you will have their full support in the future.

Kelco, no one cares what your opinion is, please stop insulting people having problems, if you have nothing to add, go talk in the other forum about the fun your having with the game.

Welcome. This is a driver release botch, not a problem with the game. its out of the developer's hands so all we can do is wait for ATI/Nvidia to release the correct stuff.
The video settings being patched in are to cater to the requests of us, not bc they are needed.