No I havent unplugged anything yet, it will be the last resort for me.. im pretty patient. I have faith iD will fix this soon. The game itself when it doesnt crash runs great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdqH2LaP9o is a video i made, showing a friend how it was running for me... sadly he has a almost identical setup.. but has terrible graphic issues..

Ok I think I found a solution when I disabled my second monitor the game would let me pass trough to the garage, I had previously removed all the .cfg tweaks and launch line commands.

Going to try and re-add all these tweaks now to check if it just was the second monitor that was messing things up.

well it just crashed again but it was playable until now at least for 2 hours

Working at the moment for me with all the tweaks added back to my game. Yay for now!

Random crashes when loading new areas
Consistent black screens when starting / exiting races (everything appears black and there is absolutely no texture detail but characters, vehicles and grass looks okay)

I can force a fix by saving in the beginning of a bugged area, closing out of the game entirely and re-launching, it seems. So basically, I start a race, it's messed up, quick save, quit, re-launch, load, looks fine until I finish the race and zone back into Wellspring, then I need to start the whole process over.

I have had a few crashes going into Ghost Town (for the bulletin quest you receive from Wellspring) as well.

AMD Athlon II X4 3.0 GHz
4 GB RAM
nVidia 9800 GT 512 MB
nVidia beta drivers 285.38
Windows 7 32-bit

Rage is the retail PC version.

I too am having this same issue. Going back to the Ghost Hideout and it won't stop crashing. I've been dealing with crashes since I started the racing events (and Mutant TV), typically I would do the event 3-4x and eventually it would not crash on a load. However the Ghost Hideout is to no avail. It's crashed around 8 times consecutively now. Specs below:

Win 7 64-bit
Radeon HD 5770 in Crossfire (temp. disabled for RAGE) @ 1920x1080 - Updated with AMD "Rage Fix" Drivers
Intel i7-950
6GB DDR3 Triple Channel DDR3 1333

Same issue for me. I can't get through Mutant Bash without it crashing to desktop each time. The game crashes on me pretty much every time it has to load the new map.

Win 7 Ultimate x64
Intel i7 965
6 GB RAM
ATI 5970 with the ATI beta Rage drivers from 10/4.

I've never had so many difficulties trying to get a game to work. Ever. I am extremely disappointed.

I am also experiencing this problem.

It no longer matters what area I am in. Whenever a load screen occurs the game crashes and I need to manually terminate the program.

I need to reload the game every single time and hope that it won't crash wherever there is a loading screen.

Absolute atrocity of a game.

I'm also still getting low res textures and whatnot.

i7-2600k
radeon 5970 -2gb
8gigs DDR3 1600

This driver says it fixes the crashing during the loading for amd//ati

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

I am having the same problem.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Intel Core 2 Q6600 2.6Ghz
Ati Radeon 4890 1GB memory
8GB Patriot DDR2 1066Mhz
AMD Rage Driver installed

I wanted to add that although my system specs are old rage runs very well at good FPS and i am using the high fidelity config settings that are floating around, those and the Rage driver sorted all but the "texture popping" of my graphical errors.

while i had some luck this afternoon playing flwless problems hit me back in the face.
First it happend on dead city and dead city central now it happens on the sewer mission of wellspring...
I updated my drivers turned everything i think of causing a probem offeven my logitech keyboard software and mouse software antivirus and malware programs i just cant avoid crash to desktop anymore
they happen randomly now even deinstalling my drivers in save mode of win7 didnt do much driver sweeper used im out of ideas atm but i wanted to note that a buddy of mine has the exact same pc just a diffrent graphic card ( 260gtx ) with 2gigs
while i upgraded from the same to a 560 gtx with 1 gb

stop saying you have issues and someone say the way to fix it

gotta try the new driver...hope this will help...be right back to tell you guys

DONT INSTALL THAT PIECE OF CRAP!!!!

the game does not even start anymore...GOOD JOB GUYS ''clap clap clap''

Same problem, started periodically and has become more frequent.

Specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.21 GHz
4GB Corsair RAM
Windows 7 32-bit /w all updates
XFX ATI Raedon 5670 512MB DDR5 /w Oct 4th ATI RAGE performance driver.

Really thinking about trying to get a refund for this game through steam, which is a shame because it seems very enjoyable if I could play it without having to reload it every time I wanted to go to a new area.

Throwing my hat in here. Same issue. Crashing loading Shrouded Bunker and Dead City Sewers. I disabled autosave and it worked but crashed halfway through SB, but when I did it a second time it crashed on loading.

E8400
4GB 1066 DDR2
GF 460 GTX
Dual Monitors

Und wieder gibt es Neuigkeiten von der Rage-Front, und zwar spannende. So scheint es bei einigen Usern zu helfen, einen speziellen Ordner zu erstellen, den Rage komischerweise nicht selbst erstellt, wohl aber zum Cachen von Texturen nutzt. Sie müssen beispielsweise unter Windows 7 nur Folgendes durchführen:
- Stellen Sie sicher, dass die Kindersicherung für die Anzeige von Windows-Systemordnern deaktiviert ist (siehe Galerie)
- Erstellen Sie unter Benutzer\IhrName\AppData\Local einen Ordner namens id software und darin einen Unterordner namens rage (siehe Galerie)
Schon nutzt Rage diesen Ordner zum Cachen von Dateien.

I have installed 1.10 Version 2 Preview Driver today.
Authority prison level that was not able to load at all before loaded first time ok.
But at second time crashed, at third time level loaded with almost no textures at all - only weapon with textures.
Also problem with vsync not solved, previously i turned on vsync in driver and in game with +r_swapInterval 1 but nothing helps, image is splitted at 2 parts horizontally.

I am having this problem when loading Wasted Garage...

currently testing this:

And again there is news of the bRage front, and indeed exciting ones. So it seems to help some users to create a special folder, that Rage strangely did not create, ITSt usesd for caching textures. For example, they need to perform only under Windows 7, the following:
- Make sure that Parental Control is disabled for the display of Windows system folders (see gallery)
- Create under Users \ yourname \ AppData \ Local folder called "id software" and is a subfolder called "rage")
After apllying Rage will use this folder to cache its data

Thanks Sirhenryi finally a new tipp and post

The 11/10 preview driver and Driver Sweeper seems to have fixed my new area loading probs,so now on to the next bug.

/raises hand

Crash during all loading screens, too.

Tried all manner of driver versions and config files, nothing is fixing it.

What's really annoying is that it's just started happening out of the blue.


Running....


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
AMD Phenom X6 1100T
Gigabyte 790GP motherboard (AM2+)
8GB DDR2 1066
Gigabyte HD6970 (pre-OC edition)
OCZ 120GB Solid 3 SSD (rage running off a seperate WD 1TB drive)

Same problem on entering Wasted Garage - dark screen and crash

Core i5
4 gb ram
nVidia 570
latest beta drivers

I got word from tech support yesterday that there was an oct 7 fix out for the area loding issues on the AMD forums.

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

They seem to correct this problem for me. They also correct the 'NPC' stuttering issue.

More info:
AMD Catalyst? 11.10 Preview Driver Features:
?Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon? HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
?Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire? configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
?Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
?Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
?Resolves flickering of NPCs in Rage
?Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
?Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
?AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX?, GPU AMD Overdrive? and Information Center pages.

Is that the same driver y'all are reporting worse performance with?