I'm having same issue as well. I beat mutant bash 3 times and it crashes after the podium..


i7 2600k@4.3
16GB 1333
2x xfx 6870
win 7 64

The game still crashes when I try to finish Mutant Bash.

I have a method for getting out of the arena area without completing it:

Press ESC
Click on Quit Mutant Bash

This should take you back to the building entrance where you're standing in front of the fat man.

Then just about face and walk the **** out.

Having the same problem every other zone if it crashes I can load into by re-starting the game, the Mutant Bash TV zone always resets to the beginning of the map as tho you quit out it won't load back into the room. If they made it so you could save in this area you could probably get past it by re-loading your game.

I am toatally stuck here.... I have the RAGE drivers for AMD cards HD 5850 here while it did help for pop in I get the spazzy muties. Every other zone seems to be working for the most part however sometimes I do get CTD in other zones but so far I can reload the game and conintue except for Mutant Bash TV that seems to be the worst one... And I want the car !!! lol anyway hope this gets fixed soon. I can always get the PS3 version I guess but I don't really understand why the CTD is occuring.

I7 920
HD 5850
6 gigs

Should be more then enough to run this and it does run smooth when it's not flickering or crashing ...

Yea not Just mutant bash but between races for me. I mentioned this on another thread. Also NPC's and enemies start blinking like crazy, as though the game doesn't know what it wants them to do, run or crawl. Same thing with the NPC it is them sitting and standing and almost transparent looking as it tries switching between the two..

I basically gave up on trying to finish Mutant Bash but it seems the problem is happening anytime I transition to a new level, game freezes and I have to restart. The only plus side is that I can still load my auto saves into the new level.

Same problem, tried multiple times. Posted this dump in another thread yesterday, but here it is again.

Phenom 9550
Radeon 5770
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 64 bit

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Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bdb3b
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000cdcbb
Faulting process id: 0x1030
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc831a7f42aee5
Faulting application path: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\rage\rage.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 24df5b4d-ef10-11e0-85c3-bcaec5185e1a

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Cab Id: 0

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P3: 4e89e183
P4: StackHash_94a1
P5: 6.1.7600.16385
P6: 4a5bdb3b
P7: c0000374
P8: 000cdcbb
P9:
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anolysis symbol:
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I finally got it to work.

This is gonna be kind long, so I apologize for that.

OK here goes:

I have been using, modifying, and mix/matching a bunch different tweaks to get the game to run smoother/faster/graphically more stable/pretty.

The first thing I did was add launch option for the game through Steam:

In the Steam menu go to library
Right click on RAGE
Select 'Properties' a pop up window appears
Under 'General' left click on 'Set Launch Options...'
My Launch Options are: +cvaradd g_fov 12 +image_anisotropy 16 +image_usecompression 0 +g_showplayershadow 1 +m_smooth 0


Second thing I did was to create Cache Folder:

For Windows 7: Click Start Button, click your name (or whatever the user profile is named) should be the first option on the right hand side of the pop up.
Go to AppData, (you may have unhide hidden folders to see this folder)
Once in AppData folder go to Local
Inside the Local folder create a new folder named "id software" (all lower case and no quotes)
Inside the id software folder create a new folder named "rage" (all lowercase, no quotes)
Once you run the game after doing this the rage folder will be populated with two cache files (one them will like 1 gig in size)

The third thing I did was to create a config file:

Go to: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\rage\base" and create a text file named "Rageconfig.cfg" (I used notepad)
Inside my Rageconfig,cfg file I have these settings: (these will work if you have a 1 gig of VRAM on your video card (you can copy and paste these into your Rageconfig.cfg you create))

seta fc_maxcachememoryMB "1024"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizevmtr "8192"
seta image_preload "1"
seta image_useCache "1"

The forth thing I did was download the newer RAGE AMD hotfix drivers:

You can get them here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx

If this still doesn't solve the problem I recommend:

Remove the Rageconfig.cfg file, load up the game and try again
If this works "GO TEAM VENTURE!"
If not put it back in the rage/base folder

This is how I got my game not to crash after completing Mutant Bash, and I'm about 65% sure it was to due to luck more the settings/tweaks/fixes.

Anyway give it a try and let us know if worked for you too.