I am a Dual core user and i tried all the fixes since the game launched.. Nothing works , Its all the same... If i have Catalyst AI on i will epic freezing and if i turn it off i get blocky textures.. Its been quite a while and still nothing came out to fix this .. I tried the ATI Preview driver and the rage update .. they did nto fix anything.. So here i ask again : How long are the dual core users supposed to wait till we can get past the freakin intro without freezing?

never had a problem once i set configs and what not up right runing on dual core

I have a Core 2 Duo and I have made a guide: http://imbacore.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-solve-rage-texture-streaming-pop.html See if that helps.

I can get it running on a dual core as well. But that's not the point. We shouldn't have to jump through hoops farging around with launch options, preview drivers and config files. This isn't the 1980's when you had to fart around with himem.sys and autoexec.bat just to get 600k or more upper memory to play games. Rage is a premium priced game that shouldn't have been released for the PC in its currently broken state.

iD/Bethesda need to hurry up with fixes, or at least offer more clearer communication with regard to what's going on. Vague tweets about "bicubic-upsample+detail texture option" are not enough. A lot of people want to know if they're going to be able to play Rage soon the way it was intended. It's not acceptable that almost two weeks after launch, the only reason many people can even start the game is because of efforts from the gaming community.

John Carmack admitted that the PC release was a "Clusterf*@k" and yet still hasn't addressed the issue. He should be made to personally process every single refund for this pathetic "product".

Well you probably have a Nvidia card right? Well i tried everything from there ... Nothing works for me , no matter what i do game always freezes up after intro if Catalyst AI is on , And if its off then its blocky textures time .. Only thing that actually made a difference.. Was going back to 11.9 Drivers , While i still freezed if AI is on , Putting it off made the game not freeze and no more blocky textures , But just like the 11.6 drivers , I was getting 20FPs .. i get 45-60 with the newest driver from ATI so i dont think its a specs problem.

EDIT: - If you have an AMD graphics card with a dual core CPU system you may experience severe hitching and low frame rates.

Since you are on Nvidia , I think you have another problem than what i have , I think you just have texture pop-ins , I get blocky black empty textures .. Like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-yl6pDFgtw

oh hey i had that it was due too me uping the AF or AA one of the 2 but if you want try mine and see if that helps give it a shot

+cvaradd jobs_numThreads -1 +com_skipIntroVideo 1 +seta com_allowconsole 1 +vt_maxPPF 8

seta com_videoRam "512"
seta image_anisotropy "2"
seta image_usecompression "0"
seta image_lodbias "-1"
seta image_useCache "1"
seta image_cacheMegs "4096"
seta image_cacheMinK "2048"
seta m_smooth "0"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192"
seta vt_maxPPF "8"
seta vt_lodBias "-1"
seta vt_minlod "-1"
seta vt_maxaniso "2"

ingame i have high cach nothing more CCC i have 11.10v2 in CCC in have it AI advanced and set quality.

Thanks for the advices guys but nothing worked still , I am losing faith in this game , Gonna wait another freakin week and if nothing is out i am going to refund this piece of [censored] of a game ,And from now on i will never pre order a game from Bethesda or id again , Will first wait to see if actually freakin works...