I'll just jump straight into the issue i'm experiencing.

I've played up to Mutant Bash TV, or specifically the mission where you go there to get sponsored, and are sent through the gameshow's arena. Upon completion of that, the game crashes shortly after starting a saving screen.

Things I've tried.

11.9 ATI Drivers
Rage AMD ATI hotfix found on steam forum
RE verifying game data on steam
Playing other parts of the game further then going back
using different weapons / tactics
winning the slot machine
losing the slot machine.
turrning off steam overlay

I'm not sure if this has been made noted yet, however currently I cannot get past this point.

Is this my hardware? can anyone confirm they are past this point?

A7GM-S 2.0
athalon 7850
radeon 4600

MINUS the textures poping in and out, its running quite well otherwise, the... stuck part.

just ran through it again, after doing all other missions possible besides this main quest. Still crashes at completion.

Just ran through it again, after rolling back to ATI's 11.8 Driver from the RAGE Hotfix. Before stepping onto the winner's circle I exhausted the audio advertisemant for the garage. I passed the hangup screen, talkd to the MBTV Host, walked out of the front door and NEXT loading screen to the wastelands crashed. I have played ever other part of the game successfully without any crashing up to this point.

Is there a way to create log files for these crashes / freezes? This one seems to be stopping me from continuing on no matter what.