alright so i basicaly figured it out
my cpu is using like 90% at all times so i got rid of a bunch of junk running and its alittle better with stuttering constantly but not complete freezing
the thing is i have a quad core and i should be able 2 run this fine. im thinkin its only using 1 core like others have stated, any fix for this?
Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (4CPUs)
Not sure how "good" your fix is - do you still have screen tearing and texture 'popping' or "mash potato" textures?
I would take a look at these articles if you haven't already, I hope they fix your issue. For me this first link fixed all my problems and now Rage is actually quite enjoyable.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2156747 (for you I would recommend Mid or probably Low-end settings)
There is another one from Nvidia:
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/how-to-unlock-rages-high-resolution-textures-with-a-few-simple-tweaks
What I would recommend you try is and use the "Low-end" config from the first link and add these lines (if you have at least 1g of VRAM):
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizevmtr "8192"
Good luck - and make sure you ENABLE GPU TRANSCODING (GPU transcoding from what I gather is supposed to INCREASE the demand on your CPU, so if you resolved the 90% issue (this game is VERY low on system demands, my system runs HOTTER while playing Starcraft 2 ffs) then you should be alright).