Alright, so I have been attempting various techniques and oddly enough, it is the simplest ones combined that worked AND I am getting the highest texture quality (highest until a patch anyway) with consistant 60fps.

First off, my specs. If your PC matches mine, you will probably want to try this.

OS: Windows 7x64 Premium
CASING: CoolerMaster Storm Sniper Mid-Tower Gaming Case
CPU: Intel® Core? i7-875K 2.93 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA 1156
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card x2 (with Crossfire enabled)
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P7P55D-E LX Intel P55 Chipset DDR3 LGA 1156 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, eSATA, USB3.0, 2x SATA-III, RAID, 1 Gen2 PCIe, 4 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI
SOUND: Asus Xonar DS 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Audio Card
SPEAKERS: Logitech Z506 Stereo 5.1 Surround Sound

Alright... first off download the ATI Rage Drivers and SAVE them without installing. Now then, time to delete ALL your ATI drivers. Here are some instructions on how to do so.

• 1. Download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility 2.5.0.1 @ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Windows-Installer-CleanUp-Utility.shtml
  
• 2. Uninstall everything related to ATI/AMD and reboot.
  
• 3. Launch WICU and delete anything related to ATI/AMD/CCC. (You'll be surprised.)
  
• 4. Delete all ATI/AMD folders in "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Program Files (x86)".
  
• 5. While User Account Control is turned off (Vista/7 only) navigate to the "C:\Windows\Assembly" folder and delete any assemblies which have the public token key "90ba9c70f846762e". It is possible that you won't find any, but check it.
  
• 6. Reboot.
  
• 7. Install the ATI Rage drivers you saved.

K, now we are going to do the cache folder in the user name. Go to C:\User\AppData\Local and create a new folder named "id software" (all in lower case) open it up and create a new folder named "rage" (again, all in lower case)

Start your game, go into the world, then go ahead and properly exit your game.

Time to create a config file for the game.

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\rage\base and create a text file named "rageconfig.cfg" and open it up. Inside of it you will copy and paste the folowing.

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4
vt_maxPPF

Ignore everything else you have read so far, this is going to get you by for now and the game looks GREAT.

So, save your cfg and close those folders. Now right click your desktop and go into your Catalyst Control Center then into your 3d Application Settings (should be under gaming) and do the following.

Anti Aliasing: 8X and put a check in the Morphological Filtering box (make sure to uncheck the "Use application settings" box)
Anisotropic Filtering: Check the box that says "Use application settings" (this is VERY important)
Tesselation: Check the box that says "AMD Optimized" and set it to the max.
Catalyst A.I.: Check the "Enable Surface Format Optimization" and set it at High Quality.
Wait for vertical refresh: Max it out so it says "Always on".
Anti-Aliasing Mode: Max it out so it says "Super-sample AA".
OpenGL Settings: Check the "Tripple buffering box"

Now click "Apply" and go into your Crossfire options and enable it.

Almost done.

Now we go into our Steam game library and right click Rage and click properties. Click on "Set Launch Options" and copy and paste the following into it.

+r_swapInterval 1 +vt_maxPPF 16 +vt_pageImageSizeUnique 8192 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly 8192 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly2 8192

Go ahead and close out of it, start up your game, and enjoy.

I am running 60fps, NO flickering, NO tear, NO crashing, NO texture seams, and full 5.1 surround.

Let me know if this helps at.

*By the way I know I may have some stuff maxed out that is unnecessary but the game is running perfect so I am not going to touch a single setting!*

Can you explain a bit more about why you are uninstalling the old drivers and cleaning your registry?

I used to do this when upgrading AMD drivers but it is my understanding that it is no longer necessary if you have a recent version of Catalyst Control Center installed (from within the last 12 months or so). Is that incorrect?

Well, mainly because when I installed the Rage Drivers it screwed up my CC so I called AMD tech support and the guy guided me through it. Afterwards everything on my system was running stellar. It might not be necessary, but just in case, I added it. Plus, it doesn't hurt to do a lil spring cleaning on your PC.

That was certainly my least favorite part of upgrading AMD drivers in the old days.

Where exactly is the "Enable Surface Format Optimization" setting?

Also did you select the checkbox for Catalyst A.I. "Disable" or the slider set to "Standard" or "Advanced"?

(using Catalyst Control Center 11.9 btw)

It's under Catalyst AI. And I have it set to High Quality. Looks like I have different CCC options than you. Are you using the standard view or the new one?

I'm using "Advanced" view (under Preferences menu).

Here is what it looks like: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8613775/BGS/CatalystAISetting.jpg

Maybe the "Surface Format" setting is equivalent to the "Mipmap" setting?

Mine dun look like that, here is mine.

TOP: http://tinypic.com/r/f06qmp/7
BOTTOM: http://tinypic.com/r/15xltz6/7

I do not have dual video cards, i do have a 6870 though, should i be following this .cfg, the Catalyst settings and the steam launch properties you have?

Thanks,

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Hmm...maybe I have a gimped version because it's a laptop?

In any case, thanks very much for posting your settings, I will try the ones that apply to my system.

It couldn't hurt to try. I would really like to know because I am sure there are many people with a similar setup as yours. Let me know how it goes.

Followed it, everything is great except npc flickering seems a bit more often. Going to try to a change a few things, will post back.

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Sorry for double posting:

The Flickering is much more often now, but everything seems better other then that. Still to much of a turn-off to play the game though. I'll wait another two days for the fix, before i actually start getting pissed.

Thanks for trying to help, i'm sure it'll work for someone.

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Hrm, I was getting a ton of that until I turned off the Anisotropic Filtering in the Catalyst Control Center and clicked the "Use application settings"

I tried this on my radeon 5750HD 1gb and it fixed the stuttering, pop in, and artifacting. Now I just have a slow frame rate.. is there somethin I could maybe tweak that might boost my fps? I set anti alias to 2x and that upped my fps a little... thanks for the fix
I've tried every single fix on the net I could find for my issues within my specs... and yours worked best... and your well over my specs lol. I had the game runnin fine (60fps) with cat ai disabled but i had texture tile issues all over the place.

This worked to clean up a TON of stuff for me!

No more texture blur and pop-in. OMG. No tearing. No flickering (so far). Awesome framerate on a single 6850 card.

WAY better than the long config file from the steam forums.

Textures are ok but still super low res close up. Not sure what can be done about this other than trying increasing the 8k to 16k?

*Edit - tried forcing 16k textures and don't notice any difference. Game still runs no problem -*End edit

But wow, at least I can play the game now...

just wait for them to patch it... were not computer science majors.

You could try disabling the Catalyst AI and see where it gets you. Also, try going into steam libraries, right click Rage then click on properties and under the UPDATES tab there is an option to "Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for RAGE" go ahead and uncheck it and fire it up.

Thanks for the advice! I have dual 6870's as well so I will be following this guide after I install the game when I'm home from work.

I still dont get it why i ve got ULTRA LOW textures even weapons are like made from clay...

If i disable cat ai i get high fps... but severe texture mapping problems and artifacts everywhere. I already have sync turned off :/ guess ill have to wait for a patch lol

Tried this cfg on Nvidia sytem. No change. Yep,just waiting for a patch.

First I would like to thank for posting this. Without it the second AMD Performance Driver is useless. The game is playable now. Not sure if it is the game itself or those custom settings but the textures look pretty low res on my HD 6870 1GB, Phenom II 920 @3.1GHz, 4GB RAM system. I played Crysis 2 with the DX11\hi res pack before and the difference is pretty evident.