So I've spent the past couple days looking through forums, waiting for the patch and updating my graphics, and I'm still getting the same issue that I've had every time I try to start the game. The game loads fine, and so does the intro cinematic. But as soon as what I assume is supposed to be the gameplay view starts everything slows down to less then a frame a second. I see the letters slowly coming up on screen, but it takes forever and is completely unplayable in this state. Is this a known issue with a known fix? I am running a Radeon HD 5830 Video card, and an AMD Phenom II 3.4GHz quad core CPU

Check to see what your anti-aliasing settings are. 16x will cause that. 4x is more than enough AA for RAGE, imo.

Not sure it should be needed on a 5830, but have you tried switching GPU Transcode?

Messed around with the Anti-Aliasing and other graphics settings, didn't seem to make a difference. I've seen a lot of stuff about the game having issues with the AMD Control Center. Has that been fixed or could that be the issue?

I'm not sure. The issue was that there was a beta driver that iD were involved with testing, but when AMD were going to release it they accidently distributed the wrong code - so iD tested one version, and AMD then released a different, untested, one by accident. Whoops. I don't know if that has been fixed on AMD's side yet, though.

I got same setup almost same card.
Got it working by using the 11.6 drivers
Witout crashing some minor texture loading but might be better on yours since you got slightly better CPU.
Hope it helps you out.

I didnt use any fix or edit which people suggested btw
And had same issue whit stuttering on start.

Im having the same issue but im using a nVidia Geforce GTS 450 with the latest drivers , is there anything i can do to fix it