Well, after all the crap that everyone seems to be having with installing drivers and things I finally have RAGE installed yay! Oh wait, when I start a new game it plays the opening video then loops back around to the main menu...epic fail part deux. I wonder what part 3 will be? (Cookies for whoever gets it right before it happens!)

Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

Here's a quick dxdiag paste:
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.110622-1503)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 11/11/09 17:35:14 Ver: 08.00.15
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3064MB RAM
Page File: 1538MB used, 4586MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11

(well that was the important bit for me at least, the rest is a /rant, albeit a carefully worded one with a serious note)

Either way I guess I'll be taking the game back and never touching either Bethesda of id software ever again, I mean, my [censored] friend bought a ￡10 'make your own game' program in 2003 and the crappy little game he made runs fine, so how card can it be to make something run on the budget this pile of **** has? Yes yes it's all very complicated and...oh wait a second so is every other WORKING game ever released. Someone needs to fire the **** who decided now's the time to release this game and replace them with a magical person that makes things work, you know, a games tester (those 2,000,000,000 people around the world who would happily check if these things work for free might be helpful).


Simply put, if I buy a kettle I expect it to boil water, if I buy a car I expect to be able to drive it and if I buy a game I expect to be able to play it.

This is from the uk government website:

"When you buy an item from a trader (eg a shop or online shop) the law says the item must be:
of satisfactory quality – last for the time you would expect it to and be free of any defects
fit for purpose – fit for the use described and any specific use you made clear to the trader
as described – match the description on packaging or what the trader told you"

'Fit for purpose' would mean being able to play a game then yes? I only posted to try and get this fixed, because I do want to play this game, but I got slight carried away...still I'll be taking this game back for a refund and not buying more id or Bethesda software in the future if this isn't fixed since I, like every other consumer, need to trust that I'm spending my money on something worthwhile, I can't do that if this is anything to go by. Anyway, if anyone can help with the loop issue it would be greatly appreciated, I really can't be bothered to take this all the way back to the shop and have to argue my way to a refund.

/rant off

your system specs will be sir?

Thanks for the quick reply- I've shoved the specs into my original post so they're easy to spot for anyone reading this (was editing while you replied anyway...ranting is fun mmm).

whats your graphics card? if it is ati download preview 2 seems to be the 1 that is working more stable, but for some windows 7 user preview 3 works for them too

mt game looks like this http://imageshack.us/f/23/rageq.png/

I'll post the results from using Preview 2 tomorrow- I'm in the process of switching ISPs, at the moment I think I'm on about a 100kbs connection.

Yeah same here, Rage runs good and looks sweet on my rig.

Ok preview 2 got me past the end of the video- it now gets me to the point where you look up and then down. Once I accept or invert that setting it crashes, and the room just looks like squares with a fade from grey to white across them. I'm going out now to take this game back. Shame really, Skyrim looks so good but now I'll never know...Bethesda and id will have no more of my money.