I was very disappointed. Here I am playing with drivers 11.8 and earlier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4WbLjVvcI
Here I am playing with drivers 11.9 - 11.10 V2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5SLQ2U60SE

These problems are fixed? I can't play in this game((( SAPPHIRE HD6970 2Gb, Windows 7 x86, 4 Gb System RAM

with "+ com_safemode 1" works fine, but freezes at the entrance to the location or when you press the ESC. To close the game, you need to complete the process in Task Manager.
I'm sorry for my English...

those are the same results i get when running the game with 11.10 V2. 11.9 gives me 1 fps and 11.8 about 20.
though i am running with ati 4870 1GB and not the 6970

rest spec: Core 2 Duo E5200, 8 GB DDR2, Win 7 x64

My game does not slow down. Below 55 fps did not fall.

Same problems for me here. Have tried every fix posted everywhere and the game is still unplayable. Have tried almost every config, load options, settings in game etc. Nothing. I've fixed problems with games before and I've been playing on the PC since the days of using a cassette tape as a hard drive. But this is the first game that has managed to stump me EVER. I cant quite get this game working well enough to be playable.
Same Vid card as you...6970.
AMD 940 Phenom Black Edition Quad Core 3.0 ghz, 4gb system RAM, Win 7 32 bit mode, ATI Sapphire 6970 2gb PCI-E

Same here, installing the 11.10 preview 2 drivers helped a little, also minimizing Catalyst AI helped somewhat, but still everytime I enter another zone or I reload I lose all textures or the game crashes.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2 Gb.
AMD Phenom II

Is there going to be a new fix or are they leaving us hanging in here? I'm so sorry I paid 50 euro for this game.....

Exactly. It helped, but did not improve permanently.

The problem is solved. Catalyst 11.10 preview 3. But the game continues to hover, and the background window "Rage program does not work".

I have exact same problem with my 6970 everything goes pasty in color and framfrate gets laggy sometime not in that order and saving game crashes, thing is it was working better last week and has degraded over time. I have installed version 3 drivers and they were good for a time but now many more problems than before. also vertical sync and triple buff seem to be intertwined because if i dont adjust both correctly the game starts on a black screen and cant play.