Well Well, at last, after almost two weeks of "Data Execution Errors" and three phone calls to Scotland to the supposdely Tech Support I was ready to attempt to take the game back to HMV to argue for my money back. As a last resort I installed this patch this afternoon and got a error "Part Installation Failed" I tried to run the game anyway, IT RAN, YES IT RAN. I have been playing for just over two hours I have aligned the satellite dish etc, and as yet I have had no problems at all. Even saved a game turned off and rebooted.
I am running it on a Dell 19" Studio Laptop Intel Core Duo T5800 @ 2.00GHz, 200MHZ, 4gb RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 256mb ram.
I am running the game at a resolution of 1024 x 600. To be honest it looks ok, I did try a higher res and larger shading and this didn't work. I have seem the game running on my sons xbox, on a 42" plasma, yes it does look better, but I am happy I have got it running on my laptop.
Not sure how it will handle things as the game progress's but I ca post here to let you all know.
Just as an aside, I do think Rage is a rip off of Badlands or is it just similar.
Thanks again for this thread.
Regards
Peter