Hi there,

I bought Rage (european anarchy edition) on tuesday, tried it yesterday, and I got these problems :

- freezes for several seconds every 1 min or so (the sound is muted for a few seconds after each freeze)
- textures appearing when I turn the head in the game
- severe screen tearing (vsync lack)

So, after HOURS of tuning this is what I did, and it fu... works, NOT A SINGLE freeze since 30min of gaming !

1) installed the new catalyst 11.10 preview 2 released yesterday (previously I had the 11.8)

2) created the missing dir for the 1GB cache on the C drive :

C:\Users\mercenar\AppData\Local\Id Software\Rage

(after first launch, the game created 2 files in there)

3) added the +r_swapInterval 1 in the launch options of the game in steam (for vsync)

4) stop the service "AMD external events" in the services in control panel, this useless thing is the bastard in charge of the freezes !

BTW, I never install the catalyst control panel, just the drivers. I always did that, and never got a problem.

My specs :

Windows 7 pro 64
Ati Radeon HD 4890 PCI-E 1 GB DDR5
4 Gb RAM DDR3 1333Mhz Kingston
Intel Core i7-860 quad core 2.8 Ghz 8Mb cache
Motherboard ASUS P7P55D LE
HDD Western Digital 1 Terabyte Sata2 64Mb cache 7200 RPM
Soundblaster XFI Fatality Xtreme Gamer 64M

Hope this helps all ATI users !

Note : if u are under XP, the service causing trouble is "ati hotkey poller". When DOOM3 was released back in the days, I was on XP, and this service caused the game to crash by overheating the PC (100% CPU). I guess the AMD external events is the new name for THIS [censored] under Win7 !

Thanks for the info

This almost worked for me, still crashes above 1366 X 768 and textures sometimes fail to load between areas but its now a little more stable. Stopping AMD external events helped enormously!
Used to crash If I looked at certain objects, such as the radio tower after you repair it.

Also found getting rid of the video folder helps, plus it saves time reloading the game after it crashes again.


spec:
windows 7 pro 64
I7 920
6 Gb ddr3 1333Mhz corsair
ati 6950
asus rampage 2

Did nothing for me on a dual core

Same here mate.

Damn. No AMD external events runing for me ...

2) created the missing dir for the 1GB cache on the C drive : ?



How did you do the above?

its confusing but would like to do it to see if it fixes my rage pc issues.

Cheers

Assuming you use Windows 7....

Navigate to c:/users/your username/appdata/local and create a folder named "id software" minus the quotations. Inside this new folder create another folder called "rage" minus the quotations. Done.

If you can't see the Appdata folder you need to enable seeing hidden files/folders in your folder options.

Just make the following folder:

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\id software\rage

next time you start up rage it will put two files in there, one of them is 1GB big so make sure you have space

Have tried all this now and still have same issue... Freezes and sound stutter making the game unplayable!

Win7x64
4GB RAM
E8500 @ 3.16GHz
ATI 5870 1GB

Just tried it and no effect. Although freezes became lighter, less frequent, but still unplayable.

E8400
2GB
HD4870 512mb
Win7 32-bit

It didnt work for me too at first (I did everything in the first post). Then I comepletely removed all AMD drivers and installed rage performance drivers, but unchecked everything that is posible exept for AMD display drivers.

Now it works.

Hope i helped someone.

link to drivers: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx

Unfortunately that did nothing, maybe even made it worse, but thanks anyway!

Windows 7 64-bit
4GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series
T4500 @2.30 GHz Pentium Dual-Core CPU

Are you serious? I am too tired of installing/reinstalling drivers that i no longer feel like trying lol , Can anyone else confirm this?

I HAD THE SAME ISSUE WHERE IT WOULD FREEZE FOR A 2-8 SECONDS THEN GOOD FOR 2. I SAW THAT ONE OF MY 2 CORES WAS SURGING BETWEEN 90 AND 100% WITH THESE FREEZES. WHILE I HAVE A DUAL CORE (FOR NOW) IT IS A DEACTIVATED QUAD. THE 3RD AND FOURTH CORES ARE DEFECTIVE ON MINE BUT THE 3RD CORE DOES WORK OK. SO I ACTIVATED IT AN DECLOCKED ALL 3 AND HAVE NO PROBLEMS NOW. THE TEXTURING EVEN AFTER THE UPDATES STILL ARENT FANTSIC BUT AFTER THEY RELEASE THE CROSSFIRE PATCH/UPDATE I HOPE IT WILL BE BETTER.

Can someone translate this C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\id software\rage INTO XP please ?

Well, my solution worked for me. I'm sorry it won't work for everyone =(

But I'm glad that it seems that it helped some !

Mercenar

Almost sure that it must be :

c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\id software\rage

i Added the 2 cache files

then set the launch options.. and to my amazement it WORKED not a single freeze for awhile.. BUT ... i had no game sound, wasn't my speakers or my computer because the load up screens for gamesas and ID software both had sound. i then quit the game to try to fix the no sound (which i did nothing because nothing was wrong) booted the game back up had sound ... and FREEZES

thanks for giving me my 30 of freezeles gameplay. :'| (