Fresh from a summer of mediocre game titles and a day shy of whole a week after my birthday; RAGE came out over here in Europe on 7.10.11. Seeing as i had pre-ordered the game(physical copy/special edition) on PC i'd hoped i would be playing it early but unfortunately, being a steam-activated game, i had to wait until the "official" day of release. BEGIN the "en"RAGE.

From the very beginning i immediately had problems with this game and for every potential problem i would overcome i would face the next one, then the next one, then the next one....
For the last 3/4 days i have gone from start up crashes all the way to artifacts with black squares, constant freezing, cpu's at 100% and the list goes on. I have checked every day doing all the driver updates, config files, creating the cache folder even enabling and disabling catalyst A.I(yes i have an ATI card). I know there were issues in particular with ATI/AMD cards but with the most recent 11.10 preview 2 drivers is it wishful thinking to expect decent stability with this game?

I guess the statement wishful thinking will make more sense if i say that i am using a laptop that i hoped would run rage at a decent frame rate after passing min-spec(i know this rarely means isssh) but i mean i've played all sorts of games and been able to run them good enough to have fun. e.g. TW2, deus ex:hr, crysis 2, crysis, dead island, f.e.a.r 3 etc etc. My point is i should at least be able to scraqe the barrel in graphics(low settings) for this game and get a decent fps. My specs are: intel 2.2Ghz C2D, 4gb ram, ATI mobility radeon hd 4500 series, win7 pro 64 bit.

I'm a computing student but, to be honest, i'm quite noobish when it comes to overcoming hardware specific matters such as this and i really would like some help to at least get this to a SOLID frame rate and stable. Currently, after hard work all weekend(thank you for all the helpful topics thus far community! ) i have managed to get anything from 12 - 25/26 FPS using this cfg file:
note: i've put whatever lines i thought were needed from following other topics.

seta com_videoRam "512" //Memorysize of your CrafikCard (512, 1024, 2048 aso.)
seta g_showplayershadow "1" //Shadows
seta image_anisotropy "4" //Anisotropische Filter (2x or 4x, at bigger settings you could became problems)
seta image_usecompression "0" //no Texture Compression
seta image_lodbias "-1" //LoD Setting ?
seta image_useCache "1" //Makes Textures not Plopping
seta image_cacheMegs "1024" //Cache Size in MB
seta image_cacheMinK "256" //min Cache in KB
seta m_smooth "0" //better mouse speed
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192" //for better textures
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192" //for better textures
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192" //for better textures
seta vt_maxPPF "8" //better streaming of textures (8 für dual/tripplecores CPU's, 16 if your CPU more than 3 cores like quadcore)
seta vt_lodBias "-1" //just helps
seta vt_minlod "-1" //just helps
seta vt_preload "1"
seta vt_useCache "1"
seta vt_cacheMegs "1024"
seta vt_cacheMinK "50"
seta vt_ignoreHighQuality "1"
seta vt_ignoreLowQuality "0"
seta vt_maxaniso "2" //maximum Anisotropische Filter Megatextur (2x or 4x)

& i have already made the id software\rage subfolders in appdata\local also.

my launch options after the "rage.exe" in the target field of my RAGE shortcut are: +cvaradd jobs_numThreads -1 +com_skipIntroVideo 1 +vt_maxPPF 8
note: I have found if i change numThreads value to 0 or 1 i get a slideshow in game. ALSO both my cores are at 100% when rage runs although my GPU does get used also.

So there you have it. Am i asking too much for this game to just work? I was highly anticipating it but considering most of you guys have killer rigs; is this just wishful thinking that i think RAGE should be playable for me when people with monster setups are having problems?

EDIT: just adding that my in game settings are AA = 2x, AF = high, TC = large, vsync = on. In catalyst triple buffering = off and vsync always on. everything else use app settings except fir mipmap detail lvl = high quality - hope this is enough info lol

Any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

O_O gameing on a labtop sweet me too i almost have the same specs as you but my video is less XD but dose the job just beat the game.i will give u what i have set up on mine too see if u will run it fine,

+cvaradd jobs_numThreads -1 +com_skipIntroVideo 1 +seta com_allowconsole 1 +vt_maxPPF 8

in a rageconfig.cfg put in

seta com_videoRam "256"
seta image_anisotropy "4"
seta image_usecompression "0"
seta image_lodbias "-1"
seta image_useCache "1"
seta image_cacheMegs "1024"
seta image_cacheMinK "50"
seta m_smooth "0"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly "8192"
seta vt_pageimagesizeunique "8192"
seta vt_maxPPF "8"
seta vt_lodBias "-1"
seta vt_minlod "-1"
seta vt_maxaniso "2"

in my CCC i have AI adanced thats all if you want more gfxs put mipmap highquality

Well guys I game on what I call my Rig Pig and I cant play Rage stable either :/ I get low FPS and screen freeze for a few seconds and same as everyone on this site I have done the driver updates config files and start up command lines for Rage.etc etc 5 days of etc etc.... I have tried every fix posted online I could find and frig all works for me Some people got lucky and could play it 100% stable from day one others like us mmm nope. And sadly some who had it stable until the patch from id on sat.

My computer should be able to run RAGE and so should yours if it meets the specs 4 game. This is a driver issue so ....... ATI and id need to fix this not us. New ATI drivers come out again this week so lets see what we get lol. For now after 5 days I am fully done w/ the Rage fix homework

My box is:
i7 CPU 975
6 gigs ddr 3 ram 1600MHz
Radeon HD 6990 vid card 4GB GDDR5
Screen res is 5896 X 1080 <---samsung MD230x3 monitor
win 7 ultimate 64bit
Sabertooth x58 m/b

thanks for the response kaz05051! i will try your rageconfig and i'm assuming we have the same CCC settings then? The only thing i would like you to clear up for me is what is your performance like with this cfg file and what other things have you had to do to get it work? i.e what drivers are you using, what's your FPS like - stuttering etc and did you create that id software\rage folder for them two cache files in appdata\local? thanks again for taking the time to respond.

thanks for the reply!
nice. that sounds like a pig! - should be eating rage lol
In all seriousness though, I should not be starting to feel like it's my fault i'm struggling to get this to work. Look at kaz - he's beat the game - while i've just shot a few enemies at best and you sound like you have barely done the same. There is no reason why we should be fixing our own games and the fact there isn't a 100% fix for every low/mid/high end system yet is a shambles in my opinion.

p.s TO ANYONE ELSE THAT HAS GOT RAGE WORKING AND READS THIS TOPIC PLEASE POST ANY HELPFUL SOLUTIONS FOR US GUYS! THANKS in advance!

im useing the 11.10v2 and i have the id software/rage in appdata i have no stuttering nothing fps normal depending on my res for the screen and if i wanted too push the gfx in game higher i swich mipmap too high quality

OK Guys I found a fix for me and it should help you guys get your box stable w/ Rage. Go down to post 12 and give it a read. I did it and I played 1 hr 100% stable

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1239477-ati-hd4850-core2duo-fix-working-50fps/



My box is:
i7 CPU 975
6 gigs ddr 3 ram 1600MHz
Radeon HD 6990 vid card 4GB GDDR5
Screen res is 5896 X 1080 <---samsung MD230x3 monitor
win 7 ultimate 64bit
Sabertooth x58 m/b

Thanks dude! will defo give this a try otherwise i'm giving up!
Incompetent Douce Software really need to get their butts in gear to release a proper official fix. I can't be asked with this bs nomore. everyone loves tweaking but if we wanted to practically fix our own games we should be on the F[censored} payroll!...

true but we need too remember that we all dont have the same system there is a lot of differnt combos people have,if devs had it there way i bet they put on the box of games and system reqs too have 4-6gb newest video card and what not makeing more people pissed,you should be able too run the game with my setup no problem i had 2 friends try it out one with a ati and the othere with a nividia card both my friends had a few problems till i gave them the setup and it ran like smooth candy with them.

True my husband installed Rage and he ran it 100% no issues from day one his box and it is not as strong as my rig pig and I had the issues he did not Any way going to test for ya Kaz be back in mm a hr lol should be a good test