A large PC patch for RAGE arrived this weekend, aiming to fix the grotesque graphical issues that many users complained about. It also gives players some actual video settings to tweak, rather than stick with threadbare menus. id Software justified the original lack of options, stating that it was to stop the game from screwing up further.
"The original release of RAGE does not expose many video/graphics options for people to tweak because some of these settings, although desirable from a quality perspective, simply will not work on specific configurations either due to hardware limitations and/or driver bugs," states the patch notes. "Due to popular demand for more video and graphics options, this patch updates the video settings menu and exposes several quality and performance settings."
Highlights of the patch include a VSync option, a texture cache and SLI support. Check out the patch summary below.
- Implemented workaround for AMD driver crash right after intro cinematic
on Win 7 32-bit systems.
- Disabled UBOs because they are causing animation issues with AMD drivers.
- Don't allow swap-tear to be enabled on AMD while the extension is not
exposed because it may crash.
- Support for new video settings: "texture cache", "vsync" and
"anisotropic filter"
- Automatically adjust vt_maxPPF based on the number of available cores.
- Improved performance for SLI cards when GPU transcode is enabled.
- Fix for GPU Transcoding option being disabled after exiting gameplay.
- Added safe mode to restore video settings to default values.
- Allow g_fov to be changed from the RAGE launch options in Steam.
- Server now forwards text chat from clients to all other clients while
in-game.
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8:00 AM on 10.10.2011 | 
Thank god almighty.
Force Vsync on with my GPU and didn't work for rage.
Rage
>200 fps
>Texture popins
>Screen tearing out the ass
Now I may get 60 fps with less texture garbage and less screen tearing.
>http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2163740
Stopped all the AMD related crashes for me.
Woah this game is AWSUM!
I do agree that amd has a little more problems at the start but its definately not worth the performance drop at the same price range nvidea brings.
Tip to pc gamers; Play RAGE like Quake @ 110-120 FOV, on nightmare difficulty, the experience is incredible! :)
also some sexy art http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/594698710760684963/FD075A4AD2DC2FE888E659C5BF170218F5E81023/
Thank you very much, nice of you to take your time out! That's very interesting... and you're very smart.
really, i have said it before, this is a shitstorm for id, they should address the gamers and say "we fucked it up". Because they really did.
Core 2 quad q9500 2.8ghz
GTX 460 1gb
4 gigs of ram
Black case
And here we thought ID knew what PC gaming was all about. We know what our systems can and can't do. If we have to play on low settings or upgrade to a new graphics card to max it out, we'll do it. Just give us that option.
@AngrySouske
The biggest complaint you've heard about Rage is that the 360 version is on 3 discs? That's the smallest complaint since that's been the most bug-free version.
Why should they STFU? Personally I think they've had a right to be complaining in the circumstances. Hell, for many AMD users the game has been practically unplayable what with freezes, etc.