Rage was released on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 today, and while the latter two platforms seem to be enjoying a largely playable game, there have been a plethora of issues for PC gamers to deal with.
That comes as somewhat of a surprise given this is a game from id Software — the developer responsible for first-person shooter classics like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein. While its roots might be in PC, Rage is a more console-focused game (although the PC version looks much prettier, as one would expect). Unfortunately, there have been countless complaints on PC about crashing, texture pop-in, and poor framerates, among other things.
The issue of crashing is being attributed to drivers for those with ATI/AMD cards. Bethesda’s Pete Hines explained on Twitter that the beta drivers intended to improve Battlefield 3 performance are causing a 100% crash-to-desktop rate. On the Bethesda blog, it’s noted that the AMD drivers it encouraged people to install just yesterday are now causing problems and should not be used.
