Right, Enemy242, I did everything you suggested, and still no beans. But after I installed AMD's special Rage-optimized drivers and added the "+vt_maxPPF 24" parametre to startup, the problem cleared right up. So I think it's a combination of your measures and the optimized drivers. Still, it's scandalous when someone who buys your game for 50 fucking needs to create a .cfg file himself, install drivers made especially for that one stupid game, add parametres to the startup command to make it playable, and manually add a folder for the game to use as cache files, because "the game forgot to do it". For shame, id.
did you at least see a graphical difference from before to after you used the config file? the differences seriously are massive, especially with the lighting, texture res, overall quality etc. if you don't see much of a difference it's possible you didn't put the config in the right folder or something screwed up; the difference for me is absurd in terms of how much better it looks than original, and yeah the maxppf command in the config (or startup) makes a huge difference, i still get texture streaming if i turn really quickly but i have it on 64 and it seriously is so fast you have to look to notice it.
definitely is a huge disappointment with all the shit people have to go through. all the drivers are bad enough but the fact that to get it to look like what was promised involves tweaking the living shit out of a config file you make yourself, AND creating the cache folder that the game SOMEHOW FAILS TO ITSELF is pretty god damn ridiculous. luckily for the game it looks amazing and runs really well when you do all the work that should've been in the game by default. despite all the backtracking i am quite enjoying being an uber badass with tons of awesome weapons and just kicking the living shit out of mutants, even if it is repetitive. for all it's shortcomings and problems i will give them the fact that the art design is fucking amazing (i've seriously just walked around the cities/wasteland staring at things), when it's fully optimized it runs really fucking well (so in the future i hope idtech 5 games can be done fucking right) and the shooting is very tight with a lot of customization/weapons and the rpg-esque elements are well done also.
on an unrelated note though the gaming season is definitely heating the fuck up. i still have to beat bloodmoon, stalker, the witcher 2 2.0, and rage, but so many games are coming up it's fucking absurd. even counting only my MOST anticipated games, there are:
1. Skyrim
2. Syndicate
3. Mass Effect 3
4. Battlefield 3
5. Max Payne 3
and then of course you have all the tba 2012 games like Hitman: Absolution, Prey 2, Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite etc.
Upgrading my PC with whatever the next graphics card is and a new processor (currently have intel i5 2500k which is pretty much the best one out there that isn't absurd overkill and not really adding much, could go i7 but it wouldn't help all that much) is going to fucking destroy my funds along with buying all those haha
