I can't play past the first race as every time I attempt to start a level in a vehicle the game stops resopnding for a while before I get the dreaded "rage.exe has stopped working" or "rage64.exe has stopped working" depending on which exe I run. I never had this issue on my old XP rig but I upgraded to 64bit win7 back in 2013 and because of this I havent played it since. I got my rig upgraded severely and I thought "Let's try Rage again and see if the crash issue was fixed by the hardware changes" which was soon followed by every expletive known to man so loud it could be heard in the North Pole! My rig plays this game at max settings, I can even set 4k DSR and 8xMSAA + FXAA and it never drops below 60fps. If this crash issue can be fixed the game would run perfectly. Bethesda support replied suggesting I post my issue here, and to try admin + winXP SP3 compatibility mode (like I haven't tried the compatability settings before on this game).

I am hoping for an update to allow me to play this game without the first race being the end of the game for me with no hope of progression whatsoever.

My Specs as of last week are:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit (I soon plan on upgrading to Windows 7 Professional to utilize all of my 32Gb of RAM)

ASUS z97-K Motherboard
Intel i7-4790k@ 4.0-4.4Ghz
Noctua NH-L12 Air Cooler
32Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Geforce GTX970 gaming edition with Air cooler, 4Gb GDDR5 RAM and backplate
over 10Tb storage
Logitech F-710 Wireless controller
Logitech G710+ Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G502 Proteus Core customizeable Gaming mouse with 8 buttons
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Flightstick
ASUS VG278 27" 3D Monitor 120Hz with Nvidia 3D vision 2
3D Vision 2 shutter glasses kit
700w PSU

If other users have this or other persistent crashes on 64bit OS, please reply as Bethesda support told me the devs peruse these forums and I would like them to take notice to this post and hopefully update the game on Steam to fix the 64bit issues.

Please id/Bethesda PLEASE HELP?!!!!