Neobr10: Oh yes, texture pop-in was a nice special effect. Wish more games used it.
StingingVelvet: PC gaming is not a hobby where you can assume your experience, or the experience of the loud on forums, is universal. Every single game ever released on PC has a bunch of people who insist it is broken.
So you're trying to tell me texture pop-in did not exist in the PC version for some holy lucky users? It might not have bothered you like many other users, but it did exist. For me it did, and for everyone i know with a powerful PC it did happen too. If you search on forums, youtube, there are complaints everywhere. Actually, if you search for "Rage PC" on YT or google most of the top results show up things like "how to fix texture pop-in". It happened on both ATi and nvidia cards (though it was worse on ATi/AMD cards) and both CPU brands. Not to mention that iD even released a fucking patch to fix it. Did they just make a patch to fix an issue that didn't exist? Oh, c'mon, give me a break. Even users with i7s and GTX580 had the same issue, and that's an overkill config.
I know that you are always on defense mode when it comes to shitty PC ports (even stating that GTA4 and Dark Souls were good ports, lol, nice joke that one), but you're going WAY over the top.
Qwertyman: Apparently, John Carmack himself called the PC release of Rage a "cluster fuck." The problems with this game were pretty widespread at launch.
According to a few users here these issues did not exist. Maybe they know more than Carmack himself.