[Locutus_FoE]

Hey guys,

I'm new in your forum. I went through some threads and I think you are doing a good job in helping people.

But I haven't found a solution for my problem. I hope you can help.

Problem:
I can start Rust via steam. It shows me the window with the display solution. When I continue and start the game, then after a short while the background (snowy landscape, two blue crystals, part of a coast...) appears. It's animated and snow is falling. After that nothing more happens. No reaction on F1 or ESC or ENTER. I can just close it with ALT+F4.
Legacy instead works fine. No problems.

What I have tried:
- waiting to fix itself...
- reinstall Rust
- reinstall steam
- reinstall DirectX (the one in the rust folder)
- run Rust.exe or/and RustClient.exe directly
- run Rust in Admin-Mode
- disable AVIRA antivirus
- changing the BETA-Mode in the Rust-properties to development
- sfc scan
- window-mode / fullscreen-mode
- low quality / high quality

nothing helped to show me a menu...

My System:
i5-2500K, 8GB RAM, NVidia GTX580 with 344.48
AVIRA, TuneUpUtilities, ThreatFire (second opinion anti-malware), Secunia PSI (keeps programmes updated) always running in background

I'm happy for any suggestions.

[Sgt. Lumpy]

oddly im having the same thing happen but in legacy.

[GrymThor]

I'm having the same problem, though mine tends to do this strange CD skipping sound and other times it just hangs there like a screen saver playing the sounds and animating the snow..

I've also tried just about everything you have done as well....no luck yet, oddly sometimes the menu appears and i get into play yet the game freezes periodically until finally it just freeze crashes.

It sucks but i guess all we can do is wait until a patch sorts it out

[Locutus_FoE]

You are right... especially with this strange sounds...

I also hope for a patch and that suddenly it will work.

[GrymThor]

i got mine to work, oddly it was by downloading Malwarebytes program, searched for malware, found some got rid of em, Rust worked...

[Locutus_FoE]

I also ran Malwarebytes, but it found nothing and Rust is still not working