Can't Launch Rust - Nothing Happens After EAC Loads

[Fleur818]

Hey everyone, I'm completely stumped. I played Rust just fine last week, but when I start Rust from Steam, this happens:

1) The Rust logo pops up, Easy Anti-Cheat starts to load
2) The blue loading bar fills, the logo closes
3) My Steam name goes green for a few seconds (like I'm in a game), then it goes blue. Nothing.
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There's many posts over the past couple years with the same problem. So far I've tried:

Unplugging my headphone/disabling sound in Windows (weird, but it works for some apparently)
Verifying Rust game files in Steam
Running in windowed mode (via launch options)
Reinstalling/repairing/deleting EAC
Opening Rust.exe from files, not Steam (nothing happens)
Running everything I can think of as administrator
Running in different compatibility modes (Win 8, Win 7)
Reinstalling Rust
Reinstalling Steam

The only way Rust will run is if I force OpenGL via the launch options (though performance is terrible). Rolling back GPU drivers didn't work.

The only thing I haven't tried in reinstalling Windows, which I've heard is a last resort (I'd rather not).
I'm normally pretty good at googling computer problems and fixing them, but this is on another level.

My specs: i7-3770k, AMD 7970, 16 GB of ram, SSD (tried on HDD too), Windows 10 64-bit

Thanks!

[Paul-Simon]

Moved to help subforum.
Hopefully someone from the community or staff will be able to help you with this.

[Sosig.exe]

Seems strange. you are best asking the devs Submit a request – Facepunch Studios

[Fleur818]

UPDATE: I contacted Facepunch, one of their suggestions was, "We've also been recently made aware of a Citrix incompatibility with Unity. If you have any sort of Citrix communication software installed try uninstalling it."

This was it. I had to install Citrix for a class, I uninstalled it, Rust is working now.