The game keeps crashing, as in, disappearing, no error, nothing - General Discussion

So I was in the game, running to my base from some dude, and I open the door, and suddenly, I'm staring at my desktop. The game disappeared. I tell my base mates to hurry over and shut the door. I spawn back in, get my loot and play for not even 2 minutes when the game crashes again. Then I waited a bit, restarted steam, etc. and while loading the server, game disappeared. Haven't tried to load it since. Any ideas on what could be happening?

To begin with, could you please give your system specs? CPU, GPU, RAM.

i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz 16 GB of DDR4 RAM Radeon R9 380 Samsung SSD 260GB Game played fine for the last couple of months on this machine.

What happens if you don't run your own server locally and connect to a server on the Internet? Also, are you launching Rust while other programs that use lots of RAM, such as web browsers, are open? If so, close them (Chrome, for example, loves hogging tons of memory)

I am not running a server locally, I connect to an official server. EU Facepunch Hapis. I have Tor open, I use that browser. I should keep it shut then, and I keep discord open to keep in touch with my clan. Other than that, just stuff like MSI Afterburner to keep tabs on how hot my graphics card gets.

Oh, derp, ignore that stuff about running your own server, I confused this thread with another one while posting from my phone. I'd make sure you restart Discord regularly, because it can chunk up on memory over time, but keeping it open shouldn't hurt Rust on your machine. I'd try running the game without a browser open so there's less memory competition, see if that helps Rust run smoother. Also, what are your Windows virtual memory settings set to? Is it set to system-managed, off, or a custom size? If a custom size, what are the min and max? (The min/max boxes are meaningless if it's not set to custom.)

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/444254/f431c424-6c61-404f-9cc0-2b9cd238ddcf/image.png

That should be more than enough for Rust, so you can leave your virtual memory settings the way they are. Try loading into other servers? (Even if you don't intend on playing on them.) It could be that the one server has some weird issue, but if every server crashes on load then it's obviously not that.

I think it was a browser issue. I primarily use Tor, but switch to Firefox if I have site iussues, like Rustlabs gives me issues. So last night I shut Tor down and loaded rust around 10pm ish, then was able to play until 8:30am with no issues, but did load Firefox at some point around 4-5 to check Rustlabs and that stayed on and didn't crash it, but it was 1 tab, so maybe that too, but definitely keeping Tor off while I play Rust for now.

I not sure about the browser part. From a software developer point this doesn't make much sense to me, even though it is not impossible. The same thing happened to two of my friends, both of whom are running Windows 10. Since playing on Linux is not possible I've been playing on Windows 7 and don't remember having any issues like this. Restarting Rust leads to the same issue in a matter of minutes, but restarting the PC helped. I know that one of these was running Windows update in the background, and the other one probably too. Maybe this was the cause of it...?