Rustclient.exe has stopped working

[Bankai]

So basically, whenever I try to join a server in Rust, this message pops up (Rustclient.exe has stopped working). Either right before I load into the game or like 30 seconds after I load in, I crash and this message pops up. Anyone have any idea what's wrong here?

Specs :
8GB ram
GTX1050
i5 7400 3 GHz

Ps. Some people say it could be ram problem.. but on Steam it says 8gb ram is minimum to run Rust

[BORG]

The 8GB minimal is laughable as this game is well known to memory leak on top of what it already consumes. You can't trust the system requirements to be true with this game because its' so messed up. As per your issue, try to verify your game files, empty your Steam cache and update your video drivers. Have you tried that already?

Hard to believe the state of this game after being outside of Early Access so long. It still has so many issues. For a sixteen year old company, you would think this game came from a six year old company.

Anyway, give that a try and let me know what happens. If that doesn't help we will start to dig deeper.

[Bankai]

Did exactly everything you said, and surprisingly the game loaded in without any crashing. Lasted longer than how long it normally takes to crash, but when I pressed Windows button and opened Discord, game suddenly crashed. Usually the game crashes when I randomly click my mouse when it's on loading screen, or if I alt+tab and open another app while in the server.
Game also stuttered like ♥♥♥♥, probably my GTX1050 can't run that ♥♥♥♥ but my settings were all already almost low end

[BORG]

Originally posted by Kieren:

Did exactly everything you said, and surprisingly the game loaded in without any crashing. Lasted longer than how long it normally takes to crash, but when I pressed Windows button and opened Discord, game suddenly crashed. Usually the game crashes when I randomly click my mouse when it's on loading screen, or if I alt+tab and open another app while in the server.
Game also stuttered like ♥♥♥♥, probably my GTX1050 can't run that ♥♥♥♥ but my settings were all already almost low end

The game is just severely broken and poorly designed. It was thrown out of Early Access and still functions like an Early Access game. They only wanted more money that's why it was pushed out of the Early Access program.

A 1050 is plenty enough to run this game. It really doesn't matter how awesome your computer is with this game, it craps the bed when it comes to good performance. Glad it helped you out though what I suggested. As far as the crashing goes, it doesn't actually crash when you click the screen it's just the game is so unresponsive that Windows thinks it's crashed and by default, issues that message. Don't click on that box to end the process. It's still loading in the background just extremely slow (just as it's always been for about the past 2.5-3 years. This is business as usual for Rust unless you've got top end system with the game loading from an SSD. Basically you have to compensate garbage game performance by throwing more power at the game so it becomes more responsive and playable. As far as ALT+TAB goes, don't muck around doing that. Let the game load and go do something else until it's loaded and ready to play.

The only thing that may help at this point is to follow a performance guide to make the best of the hardware you have. This game really doesn't hardly work properly with 8GB of RAM as listed on the system requirements at the store page. It's often been wrong or misleading and has been for years

They do this to make sales and suck people into buying the game because it does run with 8GB of RAM. They know this works exceptionally well with children and teens or youth simply because many don't understand all these things. What they don't tell you is that it is literally the absolute minimum to make the game function. It doesn't mean it's nice and playable. They know if people have the minimal they will try it and if they try it, they know their fanatical friends will suck them in long enough so they can't get a refund. It's just marketing and sales strategy Facepunch Studios uses to cash in. That's all it's about. The game is built on abandonware so that should tell you a lot as to why the game is how it is. The network engine isn't even RFC compliant anymore and it's been totally abandoned. Go look up RakNet. It's on Facebook's GitHub archive. It's been abandoned for half quite a while. It's got lots of issues too.

Make sure your RAM matches your processor and motherboard frequency and get yourself another 8GB of RAM. You will see better performance, but don't get super excited that it will be amazingly better. The game will just become playable with slightly better performance.

Good luck.

[BombsOnyaMoms]

Originally posted by Kieren:

Did exactly everything you said, and surprisingly the game loaded in without any crashing. Lasted longer than how long it normally takes to crash, but when I pressed Windows button and opened Discord, game suddenly crashed. Usually the game crashes when I randomly click my mouse when it's on loading screen, or if I alt+tab and open another app while in the server.
Game also stuttered like ♥♥♥♥, probably my GTX1050 can't run that ♥♥♥♥ but my settings were all already almost low end

The issue is that the game needs 8gb. When u try to run discord or other things, they also take memory. Im fairly certain you just need more memory. 8gb is the bare minimum.