Rage - doesn't even start on Steam?

Jimbo Mahoney · 7 Sep 2013 at 17:33

I've searched all over the place to find out why Rage won't even start on my machine, and I've just posted this to Bethesda:

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Hi there,

I'm trying to run RAGE on Steam, but it doesn't even start. No errors are given, and I can see the Rage32.exe appear momentarily in my Task Manager, but it disappears in seconds and the game never appears.

Here is what I've tried (nothing helps or changes anything):

1) Deleting all content and re-downloading.
2) Verifying integrity of cache.
3) Running the DXSETUP.EXE
4) Running vcredist_x86.exe - this gives an error saying that a newer version of C++ 2010 on my machine.
5) Updating my video drivers - Nvidia 320.49 with Nvidia 630m - including a clean install
6) Running Rage in safe mode
7) Running the exe as administrator
8) Running the exe in XP compatibility mode

The weird thing is that Rage did once work on this machine (Dell XPS 14, Windows 8 64-bit), but I have since reinstalled Windows and now it doesn't work and I can't see what has actually changed.

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Does anyone have any other things I can try?

Jimbo Mahoney · 8 Sep 2013 at 05:53

Thanks for the tips, but neither 64-bit mode (I'd already tried this) or the regedit (none of the entries were present) helped.

Jimbo Mahoney · 8 Sep 2013 at 09:30

dreigns said:
Why not post in Bethesdas RAGE Hardware and Software Issues Subforums and make sure to include the dxdiag [just put dxdiag in run] if you dont know what that is it is info on your system and installed drivers this will help find the problem just save all information then open with notepad and paste in there fourm.

Thanks - have just done so and someone else is having the same problem, but no solutions as yet.

Jimbo Mahoney · 8 Sep 2013 at 18:37

Possibly narrowing it down to an OpenGL /video driver issue:

------- Initializing renderSystem --------
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
X..WGL_EXT_swap_control not found
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
X..WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear not found
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
----- GL_Init -----
Couldn't find proc address for: glGetStringi

Could be a red herring though because according to OpenGL Extensions Viewer, everything is working from OpenGL 3.0 through 4.3.