I was able to fix mine, for some reason I had an older version of ELS and it wasn't communicating with Rage and was causing the crash. Re-installed the ELS package, and it boots right up!
Same issue with me! I even re-installed RPH and LSPDFR from a fresh copy of the game, and it didn't help! No change in settings seems to fix the issue, though if I run it in Safe Mode it quits faster for some reason..
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