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Issue: I purchased and downloaded DayZ Standalone via Steam earlier today, and I have not been able to play. It seems that as soon as I try to run the game, it opens a Steam pop-up that says "Preparing to launch DayZ", then immediately disappears and fails to start the game. According to my friends in Skype and Steam, it says that I am playing DayZ, but on my screen, nothing is happening. It always says "Prototype784x is playing DayZ" for them. To clarify, I'm unable to launch the game, with no errors reported. I have tried all troubleshooting steps available on this site, and I'm unable to do a clean install of Windows unless it is completely necessary..I'd really prefer not to. Anyways I hope I was being clear enough, my system specs are below. System Specs (edited over time): OS: Windows 8.1 64x CPU: Intel i7-3970X @ 3.50 GHz GPU: (4 total GPUs, configured in SLI): GeForce GTX 690 Ram: 32GB Steam Version: Lastest as of 8/1/14 DayZ Standalone Version: Lastest as of 8/1/14 Drivers: Latest as of 8/1/14 Again, please try your best to help me solve this, a few of my friends are playing and I'd really like to join them soon. P.S, I have tried reinstalling both Steam and DayZ.

I have fixed this problem. Here is how: 1) Launch Steam2) Right click on DayZ3) Go to Properties4) Go to Set Launch Options5) Type "-window" (without quotation marks) This is how I got it to launch for me. Hopefully this will help anyone else struggling with this issue.

Sorry to bump, but I am still having this issue. Help of ANY kind would be greatly appreciated.

Ardogen, did you do a clean installation or just a normal installation?

Thanks for the idea cwkhorne, but that didn't fix it either. Just to clarify the situation, I have never been able to play DayZ SA at all. It never worked before and it still isn't working.

Nothing has worked for me, and I still have not been able to play DayZ. So far it was a waste of my money. I have a video uploaded of the issue for anyone else willing to try and help.

Shadowplay wasn't on, thanks for the advice anyway. I still am having the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion Grapefruit, but that didn't do it for me. If it makes any difference, my antivirus program is BitDefender.

Update: I just installed Windows 8.1; that didn't help either.

Please guys... I really need help.

Can someone please help me out? I really would like to play DayZ, and as of now I just wasted $30.

Could you possibly use Teamviewer and remote connect to my PC to see better what is going on?

Nope, still the same result. Why is this so hard to solve??

Same issue

That didn't work either

I don't have arma3

I have the standalone version, not the arma mod :O

That didn't fix the issue... I don't know what it could be...

No it isn't; it only happens in DayZ.