DayZ stops working, corrupts current windows session.

[TechnoLlama 1]

Hello,

I was hesitant to post here, but I've searched for hours and asked as many people as I could for answers to no avail, so here I am =). This is a bit long, but that's because I'm trying to be very specific.

I just reinstalled DayZ after quite some time having not played it. I reinstalled both ARMA 2 and OA on Steam, then installed DayZ on steam. I ran ARMA 2 once, then OA once. I then went through the process of installing the Beta Patch and installed Dayz Commander (which I am now using since it seems more user-friendly than running DayZ on Steam). I have updated to the latest version on DayZ Commander and I am able to join servers with no problems for the first 10-20 minutes.

Here's the problem: After the first little bit on a server (ususally, as stated, around 10-20 minutes), The game crashes. It has done so 4 times. The first three times, the world became extremely glitchy. Everything (character, zombies, ground, etc.) started disappearing and reappearing, there was screen tearing, flashes of white, picture skewing, etc. The sounds also bugs out, with sporadic "pops" and crackles. I have two monitors and keep mumble open on the second monitor. When this problem occurs, Mumble crashes, first just disconnected from server, then upon reconnection attempt, it says something about being "unable to read". If a browser is open, it also crashes. DayZ didn't actually CTD, but I was forced to close it. The fourth crash was exactly the same, except after a few seconds, DayZ DID CTD, stating "ARMA 2 OA" has stopped working. After all crashes, I was unable to to reopen any of the aforementioned programs, as they would appear glitchy and immediately crash ([program] has stopped working). Restarting my PC makes everything fine and I am able to use all programs normally again. If I attempt to play DayZ again, the problem repeats itself after a similar amount of time.

I have tried verifying the game cache of both ARMA 2 and OA, as well as the DayZ mod itself on steam (not sure if that actually does anything), after which I re-open ARMA 2 and OA once each before trying to run DayZ again. I have updated my graphics drivers and DirectX drivers. I have also tried disabling as many processes as possible in the task manager and then running DayZ.

I do not get this problem with other games.

System Specs:

1TB HDD

8GB RAM

AMD Phenom II X4 980 (Quad 3.7GHz)

AMD Radeon HD 7850

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Good cooling (Just clarifying that overheating is not the problem, since I saw a few people with that problem)

Can't think of what else to include. If I'm missing anything, let me know.

I would greatly appreciate any help at all. I'd really like to be able to play this game again with my friends. Thank you!

[novogeek 253]

Are you running the game as a Local Administrator?

Is there a Screen Saver that may kick in after 20 minutes? Power Saving?

Try stopping all unnecessary programs?

Plug out your second monitor as a test.

Sorry I can't be of more assistance ... but these are a few things I would try to attempt to narrow down the problem.

Good Luck.

[o-richardson@live.co.uk 34]

I smell re-format. :)

fixed everything and its quicker than searching for hours and hours (you dont loose anything windows.old is a life saver)

[novogeek 253]

I smell re-format. :)

fixed everything and its quicker than searching for hours and hours (you dont loose anything windows.old is a life saver)

Really ... a Windows.old when you reformat ... I take it you mean a reinstall ... cos a reformat will wipe the entire HDD (I stand under correction though).

[o-richardson@live.co.uk 34]

Yeah re-install / re-format kind of the same thing :D

Boot windows from the disc, Choose the drive keep going through (as if you are reformating)

It will do a clean instalation and place everything on the outside of the hdd in windows.old

If you have 2 HDD's (i use ssd for windows 1tb for storage) smash everything you need (games) onto the storage drive, and format the other one (bare in mind you dont want to format an ssd!!!)

[boneboys 7988]

If it only happens with DayZ mod I don't think formating is a good idea.

Try this : deactivate DayZ mod and try playing MP vanilla or why not join a Wasteland server, you neen nothing as it is a simple mission file, not a mod.

Run on one monitor only and please state which beta you are using, latest is 102936... http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

[TechnoLlama 1]

I would really like to avoid a reinstall, if possible. I tried running it with and without a few of the programs that I usually have running simultaneously. No change, but I did remember to get a picture of the error report that now seems to happen each time I crash (like, actually took a picture. Couldn't SS at the time): http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/403/dayzerror.jpg

A couple of my friends who were on the same server at the time of my latest crash also told me that, when it happened, it said something along the lines of "technollama has disconnected from the server (Battleye has stopped working)". Again, something along those lines, I couldn't get exact wording. The point is the BattlEye thing. I'm not sure if that's significant.

I really appreciate the help, guys.

[AmberHelios 2071]

thats not dayz crashing thats commander crashing when it crashes it kills the process for arma . try ticking the box for close commander after joining a server and see if that helps the battleye is not responding comes up if you lose connection to the server

[TechnoLlama 1]

thats not dayz crashing thats commander crashing when it crashes it kills the process for arma . try ticking the box for close commander after joining a server and see if that helps the battleye is not responding comes up if you lose connection to the server

Just played for about 2 hours straight with no problems. That seems to have been the fix. You have my beans, sir.

[malin 13]

Hello,

I was hesitant to post here, but I've searched for hours and asked as many people as I could for answers to no avail, so here I am =). This is a bit long, but that's because I'm trying to be very specific.

I just reinstalled DayZ after quite some time having not played it. I reinstalled both ARMA 2 and OA on Steam, then installed DayZ on steam. I ran ARMA 2 once, then OA once. I then went through the process of installing the Beta Patch and installed Dayz Commander (which I am now using since it seems more user-friendly than running DayZ on Steam). I have updated to the latest version on DayZ Commander and I am able to join servers with no problems for the first 10-20 minutes.

Here's the problem: After the first little bit on a server (ususally, as stated, around 10-20 minutes), The game crashes. It has done so 4 times. The first three times, the world became extremely glitchy. Everything (character, zombies, ground, etc.) started disappearing and reappearing, there was screen tearing, flashes of white, picture skewing, etc. The sounds also bugs out, with sporadic "pops" and crackles. I have two monitors and keep mumble open on the second monitor. When this problem occurs, Mumble crashes, first just disconnected from server, then upon reconnection attempt, it says something about being "unable to read". If a browser is open, it also crashes. DayZ didn't actually CTD, but I was forced to close it. The fourth crash was exactly the same, except after a few seconds, DayZ DID CTD, stating "ARMA 2 OA" has stopped working. After all crashes, I was unable to to reopen any of the aforementioned programs, as they would appear glitchy and immediately crash ([program] has stopped working). Restarting my PC makes everything fine and I am able to use all programs normally again. If I attempt to play DayZ again, the problem repeats itself after a similar amount of time.

I have tried verifying the game cache of both ARMA 2 and OA, as well as the DayZ mod itself on steam (not sure if that actually does anything), after which I re-open ARMA 2 and OA once each before trying to run DayZ again. I have updated my graphics drivers and DirectX drivers. I have also tried disabling as many processes as possible in the task manager and then running DayZ.

I do not get this problem with other games.

System Specs:

1TB HDD

8GB RAM

AMD Phenom II X4 980 (Quad 3.7GHz)

AMD Radeon HD 7850

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Good cooling (Just clarifying that overheating is not the problem, since I saw a few people with that problem)

Can't think of what else to include. If I'm missing anything, let me know.

I would greatly appreciate any help at all. I'd really like to be able to play this game again with my friends. Thank you!

This is EXACTLY the same problem I've been having. I made a post about it here a bit back. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/126978-garbled-sound-distorted-video-then-crash/#entry1221735

I like you, tested many things before I posted and tried some of the tips that certain people posted. One of the things that people would bring up was that it was my video card drivers, it was overheating, or something was wrong with my card. Well it wasn't the video card drivers since I tried multiple revisions and I have two of the exact same video card and this would do it on both I also would watch them during the game and the temp would never get passed 65c.

Well, come to find out I think it has something to do with running multiple monitors. I have a second monitor that I have dayzdb map on while I'm in game on the other. I'm running a amd black edition with a 6870 graphics card. When this was first brought to my attention I unplugged one of the monitors and was able to play for 8 hours with no problem. I recently started playing again and was using both monitors yesterday for 6 hours straight no problem. I logged back on later and within 20 minutes had it happen again.

TLDR: I really think the problem is some sort of flaw with Dayz and multiple monitor setups on AMD cards. If you really want to test it out try playing with 2 for a while vs 1 monitor.