Appcrash Kernelbase.dll

[ironmarc 2]

I've been playing DayZ, that I have bought quite recently without any issues for over 30 hours of gameplay.

Then I have spent a little while without playing it and when I decided to play again I received that "DayZ has stopped working" message and then I was never able to run it again. One detail is that I get one message of "Dayz has stopped working", then after I close it, a second message appears repeating the same thing.

 

Name of the issue event APPCRASH and the name of the fail module KERNELBASE.DLL

 

Now, when I try to run the game from the Steam folder, from the .EXE directly, it says that it "doesn't detect the Steam running" or something similar to that. But I don't think that's the issue, because after receiving this message, a get two messages of "Dayz stopped working", one after the other, being "Appcrash" the reason in both instances.

 

Looking for a solution, I have read somewhere that it's possibly a conflict between another software running in the background and that I should try to open it in safe mode, which I still didn't do, will try it.

 

Anyway, what could it be? Can someone please help? 

 

By the way, I have Arma III as well and I'm having the exact same issue with both games, though I have not reinstalled Arma III, just uninstalled it so far, because DayZ after the reinstall still didn't work.

 

[Gugolas 228]

Have you tried to open the game from steam or from a short cut created by steam (in other words, in the correct way)?

Try it.

Then, if it doesn't work, try to verify the game cache (there's an option in steam).

If you think that a program might be conflicting (an antivirus maybe?) try starting the game after having disabilitated that program instead of directly trying a safe mode.

[ironmarc 2]

Have you tried to open the game from steam or from a short cut created by steam (in other words, in the correct way)?

Try it.

Then, if it doesn't work, try to verify the game cache (there's an option in steam).

If you think that a program might be conflicting (an antivirus maybe?) try starting the game after having disabilitated that program instead of directly trying a safe mode.

 

You know, english isn't my first language, so sorry if something seems to be really poorly written or difficult to understand.

 

No, I always used the steam shortcut. I tried to use the .exe to run it as an administrator, I thought it was implied that I attempted opening the game through the .exe directly just as a test.

Again, sorry for not being clear enough about that. I'll try my best to be clear so it becomes easier to understand for some people.

 

I did tried to verify the cache, I also tried to reinstall the game after the verification didn't show anything. I actually said I reinstalled it, but then I should have made it more easy to understand for you. 

 

Do you know anything about kernelbase.dll related appcrash? (no I don't need to download it)

Because looking it up, one of the solutions suggested by Microsoft customer support for a situation where the kernelbase.dll is the reason of a software not loading is to restore Windows to a previous state and I don't want to do that.

 

Do you know anything about that type of Appcrash? Or even better, do you know anything?