Game Crashing?

[Irish. 4886]

Is Dayz crashing for you, repeatedly after about 5 minutes of playing?

 

If so this happened to me many times over the past week, maybe the new patch, maybe my transferring the game back to my SSD. I cant be sure. But it happened, over and over again. But then I realized the problem.

 

I was clicking my Dayz "quick-launch" icon on my windows taskbar. Rather than selecting, "play dayz" within Steam. This for some reason caused Dayz to open 2 different applications. Now when I transferred my game back to my SSD I had this issue as well, but it was because I still had 2 version of Dayz, 1 on my SSD and 1 on my HDD. I deleted my HDD data, refreshed my quicklaunch icon, and all was well. Sort of. ;)

 

As long as I click my quick launch, regardless, it will try to open 2 different Dayz games. Its not easy to see, and sometimes the game starts up before I can even see that it is trying to do this. But each time (almost) it crashes after about 5 mins tops. 

 

So my solution was to simply select to play Dayz within Steam. This only opens one version of Dayz, and all works flawlessly. I also have noticed that even when the game does not crash, if it is attempting to open 2 versions it will run very laggy and stuttery. So I thought I would let people know in case they are having the same issue. If when Dayz crashes you see a Steam box open that says application crashed, unable to open due to other instance or something like that. This is probably your issue.

 

Good luck! And if anyone can elaborate on why this is even happening, that would be great :)

[Facetentacles 92]

At least you aren't getting repeated different Battleye issues like me. First BE wouldn't respond, fixed that. Then a week later BE fails to update, fixed that.

What will happen to Battleye next?!?! ;)