Game won't start at all. Error on startup :/. Please help!

[budyll 0]

Hello guys,

 

I've just decided to play DayZ again as last time I played it was back in the end of October.

I installed the game, I've been asked to agree with EULA, then some application called "BattleEye" was installed and here's what the game's greeting me with when I click play button on Steam:

 

I've reinstalled the game several times, used a launch option which was suggested to me on Steam forums, which is "-malloc=ttb4malloc_bi_x64-maxmem=2047" but to no avail :( .

Can anyone help? Why am I greeted with such an error?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edited March 11, 2015 by budyll

[jmbftw@ymail.com 2]

Did you verify integrity of game cache?

[budyll 0]

Yes I did after every reinstall.

[franzuu 211]

Yes I did after every reinstall.

 

try launching steam as admin

 

do you have any antivirus running?

[budyll 0]

try launching steam as admin

 

do you have any antivirus running?

 

Launching as Admin doesn't work either. I'm using Panda Cloud Antivirus and disabling it briefly just to check if the game would start then didn't work as well.

 

I'm at a complete loss now. I was advised twice on Steam DayZ forums to write here on the official forums. Can I actually expect any of the devs to help me here?

I don't get this error at all. It seems that the game have some kind of problem with managing memory or something like that, but that's all that I was able to understand from this error.

 

EDIT:

This topic can be closed. I just wanted to check how much the game improved since October but I don't have time to try and resolve this issue as it seems impossible to troubleshoot anyways.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I really appreciate them ;). Guess I'll just install the game again once it'll be finished and out of Early Access.

Edited March 11, 2015 by budyll

[franzuu 211]

Launching as Admin doesn't work either. I'm using Panda Cloud Antivirus and disabling it briefly just to check if the game would start then didn't work as well.

 

I'm at a complete loss now. I was advised twice on Steam DayZ forums to write here on the official forums. Can I actually expect any of the devs to help me here?

I don't get this error at all. It seems that the game have some kind of problem with managing memory or something like that, but that's all that I was able to understand from this error.

 

EDIT:

This topic can be closed. I just wanted to check how much the game improved since October but I don't have time to try and resolve this issue as it seems impossible to troubleshoot anyways.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I really appreciate them ;). Guess I'll just install the game again once it'll be finished and out of Early Access.

 

 

The only place the devs will see and be able to deal with your issue is actually on the official bug tracker http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view_all_bug_page.php

 

 

You should open a ticket there

[budyll 0]

The only place the devs will see and be able to deal with your issue is actually on the official bug tracker http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view_all_bug_page.php

 

 

You should open a ticket there

 

I was considering this option, but after opening a lot of the newest issues on this tracker, I saw that none of them has any reply from the dev team. 

Since they aren't replying over there to anyone, my issue would either be lost in between the ones that would be posted after mine or I'd wait for months to get a solution from them.

Still, thanks for the suggestion.

[thecuzee 0]

I saw the bug tracker and thought exactly the same. If this is a common issue, I dont see why the devs acknowledge it by saying something rather then leave us in the dark. I really want to play

[insolicious 24]

Have the same issue.. game won't start. Reinstalled, verified game cache.. nothing helps. Well done Bohemia. Every week another big suprise.

 

Sidenote: I don't even have a crashing error.. it simply syncs for a sec and won't start after.

Edited March 11, 2015 by Insoliciously

[franzuu 211]

I was considering this option, but after opening a lot of the newest issues on this tracker, I saw that none of them has any reply from the dev team. 

Since they aren't replying over there to anyone, my issue would either be lost in between the ones that would be posted after mine or I'd wait for months to get a solution from them.

Still, thanks for the suggestion.

 

That is true, there are currently 9000 issues on the tracker with no response at all. Their moderators really ought to systematically go through all of them.

 

Recently an issue (bulletproof bushes) that was reported 7 months ago (and probably there were duplicates before that) was bumped. It was already a huge issue in the mod.

 

It got bumped by a reporter, a week after that it got assigned and another week later it got fixed. 

 

This huge issue that caused a lot of grief for years got fixed in 2 weeks.

 

To me it looks like the bug tracker mods and managers are overwhelmed and they need more people to deal with it. 

 

 

You should still report it. If someone replys (they want your dxdiag or crash dumps) you will get an e-mail.

 

Game crashes are high priority and usually get some attention.

[franzuu 211]

Have the same issue.. game won't start. Reinstalled, verified game cache.. nothing helps. Well done Bohemia. Every week another big suprise.

 

Sidenote: I don't even have a crashing error.. it simply syncs for a sec and won't start after.

I have heard of this error before. 

 

go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\DayZ\_CommonRedist\vcredist

 

and install both things in both 2010 and 2013 folders. (4 installs)

 

then start steam as admin

 

 

I think its your anti virus stopping something or lack of admin privileges.

Edited March 11, 2015 by Franzuu

[insolicious 24]

I tried your steps. Didn't work. Even with a computer restart.

[franzuu 211]

I tried your steps. Didn't work. Even with a computer restart.

 

Are you on an administrator account?

[insolicious 24]

Yes I am.

[insolicious 24]

I've tried a dozen of fixes now and nothing helps. The only thing I could do is redo my whole system and that won't happen because of dayz. Every other game in steam works, except for this. It was working the past weeks, also yesterday till I logged around midnight. Today they do some clientpatch and nothing works anymore. I've reinstalled the game 5 times now, been doing systemtroubleshooting, reinstalling directx, vc2010+2013, admin privleges, tried the -window startup thing.. Guess people like me and most likely others will have to rot and wait for a miraclous update. My prediction is still the patch today.

[budyll 0]

I've tried a dozen of fixes now and nothing helps. The only thing I could do is redo my whole system and that won't happen because of dayz. Every other game in steam works, except for this. It was working the past weeks, also yesterday till I logged around midnight. Today they do some clientpatch and nothing works anymore. I've reinstalled the game 5 times now, been doing systemtroubleshooting, reinstalling directx, vc2010+2013, admin privleges, tried the -window startup thing.. Guess people like me and most likely others will have to rot and wait for a miraclous update. My prediction is still the patch today.

 

My simple answer would be this: 

Either this game will never get out of Early Access or it'll simply get dropped at some point.

With so many issues being reported and with Bohemia not addressing/responding to them AT ALL, it'll take at least 10 more years to get this game working as it should.

 

Guess I'll be better off with playing Dying Light which has a way better combat and is far more polished.

 

Not mentioning that at the exact moment today when I unistalled DayZ, I got a bunch of errors stating that some system files have been deleted which forced me to restoring my WIndows 7... 

[franzuu 211]

My simple answer would be this: 

Either this game will never get out of Early Access or it'll simply get dropped at some point.

With so many issues being reported and with Bohemia not addressing/responding to them AT ALL, it'll take at least 10 more years to get this game working as it should.

 

Guess I'll be better off with playing Dying Light which has a way better combat and is far more polished.

 

Not mentioning that at the exact moment today when I unistalled DayZ, I got a bunch of errors stating that some system files have been deleted which forced me to restoring my WIndows 7... 

 

 

DayZ won't do that.

 

I bet you have a virus/malware or a failing HDD.

 

Try dayz again after repairing windows.

 

I bet your OS is broken.

[budyll 0]

DayZ won't do that.

 

I bet you have a virus/malware or a failing HDD.

 

Try dayz again after repairing windows.

 

I bet your OS is broken.

 

My PC is 2 months old and all its parts are completely new. I also have a Pro version of Panda Antivirus licensed for 2 years.

Besides, what do you mean by "DayZ won't do that"? Game now has thousands of issues reported in the DayZ issues tracker and seeing as Bohemia isn't responding to them at all, this game will not fill like a finished product for at least 6-7 more years.

Edited March 15, 2015 by budyll

[insolicious 24]

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/222136-dayz-wont-launch-at-allplease-help-me/page-2

 

Check my post about the windows update.. maybe you got the same issue I had.

[franzuu 211]

My PC is 2 months old and all its parts are completely new. I also have a Pro version of Panda Antivirus licensed for 2 years.

Besides, what do you mean by "DayZ won't do that"? Game now has thousands of issues reported in the DayZ issues tracker and seeing as Bohemia isn't responding to them at all, this game will not fill like a finished product for at least 6-7 more years.

dayz uninstall won't delete system files

[budyll 0]

dayz uninstall won't delete system files

 

No, I'm sure the game itself wouldn't do that, but I can't say the same about some crappy anti-cheating application called BattlEye that got installed along with DayZ and when uninstalled after DayZ got uninstalled, my Windows started giving me appx. 10 errors every 30 seconds.

 

Anyways, I gave it one more try and the game still isn't working and still gives me the same error as stated in my 1st post in this topic. This is simply ridiculous!

Like I already stated above:

Game now has thousands of issues reported in the DayZ issues tracker and seeing as Bohemia isn't responding to them at all, this game will not fill like a finished product for at least 6-7 more years.