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Black Screen:Dayz has stopped working properly and windows will shut it down.
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Description

I can load into game but in 2 to 15 minutes I get a black screen. Last server was: Dayz-Hosted by Fragnet.net and version is 0.50.125369 (stable). This happens on all servers I have been on. Moving or standing still is no diffrent.
I can only leave black screen by Cont-Alt-delete.
I have to close game from task manager.
I have noticed 2 messages. The Windows message stated above. Second, Video card has stopped working and was recovered sucessfully.

Details

Legacy ID
220350683
Severity
None
Resolution
Fixed
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Game Crash
Steps To Reproduce

Simply start game and wait or run, play, loot. Its of no consiquence. In town or in forest. Fighting a zombie or nothing at all.
Ive been in 3rd person View.

Additional Information

I validated Cache.
I can play Battlefield 4, Guildwars2, WOW.
I suffer through a few min of play at a time.Believe it or not Steam says Ive logged 96 hours in this game. I just wont continue attempting to play like this. This has been happening since the day I bought this.

Event Timeline

BLISUS edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Nov 22 2014, 6:41 AM
BLISUS edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
BLISUS set Category to Game Crash.
BLISUS set Reproducibility to Always.
BLISUS set Severity to None.
BLISUS set Resolution to Fixed.
BLISUS set Legacy ID to 220350683.May 8 2016, 8:40 PM
BLISUS edited a custom field.
BLISUS added a subscriber: BLISUS.

It is not possible to play anymore. Crashing is happening all the time now. It is worse since the last patch.Simply unplayable.
Please, Atleast send me some settings I could try to change. I have had no luck.
Even Video card crashes the message I get is "Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered."

It is no longer a hassle. The game is unplayable at this time.

Lork added a subscriber: Lork.May 8 2016, 8:40 PM
Lork added a comment.Nov 29 2014, 2:00 AM

confirmed. 2 crashes today at stable branch, same message.

1 time at the forest, alone. The other time in Elektro while one zombie was chasing me.

andy added a subscriber: andy.May 8 2016, 8:40 PM
andy added a comment.Dec 8 2014, 10:17 AM

Terribly sorry about your trouble, BLISUS.
We are aware of a lot of recent crashes and working hard on fixing these problems. Please be patient.
Regards,
Andy

mist3r added a subscriber: mist3r.May 8 2016, 8:40 PM

"Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered." is often due to Overlocking ant to low voltage. Did you OC your GPU?

mist3r,
No overclock and no on power suppy.(1000w)
And its all free of dust to answer next question.
Thanks for trying
Listed games play fine.
Now I include Americas Army. Played 3 hours this morning no problem.

BLISUS added a comment.Jan 7 2015, 5:13 AM

Tried a few more times to play but could not play for longer than a few min. Very disappointing.

Andy,
I've now upgraded my processor to a i7 960. To no avail unfortunately.

BLISUS added a comment.Feb 6 2015, 5:27 AM

Andy,
I removed all video drivers and performed a clean installation from Nvidia website.
Now I am getting a
Dayz: Dayz.exe - Application Error
The exception unknown software exception (0xc000005)occurred in
the application at location 0x00e35f27.

Still not able to play for more than about 5 min.

BLISUS added a comment.Feb 6 2015, 5:32 AM

Is it possible to re install the game? Please give me some guidance.

andy added a comment.Feb 6 2015, 10:35 AM

Hi BLISUS and sorry to hear that the problem persists.
Yes, reinstalling the game might help.
If it does not, please follow the steps at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Check-a-drive-for-errors and let me know if it helped.
Regards,
Andy

I reinstalled game but no change. Kept crashing.
I did drive check then played again. crashed again, Played for about 30 min crash, 30 min crash,45 min logged out. this morning.
In last hour 20 min crash, 35 min crash, load in crash instant, load in crash instant.
Andy, this is really ridiculous. I clearly understand Alpha and Beta games. Glitching is one thing but this is not a playable game for some reason. I spent a couple hundred dollars to upgrade processor just for your game. Nothing helps.
If you can't help me out I must request a full refund (steam credit).
I will work with you to get it working properly but if we can't solve this I must move on.
Please Advise

The message I have seen every crash is posted at (0075825) 4 up from this post.

I have installed a 29 GB SSD. This is a secondary drive.
I was wondering if this would help. If so, do I need to uninstall steam from main drive and install Steam on SSD?
Then install DayZ from there?
Or is there some way to uninstall DayZ from main drive and install it to the SSD?

That's good to hear. We'll close the ticket for now then, but in case you encounter any further problems, please feel free to submit a new ticket.

Regards,
JStewart

This may be premature. I may have solved the problem by running DayZ from the solid state drive.
I play for a couple of hours. Once in that time I received on screen message saying no message is received with so many seconds. I think that a server restart message. For the first time I actually had to log out of game.