Ever since 1.03, I cannot launch DayZ anymore. I've been playing the game on the same rig since 2014, but the game doesn't work anymore.

Every time I try launching the game, I get a "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. I read multiple threads on steam forums, on the feedback trackers and tried pretty much everything I can.

This is everything I tried:

1. Reinstalled the game.
2. Ran DayZ_x64.exe and DayZ_BE.exe as administrators.
3. Ran the game in compatibility mode.
4. Ran Steam as admin.
5. Deleted everything Battle Eye related.
6. Verified integrity of game files.
7. Took ownership of the DayZ folder and gave all users full control over the DayZ folder.
8. Moved the game from my SSD to my HDD.
9. Made sure anything Razer related was uninstalled.
10. Uninstalled my antivirus and turned off Windows Defender.

Last but not least I did a clean format of my SSD and reinstalled a fresh new Windows 10 Pro x64 edition. On the clean install, I installed DayZ and the problem still occurred.