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(Potential Memoryleak) DayZ Crashes when launching (Blackscreen and Freezes), DayZ Experimental works.
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Description

When I launch the game, via launcher (with or without mods, with or without launcher) it load shortly, the game symbol pops up, it opens the game windwow (just black) with the mice and a loading symbol next to it. It stays there and then crashed. When I wait long enough, it closes the game. When I click somewhere (and can be seen on taskmanager as well, before it totally freezes my PC) that the .exe is not responding.
HOWEVER the experimental is working just fine. I can launch the game.

Edit:
I tried it with 32 Gigs of RAM and as soon as I launch the game it went to 100% ram usage. Had the same with a different brand of 16 Gigs of RAM.

My specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor
16Gb DDR4 RAM
GTX 960 4GB

Reinstalled my computer
Re-installed the game (redownload)
Tested integrity on steam
tested my ram (with the windows memory tester, no problem)
tested another GPU (GTX 1070)
CPU Stresstested all cores work fine as they should.
Installed different drivers (the drivers especially for windows 10 (through Gforce experience) but also the "normal" ones.
Tried my account on another computer
Tried with another account on my computer

Monday, 11pm GMT+1 it still worked fine, error occurred on Tuesday evening first time launching the game.

EDIT 2: Tried copying the experimental files into the normal DayZ folder: Steam doesn't notice it (launcher works), but game still crashes.

Details

Severity
Crash
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10
Category
Game Crash
Steps To Reproduce
  1. Relaunch the game. Every launch the same problem.
Additional Information

Seems like there were a few people in the past who had the same problem (kind of):
https://forums.dayz.com/topic/248325-black-screen/

And

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150561

Event Timeline

Monaco161 created this task.Jul 8 2020, 5:35 PM
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Monaco161 added a comment.EditedJul 9 2020, 9:51 AM


A few other error messages I got. I personally think this is because my system crashed because there isnt enough ram. Will send you a video as well

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19b-Mp7MM-W9AGa0S_mEUgslZiXGA86Pn/view?usp=sharing

Geez added a subscriber: Geez.Jul 9 2020, 11:25 AM

Hello Monaco161.
If you move the files from C:\Users\*username*\Documents\DayZ Exp to your C:\Users\*username*\Documents\DayZ folder, does the issue still appear?
Regards,
Geez

Geez changed the task status from New to Need More Info.Jul 9 2020, 11:25 AM

Seems to work for me now, had one server who told me wrong version.

Thank you tho!!!

Geez closed this task as Resolved.Jul 10 2020, 10:50 AM
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JTsinger added a subscriber: JTsinger.EditedMar 15 2021, 10:05 PM

I'm curious as to how this panned out for the OP. I am having the same issues. I have experienced all of those exact same errors. Weeks of stable gameplay and now I can't start the game without crashing all/most of my system. The DayZ Launcher loads fine, but all hell breaks loose when I click "Play." I have tried running all portions as an administrator. I have tried running the 32-bit version. I have wiped and reinstalled Windows, Steam, DayZ, DirectX, and Nvidia drivers. I checked that all drivers are up to date. I cried a little. All to no avail. I see a lot of similar errors posted around the internet, but I have yet to see a definitive solution.

Launcher version: 1.6.153685

Game version: 1.11.153731

Branch: main / beta branch not specified