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Cannot launch game, have found multiple other cases with other people but no solutions. "DayZ_x64.exe - Bad Image"
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Description

Dayz through Steam
Launcher works fine, but after clicking "join" the bottom line changes text from "Ready to play - Steam is online" to "BattlEye: Starting BattlEye Service..." to "BattlEye: Launching The Game..." and then an error comes up titled: "DayZ_x64.exe - Bad Image". "is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Trying installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0xc000012f."
Exit code: 0xC000012F - STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_NOT_MZ

Fully re-installed Windows 10 Home
Re-installed newest version of Microsoft Visual
Verified integrity of game files
Re-installed game on Steam (multiple times)
Tried multiple different servers, official and community, with and without mods

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
N/A
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Operating System Version
22H2 - build 19045.2486
Category
Game Startup

Event Timeline

Geez changed the task status from New to Need More Info.Jan 31 2023, 10:37 AM
Geez added a subscriber: Geez.

Hello bad.image.
Is there any sort of dump file being created? can you click on "Show details and prepare report" when the error occurs and then upload the generated archive to this ticket?
Regards,
Geez

I'm in bed about to pass out right now but I'll grab it as soon as I can tonight

Sorry, haven't been able to get any time on the pc for a couple days. Here's the file

Geez added a comment.Feb 3 2023, 11:26 AM

Hello bad.image.
Can you please try to reinstall Steam? https://windowsreport.com/steam-exe-bad-image-error-windows-10/

"DayZ_x64. exe – bad image – Resintalling Steam will refresh its files and get rid of the bad image error."

Regards,
Geez

I've tried all solutions on that page and none have worked

Geez added a comment.Feb 13 2023, 9:20 AM

Hello bad.image.
Have you tried reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ 2012?
Regards,
Geez

I did uninstall/reinstall Visual and redistributables. I installed the newest version of Visual though, I'll uninstall that and try out the 2012 version now

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