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So, I’ve played DayZ for several years. Last night an issue developed, and now I cannot play it at all. Whenever I try to load in a server on the DZSA or the DAYZ launcher, my screen goes black, and the memory usage shoots up to 100%. Then my PC will freeze until I end task on my task manager. I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled, deleted everything DayZ for clean install, done buldozer on DayZ launcher, done about everything I can think of. I can play any other I have, but not DayZ. What do you guys recommend I do now? I just wanna do raid things…

My pc setup is: gpu rtx 2070, cpu ryzen 9 5900x, 32gb ram

Details

Severity
Crash
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
N/A
Operating System
Windows 10
Category
Performance

Event Timeline

Vito324 created this task.Mar 12 2023, 6:12 PM

I had a friend who had the same issue. It could be a drivers issue. But you could try this first :

Go to your C drive > programfiles(x86) > steam >userdata and then find the DayZ folder which is called "221100" and delete that entire folder. This worked for my friend

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I had a friend who had the same issue. It could be a drivers issue. But you could try this first :

Go to your C drive > programfiles(x86) > steam >userdata and then find the DayZ folder which is called "221100" and delete that entire folder. This worked for my friend

What drivers should I check?

Geez changed the task status from New to Reviewed.Mar 14 2023, 11:05 AM
Geez added a subscriber: Geez.

Please try the following:

Verify the game data through Steam and delete the configuration files when prompted to do so (make sure Steam cloud sync is disabled for DayZ before doing this) - you can also delete the config files manually by clearing the C:\Users\*username*\Documents\DayZ folder

Open the DayZ launcher
Select PARAMETERS menu
Select ALL PARAMETERS tab
scroll down and check "Bulldozer" parameter
Launch the game
Once launched, close the game
Uncheck bulldozer
Launch the game again without any parameters

Regards,
Geez

Please try the following:

Verify the game data through Steam and delete the configuration files when prompted to do so (make sure Steam cloud sync is disabled for DayZ before doing this) - you can also delete the config files manually by clearing the C:\Users\*username*\Documents\DayZ folder

Open the DayZ launcher
Select PARAMETERS menu
Select ALL PARAMETERS tab
scroll down and check "Bulldozer" parameter
Launch the game
Once launched, close the game
Uncheck bulldozer
Launch the game again without any parameters

Regards,
Geez

Didn't work... I have no idea what to do now.

Vito, did you try deleting the userdata folder like I suggested?

C drive > programfiles(x86) > steam >userdata and then find the DayZ folder which is called "221100" and delete that entire folder?

This is the only thing that solved this same problem for my mate

Vito, did you try deleting the userdata folder like I suggested?

C drive > programfiles(x86) > steam >userdata and then find the DayZ folder which is called "221100" and delete that entire folder?

This is the only thing that solved this same problem for my mate

Yep, Tried that. Still didn't work.

Sheesh man that sucks, sorry to hear. Geez is ofcourse the specialist here so follow whatever he asks you to do next

The only other thing I can think of personally could be drivers issues? Make sure everything including windows is 100% up to date...If that doesn't work, maybe try using DDU to uninstall the GPU drivers and download a fresh version, or maybe even revert to an older version if that still doesn't work.

Sheesh man that sucks, sorry to hear. Geez is ofcourse the specialist here so follow whatever he asks you to do next

The only other thing I can think of personally could be drivers issues? Make sure everything including windows is 100% up to date...If that doesn't work, maybe try using DDU to uninstall the GPU drivers and download a fresh version, or maybe even revert to an older version if that still doesn't work.

Everything is up to date, I check it often. I'm not sure what else to do now.