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Game Crash - My game crashes whenever I select and server and launch the game. (Status Access Violation)
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Description

Hey there. Thank you so much for taking the time to look at this report. If you're able to help me get back to playing DayZ, I'll be so incredibly grateful for your help.

I've got 700+ hours that I've accrued since the first years of Standalone being out. Maybe 2 and a half months ago, when I was getting back into the game, it started to crash. I had already been playing it a bit for somewhere between a fortnight and a month, I think. I had played on official servers without mods, and then played some community servers with mods. That's as much as I can remember from the time when this started happening.

I went on a 2 month work trip and was excited to come home and play DayZ after fixing this issue; alas, I cannot. I've looked many things up about the Status_Heap_Corruption crash I am having as well as the Status_Access_Violation crash I am having. I can't detail what causes one of these and not the other, but I think that launching the game in Buldozer mode might have something to do with it. Speaking of Buldozer, here are some fixes I've seen online and tried:

  • Obviously, verifying game files. I've done this many times and it has not been fruitful.
  • Disabling my Nvidia GeForce In-Game Overlay. I've disabled this and nothing changed. I've also taken Nvidia off the Startup of my PC because I found that it was still running things when I was trying to get it not to.
  • Launching the game in Buldozer mode (through the launcher's parameters). Like I said, I think this affects which crash I get.
  • Uninstalling and re-installing. I've done this a couple times and have seen no effect.
  • I've also tried adding the '-nocharmenu parameter' because I saw one single thing online that made me think that might work somehow.
  • Ensuring I have enough storage/thinking space on each of my drives. It's not uncommon for me to have issues with games because my PC is too full and it can't operate - but this is not the case this time as I've certainly got enough space now.

Important details:
Launcher version: 1.6.158399

Game version: 1.25.158593

Branch: main / beta branch not specified

Details

Severity
Crash
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Operating System Version
22H2
Category
Game Crash
Steps To Reproduce
  1. Launch game through Steam or the game files.
  2. Select a server (I've only been doing officials while I test and try to fix this so I don't waste my time with mods), and join.
  3. Game launches to a blank, black screen while my cursor spins and loads.
  4. Blue screen. My PC tells me I need to restart. It says Status_Heap_Corruption.

Sometimes step 3 and 4 are, instead;

  1. Game launches to the 'loading into a server screen', with the little load bar at the bottom. The load bar usually only gets to 10-15% full before crashing.
  2. Game crashes and closes. 2 Error dialogs pop up telling me the Status_Access_Violation issue.
Additional Information

I should specify that my game is installed on my SSD, but that shouldn't be a problem....?

But also, please help. I hope you can help.

Event Timeline

papaBAZ created this task.Oct 4 2024, 1:54 AM
Geez changed the task status from New to Reviewed.Oct 22 2024, 10:37 AM
Geez added a subscriber: Geez.

Hello papaBAZ.
It does appear that the crash has simply been caused by running the game with -bulldozer parameter.
Please remove said parameter and try again.
Regards,
Geez