During the first infantry showcase as you get to the first cluster of rocks, the game stops responding to keyboard commands.
Unable to alt+tab, unable to ctrl+alt+delete. After team killing the AI and subsequent failure of the mission I was able to close the game with the mouse.
Once back in windows the keyboard was still unresponsive. Unable to toggle caps lock or type within windows.
after a reset functionality is restored.
Mouse: Logitech G5 laser mouse
Keyboard: Microsoft SideWinder X4
Controller: Razer Onza Tournament Edition gamepad
The Xbox controller also dies, only the mouse remains functional.
This also happened on the helicopter showcase. Roughly 60 seconds in during take off in the chopper the keyboard and xbox controller becomes unresponsive which also persists into windows once the game is closed.
I have a few application error here that occur at the time of the problem but the game does not actually crash.
EventData
arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a c0000005 00808a83 f94 01ce1a3e1f760c39 D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe 5d86c846-8631-11e2-be6d-902b343d289d
EventData
arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a ntdll.dll 6.2.9200.16420 505aaa82 c0000005 00061b06 f94 01ce1a3e1f760c39 D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 5de2733c-8631-11e2-be6d-902b343d289d
EventData
arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a c0000005 00808a83 4c 01ce1a3e4fef06ef D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe 8db323fe-8631-11e2-be6d-902b343d289d
EventData
arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a arma3.exe 0.5.102.571 512deb6a c0000005 00808a83 7a8 01ce1a3ed075db70 D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe 0e337fd3-8632-11e2-be6d-902b343d289d
recently I bought a few SSD's, due to this I re-imaged my machine. Even though I used the same drivers and version of Windows 8 I am now unable to replicate the issue at all on my new install.
I have been able to play through all 4 missions and some MP. Having said that, I have not yet plugged in my razer xbox controller since re-imaging. I'll do some more testing see if there is any conflict.
This issue turned out to be a problem between Windows 8 xHCI Usb 3.0 drivers and the Intel Z77 platform.
Some usb device combinations (for me; razer onza xbox 360 controller and logitech usb microphone) cause a conflict in the driver and it fails to rout the device to the ECHI controller (Usb 2.0) or the xhci controller (usb 3.0).
Resulting in the effected devices to become disabled. Going in the bios and setting xHCI routing to enabled from either Auto or Smart Auto seems to have restored stability so far...