I did some more research and found out that my joystick seems to cause the problem.

The game does start when the joystick is not plugged in. I attached 2 logfiles for each testcase.

Whilst looking at the log I noticed something. See the log extract below for clarification:

<log>
Error: JoystickDevices - CoInitilizeEx return 80010106
Detected Joystick: SideWinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick

0 ... X-Achse [1,30]
1 ... Y-Achse [1,31]
5 ... Z-Rotation [1,35]
6 ... Schieberegler [1,36]

</log>

The log file lists all control elements of my joystick in my Windows locale (German). The list of control elements is not complete, yet. The elements are listed in the Windows 8 Gamecontroller-Settings tool aswell. As next element I would expect 8 digitial buttons, which are grouped as "Schaltflächen" in my locale. Note the German Umlaut 'ä' in "Schaltflächen".

My wild guess now is, that your parser checks each field for validity and does not like said Umlaut.

Hello,
would it be possible to plug a joystick again and try to find crashdump in the same folder as the rpt? (crashdump is rpt + bidmp + mdmp file with same name)
Thank you.

Hi,

the game does not generate the bidmp or mdmp files, because it is only freezing not crashing. The process can't be killed via the taskbar or Alt+F4.

I created a process image with the task manager and killed the task with the task manager subsequently.

After killing the process, no bidmp + mdmp files were created.

I uploaded two sets of the process image (.dmp) and .rpt file to: http://bnkr.no-ip.biz:10080/ARMA3/

Regards
Tobias

Hello,

it seems that you Arma is not actually crashing but shutting down in emergency mod. It is most likely caused by Windows or third-party software. Would it be possible to try other USB devices? Also, have you tried updating all possible drivers (ie. motherboard, BIOS)?

Hi,

I reinstalled Windows 8.1 x64 from scratch, today. I applied all Windows updates. Installed are the following programs:

• Steam
• Origin
• Teamspeak
• Nvidia Experience
• Opera Browser
• PuTTY
• Xming

The issue is still 100% reproducable. I.e. Arma crashes, when my joystick is attached to the USB port it was *always* plugged into. I will call this port USB_A2 in the following. As previously stated, the joystick works fine in USB_A2 with Windows Gamecontroller Widget, BF3, BF4, etc. Arma 3 worked like a charm until approximately one month ago.

I did some more research with with the joystick and arma3 and discovered some interesting things.

When the joystick is disconnected from the USB_A2, when the game is frozen after the 3 splash screens, Arma 3 loads successfully into the main menu.

I plugged the joystick back into USB_A2 and the game froze, as i entered the configuration menu.

Unplugged the joystick again and Arma came back to life.

Now the interesting part: I plugged the joystick into another USB port (USB_B1) and all described problems are gone.

I believe this is a regression in Arma 3.

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