My game crashes on launch when I have my joystick plugged in. It works fine at any other time however after my USB joystick has been plugged in the game crashes every time I launch. Once I unplug the stick it launches fine.
If I plug in the joystick well I'm playing the game it works fine however the joystick provides no input until I attempt to access the control config menu which causes the game to crash.
Joystick: SpeedLink Black Widow. It functions fine with Arma 2 and other games.
I have added the full report file but I believe due to the nature of the error that this part is the root of the problem:
Error: JoystickDevices - CoInitilizeEx return 80010106
Detected Joystick: SL-6640 Black Widow Flightstick
0 ... X axis [1,30] 1 ... Y axis [1,31] 2 ... Z axis [1,32] 5 ... Rz axis [1,35]
Hello,
Thank you for reporting the issue.
We need crash dump files from this folder for solve your problem.
C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local\Arma 3\
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Added the full crash dump from 2 crashes.
One from a crash on launch with the joystick plugged in. The other file is from a crash on attempt to open the configure controls menu after plugging in the controller.
The file is 11.7MB and can be found here:
http://www.4shared.com/get/gkFxqMUAce/Arma_3_Crashlogs.html
This issue occurs for me too.
Same exact Joystick, the SL-6640 Black Widow Flightstick.
I have attached the logs.
The key bit is "Error: JoystickDevices - CoInitilizeEx return 80010106" in the RPT.
Was with both the last stable build, and now still again with the one today. Did not happen with a build about 6 months ago, but I forget which build exactly that was.
Same joystick, same problem. I remember playing Arma 3 with this joystick before, with no problems (it might have been before july though).
I tried workaround it with connecting joystick after game lauches, but then game crashes after I go to settings.
Dumps:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1dp5lvt0q6d2qd/Arma%203.zip?dl=0
EDIT: according to this thread
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?169250-Speedlink-Black-Widow-Issues
the workaround is to remove producers drivers and to use windows drivers.