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Description

When i start the launcher it opens for a brief moment on my Task manager and then it dissapears, Sometimes it even shows me in game on steam for 2 seconds. But the launcher itself never shows up at all. {F25579}

Details

Legacy ID
1550092286
Severity
None
Resolution
Fixed
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Launcher
Steps To Reproduce

Start the launcher and see if it works or not

Additional Information

I have played ArmA3 for ages and have 2987 hours on it. And have been using the launcher ever since it came out. And never had any problem at all in fact i have played arma2 and arma for ever and i have never had ANY problems with any of it. This is my first problem and i haven't changed anything. I exually was playing i stopped playing to watch a few video's i started my game and this happend.

I have tested a few fixes like:

Re-installing the game
Restart the computer
Launching both steam and arma as Administrators and in compatibility mode
Verified game cache
Restarted steam

im out of options right now

Event Timeline

TheCrestedPenguin edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
TheCrestedPenguin set Category to Launcher.
TheCrestedPenguin set Reproducibility to Always.
TheCrestedPenguin set Severity to None.
TheCrestedPenguin set Resolution to Fixed.
TheCrestedPenguin set Legacy ID to 1550092286.May 7 2016, 8:15 PM

Note: "Arma3 itself works fine"

Hi,

from the log I can see that the file "C:\Users\nathan\AppData\Local\Bohemia_Interactive\arma3launcher.exe_Url_5zrenbj5ofpytqvlls5kakucwc5f2jyv\1.1.128.962\user.config" is corrupted. Please try to delete the file (or all folders "C:\Users\nathan\AppData\Local\Bohemia_Interactive\arma3launcher.exe_*") and start the Launcher again. (Note that you will lost Launcher settings).

It would help us if you could upload files here before you delete them.

So that fixed it and made the launcher work again. But now whenever i start the game with the launcher or not. It starts it goes trough the loading screen, and follows by full screen going up but it just goes black. Sometimes it displays the ArmA3 arrow but sometimes it just doesn't give me an arrow at all.

Hi,

I'd suggest you to run error check (scan disk) on your-hard drive and then Verify the game cache for the Arma 3 in the Steam client. There's no chance that deleting those files in App Data folder would affect the game itself, it sounds more like data on the hard-drive are corrupted.