L3gion thanks so much mate, you are a star!!!

game crashes before logo. Click "play" button on steam, mouse cursor shows the loading icon, then the windows screen saying "Arma 3 alpha has stopped working" shows up.

btw thanks for helping out with this issue, can't say the same for Bohemia, been emailing them over an hour ago but no reply, and I know it was only 5pm in Czech Republic so everyone there is wide awake... or should be.

Astaroth, thanks for your suggestion but sadly it didn't work :( does the game have any issues with 64 bit version of windows? alot of people who posted this same problem seem to be running 64 bit aswell.

Here is more info with other people with the same problem: http://steamcommunity.com/app/107410/discussions/0/864961537301990133/

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
  Application Name:	arma3.exe
  Application Version:	0.5.102.571
  Application Timestamp:	512deb6a
  Fault Module Name:	StackHash_9b43
  Fault Module Version:	0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:	00000000
  Exception Code:	c0000005
  Exception Offset:	044d31a0
  OS Version:	6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:	2057
  Additional Information 1:	9b43
  Additional Information 2:	9b431b0c90e83ec68d3d9c2ff7e024e8
  Additional Information 3:	feb7
  Additional Information 4:	feb7fc1b4ccfe33f19ad35c220a990e4

Read our privacy statement online:

  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:

C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

btw I did check for that folder and for some reason it's not there (however I do own Arma2 and Operation Arrowhead, and those folders are there). I created a "Arma 3 Alpha" folder just incase, but game still crashes, nor is there anything in this folder after the game crashes.

Same here. Please fix ASAP, it's one thing to release an Alpha for testing, but another for it to not even work.

Win 7 64bit
3.10ghz quad core i3-2100
8GM RAM
GTX 560
Latest Nvidia drivers

L3gion thanks so much mate, you are a star!!!

game crashes before logo. Click "play" button on steam, mouse cursor shows the loading icon, then the windows screen saying "Arma 3 alpha has stopped working" shows up.

btw thanks for helping out with this issue, can't say the same for Bohemia, been emailing them over an hour ago but no reply, and I know it was only 5pm in Czech Republic so everyone there is wide awake... or should be.

Astaroth, thanks for your suggestion but sadly it didn't work :( does the game have any issues with 64 bit version of windows? alot of people who posted this same problem seem to be running 64 bit aswell.

Here is more info with other people with the same problem: http://steamcommunity.com/app/107410/discussions/0/864961537301990133/

btw I did check for that folder and for some reason it's not there (however I do own Arma2 and Operation Arrowhead, and those folders are there). I created a "Arma 3 Alpha" folder just incase, but game still crashes, nor is there anything in this folder after the game crashes.

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
  Application Name:	arma3.exe
  Application Version:	0.5.102.571
  Application Timestamp:	512deb6a
  Fault Module Name:	StackHash_9b43
  Fault Module Version:	0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:	00000000
  Exception Code:	c0000005
  Exception Offset:	044d31a0
  OS Version:	6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:	2057
  Additional Information 1:	9b43
  Additional Information 2:	9b431b0c90e83ec68d3d9c2ff7e024e8
  Additional Information 3:	feb7
  Additional Information 4:	feb7fc1b4ccfe33f19ad35c220a990e4

Read our privacy statement online:

  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:

C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

Same here. Please fix ASAP, it's one thing to release an Alpha for testing, but another for it to not even work.

Win 7 64bit
3.10ghz quad core i3-2100
8GM RAM
GTX 560
Latest Nvidia drivers