I tried last night and my game would constantly go to desktop with the popup window saying battleye is trying to update.

It would constantly fail so I gave up on that. I reinstalled Dayz last night (as it wouldn't let me manually download the most recently Battleye) and ran it this afternoon. I could instantly get into the game and was able to run around for 5 minutes with no crashes until I closed the game manually.

The 'dayztest' file is a printscreen of the same box but with a different message I got today. I immediately was able to run the game after I tried reloading again. I also noticed while playing Men of War assault squad 2 last night that my steam would crash with that as well which led me to find a thread on the internet about 'Panda security' crashing steam bootstrapper (the problem i'm having).

Sorry for the long winded text box, but I think the problem might be with my anti-virus. I've tried turning it off & enabling gaming mode with no success on any game before, but someone said they had to uninstall Panda altogether to make Dayz work.

I'm still going to test it but I thought i'd update. I don't want to waste your time but I literally have no idea why i'm getting all these issues.

Ive only had -dologs on. But I'll try to patch when I get home from work.

Thanks for your patience and help, Geez

Whilst trying to do as you asked, my game would minimize and say attempt to update battleye. It kept coming up with failed to update etc etc.
I opened up all access on my firewall / anti-virus. Tried turning them off and got the same message. I updated my firmware & manually installing battleye but then I get the following error:
'C:\Users\EvilPenguin\AppData\Local\DayZ\tmp\__cur_mp.ebo'

I found this same error on another ticket and followed the instructions on there of deleting the Dayz folder & reacquiring the files but then the whole system goes into a loop.

After about a week of trying to get DayZ to work for my ticket's reasons this is the first time i've encountered any of this..

Still having the same issue after trying several things including swapping to experimental, playing around with settings, re installing Dayz/Steam & much more.

It's driving me nuts.