It seems the problem is with the launcher. I can start the game directly by using the arma3.exe or by using A3 launcher..

@Astaroth you should try and see if having russian letters in your windows username contains problems when moving the cache.ch to the new location, my friend had this problem and in the logs it spammed waiting for cache_lock to be available so he just overwrote it with -profiles=

@ohmlet
Hi,
could you please attach simple repromission with this issue?
Thank you.

Could you please try without these parameters?
-cpuCount=8 -exThreads=7 -enableHT -hugePages -maxmem=16000 -maxvram=8192

Still nothing here.
My game starts only when I use "-profiles=test" in the starting options.

like to add in too

@MrStregatto same but if you download A3launcher it works without that.

To me the game works only setting the "-profiles=test" thing.
Otherwise is unplayable{F835774}

I tried to use A3launcher and select there a server and it works. https://a3launcher.com <-- link to a3launcher

Error came when i started the game via Play button from Launcher which is running as admin. And renaming didnt work. It didnt even regenerate the directory. This is so annoying. Arma 3 is maybe the only game what i like to play and now it doesn't work :(

I don't see anything suspicious in logs.
What happens if you start game via Play button from Launcher which is running as admin?
Do you connect to modded server or vanilla server?
Do you use some parameters?

That what i have in the zip file "0x0000005 status_access_violation"

@Halmes Which error do you have?

My game has started

Yes i am. I launch it as administrator and then i select server where i want to go and the error pops up.

It should work as well. Are you sure that you run Arma 3 Launcher as administrator?

So is the problem in the launcher?

It works when i play arma.exe as administrator ,but not when i run launcher as administrator and select a server

Which revision of exe do you have?
Do you have your profile in c:\Users\ or in another folder?

It works when i write "-profiles=test" to launch parameters, but it would be nice if it works without have to type that.

Yeah still not working after the update...

At different vehicles first person sound broke and video frozen and everything stuck - cant leave the game,back to menu - nothing work,some time it going 5 -20 minutes,until somebody shut down the engine (forgot to tell - all that happened only when the engine work - doesn't matter witch vehicle in use) but at 3rd person everything Ok. The problem is not all servers support 3rd person view ...

I had this issue this after noon. This morning the game was fine till i fired it back up this afternoon and then it would crash as soon as i press play. please fix

It should be fixed in latest update.

@Jawsh Lo he echo y me sigue fallando el arma 3 no encuentro ninguna solucion.

i have the same bug please correct him

I am also having this issue. I was not having this problem yesterday, and i played ArmA 3 quite normaly. But today, i can't do it because of this "loading core configs" issue. I hope bohemia interactive will fix it soon. Meanwhile, we can try on playing some older versions of the game (wich i believe, don't have those issues). If you bought arma 3 by the steam store (such as i did), you can right click on the game's shortcut inside your steam's game library and then select "properties", and then "betas" then, search on the internet for the code of a recent, but not very recent arma 3 update. Once you have the code you can simply insert the code in the "beta acces code" space, then hit "check code". That way, ArmA 3 should downgrade back to the version referent to the code. i'm gonna do it myself right now and see if it works. You can try it yourself as well. I Hope i helped.

What do I need to do to start the game? Need to wait for you to fix?

Hi,
it's caused by special characters in profile name. We are working on fix. I am sorry for troubles.
"-profiles=test" means that game will launch with profile test, you can use every other word without special characters instead of test.

The game does not start. When you click to play in the launcher, the game hangs on "loading core config". The game was completely deleted and reinstalled from Steam. What should I do to make the game work?

In T137663#1836752, @bcTML wrote:

Guys, i found how to fix it. Just write "-profiles=test" without quotes in launch parametres in Steam. Steam -> library -> Arma3 -> Settings -> "Set launch parametres" button.

Why in the morning I could call my folders in Cyrillic, and by the evening I should do it in English?

Guys, i found how to fix it. Just write "-profiles=test" without quotes in launch parametres in Steam. Steam -> library -> Arma3 -> Settings -> "Set launch parametres" button.

I bought this game 17 mar 2019 at Steam.
Can i get my money back?
It does't work!