launcher works but game is not able to run

Performance

State

Done

Issue key

A3G-21

Access

Public

Space

Arma 3

Project

General

Creator

sillyinator

Created

Aug 15, 2026

Views

547

Issue Type

Crash or Freeze

Section

Game Version

2.22 (Current Stable)

Was this also present in the previous version?

No, this is a new issue

Severity

I can't play with this

Section

Operating System

Windows

Windows Version

Windows 7

Description

launcher works perfectly but when starting the game after 2.22, arma 3 crashes almost instantly and gives Exit code: 0x0000135 - STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND. i tried stuff shown in community wiki but most of the stuff werent fully possible due to being on win7 os. the game runs perfectly fine on win11 but wont run on my main win7 rig which is unfortunate. thank you.

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about 2 months ago

sillyinator
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about 2 months ago

dedmen
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about 2 months ago
dedmen
Moderator
about 2 months ago
Windows 7
Windows 7 support has been deprecated since Update 2.20, and now with Update 2.22 we fully dropped support.
The missing DLL is xaudio2_8.dll. XAudio can be downloaded from NuGet, and its 2_9redist.dll in there, can be renamed to 2_8.dll and placed in the Game folder to work around that issue. But you may end up without Game Sound.
We plan on creating a wiki page to document how to do that, but it won't last long until we make more changes that don't support Windows 7.
Please consider not using a Operating System who's support ended 6 years ago.
You can switch to the Legacy Branch (Find the access code here) to play the 2.20 version which still works on Windows 7.
dedmen
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about 2 months ago