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Game keeps crashing randomly

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State

Done
Issue key
DZEXP-137
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DayZ
Project
Experimental Feedback
Creator
heisler73
Created
Sep 19, 2026
Views
105
Platform
PC Steam
What happened?

i might just log in or it might be a half hour later, I've tried at least 3 or 4 servers and same result. Game freezes then just exits. Stable is working 100% fine, this is only on experimental. I reverified files and it says it's fine. However, it's saying battleye must be version 0.01 but i have 0.00 even though it says battleye is fine otherwise. I haven't tried community servers.

Reproduction steps

just happens randomly for no reason, might be log in, might be 5 mins later or maybe a half hour.

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Where did it happen?
Official
Is it modded?
No
Expected result
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    11 days ago
  • heisler73
    created issue11 days ago
  • heisler73
    changed11 days ago
  • heisler73
    11 days ago
    heisler73
    11 days ago

    Just tried a community server on experimental to see and sure enough I crashed again in less that 5 minutes. the screen just freezes and boots me out a few seconds later back to my desktop.

  • heisler73(edited)
    10 days ago
    heisler73(edited)
    10 days ago

    Quick update, I just uninstalled experimental, i had it installed on my E drive, which is a SSD and I run many games off it already, and i moved it to my C drive where i have stable DayZ installed already and which runs fine so I'm wondering if possibly it was causing some mix up somewhere (as a side note i realized I had 573gb of mods installed from over the years that i was still subbed too haha). I'll update again when I get a chance to see how it goes now.
    Just for transparency I have a i7 14700KF and 5070ti with 64gb ram and both my C and E drive are 2tb SSD.
    I'll reply back once I test it.

  • heisler73(edited)
    10 days ago
    heisler73(edited)
    10 days ago

    ok i tried it again, it worked for about 3 mins then froze and crashed. I manually uninstalled battleye and rebooted and reinstalled, verified game files, etc.. and ran it again and this time it froze as soon as it loaded in. The battleeye is still showing i have 0.00 no matter what i do or try. I have any overlays disabled too, and given the fact the stable version runs perfectly no issues I'm not sure what the problem is here. I tried various servers both offical and community and it stilll boots me usually instantly or within a few minutes.

  • 10 days ago
  • heisler73(edited)
    10 days ago
    heisler73(edited)
    10 days ago

    UPDATE: I fixed it!

    I shut down steam completely
    I unistalled Battleeye with the uninstaller manually again
    I renamed the following:
    Documents\DayZ EXP to DayZ EXP (OLD)

    AppData\Local\Battleeye\Dayz to Dayz (old)

    Appdata\Local\Dayz Exp to DayZ Exp (old)
    I restarted the PC, restarted steam and verified my files again and hit play in steam and then launched, joined a random server and it's now running fine. Not sure how the files corrupted in the first place as I had just re-installed Experimental for the first time in a couple years at least, and the first time on my new pc. It worked the first night I played on it for a couple hours or more and then suddenly did this.

    Regardless, if anyone else has this issue this is how to fix it!

    edit: it's still saying i'm on version 0.00 of battleeye when the servers are 0.01 so it wasnt battleye, and it's working so that's all that matters, I just want to try the motorbikes! 😅

  • mynicknametaken(edited)
    9 days ago
    mynicknametaken(edited)
    9 days ago

    I have the same issue, i guess, but i figured out a bit more of the specifics. So, i would launch experimental, spawn as freshspawn and as long as i run around in low ground looting the starter towns etc. its fine, but as soon as i am able to see far out, like as soon as i climb a hill or anything elevated the game freezes and crashes to desktop and there is no crash report or error message. And then when i try to go back into the game its a trap - since i'm already looking out into the distance when the game loads it instantly freezes and then crashes to desktop. But when i log into another one of my steam accounts with DayZ and spawn somewhere low i can run around and loot for hours, indefinitely. But as soon as i climb a hill the game freezes and crashes and now i am trapped, at least for this server, as when i join back the game instantly freezes and crashes as i'm looking at a distance. If i join a different server where my character isnt looking at a distance then i can play, but only until i climb a hill or something like that. My system is Windows 10, i7 6700k, gtx980ti, 32gb of ddr4 ram and a ssd. I have not yet tried everything you listed that helped you, but i will try it next time i have the time. EDIT: I also have the 0.01 0.00 version mismatch bug

  • 9 days ago
  • l909
    changed state to
    DONE
    9 days ago
  • 7 days ago
  • heisler73
    7 days ago
    heisler73
    7 days ago

    Update again.. it's STIL doing it. Seems to just do it randomly. I tried removing everything , again, fresh installs, clean video driver installs, only playing it on official, wiping it fully, you name it. It just keeps doing it but my stable DayZ is totally fine. Doesn't make sense.

  • heisler73
    7 days ago
    heisler73
    7 days ago

    Yes, that seems quite similar to my issue now that you mention it. I've been mainly trying to get on Server 8285 NA - LA Many motorbikes and i'm by Dobroye up North East up in the mopuntains, when I tried jumping on a fresh server usually it let me run around a bit longer and I was low ground by the shores. But even then it's now booting me within a few mins or so. Just seddenly reezes and crashes a few seconds later. So frustrationg. I even changed my card drivers from game drivers to studio drivers as they are more stable but it's not that either. I can't think of anything left to try.

  • heisler73
    7 days ago
    heisler73
    7 days ago

    ok I just played on Server 3602 NA - NY !st person only exp server, that was the first one I played on when it was working fine at first, but i swapped to many bikes server when i saw those for obvious reasons, and it was working perfectly fine again. It also tells me i have bayyel eye 0.00 and the required is 0.01 so that cant be the issue either. The community server i had tried was called: -[1.30] DONTBESQUARE Many Many Many Motorbikes and that crashes too. I tried a couple other oficial many bikes ones as well but same result. Being that one official server is working fine and the other arent, the only other thing I can think of is the map for the working server is Livonia and the others are Chernarusplus.

  • 5 days ago
  • heisler73
    5 days ago
    heisler73
    5 days ago

    Just tried a Europe Many Cars server and it was running perfectly fine, until i went uphill and got to high ground and it froze up again. Really curious why Livonia, which has not very high ground works absolutly ok and so does Chernarus - until i reach high ground, that is the common denominator in my crashes.

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State

Done
Issue key
DZEXP-137
Access
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DayZ
Project
Experimental Feedback
Creator
heisler73
Created
Sep 19, 2026
Views
105