Steam Says I Am Playing DayZ When I Am Not

[RTS]

I restarted my computer and removed all processes of DayZ and Steam. When I restarted Steam, it says I am still playing DayZ and I cannot play other games at it says to close it when it is not even running. I had to force quit DayZ before this happened. Could this be the problem? Also on the friends page I have to press "Sign In" every time. How do I fix this? Thanks!

[Zwut]

Try what Briet said, task manager, processes and look for that exe

[RTS]

DayZ is not in task manager

[WhiteZero]

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I unplugged the power cable for 30 seconds and put it back. It still does not work.

Try killing Steam.exe under Task Manager > Processes. Then try my original instructions to re-install Steam.

[RTS]

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Try what Briet said, task manager, processes and look for that exe

Neither is bgt.exe

[Zwut]

OP is in game.. dayZ

[RTS]

I found DayZ under details, but when I attempt to end it it says "Access Denied"

[Zwut]

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I found DayZ under details, but when I attempt to end it it says "Access Denied"

According to steam you are in game right now.

[RTS]

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I found DayZ under details, but when I attempt to end it it says "Access Denied"

According to steam you are in game right now.

Im not...its running in the background but it wont let me kill the task of DayZ

[WhiteZero]

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According to steam you are in game right now.

Im not...its running in the background but it wont let me kill the task of DayZ

Are you not an administrator on your PC?

Maybe it's a virus/malware running as "Day.exe" lol

[RTS]

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Im not...its running in the background but it wont let me kill the task of DayZ

Are you not an administrator on your PC?

Maybe it's a virus/malware running as "Day.exe" lol

I am an administrator, and it is not malware. The last time I played DayZ it froze and I had to kill the task. I am sure that had to do with this.

[WhiteZero]

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Are you not an administrator on your PC?

Maybe it's a virus/malware running as "Day.exe" lol

I am an administrator, and it is not malware. The last time I played DayZ it froze and I had to kill the task. I am sure that had to do with this.

Sure, but it sounds like the DayZ.exe is running at Windows startup for some reason. Do you have Steam launch when you first boot up? If so, try turning that off so you can try my re-install procedure.

[RTS]

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I am an administrator, and it is not malware. The last time I played DayZ it froze and I had to kill the task. I am sure that had to do with this.

Sure, but it sounds like the DayZ.exe is running at Windows startup for some reason. Do you have Steam launch when you first boot up? If so, try turning that off so you can try my re-install procedure.

Steam does not launch when I boot up.

[RTS]

Another weird thing is that DayZ dissapeared from my desktop.

[Zwut]

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Another weird thing is that DayZ dissapeared from my desktop.

Can you turn that pc off, then use another system, laptop, tablet or phone to log into steam via web and see if it still shows you as playing DayZ?

Login via the steam web page, not the application.

[⌜skycoder⌟]

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I restarted my computer and removed all processes of DayZ and Steam. When I restarted Steam, it says I am still playing DayZ and I cannot play other games at it says to close it when it is not even running. I had to force quit DayZ before this happened. Could this be the problem? Also on the friends page I have to press "Sign In" every time. How do I fix this? Thanks!

RTS, I can CONFIRM that this has started happening to me since the last stable patch as well. However, restarting my laptop always fixes it. So trust me, it is not just you. Seems like you just have a freak accident going. I would guess it just has something to do with the last 0.48 stable patch, because that's when it started happening to me. And it happens to me EVERYTIME I play DayZ and then exit.

So basically if I want to play DayZ, I had best be ready to restart my PC afterwards.

EDIT: It also does NOT show up in my task manager either, just like yourself.