Crash to desktop

[OffensiveName]

3 days ago, I started playing Arma 2 (vanilla). Today, I downloaded and installed Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead and every other possible expansion. And usually after every death, I try to reload my save but during the loading screen the game crashes. Does anyone know a solution? I am also not playing online, I started Operation Arrowhead campaign.
Edit: I forgot to mention, verifying integrity of game files didn't do anything.

[GHOST]

try run steam as administrator.

[OffensiveName]

Well thanks for the help but unsurprisingly it did not work.

[GHOST]

Do you have any error of some kind, does the game say that you are missing a file or something? any error message?

[OffensiveName]

Originally posted by GHOST:

Do you have any error of some kind, does the game say that you are missing a file or something? any error message?

I do not, the game just closes.

[GHOST]

It is difficult to know what it is if there is no error message, ok.

let's try to find out what it can be
first open the file explorer and paste this in the address bar, then press enter

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA 2 OA

there you will see a file with the name arma2oa.RPT

You can open that file with any text editor, notepad, notepad ++, etc., if you open it inside you will see the errors that the game has given, but it is easier to read, it would be better to delete it, then run the game once you fail you go and open the new file that has been created.

[OffensiveName]

I'm sorry, I may be bad at looking at this, but I don't see anything that could be related to the crash except this:

Error: Audio - enumeration output devices failed.
Warning: Audio device creation failed, attempt to create default audio:
SamplesPerSec: 44100, channels: 2, bitsPerSample: 16
Audio device successfully created with default settings.

This doesn't look urgent, and I doubt that is the reason for the crashes. It's also in the arma2OA.rpt after I entered every time, if you understand what I mean

[GHOST]

well, this is the first time I see an audio error in an rpt, and if that is the only relevant thing that appears in the rpt, maybe that is what is causing the problem, unfortunately none of the developers goes very often here, I think they could say more accurately what the problem might be.

Either way, I was looking for some information and I didn't find anything useful, but you could try updating Directx and the sound drivers, to see if that solves the problem.

I know that maybe you don't have the same problem with other games, but sometimes that can happen.

And you don't lose anything with trying.

[OffensiveName]

Thanks for the help. I already tried directX a lot of times but not the sound driver thing. Also I suspect it has something to do with the army of czech republic dlc, cause earlier it crashed showing errors about the dlc (at the time I haven't installed the DLC yet), but after that I installed it and I was able to get into the campaign but the problem in this discussion is what started happening.

[OffensiveName]

I updated my sound drivers. Didn't work, unfortunately.

[OffensiveName]

Originally posted by GHOST:

well, this is the first time I see an audio error in an rpt, and if that is the only relevant thing that appears in the rpt, maybe that is what is causing the problem, unfortunately none of the developers goes very often here, I think they could say more accurately what the problem might be.

Either way, I was looking for some information and I didn't find anything useful, but you could try updating Directx and the sound drivers, to see if that solves the problem.

I know that maybe you don't have the same problem with other games, but sometimes that can happen.

And you don't lose anything with trying.

It seems I have missed one thing: "Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 009C1460". Sorry for not seeing that. Searching online didn't quite help

[GHOST]

Wow, I don't know what to tell you about that, I think now we need one of the developers to go around here.

Did you try to reinstall the video drivers?

[OffensiveName]

Originally posted by GHOST:

Wow, I don't know what to tell you about that, I think now we need one of the developers to go around here.

Did you try to reinstall the video drivers?

I just did, after quite a hassle, however it didn't help.

[GHOST]

Looking for that error I could find this:

0xC0000005 - ACCESS_VIOLATION

Can also be STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION.

This error is very generic. It may be caused by many issues, such as a hardware malfunction, a virus in the computer, but also an error in the game itself. Possible solutions:

Try changing the Memory Allocator you are using (default: "tbb4malloc_bi" - try "system" on Windows 7 and later)

Try joining another server, then rejoin the previous one.

Update the graphics card drivers to a newer version.

Rollback the graphics card drivers to an older version.

Check the temperature of your GPUs and CPUs.

Verify the integrity of the game cache using Steam.

Re-install DirectX.

Uninstall the Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable package (both x86 and x64 version), restart your computer and install the package again (do not use the Repair function).

Run a Windows System File Check tool to repair corrupted system files.

the system check tool is the command sfc /scannow open CMD "command prompt" in administrator mode, "right click on cmd and execute as administrator" then paste this command sfc /scannow and hit enter

[OffensiveName]

Thank you for all this, I am going to try everything (except for the things I already have), and if nothing works then I raise the white flag.

[pancake]

Yup, having the exact same problem. While reloading the save, the game just closes, shows no error messages. Any luck?