ArmA III - Not Launching

[DarrenV 1]

Hello,

I'm currently having an issue with ArmA 3. The issue is that, whenever I try to play it, the game does not launch. Instead, Steam only synchronizes for a moment. I've tried launching it in windowed mode and running Steam as an administrator but to no avail. If you could help, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

System Specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)

i7-2600k @ 3.4GHz

8GB DDR3

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti

[Hilariushiiri 10]

I noticed that if you have mumble running in the background some steam games wont open.. like Dota2 and arma 3.

Try closing your voip programs (mumble,TS,vent) and open the games. When the game is open the voip programs can be opened again..

[mr. bravo 17]

I have the same problem sometimes, but if I wait about 10 seconds and try again it boots up normally. The wait because otherwise Steam will tell me that the game is already launched, eventhough it doesn't show in taskmanager, so I guess it takes a few seconds for it to realize. So try that.

[ImJoee 1]

Any updates on this?

I'm having the same trouble, I've tried opening it several different ways, restarting steam, restarting comp. Nothing.

[XSOF - Toxx 10]

Did you try disabling your Antivirus / Firewall? Helped a friend of mine with the same problem.

[ImJoee 1]

Just tried it, unfortunately not.

As with before it starts to load, my chat icon goes green and says ArmaIII, then one second later goes back to blue and nothing happens.

[dmarkwick 261]

Have you ever had A2 running? I had to update my video drivers before getting A3 to run the first time.

[ImJoee 1]

No but it's only a 2 month old PC and the drivers have been fine for a host of other games. but i'll give it a shot too!

EDIT: nope all up to date too.

Edited March 8, 2013 by ImJoee

[XSOF - Toxx 10]

Do you have the latest (stable) video drivers and DirectX?

Did you try to use Steam's repair-installation-function?

Do you have ZoneAlarm (kill it with fire)?

[Kalidor 1]

If you use Fraps disabel it. My Arma3 did not start while Fraps was running.

If you want to see your frames then use the overlay from MSI Afterburner, this works for me.

[DarrenV 1]

I fixed it by simply uninstalling ZoneAlarm.

[XSOF - Toxx 10]

yeah ZoneAlarm seems to block Arma 3, this was my friends problem, too

[Rbeasley14 1]

Is ZoneAlarm something that installs automatically with Arma3?

[DarrenV 1]

Not at all. It's a completely different and unrelated piece of software.

[ImJoee 1]

Ahh okay, I disabled it and nothing work but I'll try and uninstall Zone Alarm thanks.

[St. Jimmy 272]

Uninstalling ZoneAlarm worked for my friend also.

Disable didn't have any effect.

[ImJoee 1]

Okay I found a fix for a different game:

Free version

Uninstall the component called Zone Alarm Toolbar:

Open "Add or remove programs"

Select the item called Zone Alarm Toolbar

Click Uninstall and follow instructions on-screen

Restart the PC

Full version (should work for the free version as well)

Disable the ZoneAlarm Toolbar IswSvc service:

Right-click Computer and select Manage

On the left, under Services and Applications select Services

Right-click a service named "ZoneAlarm Toolbar IswSvc" and select Properties

For Startup type, select Disabled

Click OK

Restart the PC

Tried it, worked!

[Barbel 10]

It's not launching for me either, it's a new pc running windows 8.

This message pops up when I try to launch it

xapofx 4 dll missing

What does that mean?