Game freze and crash after a few mins playing,after update.

[Timberwolf056 10]

I got Arma 3 a few days ago and it played fine. After today's update I can go in a server and play for about 2-3 mins and game freezes. I go to task manager and it says Arma 3 not responding. I only started having this issue after the update today before that it worked fine.

[SASsnipey 10]

same here hope they fix it soon

i started a thread here aswell on this issue

[AccaccuH 10]

same problem! i wish they fix that the fastest they can!!!!!

[k00lkid 1]

Same here, the crashes have become much more frequent.

[jurrasstoil 10]

Yup, same here. Game crashes at least every hour, sometimes way less.

Running -nologs atm so no logs (duh...), but I'm too lazy and tired to fire the game up again and wait for it to crash. Might post an .rpt tomorrow after running w/o -nologs.

For now, my best guess is that the PhysX3_x86.dll error returned - at least that's what windows tells. Although it switches between faulting PhysX3_x86.dll and just arma3.exe for the crashes.

[Tankbuster 1747]

the PhysX3_x86.dll error returned -

Same for me. :(

[vredesbyrd 10]

Was just playing Wastelands ARMA3 on two seperate lots of Servers (UK2,3 and 4 hosted by Inch and Servers 1, 2 and 3 hosted by DP), ranging between 36 and 64 slot and every 5/10/15 minutes literally half the server would be dropped with a generic Steam message.

I've been disco'd 13 times tonight in four hours now and all of the .rpt files list the same thing: PhysX3_x86.dll

I'm not sure why this would even be running on my system considering I'm AMD - Does this still need to be run so that AMD can do it's own emulated physics thingy?

Extremely frustrating.

[jurrasstoil 10]

Yeah, Arma3 is using the CPU based PhysX afaik. So doesn't matter whether you are running with NV or AMD/ATI.

[RangerRG 10]

Everybody got crashed . VOTE http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=15009

Edited September 27, 2013 by RangerRG

[USteppin 2]

Same problem here on our server.

[Maxon 1]

Same on our Server. before patch ist was running well.

[blackcurrent 10]

My game crashes every hour or so when playing since the latest patch :mad:

[Timberwolf056 10]

OK the fix for me was to UPDATE CURRENT VIDEO DRIVERS. After doing so seems like the problem has fixed itself. I think it has something to do with the phys x engine. Try that it worked for me.

[AccaccuH 10]

i will post my results and see if it works

PS. Didnt work for me!!!!

Edited September 28, 2013 by AccaccuH

[jurrasstoil 10]

Well, it shouldn't, because arma uses CPU based PhysX and not GPU based. New or updated GPU drivers should have no influence on that.

[AccaccuH 10]

i think i might fix that for me.

I deleted the PhysX3_x64 file in the arma 3 folder, and reinstalled it + in my Nvidia setting i did from CPU usage (physx) to GPU usage

http://s21.postimg.org/z5bjt9kt3/gpu.jpg (121 kB)

[AccaccuH 10]

i did deleted the file physx3 from the arma file then i reinstalled it, the i switched in my nvidia options from CPU to GPU physx usage!!!

it did helped me! i wish it could help you guys!!!

[SASsnipey 10]

i deleted the physix files from arma 3 there were 4 of them and reinstalled using steam and still not working

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its the update thats screwed our game up not ur machines as everyone is dropping like flies i wish BI would tell us what there doing to fix it abit of customer care (after sales) would be nice than letting us play the guessing game