Arma2 crashes, only DayZ or Epoch

[Kivuli]

I know this is a shot in the dark, but maybe someone else has had this problem. All of a sudden starting today, every time I try to play either vanilla DayZ or DayZ Epoch, I can load into the world for a few seconds and then the game crashes suddenly. The error has something to do with msvcrt.dll, which is the Visual C runtime. I've tried reinstalling all of the Visual C++ runtimes from 2005 to 2013 with no success. Reinstalled the mods, verified game cache (I use steam), nothing seems to work. I haven't updated anything, installed anything, or changed anything. It was working fine last night. After shutting the game down I left the computer idle as I always do overnight and through the day, then I came home today and tried to load it up and this started happening with no warning. Nothing was run in the interim time.

 

The strange thing is that I can play base Arma2/Arma2OA or DayZ Namalsk without issues. It's only when I try to load into a DayZ server or an Epoch server. Any thoughts?

[Renegade2k6]

A lot of people on the server I run are having similar issues.

Found no solution yet.

[lpole]

I have the same issue with the msvcrt.dll crash that started 2 or 3 days ago.

I have reinstalled the game 2 times, graphic and audio drivers too but nothing has helped.

[Spectral]

I had this issue as well but it isn't limited to Epoch. Try a few things like setting your Additional parameters in DayZ Commander to -malloc=system also try deleting your cache. One thing I did was use Six Updater to make sure everything was updated correctly. I then updated my video drivers and used the nvidia control panel to change my video settings to a lower quality. After doing this I had one crash but was able to get in 2 times out of 3. I also set DayZ Commander to close after Game Launch.

 

My RPT was a the c0000005 Access Violation error for MSVCRT.dll.

[Kivuli]

As far as I can tell, it's only DayZ and DayZ Epoch for me. Namalsk works, I haven't tried Lingor yet. Base Arma2 and Arma2OA work. No other program on my system crashes. I'll try the -malloc=system line and see if it works.

[Kivuli]

Well, I deleted the mpmissions cache in accordance with another person having the same issue, and added the -malloc=system line. Tried playing on a Vanilla DayZ server that would always crash within the first 10-15 seconds of loading in and was able to play for about 8 minutes or so without a crash. I remain hopefully optimistic that one of those two things solved my problem but it will take a bit more testing later on to be sure.