ARMA 3 Launcher crashes when using dxgi.xll
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7 years 8 months ago - 7 years 8 months ago #6
by JBeckman
Replied by JBeckman on topic ARMA 3 Launcher crashes when using dxgi.xll
Bypassing the launcher is easy enough, it's a Steam game so the fix is the usual and works with every game on Steam. 
By going either to the Steam store page for ArmA 3 (Or any game or application.) you'll see it's "ID" number in the URL, alternatively SteamDB can be used for this which in the case of ArmA 3 is this:
steamdb.info/app/107410/
I personally prefer to start the game exe directly but trying to do that will launch the Steam client method and either start the game via Steam or depending on how it's set up the Steam client will present a list of options for how you want to run the game.
So to bypass this you create a simple .txt called steam_appid.txt and in there you just have that games specific ID number and then you can start the exe directly with whatever parameters (Say via a shortcut to said exe.) you want to use, really helps for bypassing launchers such as say this one here or e.g Fallout 4's launcher which is otherwise the default Steam start option.
Oh and obviously this is not a Steam client workaround, you need the Steam client running and you do need to own the game on the account you are currently logged into Steam with although this does skip Steam forcing a auto update of said game if one is available or Steam running it's pre-install routine if it's the first time you start said software after it's initial download.
As I said I personally use it so I can keep Steam in the task bar and out of view and minimized and then I simply launch the game exe or depending on game (Unity for example with various command-line arguments via a shortcut.) I launch a shortcut for said exe with more parameters though this can be set up via Steam as well since several years back.
EDIT: I think it's Steam exclusive at least, could be some stand-alone retail version too but I'm not so sure with ArmA 3 though the previous games had that but then you could just start the exe directly and the launcher would only be a issue if you needed to set up certain options which is easy enough to do by first renaming DXGI.dll for ReShade and start the launcher and set up whatever you need and then quit and rename the .dll back to DXGI.dll (or D3D11.dll) and then start the actual game exe.
By going either to the Steam store page for ArmA 3 (Or any game or application.) you'll see it's "ID" number in the URL, alternatively SteamDB can be used for this which in the case of ArmA 3 is this:
steamdb.info/app/107410/
I personally prefer to start the game exe directly but trying to do that will launch the Steam client method and either start the game via Steam or depending on how it's set up the Steam client will present a list of options for how you want to run the game.
So to bypass this you create a simple .txt called steam_appid.txt and in there you just have that games specific ID number and then you can start the exe directly with whatever parameters (Say via a shortcut to said exe.) you want to use, really helps for bypassing launchers such as say this one here or e.g Fallout 4's launcher which is otherwise the default Steam start option.
Oh and obviously this is not a Steam client workaround, you need the Steam client running and you do need to own the game on the account you are currently logged into Steam with although this does skip Steam forcing a auto update of said game if one is available or Steam running it's pre-install routine if it's the first time you start said software after it's initial download.
As I said I personally use it so I can keep Steam in the task bar and out of view and minimized and then I simply launch the game exe or depending on game (Unity for example with various command-line arguments via a shortcut.) I launch a shortcut for said exe with more parameters though this can be set up via Steam as well since several years back.
EDIT: I think it's Steam exclusive at least, could be some stand-alone retail version too but I'm not so sure with ArmA 3 though the previous games had that but then you could just start the exe directly and the launcher would only be a issue if you needed to set up certain options which is easy enough to do by first renaming DXGI.dll for ReShade and start the launcher and set up whatever you need and then quit and rename the .dll back to DXGI.dll (or D3D11.dll) and then start the actual game exe.
Last edit: 7 years 8 months ago by JBeckman.
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