Hi there,

im having 2 major issues, id appreciate it if someone could shed some light on what could be done to solve them. (and please feel comfortable to explain in a way a noob would understand cause i dont count out my noobiness as an issue here)

ISSUE1 - This is an issue i have that occurs once in a while when playing Arma2 or sims3 for example but with IFront it happens systematically and often:

When playing the game (be it SP or MP) after a while (could be every other minute or everyother few minutes) i am taken to dekstop (without the game quitting and the IFront icon visible in toolbar). I cant move the mouse and so from old Arma2 experience i know to press "leftshift" and numpad "-" and then type "flush" and im taken back to the game but in Ifront it happens way too often whether im in editor or MP.
As i understand this all has to do with memory, so i flush the memory but it keeps happening again and again so i still dont quiet get if its the game's or my pc's fault. I know most of u probably heard of or dealt with this issue b4 in Arma 1/2.

But what can i do to stop this from happening everyother minute in Ifront?

I tried different video settings in the game's options but still not much change.
Here are my specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80 GHz 2.80 GHz
Installed memmory (RAM): 8,00 GB
Windows 7 64 bit
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260

IFront 1.60 v 1.01

ISSUE2 -

I have been working on this mission for a couple of days, adding lots of objects to it and whatnot, hoping to get it onto multiplayer, just to find out that it doesnt work for me for some reason. I saved the mission as user mission, then again when clicking SAVE chose EXPORT TO MULTIPLAYER. I go to MP the mission is not there. I check all MP folders + mpmissionscache - nothing. It only exists as my editor mission in my missions>mission name folder as a file mission.sqm. There is never a .ifa file created anywhere with my mission name. I tried saving the mission with and without debriefing and briefing files, still nothing. Exporting to single player dont work either. Made a new profile and put the mission in new profile's folder, still nothing. It just wont export to MP.

What am i doing wrong? and it could be something silly so all suggestions are welcome

Please let me know


(Edit) - tried to just make a simple mission - placed german squad and soviet squad, made both sides playable, named mission "test", saved as user mission > clicked EXPORT TO MULTIPLAYER - i go to host and mission still not there and again not anywhere on pc (besides the mission.sqm file created). So what am i possibly missing and what might be wrong i have absolutely no idea................

(Edit2) ISSUE 2 SOLVED! Big thanks fatty!

1. sounds like what alot of other people are getting... crash to desktop... no word why yet, but those CTD are suppose be be getting addressed in the next patch.

2. A mission maker will have to help you here, I don't make missions.

GL

For the first one, you might want to check nVidia drivers. Are you using the latest version? Some folks are reporting that this might be related to an nVidia driver crash. Try different releases and see if they make a difference.

For the second, that's a weird one. I'd check to make sure your mission depository folders aren't read only, although I can't imagine it would make a difference. You have plenty of space on the drive I presume?

Actually, this could be an administrator rights issue. Check out these links:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?71830-Editor-will-not-export-MP-missions
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?97016-Mission-Editor-does-not-export-1-14-Win-7
https://dev-heaven.net/issues/2726

Magnum - thanks a lot for the info!
so i guess im not the only one taken to dekstop without the game quitting and being able to do memory flush. It sure does happen often though

fatty - thanks very much man! i really appreciate it, that was the problem - administrator UAC thing. Now it finally works to export to mp!, thanks goodness cause i was afraid my "attack nazis" mission was all for nothing

as far as nvidia drivers go this issue has been happening to me on many versions throughout the years/months, but in arma or sims3 it happened once in a rare while. I tried IF with previous and newest driver versions, still same thing. It could take me to dekstop as often as every 20 seconds to every few minutes. As i understand from Magnum others r having this problem but i only heard ppl r having disconnects problem and the game doesnt crash exactly, just takes me to dekstop so is everyone doing the memory flush thing every few minutes like me too? i gave up after a while lol

so is it really only the game that needs to be patched, its not that i dont have enough memory or too old video card or something?

Ah, UAC. I apparently don't have that problem because I create a folder called "C:\Games" which Windows 7 doesn't clamp with UAC. Then all of my games get installed in there, instead of "C:\Program Files". I remember huge UAC headaches trying to install addons and mods in the program files folder. Since then I use my own folder instead.

Metall, have you tried running with no AA enabled? I don't run it myself, and I've read other reports that disabling it can improve stability for some users.

Or if you have two hard drives, one for the system (C:) and one for the games (D:)

No, im a sucker for good visuals so id be unhappy if it looked too blocky. But Ill try it over a few games and post result back here, i really do hope that the upcoming patch fixes it.

Seems after disabling UAC the dekstop crashes are ALMOST gone

By looking at the new patche's changelog though i dont see the crash to dekstop problem having been addressed