Crap Crap Crap.

I come home from vacation and I have ArmA 2 all loaded up:

I defragged my rig.
Cleared all unnecessary items off my PC.
Installed.
Patched.
& defragged again...

Ran the game on low settings, crashed.
Ran the game on Medium/Normal settings, crashed.
High, Crashed,
Highest, beautiful crash.

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Core Duo 2 -E6840
Gigabyte P35 (R) Mobo.
1gb OCZ 1600 DDR2 (Platinum, my other gig is bad, pos OCZ, never buying that sh*t again - I'll probably buy 4 gb soon.)
BFG 8800GTS 640mb


I can run basically any other game without a damn issue, ArmA 2 is crashing like mad on me...Any recommendations?

I know the ram is low, but for right now, this should suffice!

Man, I've no idea. What kind of crash? Have you checked your report logs?

Application (Event Viewer)

Faulting application arma2.exe, version 1.2.0.58134, faulting module arma2.exe, version 1.2.0.58134, fault address 0x0054b367.



Dammit.

Few things to try, might help, YMMV.

Shut off your AV and anything else running in the background.
Download the latest video/audio drivers and reinstall directX.
Turn off Ansio/FSAA/Post Processing, lower the draw distance, put everything else on normal.

Enven,

Which OS?

Try installing the DirectX Redist from March:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...;displaylang=en

XP 32bit, I am going to test what you guys said, and install the redist.

Will get back to you all soon.

Ok, so I updated DX, tried taking off AA FSAA, lowered Draw distance, put everything to regular, and removed Postprocess as well.

Still crashed, even have a gfx anomaly, still. I'll try gfx card drivers next and see. I doubt it'll do any good.


:|

Force V-Sync. I usually do with LCD monitors anyhow.

Make sure you turn off AA and Ansio at the driver level, as well as in game. Also, try forcing V-sync off. I had anomalies with my ATI card and Arma tries to turn on V-sync unless you actually force it off and that solved my artifact issue. Also, the arma engine, IMHO, is nitpicky with the 8800 series cards (I just upgraded from an 8800 GTS), so try various past drivers and see if you get one that works.

on Windows XP the arma2.RPT file is located in: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA 2

you could check it to see if it has any useful info.

you can delete arma2.RPT and another one will be created when you start the game again. that will give you a fresh report of what might be causing the problem.

A lot of errors, vbuffer creation issues, memory surface issues...I don't know what I can do with this, honestly, I see an issue with the gfx and memory, textures, and the sizing of them...Very odd.

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I think its time I get a new video card, maybe an ATI...dare I say it...and some ram coming up. :|

See you guys in the field at some point.

Depends which card you were using. If it was the 320 mb one then that was the WORST CARD EVER MADE. I've had no problems with the 8800gt's 1 gb or 512 mb cards from evga, bfg, palit (really good cards) and xfx.
Do try different drivers maybe the 182.5's but I've had no problems with the 186.18 so far and I run winxp 32 bit sp3.
You know the old adage, " if it aint broke don't fix it "

I agree, oddly enough though, I have the 640mb from BFG, I was looking at other drivers, still having weird gfx anomalies, then black screen/crash. I lose power to my monitor, the game crashes my sys, but everything is "working".

I have used 8800gtx for 2 years with Zero problems. I was using a 2 year old driver and updated to the latest driver for ArmA2, runs very well everything on high.

Dec can you tell me your specs?

Yeah, it is PC hungry, but from the looks of it, my CPU is actually handling the game fine - It seems to be something to do with Ram, and the vid-card. I've narrowed it down from my findings from the .rpt file, my gfx, & memory testing.

Its a damn riot how this game, of all the games is giving me a ration of sh*t. I am not frustrated, just ready to wait it out for my next move. I.E. Purchase an SLI ready board, get another 8800 gtx 640 and that 4gb of ram. Or, just get an ATI card, and never deal with nvidia ever again. (and of course purchase the ram.) but as of right now, spending money for ArmA 2 is ridiculous when it should be running on Normal settings with no problem.

DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, 3000 MHz
MoBo P35C-DS3R
System Memory 2048 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (768 MB) Installed Driver NVIDIA ForceWare 186.08)
Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card PCI
WinXP 32

I was referring to the GTS series of the 8800, not the GT or GTX. The GTS has either 320mb or 640mb of vid memory and also has a different RAMDAC I believe, I think it may use an earlier core as well. I had the 320mb, and agree..in terms of arma it was the worst, otherwise it served me well for the time I had it. I remember articles about how the core gpu in the GTS cards was an early version G92 maybe? In any case, the 8800 GT and GTX had different cores than the GTS (so I read)..and are actually pretty versatile..since they live on in the 9000 series nvidia cards, with more aggressive timings.

I didn't see the OP's driver version, so I'll suggest doing a thorough uninstall and putting the 182 WHQLs on. I have a mutant 8800GT and I had to roll back my drivers before I'd even see a splash screen.

Ah ha! Finally, figured it out, after spending a few days doing other stuff, I felt that it was finally time to test the crap out of the issues pending with ArmA 2 for me...


Its Ram, a lack thereof, due to the removal of my other three gb, the game has been #%&*$# due to lack of ram (caching). I checked my processes...My video card is running great, in fact, its temps are stable, the vmem is fine, and for christ sake, an 8800 gtx 640mb is a damn good card still, its basically a gx 260 (minus some of the new boosts...its the same damn thing..comon!) so yeah, once I plop about 4-6gb of ram in, I should be running this damn game on Normal settings w/o an issue.