Game crashes at menu

[Herr anfsim 0]

Hi. Have been looking around for answers to this case but havent found anything yet. I have innstalled ARMA2:OA and patched it to the most recent patch, but everytime I start the game it crashes right after the menu appears. Regular ARMA2 works fine. Any suggestions?

Specs: Athlon 64 3500

3 gb ram

GTS250

Thanks

[no use for a name 0]

I don't think your CPU is a dual core, which is a minimum requirement for the game

Edited July 29, 2010 by No Use For A Name

[Soldat20 0]

I have the same problem just the opposite it way, I re-formatted my pc and re-installed both arma2 and arma2:oa. ArmA2 crashes at the menu and ArmA2:OA starts up just fine, then I notice if I run ArmA2 with ACE it runs fine but with no sound!

[Decerto 10]

I have the exact same problem as TC. The game runs fine until the menu then it crashes everytime. I've searched the forums and tried the beta patch and everything else but nothing seems to work. Arma 2 works perfectly but AO doesn't. I totally uninstalled both and only installed this and it still did the same thing.

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit with an i5 750 and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 4GB RAM

This is the error:

Level Date and Time Source Event ID Task Category

Error 24/08/2010 8:49:56 PM Application Error 1000 (100) "Faulting application name: arma2OA.exe, version: 1.52.71.816, time stamp: 0x4c29f442

Faulting module name: arma2OA.exe, version: 1.52.71.816, time stamp: 0x4c29f442

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00101c2c

Faulting process id: 0x8cc

Faulting application start time: 0x01cb4379f7f781e3

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead\arma2OA.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead\arma2OA.exe

Report Id: 552131de-af6d-11df-b4ad-6cf049562eb9"

[Decerto 10]

I re-installed Arma 2 and played it fine then I installed the expansion and it crashes again with the same error. Does anyone know why it does this?

[Decerto 10]

FIXED IT!!!!!

It was my USB headset! Took it out and it plays fine. I found the answer on the Steam forums.

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Here is the Steam thread explaining the problem:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1363943

They said it was fixed in the Beta patch but it wasn't as I tried the Beta patch and it still did it. I don't know why I couldn't find the answer on this forum especially since the developers knew about the problem and it was a simple solution.