What is wrong here? Detailed crash monitoring

[bullman 0]

Hello

Ever since I installed OA, BAF and the Beta patches and started using my new GTX465 GFX card, I have not been 100% satisfied everything is setup and running as it should.

The following problems have led me to think there is something very odd going on recently:

- After maybe 20min of play, the game suddenly freezes and I can't get back to desktop so I have to hard reboot.

- Pressing ESC while in the game can sometimes result in the game crashing to desktop with these types of messages.

Clicking on "click here":

I also have an image of what you see when you press the view technical information "click here".

I have been able to log my system behaviour during one of the freezes I mentioned. I have three graphs: TEMPERATURE, MEMORY and CPU utilisation. I have marked a vertical line CRASH to indicate where it crashed.

TEMPERATURE

MEMORY

CPU

The only thing I see that is odd is in the MEMORY graph which shows the "Used Memory" slowly dropping ("Free Memory" correspondingly increasing). Maybe there is a memory leak going on?

My system details:

ArmA2/OA/BAF non-Steam

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

RAM: 4GB DDR2

GFX: Gigabyte GTX-465 (1GB RAM)

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black: WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 1 TB

All drivers latest

There is also some confusion about whether I have ArmA2/OA/BAF and the Beta patch are installed/configured correctly. I have three auto created shortcuts when I installed OA, BAF and the Beta Patches (I don't think I created them) that have just confused things for me. I just want one shortcut that launches the game so I have access to all the DLC. Form that shortcut I then add any mods (or beta patch modifiers).

I have posted screen shots of what you see when you press the "Expansions" button from the main menu. Why are they different? I believe this "Expansions" menu was added to ArmA2 with OA to assist player activating/deactivating mods from the main menu. So why then can I not see the mod folders in some of the screens below but see them in other?

So first of all we have the OA Combined Arms shortcut. It has no Target modifiers in the shortcut. Note that it does load the BAF content without any target modifiers!

OA Combined Arms

Second we have the ArmA2 BAF shortcut. Not it does have a Target modifier which says -mod BAF which seems redundant given the OA Combined Arms shortcut already seems to load BAF without any modifiers.

BAF

Then I have the BETA shortcut which gets auto created in my ArmA2 directory. This has the following target modifiers mod=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash. What is the purpose of having one Expansion folder nestled within another Expansion directory? Is this correct? It seems to prevent the "Expansions" menu in the game from showing any of the mod folders I have so making that Expansion menu kind of useless.

BETA

So:

A) What is the correct shortcut to start ArmA2 with all the DLC content activated?

B) What is the correct shortcut to start ArmA2 with all the DLC content activated AND the BETA content?

C) What is causing my crashes?

Cheers

Bull

Edited November 4, 2010 by Bullman

[no use for a name 0]

Does it crash w/o running the beta? Some people have been having similar issues with the latest one (74858 IIRC)

[Dwarden 1103]

please read this

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=102991

especially the section about attachments related to crashes

[bullman 0]

Does it crash w/o running the beta? Some people have been having similar issues with the latest one (74858 IIRC)

Hmm...I will need to verify that.

Can someone at least explain to me the situation with the different shortcuts I have? Is there any need to have a shortcut with the -mod BAF modifier to load the BAF folder?