Game is unplayable

[rudellj 10]

Hello!

I've been playing the game since it came out... with the newest patch it has made the game unplayable. It constantly crashes to desktop and etc.

I have:

i7 930 OC'ed to 3.78ghz

12 gigs DDR3 1600 ram

2x nvidia 480s

windows 7

its a dell alienware Area 51 ALX...

it ran the game constantly on 55-60 frames prior to the new patch. Now with the new patch i hit 65ish frames (so there is a performance increase)... HOWEVER, the game constantly crashes to desktop and is not responding.

I will not turn down the graphics - the whole point of me buying this system was to run the game on max settings, which i can. The issue is the patch causing ctd.

any known fixes? ive glanced at the forums but havent found anything.

[GTDAWG 10]

I feel your pain !

since patch there is probably thousands that cant play the game (specially multiplayer).

As to a fix well BIS hasnt said a peep yet as to what they are doing about it?

Or if they are doing anything at all.

Alot of disapointment coming from loyal ARMA players lately.

[mrbinkels 10]

Have you cleaned the dust bunnies out of your case lately?

[secludedsfx 10]

Try the beta patches which are out as they could help solve your problem

[GTDAWG 10]

we all tried the beta patches .

it dont help.

[Flash Thunder 10]

Yeah these latest patches have good fixes yet they come at the cost of lower FPS and less stability.

as of lately my alt tab has been locking up, CTD's and for me I get lower FPS in OA.

I can blame my hardware aswell

heres my specs

GPU: 9800gtx latest drivers 512mb overclocked

CPU: amd phenom 9750 @2.4 ghz

HDD: 750GB @7000rpm

RAM: 8GB high frequency

OS: Vista 64bit SP2

Some settings that rape performance

Post Processing

HDR settings

Terrain Detail

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Whenever you get a crash, go to:

Username / Appdata / Local / ArmA2OA and zip up the arm2oa.rpt, arma2oa.bidmp and arma2oa.mdmp files. Send them with an email describing how the crash happened, what version you are running and your system specs to dwarden's email which is his forumnick (at) bistudio.com.

If you don't send this stuff in, who's meant to know what's going on on your end?

Edited November 28, 2010 by Dwarden

[Dwarden 1124]

use beta 76067 it fix the crashes

if you still get some crash then i want crashdumps to my email ...

[rudellj 10]

where do i get the beta patches? i was on the main website and coul not find them

[Zipper5 74]

Here. ;)

[rudellj 10]

thankie!

and can i use these in multiplayer? like i wont get kicked or anything?

---------- Post added at 05:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:33 PM ----------

crashed to desktop again even with the beta patch!

gonna send over the logs now!

[rscarrab 10]

Im curious, is anyone with an ATi GPU experiencing these issues?

(btw im using a GTX480, suffering from CTD's with 1.55 and all beta's beyond it :()

Ive made a ticket for this, vote it up so it gets more priority!

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/15410

Could you guys check your arma2OA.RPT (with notepad) and ctrl+f to see if you have these lines in it;

"Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION"

and/or

"Driver:nvd3dum.dll"

Much appreciated if you do.

Cheers. :)

[GTDAWG 10]

try this it worked for me!

disable firewall/antivirus

start armaII

enter multiplayer (I used to freeze at this point)

enter a game.

once connected to the game back out of armaII

reenable firewall/antivirus.

everything works like a charm now!!!!

[rudellj 10]

i dont have a firewall or anti vrius... the issue isnt connectivity its with the game locking up and crashing to desktop or not recovering and i have to ALT CTRL DEL

[edjcox 10]

Since installing upgarde 1.55 I can only play for 10 minutes before my game slows down to a crawl and then crashes.

Downloaded Beta but that does the same thing. There seems to have been a memory leak introduced having to do with the video. The video goes wierd before the crash.

Help BI please. Your losing all of your players as many many have this issue..:mad: