Issues with Arma bought on Steam

[walloon 1]

Hi,

I've previously owned the box version of the game, so I know it can run on my computer. Recently I decided I'd like to play again so I went ahead and purchased it off Steam this time around. That's where the problems began. The game runs but the frame rates for the loading menu are awful, and the graphics in the background of the menu look absolutely horrible. Occasionally the text on the screen gets very blurry. When I try to actually play a mission, the graphics remain the same and so do the frame rates, also when I access the menu ALL of the words appear blurry. When I try to change any of the graphics settings the game minimizes and then I cant open it again, I have to actually end the process via ctrl alt del. Also there are various issues with the sound, like the menu noises wont play when you click a button, and the sound is choppy in game."freeze and crash to desktop and I'd be left with this error message: Display adapter does not support format D24S8 for X8R8G8B8

Can anybody give me an idea of what's going on?

I've tried installing patches and updates as well as reinstalling to no avail. Also, I'm not sure if this would be an issue, but I'm currently living in Europe (from USA)... is it possible I may have purchased the wrong version? I'm not really sure how that works so forgive me if that's ridiculous.

Thank you guys! I really appreciate it!

---------- Post added at 01:20 ---------- Previous post was at 01:19 ----------

Sorry this is Arma: Combat Operations.... guess I'm in the wrong thread, sorry about that! If anyone could still answer that would be much appreciated though! Thank you guys!

[Tash 1]

check your system specs and the options in the game make sure its the right resolutions

[DWaldie 1]

I've downloaded the demo version and it is the same. It's nothing to do with my hardware as it runs everything except this. It looks to be a bug in the most recent version. It looks to be well reported so maybe a fix is on the way.

[[frl]myke 14]

Display adapter does not support format D24S8 for X8R8G8B8

Usually means "recognized GPU is too old". Might also be a faulty GPU driver.

Can you post your system specs? (Should be default anyway when asking for help)