desertfox 2 Posted December 5, 2006 After reading through numerous troubleshooting requests, I think the solution for a vast part of them is simple: Actual drivers. When thinking drivers, many people think "Gfx card" and that's it. - Make sure to check what chipset you have on your mainboard. ( Intel, ATi, Nvidia, Via, etc. ) - Make sure you have the LATEST drivers installed for your chipset. ( AGP, IDE, Sound, Lan, etc. ) Go to the manufacturer site of the chipset, not the one of the mainboard manufacturer ! Nvidia just recently released updated drivers for their Nforce chipset for example. Here's a short list of the most commonly used chipsets. NVIDIA nforce: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp ATi ( AMD ) chipsets: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html Via chipsets: http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2 What I think is worth to mention is this: I went to the Asus website, because I have an Asus board. Thus thinking the Asus site offers the latest drivers for the chipsets used on its boards. I was wrong. I could download version 1.6 !! of the forceware drivers from there. A small note told me this is a newer version than that on the Nvidia site due to different naming rules. Result was, I was not even able to start up ArmA but CTD'ed each and every time. So I went to the Nvidia site and found out the current version is 5.10. Everything worked like a bomb after updating them. I can even play on quite high settings with decent frame rates. Someone should make a sticky from that. Almost every second thread here is about CTD, texture errors or bad performance. Most of those issues turned out to be driver related, and things worked fine after updating the chipset drivers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
