Game starts after 3 hours!

[Rinorak 0]

Hi. I instaled the game and everything was perfect! I tried to run the game but nothing happened.. I reinstalled 3 times but nothing changed.. After last reinstallation i went to bed just to discover that, the next morning, the game was running! I played and everything was allright. I tried to re run the game but same problem.. The game started after 3 hours! I think it is a protection issue but i don't know how to solve..

I have 3ghz intel, 2gb ram, radeon x1950xtx so far beyond minimun requirements.

Please help!

[Chrisuk27 0]

what messages did you get when it failed to run? interested in case its simular to my issue. Is it the UK version?

[mikupoiss 0]

Try disabling the AV software.

I had similar problem with NOD32 and Joint Task Force. The game installed for about 20 minutes, and launched 10 minutes.

Added to game folder to exeptions and worked fine.

[Chrisuk27 0]

Try disabling the AV software.

I had similar problem with NOD32 and Joint Task Force. The game installed for about 20 minutes, and launched 10 minutes.

Added to game folder to exeptions and worked fine.

by AV do you mean anti virus? before installing i take it?

[Jack-UK 0]

Yes, make sure anti virus software + firewall software are configured correctly to allow ArmA to run, or to be sure, turn it all off temporarily and then run ArmA.

[mikupoiss 0]

by AV do you mean anti virus? before installing i take it?

AV- antivirus, yes

Disabling it before, or after installing depends very much of the game.

It's always safer to disable it before.

[Chrisuk27 0]

by AV do you mean anti virus? before installing i take it?

AV- antivirus, yes

Disabling it before, or after installing depends very much of the game.

It's always safer to disable it before.

ok ill try different things with the AV. As i said i have AVG and the windows firewall - not really been an issue up an till now. thanks.

[Chrisuk27 0]

well Ive just uninstalled AVG, turned off firewall etc, restarted windows, reinstalled ArmA and it still wont work. B*llox

[vilas 477]

on my computer ARMA was starting sometimes after 8-14 retries

i had new PC from shop

formated new disc

new system

and game was saying i have emulating software

i had enough of it

but one friend told me how to solve it

when i installed daemon tools and i run it from simulator all works fine

there were advices like "uninstal Nero, uninstal this, uninstal that", uninstall all except ARMA ;/

this is completely nonsense !

incomprehensible !

when i had no such software security system of ARMA was saying i have such software and was stopping game,

i couldn't start game, polish developer haven't answered me on my 4 e-mails to tech support !

when i installed it - all works fine (except horrible graphic performance)

incomprehensible and nothing more to say

so you may have same problem

"turn off AV, turn off firewall, turn off all, turn off computer"

such advice is nonsense

how can we use game in the Internet when firewall is turned off, than we are not safe

people have newest and very strong computers and after 20-30 minutes of gameplay or few restarts of mission, they have missing objects, missing textures

and advice is "turn all to low details"

but on low details it looks s***

why we pay so much money for PC to have all on "low" ?

this game should work on PC normally as any other game

i had many games and never such problems with any of them

OFP was super, thanx to editable form

ARMA was big hope, hope for super successor of OFP

Sahrani looks nice, game looks nice - until it crushes

if this bugs will be fixed (performance, ability to turn off HDR, ability to jump) this game can also be super

but now - it has a lot of bugs, for example -

wanted to make some missions to my addons

1) invasion like in D-Day

but AI was thrown out from boat without weapon 50 meters from beach

i don't know what to to make them get out on beach and not loose weapons

2) i wanted to make mission like "team get n M113 and go to place"

AI get in M113 but me - player - i couldn't because there was no active option get in, only active option was "take grenades"

and teamlader was still giving "8 get in M113"

i was walking few minutes around M113 and no option was available

really BIS have a lot of work to do

[Chrisuk27 0]

on my computer ARMA was starting sometimes after 8-14 retries

i had new PC from shop

formated new disc

new system

and game was saying i have emulating software

i had enough of it

but one friend told me how to solve it

when i installed daemon tools and i run it from simulator all works fine

this is completely nonsense !

incomprehensible !

when i had no such software security system of ARMA was saying i have such software and was stopping game,

i couldn't start game, polish developer haven't answered me on my 4 e-mails to tech support !

when i installed it - all works fine (except horrible graphic performance)

incomprehensible and nothing more to say

so you may have same problem

"turn off AV, turn off firewall, turn off all, turn off computer"

such advice is nonsense

this game should work on PC normally as any other game

i had many games and never such problems with any of them

I agree, whats going on when people have to mess around for ages just to get a game working, yes I know we pc owners are used to it, but you wont find that from 360 or PS3 owners. If anyone has read the UK PCGamer review they gave it 70%, now I read this and still bought the game being a flashpoint fan. I have some faith in the fact BI will sort this mess out, however flashpoint was never this much of a problem. Please fix it soonest!

[vilas 477]

for You - living in UK it was not such problem

for me - in my country people earn 200-350 Euro by month

to buy computer for ARMA (700 Eu) I had to save money for half year and to take credit in bank

electronics in our country is more expensive than in western Europe (like cars, for 10-20%)

example: for Cannon 400 D people in west pay 700 USD , in my shop it costs 1000 USD

my VGA MSI 7900 GS costed me 250 USD in west it costs under 190 USD

how angry will be people in Russia/Ukraina, when man earns 100 Eu ?

and for new PC save money for year ?

i was very big OFP fan and now i am very disappointed

i hope moderator won't punish me for "offtopic" message

[VXR 9]

for You - living in UK it was not such problem

for me - in my country people earn 200-350 Euro by month

to buy computer for ARMA (700 Eu) I had to save money for half year and to take credit in bank

electronics in our country is more expensive than in western Europe (like cars, for 10-20%)

example: for Cannon 400 D people in west pay 700 USD , in my shop it costs 1000 USD

my VGA MSI 7900 GS costed me 250 USD in west it costs under 190 USD

how angry will be people in Russia/Ukraina, when man earns 100 Eu ?

and for new PC save money for year ?

i was very big OFP fan and now i am very disappointed

i hope moderator won't punish me for "offtopic" message

Never knew everything is so expensive on electronics there.. Respect for you vilas.

[Chrisuk27 0]

for You - living in UK it was not such problem

for me - in my country people earn 200-350 Euro by month

to buy computer for ARMA (700 Eu) I had to save money for half year and to take credit in bank

electronics in our country is more expensive than in western Europe (like cars, for 10-20%)

example: for Cannon 400 D people in west pay 700 USD , in my shop it costs  1000 USD

my VGA MSI 7900 GS costed me 250 USD in west it costs under 190 USD

how angry will be people in Russia/Ukraina, when man earns 100 Eu ?

and for new PC save money for year ?

i was very big OFP fan and now i am very disappointed

i hope moderator won't punish me for "offtopic" message

I hear you, although prices are relative to the country, the UK is very expensive for everything. Interestingly though the developers are from the Czech Republic...anyway thats going way off topic! fact is mine wont run its a UK version and I would like so ideas / help thanks

[BraTTy 0]

Alot of you obviously haven't been gaming very long.

...I remember many,many times in the past a game I bought wouldn't work because I had some odd hardware.

Whether It was because I had some generic soundcard,voodoo rush ,v2,not enough or too much ram, you name it.

Hardware has became alot more standarized and even tho vilas pays alot, computer hardware is at a low.Its cheap now

( I paid 600$ usd for a cd drive when they came out,500$ for a 40 Meg hd etc..)

It used to be nothing to have up to $20,000 in a single computer,I had 2

On the topic: game star 3 hours later...you sure windows wasn't updating or running some maintenance?

Nowadays anyone has a computer,its easier to tell most to just disable whole things such as the firewall rather than to explain the proper process

[Rinorak 0]

Sorry for the late reply.

I will try to close windows firewall and av (now i'am not at home). I had the european version (italian). No update or other downloads running.

As i said early everything goes well after 3 hours. So i think is some bug related with the cd check. I hope there will be a patch to solve those issue. I will let you know! Tnx for the answers!

[Rinorak 0]

Sorry, I forgot the last thing.

No message from windows or everything else!

Just 3 hours of loading!

[vilas 477]

star force securing system ?

i would be waitng so much

but i was very very angry when game was starting after 14 retries

now - no problem, when emulated

[mikupoiss 0]

I seriously doubt that Windows Firewall would interfere with games, but then again, it's Windows

[vilas 477]

star force is game securing system against dvd copying

[mikupoiss 0]

star force is game securing system against dvd copying

ArmA doesn't use SF protection.

[NeMeSiS 11]

star force is game securing system against dvd copying

ArmA doesn't use SF protection.

Czech version does.

[vilas 477]

Polish version too

[mikupoiss 0]

Sad to hear, that BIS took SF in those countries.

Then getting the game to work is just lottery.

[Rinorak 0]

Someone from the BOHEMIA is paying attention or just avoiding lagal issues?

Look I just want to play the game that I bought without using any illegal things (crack emulator and so on)..

[.kju 3245]

send a mail to bistudio.com and your publisher stating your problem. if they dont help you, you know where to find help ..