Vista 64 - Someone PLEASE help me!!

[midknight4 0]

I have Vista 64 running a Radeon X1900XT GFX card and SounBlaster Audigy LS sound card.

I have installed ArmA and when it launches all the boxes tick EXCEPT the last two then one of two things happens.

Either the screen goes black and nothing happens at all (the programme stops responding) OR the programme starts but the graphics are corrupted (they are sort of grey against a black background and running REALLY slowly!.

I have the latest Vist 64 drivers for my soundcard and I have 7.2 catalyst driver loading for the GFX card (I know therer is a memory leak but it should not stop the game from launching).

Can anyone help me please as I know people have got it running on Vist 64 so I am not too sure why it does not work at all on mine - is it anything to do with those last two boxes not getting ticked perhaps??

Please help!

[odjob 0]

Im running Vista 32bit, i dont think the 2 last boxes are ticked on my system either but it starts anyway.

[Messiah 2]

the last 2 boxes never tick on any OS, dont worry.

alot of people are having issues with arma on vista, as alot of other games do - most were simple never designed with vista in mind, generally because it didnt exist when they started developing it.

whilst things are meant to be backwards compatible with XP programs, the same was said for XP and win 98, yet I spent an age trying to get any old games to work.

I'm sure the BI guys are trying to work out how to use vista, but arma isnt alone in its plight. There are a number of threads on this forum that detail the same problem. I'd suggest you search for VISTA and see if anyonehas already solved these problems.

[odjob 0]

Well my Vista setup runs pretty good at the moment.

1280x720, viewdistance 2500, all settings on normal exept post-processing and aa witch are on low.

Only some stutter near certain bushes or trees although fraps showing around 30fps.

1.05 really made my game stable, no crashes at all. A bit lower performance but the earlier versions was very unstable(on my system).

Vista 32bit

Asus P5B dlx

C2D E6600

2gig ram

X1950pro

X-fi

Syncmaster 205bw 20" widescreen

[bionic 10]

Also my ArmA (1.02) was running stable on Windows Vista 32bit as it was on XP. The only problem on Vista was not to be able to turn off Vsync.

Since 1.05 you still can´t turn Vsync off but that´s at the moment not really the problem. The biggest problem is that alot off people (including me) have lost much performance and this is not limited to Vista users you see it also reported by XP users.

So stop saying Vista is the problem when you didn´t use it yourself and can prove it. Sure there are some things that don´t work perfect at the moment on Vistasystems but thats normal when a new OS shows up but it doesn´t keep you away from playing games and ArmA was doing fine before 1.05.

@midknight4

Was it running before or is it a fresh installation? Also would be nice to know the rest of your Sytemspecs. I don´t have a ATI card myself but have you tried another driver?

[ombas 0]

I have Vista 64 running a Radeon X1900XT GFX card and SounBlaster Audigy LS sound card.

I have installed ArmA and when it launches all the boxes tick EXCEPT the last two then one of two things happens.

Either the screen goes black and nothing happens at all (the programme stops responding) OR the programme starts but the graphics are corrupted (they are sort of grey against a black background and running REALLY slowly!).

I have the latest Vist 64 drivers for my soundcard and I have 7.2 catalyst driver loading for the GFX card (I know therer is a memory leak but it should not stop the game from launching).

Can anyone help me please as I know people have got it running on Vist 64 so I am not too sure why it does not work at all on mine - is it anything to do with those last two boxes not getting ticked perhaps??

Please help!

vista 64, x1900xt, 7.2 cat, and audigy se card w/ latest creative drivers

arma starts and runs - though it jerks when i move fast making it unplayable for me till amd/vista patches make it all better <g>. (fortunately i have xp on dual-boot)

have you downloaded and installed the latest dx9 from ms? vista doesn't do that automatically, at least mine didn't.

could you be having securom or starforce issues? (i've got the sprocket version so i don't have copy prot problems)

also, open arma.exe with xp compatibility.

[midknight4 0]

OK how do you install DX9 as when I try it tells me that a newer version is already installed?

[desertfox 2]

Vista comes with DirectX 10.

If you want to play DirectX 9 games .. install XP. Doh.

[=ACU=Tech 0]

I would also try running ArmA in Windows XP compatibility mode, as ombas sugested. It might help...

[ombas 0]

OK how do you install DX9 as when I try it tells me that a newer version is already installed?

get dxwebsetup.exe:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloa....lang=en

run that and it'll install the latest build.

if you already have the latest it won't mess anything up.

(ignore the foxes)

[whenyoubite 0]

Goto the driver panel and make sure you are not forcing antialiasing [or anti-filtering] is my input, as this was giving similar results on my system (black screen with mouse for about 2 sec then crash/no responce).

The comment about "Vista comes with DirectX 10.

If you want to play DirectX 9 games .. install XP. Doh."

....is from someone who dosent know anything about vista lol. As the last post said install the latest dx9 to be sure as it will co-exist with dx10, if you have the newest one its all good there.

[desertfox 2]

Quote[/b] ]here are troubled times ahead. Through one bold move, Microsoft has decided that it will not support, the already too “old†DirectX 9, not to mention DirectX 8 or any of the previous versions. But... it appears to be some logic hidden somewhere.

The

new DirectX will not be named Windows Graphic Foundation (WGF) as it was planned and will remain at the old name, as in DirectX 10. It will be released with their brand new operating system Vista. This news API will be composed of new and faster dynamic link libraries (DLLs) and will run much faster (so they say).

Microsoft has decided that backward compatibly with DirectX 9,8,7 isn't really necessary as there will probably will be even less compatible with Vista.

Even so, dear Microsoft hasn't totally forgotten us. Some sort of “compatibility†will be available through a software layer (probably some emulation) which will have its price in system resources, as it will run much slower. The good news is that DirectX 10 will relieve some of the burden on the CPU.

If you install DircetX 9 under Vista, you will install drivers that run in compatibility mode, thus leaving much of the rendering calculations up to your CPU. Do your homework.

*EDIT* And for Vista64 bit this even goes twice, because you also have to emulate the 32 bit environment.

[odjob 0]

If you install DircetX 9 under Vista, you will install drivers that run in compatibility mode, thus leaving much of the rendering calculations up to your CPU. Do your homework.

*EDIT* And for Vista64 bit this even goes twice, because you also have to emulate the 32 bit environment.

Have you read the topic of this thread?

In what way are you helping out?

Take your hatred of Vista somewere else.

[desertfox 2]

Odjob .. talk to the hand .. the face ain't listening.

I have no hatred against Vista, I am pointing out that installing a 32 bit WXP application, encountering problems, and then trying to get these problems sorted of the applications forum is retarded, because a) The problems are caused by operating system discrepancies b) The problems are caused by driver compatibility issues and because c) You can easily fix these problems by installing it under Windows XP ( As your game manual reads )

There must be 50 "Game does not run under Vista" threads.

I fail to see why they don't get locked and a sticky is made.

[odjob 0]

Well...

Because in a year (maybe less) most people will have Vista.

So the life expectancy for Arma will be short if these things are not sorted out.

And its not retarded to ask a question.

[midknight4 0]

Isn't that one of the points of forums like this - to ask a community for help etc?

Also Desert Fox you have a patrionising tone and if this sort of questioning bothers you why are you posting on this thread.