Nvidia 100.95 for XP 32bit/64bit

[walker 0]

Hi INNOCENT&CLUELESS

IMPORTANT!

You have not told us what your onboard sound card is:

Please check your sound card if it is the AC97 it is known to cause problems with ArmA that appear to be your graphics card

Solutions exist for it.

Kind Regards walker

[dirtylarrygb 0]

I kicked out once more the RAM and just left one 1GB modul and I played 45 Minutes without any problem.

All RAMTEST Tools said everything is fine and fast before with the 4 GB installed.

Could it be that Windows XP SP2 and/or ArmA is to stupid to utilize/address the RAM properly???

Or is it more feasible that tools may not find faulty RAM?

But it is true : sometimes "less is more"

EDIT:

Got some hints from Killswitch:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1164334

seems I fight with a known problem.

I noticed a huge ASUS warning that installing over 2 GIG ram can cause many issues with XP. Only VISTA can use 4 gig properly it appears.

Try 2 gig and see if you stable, if so put the other 2 gig in when you install vista. one of my friends had a smilair problem with 4 gig and Xp and wow and BF2

[killswitch 19]

Hi INNOCENT&CLUELESS

IMPORTANT!

You have not told us what your onboard sound card is:

Please check your sound card if it is the AC97 it is known to cause problems with ArmA that appear to be your graphics card

It's not an AC97 solution. The board is one based on the nVidia 680i chipset which is used to implement the HDA standard together with the ADI 1988B codec.

[INNOCENT&CLUELESS 0]

The solution is easy, but unexpected:

The BIOS. I updated to the latest when I got it last week to version 1002. But now it turned out that even with that version the ASUS Striker Extreme is not working with 4GB RAM.

Not working means here not only that you can't use it, it means Game Freeze, CTD, BSOD.

I upgraded to 1004 and played 1,5 hours now the usual Berzerk maps (or however they are called) without any problem.

To some sources I own even an old, not properly performing early version 1.00G of the HW, 1.03 should be the latest. But there is nowhere any information about this 1.03.

Does anybody own a striker extreme with a higher revision then 1.00G??

The sources:

4GB issue:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1164334

old HW issue:

http://www.digital-daily.com/motherboard/asus_striker/index6.htm

1004 driver source:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDow....87.html

Thanks for your help, even if it turned out to be a totally different root cause.

So ALL ASUS STRIKER EXTREME and maybe all 680i chipset owners: update! but do not try to find the latest driver/BIOS at the support page of the supplier.

[INNOCENT&CLUELESS 0]

I had extensive testing now for more then 2 hours, not even an ArmA freeze, had at the same time OFP:R crCTI@NATO on goslar running as spectator.

ArmA Video settings:

- All to HIGH where applicable

- 1600x1200

- 85Hz

- VD=10000

Rest of the settings I will add later, cant remember.

According to the CPU utilization I could even run a dedicated server for ArmA and utilize this if I play alone a MP map.

I will test if it is possible to lock in a reliable way onto the CPUs, if it works I will replace the Dual-Core vs a Quad-Core and run:

2 x CPU for ArmA server

1 x CPU for ArmA client

1 x CPU all other apps

I guess only this setup would justify the purchase of a quad-CPU.

[karl76 0]

I&C, glad you found the cause of your problem! Sorry, I´ve been away a few days and couldn´t help. Enjoy your kickass system!

[guerilla -MCY- 0]

don't buy those wanna be Quad's, wait some months for the real one

[INNOCENT&CLUELESS 0]

because 2 CPUs always must share one memory access manager?

BTW, I installed a FW 800 card and got freezes of ArmA again as well as BSODs, removed card - still those problems - never ever touch a running system!