EVGASerious Problems, bug lists

[StormbringerGT 0]

Hey I just got this game the other day and I have not been able to play it since. The install went fine, the patch went fine, but playing it hasnt.

First of all I can turn almost everything on its highest and play the game smoothly. Thats not an issue. What I do have a problem with is actually playing. I cannot load the first mission in campaign I watch the mission, then the ingame enigine shows a town, with someone walking, then the rock music cues and it says something about a convoy moving troops and thats it, it will sit like that forever, rock music playing and the black screen about a convoy.'

Sometimes the textures dont fill in right, like when I walk up to someone, they use a mesh and texture that they might use if they were far away, but when I get close sometimes it stays like that, all blocky.

Also, sometimes the screen blinks and flickers. Sometimes it goes all bright and then calms back down to normal brightness, like an explosion went off nearby.

Also when doing a mission, the one where you fly that plane in a major offensive, the planes render fine from far away. However when up close the meshes go crazy and the pilot looks like he is sitting in a jumble. With crazy angles, popping out all over the place. It does not resemble a jet at all.

There are a few other little things, but those just stop me from playing.

I understand there is not much you can do about it right now, but I hope that by voicing my issues that can help with fixing it in future patches. Please if you need any info contact me, also if anyone else has similar problems they should post here.

Here are my system specs I am running:

Windows Vista Ultimate

Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40 Ghz

EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard

Patriot 4GB DDR2 6400 800Mhz (4 1GB Modules)

EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI)

EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI)

Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0)

Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer

Cooler Master 850W Real Power Pro

Thanks for reading my post, please let me know if you have any advice or fixes!

[-SWAF-Lunatic 0]

What you are reffering to is the LOD bug, most 8800 users suffer from this.

Please use the search function and you willl get two good pieces of advice that will render the game playable, but not truly stable.

[neildood 0]

Lunatic @ May 09 2007,08:47)]What you are reffering to is the LOD bug, most 8800 users suffer from this.

Please use the search function and you willl get two good pieces of advice that will render the game playable, but not truly stable.

Not just 8800 users have the problem, i went back to try Vista again and i get the LOD bug with a 7950GT. XP fine, Vista not.

[4 IN 1 0]

most of the nV cards have this problem, may i ask what version of the game you have?

edit: also try to disable SLI to see if the problem still there

[StormbringerGT 0]

Okay I

ll try to disable my SLI and see what happens. As far as game version I believe its 1.06.

I will try to find info on the LOD bug. I will also tweak around my system see what pops up. I havent had the framrate issue other people have. Everything is on high or highest except view distance thats at about 8000 and anti aa is on low.

I just tried to load the game and started the mission again where you fly that plane and when it started to load cutscene it crashed to desktop with this error:

Cannot create system memory surface DXT5,2048x2048 (size 5592416 B)

Error code 8007000e

Hopefully a Dev can see this and make use of it.

[StormbringerGT 0]

I just tried running the game again. Here is an update of what I got running and what settings I am using:

Windows Vista Ultimate

Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.40 Ghz 4MB L2 Cache 1066 MHz FSB

EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard

Patriot 4GB DDR2 6400 800Mhz (4x 1GB Modules)

EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI)

EVGA e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (SLI)

Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0)

Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA 7200 16MB Buffer (RAID ARRAY 0)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer

Thermaltake Armor

Cooler Master 850W Real Power Pro

22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW

Creative Inspire T5400

Ideazon MERC Gaming Keyboard

Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse

Now here are my settings in game:

Visibility: 7052

Resolution: 1680 x 1050

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Refresh Rate: 60 Mhz

Terrain Detail: High

Objects Detail: High

Texture Detail: High

Shading Detail: High

Postprocess Effects: High

Anisoptropic Filtering: Low

Shadow Detail: High

Antialiasing: Low

Blood: High

The Mission is Devils Cross

This attempt I picked resume and the game was loading and it got to the second loading screen, Recieving and it crashed to desktop where windows stated that it had stopped working.

[ubascouser 0]

Hello m8 i have an 8800gts 320mb card in my system and was suffering from the lod bug i was ready to throw my game out the window untill i installed the 158.22 drivers from nvidia and now it seems to have gone the only problem i get now is fog and i no its a problem because i didny suffer from it when my 7800gt was installed.

windows xp

athlon xp 3500 2.21ghz

2 gig ram

foxconn 8800gts 320mb oc

asus a8n5x motherboard

120 gig harddrive

jeantech storm 700w psu

plus im running my ingame settings on normal with a 1700 view distance.

[StormbringerGT 0]

Ill try the new drivers and post my fidnings here. I am running the previous version I guess. where can I find the ones you have? Nvidias site doesnt have them up.

[AiRec1 0]

You will not he is running XP, Vista drivers = 158.18

To be honest, my rig has a 1.86 C2D @ 2.66, with 8800GTS 320Mb, at 1280 x 1024

The optimum settings tested with ArmA mark(vista) were Normal for most settings, Low PP/AF, High Shadow/AA/Blood, view distance 2000m, this gave me a ArmA mark of 1954.81, when tested on my XP I was able to run things on high mostly and get a similar result.

ArmA is a graphics hog, so don't expect to it to run at the settings your trying with everything cranked up, the beta which I tested does show improved FPS, so most people will hopefully get performace with 1.07