Vista Black load screen?

[Darkyyy 0]

I have vista 64 ultimate on a amd 64 4800

with a ati 1900xtx 512 with 4 gigs of corsair memory with a sound audidgy 2zl

when i start the game arma 1.6 us vers i get a black screen and then a scrambled login screen i installed the newest ati drivers and sound card drivers and so on i have searched the web for a fix no help just found other people with the same problem the only fix i have found is to down grade my os to xp but thats just lame any help would be great.

[ombas 0]

I have vista 64 ultimate on a amd 64 4800

with a ati 1900xtx 512 with 4 gigs of corsair memory with a sound audidgy 2zl

when i start the game arma 1.6 us vers i get a black screen and then a scrambled login screen i installed the newest ati drivers and sound card drivers and so on i have searched the web for a fix no help just found other people with the same problem the only fix i have found is to down grade my os to xp but thats just lame any help would be great.

try uninstalling 7.4 cat and installing 7.3 cat.

i've got a x1900xt with 4gbs ram and vista ultimate 64 and get the black screen with dark gray background. iirc it started with 7.4.

[Darkyyy 0]

can i get your full system specs as detailed as possibal?

and i will try 7.3 driver later.

[ombas 0]

can i get your full system specs as detailed as possibal?

e6600 cpu, asus cpu cooler

4 gbs gskill

gigabyte n650sli-ds4 F5 mobo (onboard audio and virtualization disabled in bios)

x1900xt 512 mb

dx9 april '07 build

catalyst 7.4 vista driver

audigy se sound card 1.04.0061

fortron epsilon 700 watt psu

vista ultimate 64 patched up with security, no optional (except for dreamscene)

uac and driver sig disabled

ati tray tools instead of ccc - hi perf for texture and mipmap, no gfx overclock, ati hotkey active

liteon dvd burner

1 pata and 2 sata hard drives

nec accusync 900 monitor

i'd test it myself but i run opengl programs and 7.3 cat's opengl did really nasty things to my system (not to mention i applied the arma 1.07b patch and found out i don't have any sprocket activations left <sigh>)

i do have dualboot with xp on my d drive and arma ran normally under xp.

[Darkyyy 0]

Very nice thanxs for the info i should be able to work this out soon this neads a sticky im sure this will be some help to the vista fans! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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1 day later ok i tried 7.2 driver and the 7.3 driver no go they wouldnt even install and i uninstalled as directed so im kinda lost again on this one how do i get the drivers to take hold?

[Darkyyy 0]

Ok please help me i have tried everything to get this game to work

new drivers bios updates you name it best i can tell its a ati driver bug there has to be a fix of some kind please any one help

[Royceybaby 0]

Got the same problem

Running the following specs:

AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+

4GB Geil DDR2 Ram

Asus M2R32-MVP Motherboard

ATI HIS 2900XT Graphics Cards (2 in Crossfire configuration)

SoundBlaster Xifi Fatality Pro

Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

I am runnning the drivers from the Graphics Card install CD 7.4? with the lastest 2900XT patch from the ATI/AMD website.

If I try and run 1.05 release I get a black screen, if I run the latest 1.07 beta I get the same graphics corruption as the scrren shot in Darkyyy's post.

Any ideas what we can do to fix the above problem, I have the German Release version and have also used up all of my activations.

Thanks,

Royce

[Crebain 0]

im glad i didnt buy this game...iv been told all you have to do is boot up in Xp mode, i know its lame but if you wanna play try getting XP.........man all this over a game i dont know about you but this is complicated to me

[topas 1]

For me it runs good on Vista Home Premium

Toshiba Satellite a200ae1

nVidia go7300

Same framerates as on a second machine with XP as OS.

[Darkyyy 0]

Hello again i still have yet to fix this problem with arma or ati or vista kinda sucks forking out cash for a game i can not play please help me .

[Spectre-63 0]

Not sure that it'd be your Catalyst drivers causing this...I ran just fine in Vista Ultimate 32 with both the Catalyst 7.4's and 7.5's

[Darkyyy 0]

Not sure that it'd be your Catalyst drivers causing this...I ran just fine in Vista Ultimate 32 with both the Catalyst 7.4's and 7.5's

wish i knew how to fix this?

[ombas 0]

Not sure that it'd be your Catalyst drivers causing this...I ran just fine in Vista Ultimate 32 with both the Catalyst 7.4's and 7.5's

wish i knew how to fix this?

darkyyy!

sort of a good news bad news thing...

i found out how to run arma on vista64 with a radeon card!

uninstall everything catalyst: driver, ccc, and wdm. it'll run.

it's a bit jerky when i move fast, but by golly it runs. there's no dark/black screen.

(x1900xt, e6600, 4 gbs ram, vista64 ultimate)

[Darkyyy 0]

how does it run with out a video driver?

[ombas 0]

how does it run with out a video driver?

windows uses a stock vid driver.

i didn't try the ms radeon driver you can dl through winupdate - those used to be worse than cat's. i don't know if that would work better than the stock driver for arma or not.

[Darkyyy 0]

so this is a video driver problem or a vista 64 problem or a arma problem i would like to know who to bitch to. and uninstalling all my video drivers sounds kinda lame might do it for fun but there has to be a driver fix some where?

[ombas 0]

so this is a video driver problem or a vista 64 problem or a arma problem i would like to know who to bitch to. and uninstalling all my video drivers sounds kinda lame might do it for fun but there has to be a driver fix some where?

i wasn't recommending it. i run other apps that most definitely do benefit from catalyst drivers. for example stock doesn't do well with opengl.

i would guess it's a catalyst driver problem, since arma does not run at all with catalyst and does at least run without catalyst. i'm not an expert and don't even pretend to sound like one, like those guys who read a bunch of webpages, so i can't say for sure what the problem is.

for right now our best bet is to dual-boot xp (if you have it). or get an 8800...

but by all means complain to ati. :-)

[Darkyyy 0]

so this is a video driver problem or a vista 64 problem or a arma problem i would like to know who to bitch to. and uninstalling all my video drivers sounds kinda lame might do it for fun but there has to be a driver fix some where?

i wasn't recommending it.  i run other apps that most definitely do benefit from catalyst drivers.   for example stock doesn't do well with opengl.  

i would guess it's a catalyst driver problem, since arma does not run at all with catalyst and does at least run without catalyst.  i'm not an expert and don't even pretend to sound like one, like those guys who read a bunch of webpages, so i can't say for sure what the problem is.  

for right now our best bet is to dual-boot xp (if you have it).  or get an 8800...

but by all means complain to ati. :-)

Thanks i will direct my hate towards ati then if any one can help please respond to this thread and i realy dont feel like seting up a duel boot system vista 64 and ati drivers should suport this video game with out a hitch sorry im venting.

[Royceybaby 0]

I can near as dammit confirm this as an Catalyst/Vista64 driver bug.

My friend runs Vista64 with a Nvidia 7600GT and it works "fine"

I have tried Catalyst/Vista32 and Catalyst/XP64 and both of those do not have the problem.

I have yet to try the new 7.5 drivers as I got fed up with being unable to play Arma under Vista64 and reloaded XP64.

Royce

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Darkyyy,

What is your screen refresh rate set at for your desktop?

You may want to try lowering it to 60 Hertz, and test ArmA.

[Darkyyy 0]

Darkyyy,

What is your screen refresh rate set at for your desktop?

You may want to try lowering it to 60 Hertz, and test ArmA.

yeah i was runing at 60 for a refreshrate so yeah still broke.

[Thingamajig 0]

*bump*

i'm quite sure i share this same problem as you guys ( i too use vista ultimate, 64bit)

here's my original thread:

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....2;st=15

[Sundqvist 0]

I have almost same problem, with XP:

Does anyone know what's wrong?

[Thingamajig 0]

I have almost same problem, with XP:

<img src="http://www.directdelivery.org/arma 2007-06-13_00-26-25-00.png" border="0">

Does anyone know what's wrong?

Your picture isn't working ^^

I dont think anyone knows whats wrong. but i think its best to keep these kinds of threads on the front page, the more viewers, the more likely someone will give us a fix.

ATI released new drivers today, 7.6, check them out if you have a ATI GPU.

[Darkyyy 0]

Still need help any one please.