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Hi, i just made an interesting observation regarding Patch 1.08.

I first installed it on my very own highend PC, but since 1.08 ArmA would not boot up (did not have any problems including up to German 1.05).

The specs are:

AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core 4200+

2,21 GHz

2 GB RAM

GeForce 7950GT, newest Forceware Drivers (updated 10 mintues ago)

Windows XP Service Pack 2

German DVD Version, fresh install

updated to 1.05 Euro, then 1.08 international

Today I went on vacation to where I am originally from and installed it on our a little dated "family PC". Guess what? It worked without problems, at least for the 10 minutes I ran it.

The specs of the "working" machine are:

Intel Pentium 4

3,4 GHz

1 GB RAM

Geforce 6600 GT 128MB

Windows XP Service Pack 2

German DVD Version, fresh install

updated to 1.05 Euro, then 1.08 international

Soo...my intention is to collect as much as possible hardware information on working (ArmA booting up) and non-working (ArmA not booting up) systems. Might be a hardware issue, even more so that one or two guys from the "Patch 1.08 not booting up" thread went as far as to format the hard drive, re-install Windows XP and then ArmA and nothing else. Where could software conflicts come from when you have no other software installed?

I hope this thread can be helpful to narrow that nasty problem down.

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My computer. Arma works like a charm:

Motherboard: ASRock 939 Dual SATA

CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+

RAM: 2x 1GB Infineon 400Mhz DDR (dual channel mode)

Graphics: Club3D NVidia GeForce 7950GT 512MB GDDR3

Hard Drive: Seagate 400GB IDE 7200RPM

PSU: OCZ GameXtreme 700W

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional + SP2

ArmA: German DVD Version -> 1.05 -> 1.08

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ArmA no Boot:

Arma NOT WORKING on:

Motherboard: ASUS M2N32-SLI DELUXE + latest bios 1004

CPU: AMD Athalon 64 X2 6000+

RAM: 2048 DDR2 Corsair PC2-6400 (800MHz) Dual Channel

Graphics: POV 8800GTS 320

Drivers: 158.22_forceware_winxp_international_whql

Hard Drive: Maxtor 360GB SATA 7200RPM

PSU: OCZ SilentXtreme 600W

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Ed + SP2

DVD: Plextor PX-712SA Serial ATA 12x4x DVD±RW ReWriter

ArmA: 505UK DVD Version ->1.04 -> 1.05 -> 1.08

Arma WORKING on:

Motherboard: Winfast NF4UK8AA no bios updates

CPU: AMD Athalon 64 3200+

RAM: 2048 DDR Corsair PC2-6400 (400MHz)

Graphics: Geforce 6600GT 128

Drivers: 94.24_forceware_winxp_international_whql

Hard Drive: Maxtor 360GB SATA 7200RPM

PSU: Enermax Noisetaker 485W EG495AX-VE(G) SFMA ATX2.0

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Ed + SP2

DVD: Plextor PX-712SA Serial ATA 12x4x DVD±RW ReWriter

ArmA: 505UK DVD Version ->1.04 -> 1.05 -> 1.08

Tried all fixes suggested save formatting, which is not an option at this time. Hope this helps.

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Works great:

Motherboard: ASUS P5N32-SLI SE DELUXE X16 (0603 bios)

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600

RAM: 2x 1GB Corsair 800mhz DDR2 (dual channel mode)

Graphics: BFG TECH nVidia GeForce 7950GX2

Hard Drive: 2x 250GB Western Digital Caviar Raid 0 array

PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 700w PSU

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional + SP2

ArmA: English DVD Version -> 1.06 -> 1.08

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The most important thing you are missing from your spec here is your DVD DRIVE model ,interface,number and SCSI or IDE devices connected at the time ARMA is lunching.Nothing else is important for securom remember.Only hardware atapi layers and of course some debugging software.

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*BenQ dvd drive (I'll get the detailed specs when I get home)

I have issues once in a while, where the game won't boot, or it will tell me to insert a non-backup version of the game (though I'm using the original DVDROM). Doesn't happen often though.

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Graphics goood but CTD every ten mins on:

Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI

CPU: Core 2 Duo 1.8 (800mhz)

RAM: 1 Gig G.skill dual channel ram (800mhz)

Graphics: Asus 7600GT

Drivers: 94.** driver

Hard Drive: Western Dig 320G SATA 7200RPM

PSU: 550w ATX 2

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Pro + SP2

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works great on:

CPU: AMD 4600+ s939

motherboard: asus A8r32-MVP deluxe

RAM: 4*512Mb pc3200 (twinmos)

HD: RAID0 500GB(WD caviar 250GB) and seagate 200Gb

GPU: gigabyte x1950 pro

PSU: enermax 380W

DVD: optiarc AD-5170A

sony DRU-710A

windows XP SP2

Arma european version(505 games street)

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ArmA working perfect from 1.06[Atari] patching throughout 1.08, with

latest patch working best (most performant/errorfree) so far.

See specs. (Main PC, LG DVD-RAM GSA-4165B drive on EIDE, Raptors on SATA)

Microsoft driver 5.1.2535.0 for DVD

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Second PC working perfect from 1.04[505] patching throughout 1.08,

with latest patch working best (most performant/errorfree) so far.

Opt170 [2.60GHz] [WinXP SP2]

MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinium /S939/NForce3/AGP (8.22 V5 Unified Remix)

2GB Corsair XMS Kit CL2 TWINX2048-3200C2PRO

NVidia Geforce 7800GS+ 512MB AGP (160.03)

Samsung 1634N (160GB/16MB cache)

Audigy 1 Platinium

Lite-On DVD-RW SOHW-812S drive on EIDE, Samsungs on EIDE

Microsoft driver 5.1.2535.0 for DVD

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Third PC working perfect from 1.00[Morphicon] patching throughout 1.08,

with latest patch working best (most performant/errorfree) so far.

Third PC (brothers) very much similar to my second PC, but

has for GFX card 6800GT (160.03)

Lite-On DVD-RW SOHW-812S drive on EIDE, Samsungs on EIDE

Microsoft driver 5.1.2535.0 for DVD

(Reasonably perfect too; lower settings, of course)

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DVD drive model for my working ArmA is:

LITE-ON DVD SOHD 167T

Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0

Driver Date: July 1st, 2001

LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1653S

Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0

Driver Date: July 1st, 2001

DVD drive model for non-working ArmA:

To be determined when I am back in Vienna.

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works ok.

ahtlon 3800+ @2600

MSI k8 neo4-f

MSI 1950 PRO 256

1 gb ram

400 w PSU

250 gig Seagate SATA

sprocket online

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DVD drive model for my working ArmA is:

LITE-ON DVD SOHD 167T

Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0

Driver Date: July 1st, 2001

LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1653S

Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0

Driver Date: July 1st, 2001

DVD drive model for non-working ArmA:

To be determined when I am back in Vienna.

Ok here not working at all LITE-ON DVD SOHW-1653s IDE

and Optiarc/NEC 7173s SATA.Both of them connected as SCSI DEVICES......Maybe that's the point here SCSI.

Only 1.08 patch isn't working.

Before this patch everything was OK.

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Occasional 8007000e error CTD, other than that, very smooth with graphics and view distance set fairly high.

CPU: AMD Athalon 64 3800+

RAM: 2048MB

Graphics: GeForce 7900 GS 512MB

Drivers: 6.14.0010.9371

Sound: Realtek HD Audio

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

ArmA 1.08

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AMD Athlon 64 3000+

2Gb (4x512Mb) Kingston DDR

Asus 7600GT 512Mb

435w PSU

Windows XP Home SP2

UK 505 ArmA DVD

1.04 = FINE

1.05 = FINE

1.08 = MP crashes when entering map, 3rd person view. LAN freezes machine for reset, the odd CTD.

tried settings on low and -maxmem 512 to no avail goodnight.gif

how about BIS drop Queen's Gambit and get their paying customers and loyal fans a hot fix in the pipeline help.gif ...please!

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