ARMA woes

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

Ok, I just upgraded my bro's computer to a 128MB 6800GS ( I know the GS's arn't as good, but it should still run ARMA, especially the fact that the minimum spec is a 128MB 6600)

I really need help. Heres what I did.

He needed a new HDD, so I put that in, installed XP, then installed the new G-Card and downloaded the latest drivers, installing them.

After installing ARMA, I used the same EXE's to patch it as I did to patch mine (proves they wern't corrupt?, or could me using them to patch have some how currupted them?)

After playing the game for only a few minutes, it crashed the computer completly, making it completly unusable. The only option was to restart using the button on the front.

So I duly re-installed and re-patched (same patches as before)

Ok, so now this didn't work, so I turned in for the night and thought about it.

Next job I, once agian, re-installed ARMA, thinking it could have been done wrong twice. It appeared I was wrong, same problem.

Next I re-installed the nVidea drivers, which changed the way it crashed , now it crashes with "ARMA has encountered a problem and has to close; send error report, do not send error report" the usual thing

So, I re-formatted and tried agian. I downloaded new drivers, reinstalled everything (partly becuase I had to becuase I re-formatted )

Guess what, it didn't work.

I really could do with help on this, throw anything at me you can think of, the next thing i'm going to try is to go 1.04-1.07-hotfix-1.08. I'm going to do that because that is how I patched ARMA and it works for me.If that fails, I will have to download new patches, which on a 0.5MB line will take a little while

Any help would be fantastic and greatly appreciated

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

I am downloading some older drivers for the g-card. It isn't the latest card in the series and the current drivers will most likely be optimized for the latest card in the series. So I thought if I where to download older drivers that might work

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

stil doesn't works, can I get some help please?

[dustoff 0]

"" Ok, I just upgraded my bro's computer to a 128MB 6800GS ( I know the GS's arn't as good, but it should still run ARMA, especially the fact that the minimum spec is a 128MB 6600)

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Here lies the root of the problem. 128 mb video is not going to run it. I know I had the same problems with the same card . get at least 256 mb.

[W0lle 1050]

Maybe consider updating/installing other drivers as well (mainboard chipset, audio, network etc.). A lot of people seem to forget that there are more drivers to update then for their nVidia/ATi cards.

[Hardwood 0]

no a 128MB XFX 6800XT AGP8x Mem 1GHz GPU 350 8Pipes, Dual DVI should run it okey!

I cannot see a problem with it if you installed the correct drivers etc... have you tried runnin any other games with it!

[mrbean1112 0]

It should work with 128mb... i recently had a geforce 6600gt xfx, and i could run it at normal everything except texture at low....

ran fine.

my only suggestion would be using different drivers.. like the 158.22

or make sure you have updated drivers for EVERYTHING.. sound card... etc.

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

ok, I will re-update all the drivers on the oc when I get home. Thanks for the posts, as for the 128MB 6800 card, the minumum requirment for the game is a 128 6600. So I don't see a problem there.

I can run oblivion and bf2 at good settings without a problem. I have tried installing using my disk and my brother's cd key (unlike the person with the "same CD key error" we are two brothers who buy two games for two PC's.)

So I used the exe on my disk to install it and it still crashes, which points to hardware or system set up, but then I can run other games with demanding requirements, and it's fine.

I will get home and post the error code that x-fire threw at me when it crashed (I know x-fire can cause ARMA crashes, but I have tried with and without and it still crashes, also, I have always played ARMA with x-fire on and I have had no problems), maybe that will point to a problem?

*edit* oh and I have tried using older drivers, that didn't work either

[Poseidon88 0]

What sort of power supply is installed in the computer? A cheap or underpowered PSU can cause the machine to crash, especially when you start adding more power-hungry components. Is the card AGP or PCI-E? If it's AGP, make sure you install updated chipset drivers for the motherboard.

Also, keep in mind that minimum requirements are just that: the bare minimum required to get the game running. You will most likely need to crank all the detail levels down to near minimum to get playable performance, though I don't think that would cause a system crash like you described.

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

it is a 230V input, 300W output PSU, which seems a little low to me. Although, wouldn't the pc crash completly if it was a power problem?

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

Also, I have already cranked everything down as far as it will go, anyway, I am above the minumum requirements.

[-Puma- 2]

change AGP appeartur size to 4x in bios, if u have AGP card.

[-1stHssr-Batesy 0]

WOOT! problem solved.

The problem was the chipset drivers, I re-downlaoded them and tried agian, just on the off-chance it would work, and lo-and-behold it did.

Thanks for all the support and advice that was given on this one fellas.

cheers,

chris