Demo.exe Crashing

[Thirdup 0]

(I've been long since hoping for a fix to this before I purchase the game)

History:

When the first ArmA demo released many months ago, I downloaded it and played it steadly.  It did run rather poorly graphics-wise on my AGP GeForce 5700 Ultra 124MB, but it at least ran.

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I added a new video card (AGP GeForce 7600GT 256MB) and got the now famious "ArmA has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience." then it requests to send MS a report.  No other hardware changes or application installations were made at this point. I tried a re-install of ArmA and gave up.

So, next I tossed my old hard drive and replaced it with a WD Raptor.  Fresh format and a fresh Windows XP SP2 load.  All updates and the current nVidia drivers.  Re-installed DirX 9c.

I still get the same crash at .exe (last two little checkboxes never fill and the the "ArmA has encountered a problem and needs to close. etc, etc, etc"  

Currently

I've uninstalled the old demo and re-installed the new ArmA US version 106 by Atari.  Same exact crash at .exe.  

All this has been going on since the very first demo released and I upgraded video cards. I had hoped a solution would appear in the months that pased.  I've updated nVidia drivers a few times as they became available over that period (and even tried a few wipes and back-dated driver reversions). Currently running the June '07 nVidia drivers.

I do alot of alpha and beta testing for various game companies.  I'm currently helping with a QA build for a recent release (which is *very* graphic-intensive). And this machine will run most anything I toss at it (some of which comes to us in pretty rough form).

I've seen a good many posts here over the months discussiong similar exe crash problems, but I've yet to find a solution.

I really hate to go out and purchase the box US version knowing the problem I have (and the other people I see having similar issues reported here).

My old OPFP squad is now playing ArmA a few nights a week and it kills me to be missing out on this (I was the biggest fan waiting for ArmA to come out).

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[Horus 83]

Trie with reinstall OpenAL driver.

[Thirdup 0]

Thanks, but no joy there. Same issue.

Again, it ran (poorly) with my old (crappy) video card. But it won't run with the newer video card.

I know there are a ton of people having similar issues with the release version (which is why I'm holding off on my purchase).

Little check boxes filling up and stopping. You can see that it is creating the config and profile files as it crashes. Something is borked, but it shouldn't be that hard to look into it (as many people as I read here that are having such issues).

[Horus 83]

Tried to ad -maxmem=512 or 256 in arma shortcut.

[TrunkzJr 0]

try updating sound drivers, i remember when i played the demo on my old computer it would crash and reboot the entire computer.

[Thirdup 0]

Thanks for the help, but no joy still.

It's not sound driver-related. I can swap back to my old video card and it will run (like crap, but runs). So it's video card/diver-related.

(and yes, I've wipe the drivers and reverted to every single build since this card was released.....reformated, replaced the hard-drive, fesh OS install, all latest drivers.....none of which helped)

Really a bit of a bummer. I purchased this video card to play ArmA (and unfortuanately at the time it cost me an arm and a leg being AGP).

I did go out and purchase the game today (hoping the 1.08 patch might resolve the issue). It still crashes at arma.exe.

I can return the game, at least.