trying to prevent ArmAs crashes for 6 weeks now

[menos 0]

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 16.08.2007

Time: 00:26:08

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.2180, fault address 0x00041b3e.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d ure arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 64 33 64 39 in d3d9

0030: 2e 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 33 .dll 5.3

0038: 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31 .2600.21

0040: 38 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 80 at of

0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 fset 000

0050: 34 31 62 33 65 0d 0a 41b3e..

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 15.08.2007

Time: 20:54:24

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.2180, fault address 0x00041b3e.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 64 33 64 39    in d3d9

0030: 2e 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 33   .dll 5.3

0038: 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31   .2600.21

0040: 38 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66   80 at of

0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 30   fset 000

0050: 34 31 62 33 65 0d 0a      41b3e..

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 14.08.2007

Time: 21:15:59

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.2180, fault address 0x00041b3e.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 64 33 64 39    in d3d9

0030: 2e 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 33   .dll 5.3

0038: 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31   .2600.21

0040: 38 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66   80 at of

0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 30   fset 000

0050: 34 31 62 33 65 0d 0a      41b3e..

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 14.08.2007

Time: 04:37:38

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x0027a6a0.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 32 37 61 36   t 0027a6

0050: 61 30 0d 0a               a0..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 14.08.2007

Time: 03:54:25

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x004043bc.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 34 30 34 33   t 004043

0050: 62 63 0d 0a               bc..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 14.08.2007

Time: 03:26:42

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module , version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 20 30 2e 30    in  0.0

0030: 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20   .0.0 at

0038: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30   offset 0

0040: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 0d   0000000.

0048: 0a                        .      

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 12.08.2007

Time: 14:37:39

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x0041b3d2.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 34 31 62 33   t 0041b3

0050: 64 32 0d 0a               d2..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 06.08.2007

Time: 20:26:27

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x00452acc.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 34 35 32 61   t 00452a

0050: 63 63 0d 0a               cc..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 06.08.2007

Time: 02:53:36

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x001e8560.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 31 65 38 35   t 001e85

0050: 36 30 0d 0a               60..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 06.08.2007

Time: 02:38:06

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x0003b3c1.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 30 33 62 33   t 0003b3

0050: 63 31 0d 0a               c1..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 06.08.2007

Time: 01:56:42

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x0003b3c1.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 30 33 62 33   t 0003b3

0050: 63 31 0d 0a               c1..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 06.08.2007

Time: 01:13:54

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x0003b3c1.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 30 33 62 33   t 0003b3

0050: 63 31 0d 0a               c1..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 05.08.2007

Time: 16:47:01

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x003fd67b.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 33 66 64 36   t 003fd6

0050: 37 62 0d 0a               7b..    

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 05.08.2007

Time: 16:18:52

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x0003b115.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 30 33 62 31   t 0003b1

0050: 31 35 0d 0a               15..    

I am struggling for about 6 weeks now to find a gaming experience with ArmA - a gaming experience which should at least endure for a bigger amount of time than 10 minutes.

An experience that probably had the potential of actually enjoying an application instead of enduring serious trouble.

As I am kind of tired of the whole troubleshooting - thing just to get a computer game running at the quality advertized at the time of purchase, I list A FEW of the latest funny events with ArmA.

Possibly some other masochistic user has had experienced similarities with his/her accidentally purchased software and is able to advice a possible solution.

The system specs:

Asrock CoreDual VSTA, latest bios 2.00

Pentium D805

MDT DDRII 667 2x1GB

Gainward GF 7800GS GLH 512MB (G71, 20/7)

Windows XP Pro SP2, patched, hotfixed to 07/2007

Every hint towards a solution is welcome,

menos

PS:

The latest quite funny fashion, the software mentioned above is performing, is an apruptly freeze of the application leading to a total crash of the computer. I dont get the nice little shiny ArmA "we are sorry for the inconvenience" buttons any more. Looks finally I have managed to get promoted and have reached the next level in computer crashing science.

The funniest, and almost unknown to me, crash button was like "If you have something going on here, you might loose your data" - I had a good laugh, seeing this kind of new variety (I did laugh - really !.

[Nonpoint 0]

Arma crashed on me all the time until I disabled my page file. You have 2 gigs of RAM so give it a try, just make sure you dont have a dozen other programs running as well (anti-virus or whatever)

[SnR 1]

I went through the same scenario it took a couple of reformats and made sure i had all from windows update including Framework 3.0 With DirectX and OpenGL Drivers

The game and my Card has never ran better no CTD etc

Im guessing its the Framework 3.0

XP,2gb Ram, x1950pro 512mb

[Twisted1 0]

Hi I can confirm a very small page file (20Mb mine) or disable if you like (XP didn't like it on my machine). Use the maxmem=512 or 1024 (Mine) switch in the short cut.  Search for how to use, it get expanded all over the place the other switches work to.  I have a 8800GTX, I use rivatuner2 to monitor the frame rate and vram used if I go over 550Mb mine will crash to.  I can currently play for about 2 hours then it will crash.  Best advise I got play in Window mode (-window) in short cut stopped over half my crashes from freezing my PC forcing a hard reset.  Now it just CTD and I restart.  Best of luck.  When it works its fantastic when it doesn’t well been there for over 4 months just got it working in the last 4 weeks.

[Twisted1 0]

Me Again. Help also.

opengl: is it used in this game?

.net framework is it used or required for this games?

I'm currently not using either as I have reformatted multiple times and have a crap down load limit. Please confirm.

[Yoma 0]

Hi I can confirm a very small page file (20Mb mine) or disable if you like (XP didn't like it on my machine). Use the maxmem=512 or 1024 (Mine) switch in the short cut.  Search for how to use, it get expanded all over the place the other switches work to.  I have a 8800GTX, I use rivatuner2 to monitor the frame rate and vram used if I go over 550Mb mine will crash to.  I can currently play for about 2 hours then it will crash.  Best advise I got play in Window mode (-window) in short cut stopped over half my crashes from freezing my PC forcing a hard reset.  Now it just CTD and I restart.  Best of luck.  When it works its fantastic when it doesn’t well been there for over 4 months just got it working in the last 4 weeks.

I also have a 8800 GTX and had several crashes.

I removed the maxmem command and now all is fine. All I still need to do is flush buffer (left "shift" + numeric "-" + type "flush") about once in an hour.

Now it doesn't crash anymore.

=> I think a lot of people with GTX'es have problems BECAUSE OF THE MAXMEM command.

[menos 0]

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 16.08.2007

Time: 22:01:01

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.2180, fault address 0x00041b3e.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d ure arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 64 33 64 39 in d3d9

0030: 2e 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 33 .dll 5.3

0038: 2e 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31 .2600.21

0040: 38 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 80 at of

0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 fset 000

0050: 34 31 62 33 65 0d 0a 41b3e..

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Please check if you have the LATEST DirectX 9.0C AUGUST Update.

MfG Lee

[menos 0]

Some of the things, I did in 6 weeks:

experimented with pagefile sizes and did disable it too - no change in stability nor performance here.

As WinXP is patched and fixed to the newest possible updates (I use Autoupdater, as it gives the most flexibility during install), I have tested the latest 3 versions of DX9c with ArmA.

Now i have the August version and will leave it on the machine.

Btw, Framework is updated along with all other MS updates aswell.

Mobo and other hardwaredrivers are up to dae aswell. This PC has been build about 3 month ago and proofed absolutely rockstable without any clue of a problem with several demanding applications and torture programs. (Thats the reason, why this ArmA problem really buggers me)

I suppose OGL is not used with the ArmA engine.

I am quite aware of the troubleshooting thread and the guides and hints, the developers give on this forum. i have tested a lot of them and as there is such a great variety of things, that can potentially mess up ArmA, I see no way of getting rid of the CTDs without a Dev looking over some specific failure  footprints (Thats why I ll  keep this thread going as long, as the problem remains and a solution is found for users with such problems.)

Any more ideas?

Just a hint (I will definitely not go into detail, as this maxmem topic spreads the whole board - with a lot of speculation and trial and error methods too):

I doo have 2 GB DDRII and ArmA makes use of aprox. 900MB, without using maxmem (look at the peakmemory usage in the taskmanager, while ArmA runs).

Using maxmem to indicate the application that Allocation of an higher ammount of RAM is possible (maxmem > 1000), ArmA will use more of it. With maxmem=1280, the application uses about 1100 peak memory.

As i stated before - there is no indication of any change in stability or performance of ArmA when using maxmem or several pagefile layouts.

Dont shoot at the maxmem switch as an universal key for a better running ArmA - actually its a way to prevent an software to allocate bigger amounts of data to system memory than there is contiguous system memory available leading to an unable to allocote address xxxxxx stop of the software resulting in crashing. Somehow it seems to work as an helper of allocating more memory with it than without the switch on machines that are capable.

There are several fine articles about WinXP memory management on the net (dealing with pagefile, RAM, software memory allocation, 32bit and 64 bit OSes, ...)

Google Contiguous memory, memory management under WinXP, 4GB RAM limitation, 3GB boot.ini switch, ...

http://www.dfanning.com/fileio_tips/lgfiles.html

http://www.ittvis.com/services/techtip.asp?ttid=3346

Good night,

menos

[rowdied 44]

1.If you are overclocking the CPU, or Videocard reset back to default clocking. I had this problem with ARMA crashing all the time.

2. Check your power supply, I had a bad power supply that only crashed while playing arma<---not r6vegas or graw or graw2.

3. Check your memory sticks, I know can't be memory but this happened to me also. One stick did not like arma but loved the previous mentioned games.

4. Keep trying stuff, eventually the 2 computers I play this on do not crash anymore and are rock hard sable, I can leave them on all nite and one acts as a server nowfor the other 2.

[Kubicide 0]

Menos - can you try out NVTray and monitor your memory when the app CTD's? Curious to see what happens on your machine.

See my thread on "BIS - Please Fix ..." as I'm struggling with CTD's with an 8800. And I notice that the app crashes BEFORE maxing out - somewhere around 700 megabytes. I had a 7950 512 meg card installed but it too crashed around 680-700 meg.

Hope BIS - or Nvidia - finds a solution. Everything worked great prior to 1.08.

[menos 0]

update:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 18.08.2007

Time: 17:10:37

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, fault address 0x004043bc.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d   ure  arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e   a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33   8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61    in arma

0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 38   .exe 1.8

0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 20   .0.5163

0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse

0048: 74 20 30 30 34 30 34 33   t 004043

0050: 62 63 0d 0a               bc..    

@ rowdied: Thanks for the input. Is your ArmA running now ?

those ideas of yours replicates the bad feeling I had in my stomach when I found this forum shortly after the purchase of the software and the first troubles. The feeling implicated that there is no solution in particular for specific errors at all but stick poking and guesstimating all over the place - and eventually finding a smoothly running application by luck.

Not the way I am used to solve problems unfortunately.

I overclock the CPU from 2.66GHz per core to 3.12GHz, wich approved to be stable without any problems here (running this computer 24/7. No problems can be detected while running benchmarks and tools like Memtest or Prime.

The Graphicscard as the RAM is all on stock, so do the busspeeds. All temperatures and V readouts show no critical values (CPU while hard at work for several hours 52°C).

I would like to have factbased information about what effects overclocking a CPU has in particular. The more scientific and detailed the better. I get a better understanding of things, when they are not presented in an picturized and downscaled way. Any links to such topics?

@ Kubicide: Well monitoring the used physical and virtual memory size and pagefileusage were things I didi in the very beginning of the problems, resulting in not finding any hints of a problem. I will follow this path after the testing I do at the moment.

I started to test different video drivers from the 9x.xx to the newest 162.50 Quadro drivers. I have found out that the following method is the most stable I could achieve:

1) 162.18 FW WHQL (clean driver install as known)

2) Reboot as wanted after installation finish

3) Cancellation of the monitor wizard after reboot (still in low res mode)

4) resetting the resolution of both monitors and activation of the extended desktop via right click on desktop\ properties\settings menu

5) not touching the Nvidia menus under no circumstances

6) running ArmA

I will further test how long ArmA will be stable under this given circumstances. Further work is the data logging regarding memory.

It would be a great help, to have detailed information about the event logs I provided in the post. Clear information on causes would make Troubleshooting a lot easier. Are there any devs or insiders available to translate those faults?

end of post.

Forgive me for my slightly offensive/ sarcastic voice in the first place. I have calmed down and am back at normal efficiency to "work" on the issues I have with the combination of ArmA and this particular computer.

to be continued,

menos

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Event Type: Error

Event Source: Application Error

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 18.08.2007

Time: 22:02:22

User: N/A

Computer: WORKSTATION

Description:

Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.8.0.5163, faulting module , version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat

0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail

0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d ure arm

0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e a.exe 1.

0020: 38 2e 30 2e 35 31 36 33 8.0.5163

0028: 20 69 6e 20 20 30 2e 30 in 0.0

0030: 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 .0.0 at

0038: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0

0040: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 0d 0000000.

0048: 0a .

application suddenly freezed and it was impossible to change the freezed picture on the applications screen. The 2nd screen showed reaction, as i could normally move the mouse, click the desktop, . . .

A few seconds later, with some tries in getting the PC to a reboot or any other reaction than the frozen main screen the pc went down with an BSOD.