8800GTS CTD'ing...

[paelleon 0]

I share your frustrations.  I too have no other issues in other games - only ARMA.  Obviously some people have greater problems than others.

Sometimes in the BSOD (blue STOP message) will be text which tells you the device which caused the BSOD.  Is it the graphics every time?  ANd have you tried NO SHADOWS within the graphics options (that seemed to make mine a little more stable)?

And do you have a vanilla 1.08 ARMA or do you have mods?

Yes, the critical error is caused by the file nv4.exe (if I remember correctly). I suppose it's an executable from the Nvidia drivers. I tried all graphic settings, but it's no use.

My version of ArmA is an addon and mod free 1.08.

[mattxr 9]

driver updates and maxmen, have gotten rid of all CTDs for me on my 8800.

Same, still needs to be fixed though as we shouldnt need maxmem  

i have a 765 8800 GTX or something though

[andersson 285]

I have a 8800GTS and use 162.18. I have -maxmem=768 in the shortcut and that made everything stable. No issues or CTDs.

[paelleon 0]

I have a 8800GTS and use 162.18. I have -maxmem=768 in the shortcut and that made everything stable. No issues or CTDs.

Sure, and how does World In Conflict run with those old drivers? Or Bioshock or Call of Duty 4 or Supreme Commander?

I'll not degrade the performances of my PC for just ONE GAME!

[horrgakx 1]

I have a 8800GTS and use 162.18. I have -maxmem=768 in the shortcut and that made everything stable. No issues or CTDs.

What is the exact syntax please? It tells me the shortcut is invalid.

[boomboomer 0]

What is the exact syntax please?  It tells me the shortcut is invalid.

The search button is your friend, but mine reads:

"C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA\arma.exe" -nosplash -maxmem=768

[kklownboy 43]

you got to have the spaces.

[binkster 0]

I thought i read somewhere that the dx10 cards playing dx9 games results in CTD untill microsoft can update dx9 with crap about dx10 cards.

I could be wrong...

Anyone with a 7s card expierce the same problems as US???

If not then maybe we should bombard microsoft with an update?

[enven 0]

Can someone explain the significance of MAXMEM?

I have the new beta drivers for Nvidia, and my CTD's are a tad minimal than before...I don't know the issue involved...but I'd like to know if Maxmem @ 768 works better with it? Why not 1.5gb?

[Panther 0]

hi all. I've got a MSI 8800GTS OC. Whatever tweaking on Arma graphic option, i've had Arma crash with NVIDIA Forceware 163.71 (I'm very upset as i bought my new PC FOR Arma!!!.

I've tried all kind of -MaxMem=xxx, => noway.

So i begin to roll back Nvidia driver to previous version.

- Starting with: 97.44 (the oldest). Seems to be stable for at least 2 hours but crapy textures problems particularly with NVG (blinking green overlay). Could be a last chance solution?

- then i've tested 158.27: Not stable (crash in 10 to 20 minutes) AND crapy textures problems

- then i've tested 169.09 (the newest): Not stable (crash in 10 to 20 minutes) BUT NO textures problems

- then i've tested 160.3: Not stable (crash in 10 to 20 minutes) AND crapy textures problems. Interesting: when I change HDR, the textures became good again but degrade in time.

- Last I am testing 163.75:

If I put HDR, Anisotropic and AntiAliasing to Normal or HIGH, Arma Not stable (crash in 10 to 20 minutes), but no textures problems

BUT if I put HDR, Anisotropic and AntiAliasing to LOW: I've just experienced 2 times more than 2 hours in solo campaign: No Crash (up to now).

I launch from a fresh reboot each time and with -MaxMem=309

(i read Arma.cfg and read localVRAM=324378624 (nearly 309 MB), so decide to test that!

Conclusion: Its very puzzling indeed! It seems to be more or less stable now . But I don't understand Why? maxmem settings??? driver version ?? Arma graphic settings ? unique combination of them ?!?!?

I've read elsewhere that the PAGEFILE should be set to 0, or that maxmem has no use since 1.08 arma patch. I won't test it except crash come back.

Hope that could help someone

[boomboomer 0]

Can someone explain the significance of MAXMEM?

I have the new beta drivers for Nvidia, and my CTD's are a tad minimal than before...I don't know the issue involved...but I'd like to know if Maxmem @ 768 works better with it? Why not 1.5gb?

Why not try it, if you have 2Gb of Ram and aren't running anything else (it's best not to anyway) then 768 might work or 512.

I've tried lots of combinations and anything over 768 results in a near instant CTD, 512 or less meant lots of disk swapfile use and resulted in jerky graphics. Without maxmem then a CTD was a 50/50 chance after 1/2 hour.

I must admit though that this was a few driver updates back - as it's all still working I haven't touched it since.

[enven 0]

Thats a real shame, I wish there was a dump log of all the errors that happen, I want to know if its a buffer issue, or some sort of memory leak, it just doesn't compute in my mind these infernal issues persisting, I have played Crysis and other games on full load and never had a CTD...This game is great, and I feel that my groin has been literally dessimated by Nvidia and bis' proverbial bppt.

[paelleon 0]

I'm sure BIS is hard working on a patch to solve our problem. After all it is their prestige at stake and more and more people are buying 8800s crads (the new 8800GT seems to be awesome and relatively cheap!.

Yesterday the patch 1.004 for World In Conflict was released, when I first bought the game it didn't work very well (CTDs due to graphic card overheating! ), now I can push to high detail without any problem.

BIS are very good game producers, I hope they will not fail us.

[M.Andersson(SWE) 4]

The problem isnt in the game...!!!

Its in the cards...

Im using a 8500GT 512Mb, and im running the

game without any ctds, on normal settings,

HIGH veiwdistances, in MP...Playing for hours

and hours and hours. Can even leave the game

for half a day if i like...

Arent you guys reading..??

[otester 0]

I have a 8800GT and after a while it freezes along with either the screen going fuzzy or little line at top goes fuzzy, I have to restart computer, also had an error box come up telling me to reboot and that nv4_disp.dll (something like that) has failed.

[paelleon 0]

The problem isnt in the game...!!!

Its in the cards...

Im using a 8500GT 512Mb, and im running the

game without any ctds, on normal settings,

HIGH veiwdistances, in MP...Playing for hours

and hours and hours. Can even leave the game

for half a day if i like...

Arent you guys reading..??

So, could you tell me why ALL other games runs perfectly?

From Bioshock to World In Conflict, from STALKER to Supreme Commander, etc... they runs without problems. And I do not change the video card before playing to them.

I read most of this forum trying to seek a solution compatible with ALL softwares and games installed on my PC. There isn't any.

Perhaps you could suggest something useful.

Oh, by the way, the "-maxmem=..." command is useless.

[NeMeSiS 11]

The problem isnt in the game...!!!

Its in the cards...

Im using a 8500GT 512Mb, and im running the

game without any ctds, on normal settings,

HIGH veiwdistances, in MP...Playing for hours

and hours and hours. Can even leave the game

for half a day if i like...

Arent you guys reading..??

So, could you tell me why ALL other games runs perfectly?  

From Bioshock to World In Conflict, from STALKER to Supreme Commander, etc... they runs without problems. And I do not change the video card before playing to them.

Its ArmA, it works... special when it comes to the 8x00 series..

[The Susser 0]

As I said on page one, use 163.44 combined with maxmem and you will not crash. Works well with all games. (Bioshock and Crysis included).

[RogueSnake 0]

It does make it hard to figure out what the problem is when all other games play well. Thats how it was/is for me. I had my problems way back when ARMA first came out. And after alot of testing, found a driver that worked. I played for months on that driver (high settings) with no problems. May have had 1 or 2 CTD's, but I think that was from me pushing the graphics as hard as I could. Trying to find the limits.

Well a few months ago I got a worm (not me, my PC), could'nt get rid of the son of a bitch. Ended up having to re-install windows. I had'nt played ARMA in a while, and forgot what the # the driver was that worked lol. After all that testing too. I remembered backing it up, but not were.

Well, I found it the other day. And it works perfect, no crashes.

Untill then I was using the 160.09 driver I refered in another post. It worked ok on low settings for me. This one works great on High settings.

Again, no promises. But guys should atleast try it out. And I really do hope it works for at least one of ya. I FEEL YOUR PAIN.

Nvidiots 162.18

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1667

This is not the exact one I have, I dl'ed mine from nvidiots way back when. These guys might have modified theirs, not shure.

Oh, my specs.

AMD X2 4800 (939)

BFG 8800 GTS 640mb OC

4 gig Corsair XMS

PC power and Cooling 750 watt.

[paelleon 0]

ArmA works! Sure! Sure!

Anyway, yesterday night I found Guru3d came out with a 169.13beta driver. I installed it and played ArmA.... 1h of playing without CTD!!

Maybe the nightmare ended..

[otester 0]

ArmA works! Sure! Sure!

Anyway, yesterday night I found Guru3d came out with a 169.13beta driver. I installed it and played ArmA.... 1h of playing without CTD!!

Maybe the nightmare ended..

Since installing this I cannot play MP, click to join server, error comes up the usual Send Report/Don't then back to desktop.

[Rafo 0]

I have a 7800GS 256MB OC'd w/2.5GB RAM and run ArmA on NORMAL settings with VD @ 4001m, AA OFF, AF x4, Blood on HIGH.. It runs very smooth... I can probably play like 7-8 hours strait without a single CTD. Though sometimes when it overheats I get weird graphical bugs like some weird coloured planes and sprites shooting out from everywhere and then I get a CTD, but happens rarely (like once a month). But thing is I can play World in Conflict at VERY high settings and I can get 30-40 FPS and never CTD... I got the 163.75 drivers and it runs even better than before, that I used to play with 84.44 something drivers but is enjoyable after all.

[M.Andersson(SWE) 4]

There you go...One more without serious problems...

The artefacts is a known problem when the card is

overheating...

[andy667 0]

I don't know what is happening in your environment, but in my case (8800GT) so called artefacts are the last thing i see in ARMA than usually CTD happens.

Since thoese artefacts are usually symptoms of overheating i changed standard heating system for a cooling one on the 8800gt board (loosing warenty), (check pic's here http://andy667.blogspot.com ) , and now temp is approx 40 in idle (before it was 70), cut a long story short

I believe in my case temp is not an isue, but artefacts still there.

Just after CTD temp is 50-58, so it is SO FAR AWAY from what was with standard cooling/heating system.

I bought 8800gt to play in arma, now i can play in each game EXCEPT ARMA, !!!!!

I think nvidia sent all engineers to the plant to produce chips (according to so huge 8800gt market demand), instead of leaving one or two for creating/fixing drivers.

We will have to wait untill engineers cameback from plant

ORRRRRRRRRR

Arma development team will find solution earlier.

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

I'm currently using Asus/Nvidia 169.06 drivers... but, with all drivers...I must force Vsync off within nvidia cp.

I'm currently in a 6 straight day Evo red+blue, alt/tab while at work or sleeping.

A ctd is rare, but do happen.

With Vsync set to any other option, ctd's will come hourly.

Yes, I've had to disabled half of my 4gig memory with these drivers to avoid the black load screen.