1.12 beta patch troubleshooting thread

[M.Andersson(SWE) 4]

Still get these odd freezes...From time to time lasts for about

2-5 sec..

My specs:

AMD Phenom 9500

3Gb Ram

Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512Mb

VISTA32

Sound: M-Audio Delta 1010LT

Running the game on LOW...Normal....High....

No changes in the freezing..

PS: ALL DRIVERS UP TO DAT

EDIT: I posted this in general aswell...Mods may delete that

one

Edit: 2

The framerate drops from original 54-60 to 3,4 and then

jumps back up to 54-60

[Bunkers 0]

Ouch. My FPS took a terrible hit with 1.12. Very stuttering, 5-15 fps. 1.11 was good at 30+ for me.

Vista 32

2GB

8800GTX

[Dudester 0]

Ouch. My FPS took a terrible hit with 1.12. Very stuttering, 5-15 fps. 1.11 was good at 30+ for me.

Vista 32

2GB

8800GTX

This has to be a problem with vista 32bit. My game is unplayable because of the stuttering. I am used to getting between 65 to 70 fps. Now this goes up and down from 70 to 15 and back up again.

[Platoon_Patton 0]

Can't install the patch, it claims i'm on 1.05, which, i'm not.  

Same problem:ArmA updated to 1.08

I cant install beta 1.11 nor 1.12:it says I am on 1.05

When I use the 1.05 to 1.08 patch it says I am already on 1.08

Deutsche DVD version

[Dudester 0]

Anyone having problems with freezing or stutters in the game, read "The solution to Vista freezes" that i have placed in the troubleshooting thread. I had same problem but now my game is running really smooth.

[andersson 285]

Today this wasnt so big problem at all. Until one of my friends joined. So I think its up to his internet? But it wasnt so with 1.09. Not as much anyway.

Overall, we are very happy with this patch!

[Nikoo 0]

anyone experiencing graphic problems with night vision ?

I'm having such problem :

NV is blinking or turning off rapidly. It seems to occur when I zoom using right mouse click with any weapon (M4 Aimpoint SD, for example).

I've seen this on my Macbook Pro, 8600GT, Windows XP SP2 at least during the begining of the campaign, when you have to sneak around to destroy few BMPs/Shilkas and to find documents as secondary objectives.

I was playing 1440x900.

When I switch to 1280x800, it stops, and then it occurs again after a while, and it stops again if I switch back to 1440x900, and same cycle again.

[alef 0]

Got an CTD. Put a bug report on the temp BTS but it doesn't let me to upload the zipped file (less than 2000K) with dumps and specs.

This is an extract of arma.rpt:

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 006C4321

graphics: D3D9, Device: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512, Driver:nv4_disp.dll 6.14.11.7474

resolution: 1280x1024x32

...

Fault address: 006C4321 01:002C3321 J:\ArmA\beta\arma.exe

file: hoheievo201b8 (__CUR_MP)

world: sara

Prev. code bytes: 57 8B 7D 0C 33 DB 3B FB 75 06 8B 46 48 8B 78 04

Fault code bytes: 8B 07 8B CF FF 50 2C 84 C0 0F 84 3D 01 00 00 39

Registers:

EAX:021DA018 EBX:00000000

ECX:00000000 EDX:00000004

ESI:05AD8018 EDI:00000000

CS:EIP:001B:006C4321

SS:ESP:0023:0125E4B0 EBP:0125E4C8

DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000

Flags:00010246

Edit: <s>I've found where to send all the stuff here.</s>

Edit: I've read this too late: "DO NOT CONTACT OFFICIAL SUPPORT WITH ANY PROBLEMS USING THIS PATCH BUT USE ONLY STANDARD COMMUNITY CHANNELS TO GIVE US FEEDBACK". Ok, my fault, but please where is the "community channel" to upload the dumps!?

[hoot 0]

Again, with 1.12, there is aliasing or cracking visible between the LOD levels, but different to what happens with 1.11b, it seems here to be just visible on the sea mesh. Furthermore, when i move my player, the loading/streaming of the textures take much longer than with 1.09b or even 1.08, and then results in a black screen later. So first i've got untextured models loaded and then, when it started texturing, the screen went black. It did not crash, it just gave a black screen, and when i've killed the process, the Desktop switched down to 4 bit. A proper restart solved that oO.

The cracking/alisiaing effect is visible through black lines on the outer edges of the nearest and the next LOD level on the sea mesh. I've provided shots and a little movie in the 1.11b troubleshooting thread to show how it looks like.

I was testing that with 3-4 different nvidia drivers, nothing tweaked. I've put some other RAM into the system - same problem. With patch 1.08 ArmA works fine here. The betas are about to ruin the game on my rig.

Okay it's a granma specs-wise, however: Athlon64 +3500, with 1 GB DDR-400 (DualChannelMode) RAM, GeForce6800GT (256MB) and a SP2 patched XP32 Pro.

Men - i would like to benefit from the updated controls etc as well, but those graphics related issues seem to not let that happen

[themaster303 22]

Since patch to 1.12 i have problems playing Arma with Windows xp. Low performance (20 fps less than 1.11) and the game often freeze for a milli-second. there are vista 32 problems, but i have xp-prof !!!.

My system:

Asus p5wdh - deluxe

Intel Core 2 quad E6600

GF8800 GT (1000mb)

3GB corsair DDR2 (800mhz)

win xp

EDIT:

seems to be ok now, do a few more test. was on the new 174.74 beta drivers. and patch and driverchange was near the same time.

sitched back to 174.20. looks better now, but will check further.

greetz

[Beagle 684]

Old Bugs still found unresolved:

Version 1.12.5252

ArmA german DVD version & QG, no mods, fresh intallment.

Unit: BMP-2

Description of the problem:

Player as commander in the BMP-2 can't use the command menu or any other command method (F1-F12 and number keys) to command any unit in or outside the vehicle.

only commands possible are direction commands and klicking on target with mouse button.

Weapon: Mk12 SPR

Description of the problem:

Weapon shows no muzzle flash on model. Muzzle flash is visible in ironsight (v) mode only. Muzzleflash lighting at night works but without any visible muzzle flash.

[Horus 83]

Again, with 1.12, there is aliasing or cracking visible between the LOD levels, but different to what happens with 1.11b, it seems here to be just visible on the sea mesh. Furthermore, when i move my player, the loading/streaming of the textures take much longer than with 1.09b or even 1.08, and then results in a black screen later. So first i've got untextured models loaded and then, when it started texturing, the screen went black. It did not crash, it just gave a black screen, and when i've killed the process, the Desktop switched down to 4 bit. A proper restart solved that oO.

The cracking/alisiaing effect is visible through black lines on the outer edges of the nearest and the next LOD level on the sea mesh. I've provided shots and a little movie in the 1.11b troubleshooting thread to show how it looks like.

Same problem here and for the 1 time i have ''CreateIndexBuffer failed'' error

[Zanzibar 0]

Also getting these odd freezes from time to time lasts for about 2 seconds, game becomes unplayable now in 1.12. Patch 1.11 was much smoother, had great performance

Specs:

Intel Core2Duo

2Gb Ram

Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512Mb

VISTA32

Drivers up2date

Didnt occur since 1.05 anymore. Changing details to low/medium has no impact.

[Seitan 8]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Date: 04/07/08 Time: 23:18:25

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Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0058738A

graphics: D3D9, Device: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT , Driver:nvd3dum.dll 7.15.11.7474

resolution: 1280x1024x32

Mods: CA;beta;@TrueMods;@ECS

Distribution: 1292

Version 1.12.5252

Fault address: 0058738A 01:0018638A E:\ArmA\beta\arma.exe

file: co30_Domination_OneTeam_2_22 (__CUR_MP)

world: Sara

Prev. code bytes: 7C 20 3B 81 20 08 00 00 7F 18 8B 89 1C 08 00 00

Fault code bytes: 8B 04 81 4E 56 83 C2 04 52 8B C8 E8 8E CF EC FF

Registers:

EAX:00000000 EBX:0125EBD8

ECX:00000000 EDX:0125E67C

ESI:00000001 EDI:0A1ED600

CS:EIP:0023:0058738A

SS:ESP:002B:0125E654 EBP:0125E6D4

DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B

Flags:00010246

=======================================================

3rd CTD since 1.12beta was installed. It Might be the addons with 1.12b i know. But no problems with the same addons in 1.11beta. Just curious if someone else has had same addons and same problems... vista64, 4gb, E6600@3,2 and gfx you can see from the above.

[DocSnyder 0]

I first posted this Problem in the wrong section: ARMA General...

With patch 1.11, ARMA finally started w. Vista 64bit AND 4GB RAM. Was running really nice.

But there are still problems (1.11 & 1.2) when I try to use it with Vista 64bit AND 8GB RAM. Same black display issue I had w. 4GB and 64bit OS and 1.08/09 before.

Has anyone tested this combination? 8GB, Vista 64bit, patch 1.11 or 1.12?

My system:

Asus P5E, Q6600, 4x2GB Corsair PC6400 RAM, 2x ATI 3870, Vista Ultimate 64bit

[alef 0]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0058738A

...

Just curious if someone else has had same addons and same problems... vista64, 4gb, E6600@3,2 and gfx you can see from the above.

I've got the suggestion to run arma on a single core. Use runfirst or THG task assignment manager.

XPSP2 32-bit, 4GB, E6850@3GHz and 8800GTS512 here.

[Hyrax0740 0]

Fixed the sky bug was my vid card,got my rma on my MSI 8800 GTS 320 and jsut put the new one in and fixed the sky bug!

[AsRock+SD 0]

My system:

Home/Gaming PC: e8400~3.6Ghz/GA-X48-DQ6/G.SKILL 4GB/P182/(5x)Scythe S-FLEX fans/Corsair750TX/9800GX2/SB X-fi/WD6400AAKS 640GB/WD7500AAKS 750GB/SAMSUNG DVD±R SH-S203B/dualboot Vista64-XP

New install of Game and OS.

I am getting horrible HDR flickering and screen corruption (White out, fades to black and then back to normal). No matter what I try it comes back all the time. Using 174.74 drivers and all other drivers are up to date.

As a side note the game World in Conflict uses tons of HDR and I got no errors of any kind, the games runs perfectly and it is equally or more demanding than ArmA.

Video of the problem:

Any help? Thanks!

Update1: Ok, since I have dual boot I tried the game in XP and guess what? No flickering/HDR problem! So, this seems to be only in Vista, of which I have Vista 64. I'd still much rather run the game in Vista as it my main OS, but this is at least information.

I get that flickering with 1.11 and 1.12

[Nikoo 0]

have you noticed such a flickering with Night vision on ?

Or when you use NV and zoom with an M4Aimpoint ?

[Misfit Leader 2]

Sometimes the game stop on "receiving data" and will never enter the game. Can get back to server browser by pressing escape.

Also i got video memory problem with this 1.12 version, sometimes texture aren't appearing, i must do a "FLUSH" to get them.

(nVidia 174.74 beta + GeForce 8800GTX)

[Misfit Leader 2]

I just see an amazing thing too, i got "sniped" by AI in Kamov multiple time.

I am not thinking of air/ground combat, but air/air combat.

So the AI killed my BH, Cobra, A10 & even the Harrier II at 800 speed ^^ without suffering any difficulty to "lock" me.

I think there is a problem with AI combat when they use chopper (at least the kamov) & maybe this problem still the same if they use mi17, cobra, blackhawk & SU-34.

I haven't tested with other vehicles.

[pvt.pile 0]

Ive lost the option in the GFX settings to turn on Antialiasing when i click on the option it only comes up with disable, can anyone help?

[xeno 234]

We had four 1.12 server crashes (access violation) in 24 hours. *sigh*

Now we are back to 1.09 (again )

I gave 1.12 another chance today.

It didn't take long until the server crashed again.

This happened when someone with RHS Addons connected. An error message appeared when he was in the game (something like missing RHS AK74 magazine...). So it may be related to the RHS weapons addon.

I saw this error message allready on previous ArmA versions but the server didn't crash, just the error message appeared.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

Distribution: 1287

Version 1.12.5252

Fault address: 0055E1F3 01:0015D1F3 ...\ArmA\beta_1_12\arma_server.exe

file: co30_Domination_OneTeam_2_22 (__cur_mp)

world: Sara

Prev. code bytes: 89 45 F4 EB 03 8B 45 F4 8B 0C 18 8B 03 8B 51 34

Fault code bytes: 3B 50 24 75 7B 8B 51 38 3B 50 28 75 73 8B 50 20

Registers:

EAX:3F7E75FF EBX:1AD45D98

ECX:19F795F4 EDX:00000002

ESI:1AC9A950 EDI:18825768

CS:EIP:0023:0055E1F3

SS:ESP:002B:0197DC6C EBP:0197DC84

DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B

Flags:00010287

Xeno

[sickboy 13]

I would turn on Signature Validation on the server, and run without addons or only approved addons for a wee bit.

We're running with 15-25 players and can play for hours and hours, and the server runs days.

We're using about 5.4GB of Mods. But our Servers and Clients are 100% synched with eachother, by using an Integration Mod and VerifySignatures.

It's very possible that you guys have issues because of incompatible addons with the new version, or simply because of a new situation where some guys have certain addons that other's dont have, and thus crash eachother or the server.

[xeno 234]

I would turn on Signature Validation on the server, and run without addons or only approved addons for a wee bit.

Not an option currently.

We're running with 15-25 players and can play for hours and hours, and the server runs days.

We had often 30-40 players for hours and hours and no issues, even if someone with an replacement addon connected.

It's very possible that you guys have issues because of incompatible addons with the new version, or simply because of a new situation where some guys have certain addons that other's dont have, and thus crash eachother or the server.

Like I said before... we have no problems with 1.09 for example. The server doesn't crash if someone with an incompatible addon connects. The question is, why does it now ?

Xeno