Can't Play, Terrible Launch Issues

[kocrachon 2]

First off system specs.

Q9450 Quad Core

8 Gigs of Ram

Radeon 4870

Creative Xtreme Gamer

All with latest drivers.

Windows 64 bit vista home premium.

I am at patch 1.14

So anyways as for the issue now. Every time I launch ArmA it sits at a black screen for a good 4-5 minutes. After which it loads up to the main screen, and things get worst from htere. Only half of the screen shows, and the half that shows is messed up. A picture of that is shown at the bottom. As I wait and it starts going through the sequence in the background, all of the soldiers that are walking around and so forth, are all just grey, solid grey. And the sky is non existent, its just black. So every thing that is an object is grey, and the background is black. It also constantly skips like a scratched CD, so it plays the music and the movie moves, then pauses, and goes, and pauses.

I have done the memory max of 2048, didn't solve it, I did the RunFirst to make it run off of 1 core, still didn't work, so at this point I am wondering if anyone else has any ideas that might help.

Here are pics.

[BraTTy 0]

Similiar topic:

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=74742

[kocrachon 2]

Hah, that worked perfectly, thanks! But the only issue is, is there any way to limit the ram the game uses with out the need to do this method? It really sucks having to restart my computer to just play arma..