system memory surface error

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Hello...

Here's the situation...

I'm trying to run ArmA GOLD on my PC (don't laugh):

P4 3.06Ghz

XP SP3

1G RAM

Radeon x850

I've taken every setting to the lowest, range=500, res=640-480, etc, etc, etc... I can run Bethesda's Oblivion at 20FPS with graphics to medium-high... I'm trying to figure out why I can't run any load on ArmA. I have tried it with every patch (1.14, 1.15, 1.16) and outta the box... Every time I try to run it it crashes to desktop when it seems like it might have to carry a load. These are the errors:

"Cannot create system memory surface 1555, 304x184 (size 148608B) error code 8876086c"

and

"CreateIndexBuffer failed (8876017c)"

I've also added the -maxmem=512/256 to my shortcut exe and nothing... Removed the pagefile... nothing... cleaned and installed video drivers and defraged and cleaned registration... nothing... Any ideas??? I'll be kinda ticked off if I just paid for a glorious paper weight... My European version worked perfect... but got rid of it when I moved back to Canaduh... Thanks in advance.

Also does anyone have the email for customer support so I can fire this off to them...? Cheers!

Edited May 5, 2009 by sabelzahntiger

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anyone have a link where this is resolved and or an email address for ArmA support???

[desertjedi 3]

This thread might be of use.

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Cheers for that mate...

Hopefully I can get some help from the maker of that mod... Or get his fix to work... Not holding my breath... But thanks again!

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dammit... still no joy with his fix... it was only for his mod... and I can't run anything long enough in vanilla let alone a mod... Anyone else have any ideas? Pretty please with cherry ontop!?

[suma 8]

I'm trying to run ArmA GOLD on my PC (don't laugh):

P4 3.06Ghz

XP SP3

1G RAM

Radeon x850

"Cannot create system memory surface 155, 304x184 (size 148608B) error code 8876086c"

and

"CreateIndexBuffer failed (8876017c)"

The error code 8876086c in the first message (I guess it should be 1555 not 155?) means D3DERR_INVALIDCALL, meaning your card does is not able to create the texture which was requested. 304x184 is most likely some 2D bitmap used for UI. Perhaps your card has limited support for textures with not power of 2 dimensions?

2nd error code 8876017c means D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY - how much VRAM does your card have?

[Horus 83]

Check Arma.cfg file and see did ArmA correctly recognize size of your VRAM and system RAM.If you have graphic card with 256MB VRAM put this settings:

localVRAM=268435456;

nonlocalVRAM=268435456;

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Cool I'll give it a shot... Thanks for your help boys... Much appreciated!

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dammit! no joy... I'm not getting an error now, but just a CTD when ever a graphics load might start up...

So confused, Oblivion runs smooth-ish and it's pushing better graphics esp. with the mods I have running??? Confused!:confused:

oh... my cards got 256vram

[hamis 0]

Check Arma.cfg file and see did ArmA correctly recognize size of your VRAM and system RAM.If you have graphic card with 256MB VRAM put this settings:

localVRAM=268435456;

nonlocalVRAM=268435456;

Well,i have 4870 x2 2gb and cfg shows this:

localVRAM=528596864;

nonlocalVRAM=256638944; :confused:

What is correct value?

[Horus 83]

That only Suma know why Arma don't "see" correctly how VRAM graphic card have.

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very confusing... And who's "Suma"??? East Indian God of sorts???

On a separate note... I sent off my DXDIAG to someone at the tech centre... Just waiting for a reply... Maybe a patch...

[Horus 83]

very confusing... And who's "Suma"??? East Indian God of sorts???

LOL :pc: Suma

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Anyone got any other ideas? I'm gonna try a program to force my processor to use the first half... Not holding my breath though...

[kklownboy 43]

Go into your MotherBoard Bios and set your Aperture to 64, or higher. What vid driver are you using? Get a bigger AGP vidcard.

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ive got an old Radeon x850... which is the min specs I think... I get 20-25 FPS when it runns for the five minutes it does... But as soon as I might stutter a tiny bit it just packs it in... every other game works and works fine... I was getting 45 FPS out of OFP with the 2005 SLX mod... I'm getting 15-20 in oblivion... So it's kinda confusing...

[[frl]myke 14]

As i can't find any note about it in here i just ask: did you installed the latest drivers for your Graphic card? Iguess there are the most actual:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/radeonaiw_xp.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.16〈=English

And as a try: delete the arma.cfg completely and start ArmA again. The file will be recreated then, hopefully setting the correct settings for your sys.

And as a last: get a new PC. :D (j/k)

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mate... Thanks for your help...

But I have installed the latest drivers and also deleted the .cfg... a couple of times with the different patches and a vanilla install... This is starting to chap my bum... I hate being beaten by machines!!!

But thanks so much for all you help... and suggestions!

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Seems one of the techies told me that their sorting this problem out in the next patch... Thanks for all your help and suggestions boys... TA!