totally black screen - just the scenery

[LtCmdrBoon 0]

My clan mate recently gave me his german copy of the game as he bought the english version as well.

I am going to buy the english version myself, but until then thought I would have a 'preview' of arma2 using his germany version he kindly gave....

but...

when I load up, it installs fine, verifys the activation serial fine, way over minimum specs etc but come in game the scenergy is just all black. There is some very dark grey images of the aircraft carrier.

The menu itself appears colourful, as does any text. the sounds also play fine, and the editor works as it ever did in arma1.

here's a rundown

arma2 installed clean, patched 1.02 (problem same with 1.00)

vista x64 all patches latest Dx updates

Q9450 @ 3.7

8GB RAM

9800GX2 @ stock speeds on ver: 186.18

1TB & 500GB hdd's

system otherwise works totally fine, i "know what im doing" (obviously not).

I sometimes can see very very slight lines for the sea if I place my player unit on the coast in the editor. I know its the sea because i can hear it, and see the faint lines coming in and out.

I thought at first it might be the copy protection as I have a coupla virtual drives, but reading posts the fade system appears to knock people off aim, and not give a black screen from the off

[-Bilko- 0]

Always post a screenshot of the problem if you can :)

[moosenoodles 0]

Always post a screenshot of the problem if you can :)

what just a black screen lol give the guy a break :D

[LtCmdrBoon 0]

for some reason the screen capture shows a pure black screen

but i assure you, i see a pure black screen, with the aimer in the middle, and text in the corner showing how much ammo i have left

i see nothing else

i can walk about, and shoot, and based on sounds, there isn't any problem game wise

i can set a firefight up in the editor and have a good sound, but i see jack

do other players turn SLI off? I see other posts with flickering etc, but this isnt the case

[LtCmdrBoon 0]

bump

solved - on advice of a clan member I renamed the arma2.exe to crysis64.exe

I now have scenery, just black textured bushes, so a great step forward.

[Bulldogs 10]

Search these forums for "8gb"

or just try start the game with Arma2.exe -winxp