Swatman 0 Posted August 11, 2009 Intel Q6600 ATI 4890 8 gb ram ive been playing fine. all of the sudden i join a game the other day and this happens Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trucker_phucker 10 Posted August 11, 2009 Same thing is happening to me. Game is fresh install and graphics suck. So if anyone could help us that would be great.:mad::confused: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trucker_phucker 10 Posted August 12, 2009 Intel Q6600 ATI 4890 8 gb ram ive been playing fine. all of the sudden i join a game the other day and this happens download file from here and it help out a whole lot. still having graphics issues http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=76908 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zouaaf 10 Posted August 12, 2009 i have the same problem from the start. quad core 2.8 and two 9800gt sli video cards vista 64bits Downloaded the latest drivers etc etc iam not a happy guy, arma should work properly with my specs Now i have to buy flashpoint ;-(( plz can some1 help me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tobmic 10 Posted August 12, 2009 trucker phucker thats for nvidia card users ... the op has an ati graphics card. Try Catalyst 9.7 the newest driver maybe that helps. Maybe rollback your .cfg files Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-TwK-Danny 0 Posted August 12, 2009 Isnt this the regular 8GB ram problem? Do you use the "-winxp" flag in your shortcut to arma2? You need to, as far as i know, when you have 8GB of RAM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
InFireBaptize 0 Posted August 12, 2009 (edited) lot of people are complaining about this on the Ati forums, you should check their forums. This could be due to above, too much overclocking, too much heat, not enough power supply. Visiting Ati forums really scared me into not buying Ati for my next upgrade. I may swallow the extra cost and get nVidia card, will have to research more. Edited August 12, 2009 by InFireBaptize Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kklownboy 43 Posted August 12, 2009 lot of people are complaining about this on the Ati forums, you should check their forums. This could be due to above, too much overclocking, too much heat, not enough power supply.Visiting Ati forums really scared me into not buying Ati for my next upgrade. I may swallow the extra cost and get nVidia card, will have to research more. and then there is me and everybody i play with that has a ATI card, 512mb or 1gb that do not have a issue at all... Hmmmm i guess its the 8gb issue...Like anybody posting the issue is ever going to use 8gb of system ram for anything...If they have to ask(about the issue) then they dont use VM, or do uber encoding, or run a RAM drive, let alone know anything about a scratch disk..., More poor saps who buy way too much ram for next to nothing in cost, to go along with there under performing Vidcards for there 24in LCD that they think can run this game. Stop the maddness. Pull our a few gigs of ram and be happy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swatman 0 Posted August 12, 2009 its not a problem with my computer.... ive been playing this game for months with no problem. i try playing it yesterday, this occurs. my video card is only 60 degrees when i play ARMA 2 and 45 degrees while idle. power supply is 620 watts and is enough to power half of manhatten probably haha. it is a problerm with ARMA2 just like the same problem was in ARMA 1. looks like operation flashpoint might be the better choice i guess ---------- Post added at 09:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:31 AM ---------- and then there is me and everybody i play with that has a ATI card, 512mb or 1gb that do not have a issue at all... Hmmmm i guess its the 8gb issue...Like anybody posting the issue is ever going to use 8gb of system ram for anything...If they have to ask(about the issue) then they dont use VM, or do uber encoding, or run a RAM drive, let alone know anything about a scratch disk..., More poor saps who buy way too much ram for next to nothing in cost, to go along with there under performing Vidcards for there 24in LCD that they think can run this game. Stop the maddness. Pull our a few gigs of ram and be happy. 8 gigs actually helps a lot... and i run on a 32 inch screen and built this computer myself. thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swatman 0 Posted August 13, 2009 would really like to have a dev answer this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kremator 1065 Posted August 13, 2009 Listen Swatman .... did you try the -winxp commandline ? DO IT ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderbird 0 Posted August 13, 2009 I have an ATI 4890 too / Windows 7 32 B/ Catalyst 9.7 / Slightly overclocked and it works like a charm. Regards, TB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swatman 0 Posted August 13, 2009 kremator. what win xp thing? i didnt buy it off steam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
canabisabusive 10 Posted August 14, 2009 hey that looks like my game! i downloaded the demo and the whole game looks like that. i have 12g ram; i7950; ati 4870. any game that goes to hell when there is too much ram is garbage anyway. ill go back to crysis and wait for MW2 thx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the BeltFed 10 Posted August 15, 2009 I am having the same video graphics problems. I also do have 8GB RAM on my Windows Vista 64 computer. The Arma II Demo and Arma II were working fine until I updated (clean install) my NVIDIA videocard drivers from the 186.18 to the newest 190.38. I have been able to play the game by reinstalling the older 186.18 NVIDIA videocard drivers. I am not very computer savvy so I could use some guidance on how to do the commandline -winxp to see if that solves the graphics problem. I have the non-Steam, retail DVD copy, of Arma II. I had the same problems with both the 1.02 Arma II patch or the 1.03 patch, so the version of Arma II is not an issue. I have also installed the EVGA SLI Enhancement recommended in this http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=76908 as well as the other recommendations on that post. My PC specs: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit 8GB DDR3 RAM 2 x BFG NVIDIA Geforce 280 GTX in SLI Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @ stock 3.20 GHz EVGA nForce 790i SLI motherboard Any help is appreciated. Thank you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nuggetz 0 Posted August 15, 2009 Right click on your arma2 shortcut, then in the target box, type in -winxp somewhere after the name of the game executable. If that doesn't work, hit the windows start button, select run, and then type in msconfig, click boot and choose advanced options, you should see maximum memory section or box, click the checkbox and type in 7680, reboot and start arma2, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the BeltFed 10 Posted August 16, 2009 nuggetz, Thank you for the instructions. I did it and it resolved this graphics problem. 1. Go to your desktop Arma II shortcut, right click on it and select 'Properties' 2. Under the 'Shortcut' tab, go to the 'Target' slot and at the end of it type -winxp after the quotation marks. It should look something like this: "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2.exe" -winxp 3. Click 'Apply', then 'Ok' Hope this helps for all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
