White graphical distortions around cities followed by crash

[Nosedive 10]

I keep rolling into cities like Zelenogorsk and encountering this really odd crash. Everything slows to a few frames per second, triangles shoot out from buildings creating white/grey tears across the screen intersecting eachother, these flash and distort all over the place a few times until everything disappears into white/grey, then the game freezes and i get an error that i can't see stating that Arma2 encountered an error.

Running Windows Vista 64 with an 8800GT on the 190.38 drivers. Got a Q6600 quadcore processor that isn't OC'd and 4 gigs of quad channel ram

[-=seany=- 5]

sounds like your card is over heating, could be blocked up with dust.

[Nazul 10]

I was having this with Vista64 and now I'm on win7 i think its finished. I havent been playing much lately and cant remember for sure if its done it with win7, im quite sure it hasn't though. you should try win7, i got massive fps increase too.

[Nosedive 10]

To be honest i'd rather not change my entire operating system just to run Arma2, operating systems are expensive! Also i've heard there isnt much support yet for most things. My friend had a hard time getting drivers for just his video card.

I appreciate the suggestion though.

My graphics card is definitely not overheating either, i have a huge passive cooler mounted to it along with a d.i.y turbo module strapped to that. I also monitor temperatures on my sidebar.

I'm convinced it must be something else.

Thanks for the replies guys, i'll keep testing things.

[sn0b0ard 10]

Maybe a beta patch will help? You can download the latest beta from here:

http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

[ffur2007slx2_5 11]

It should be your card problem.

[maddogx 13]

Nosedive,

try the following:

1. Go to video options, select "advanced" and find the "video memory" setting on the left. Try lowering it a notch or two and then see if the problem persists.

2. If that doesn't help, try using the NVidia 182.50 drivers. They seem to be the most stable with Arma2. (Make sure to uninstall your current drivers properly before installing the older ones.)

3. Install and run the latest version of SpeedFan or GPUz and run Arma2 in window mode while keeping an eye on your system temperatures. If your CPU is gettng hotter that 70°c or the GPU is getting hotter than 90°c, you may need to think about a better cooling solution.

[Noxious 10]

Yeah I agree with the others here, it sounds like your card is artifacting from heat and stress.

[maddogx 13]

Yeah I agree with the others here, it sounds like your card is artifacting from heat and stress.

Not necessarily. I've experienced the same problem, even though my card doesn't get very hot. Lowering the video memory setting from default to very high fixed the problem for me. I think it has something to do with the game not detecting video RAM properly.

[Nosedive 10]

Thanks guys, but i did reply a little earlier saying that card heat definitely isn't the cause. I'll give the video memory thing a go as well as drivers when i finish work. Thanks again.

Edited September 23, 2009 by Nosedive