Arma 2 Grey screen when exit game

[Cackoss 10]

Hi everyone,

I have a big bug with Arma 2 (patch 1.05). Nearly each time i want to exit the game i have a grey screen, alt+tab or ctrl+alt+suppr do nothing, the only way is to reboot my pc. I don't know what to do, it's very boring.

If anyone has a solution...

thx

[76 0]

If you use 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' in Vista or Win7 and nothing happens then I would say its making your machine hang....

go to Dev-heaven and do a search for your issue, if you can't find one create a ticket (new issue) and report it with as much valid information as you can :)

[[aps]gnat 28]

I get the grey screen some times as well when I close ArmAII, but my CTRL-ALT-DEL works and I simply close the un-responsive ArmA2 exe.

You didnt say what system you have.

I have Win7 64Bit 4GB Ram, ATI 5700

[thales100 10]

Yep, same grey screen here some times.

[Tankbuster 1744]

Gnat;1573172']I get the grey screen some times as well when I close ArmAII' date=' but my CTRL-ALT-DEL works and I simply close the un-responsive ArmA2 exe.

You didnt say what system you have.

I have Win7 64Bit 4GB Ram, ATI 5700[/quote']

Me too, just occasionally. Seems to happen more often if I Alt-F4 from the editor. A quick Ctrl-Alt-Del soon sorts it out.

Win 7 Ulti 64b, 6GB RAM, 8800GTX

[Cackoss 10]

The ctrl+alt+del has worked only once for me so far. My systeme has a fresh install with WinXP 32 bit.

ARMA2 patch 1.05

WinXP 32 bit

ATI Radeon 4870

Kingstone 2x2 gb

Now, i prefer to "alt+tab" then "ctrl+alt+del" to close the game rather than the normal "exit". I don't know if there is a risk of malfunction to exit the game that way.

I hope a futur patch will solve the problem that is -for me- a major bug (apparently many people have this bug).

[schaefsky 0]

Just noticed this too, seems to happen when I exit editor and then game quickly (without much delay before hitting exit).

Running XP 32bit, Arma2 1.05 german, NVIDIA 9800GT 1.82.50.

Trying to open taskmanager via Ctrl+Shift+Esc and then killing arma2.exe works sometimes, often not (does not respond to any keyboard inputs then).

Quite anoying when you are debugging scripts and have to exit-restart Arma2 for every change you make *hint hint reloading scripts (or pbos) from inside Arma2 would be really nice*

Edited February 20, 2010 by schaefsky
Forgot a patch

[Tankbuster 1744]

*hint hint reloading scripts (or pbos) from inside Arma2 would be really nice*

FACT!!

For this year alone, Marek owes me over 3 hours. If it wasn't for my super 1337 fast starting SSD, it'd be even more.

[[aps]gnat 28]

quite anoying when you are debugging scripts and have to exit-restart arma2 for every change you make *hint hint reloading scripts (or pbos) from inside arma2 would be really nice*

agree!

[Dead3yez 0]

I've had this a couple of times since 1.05. But when I get it I can't seem to CTRLALTDEL. I generally end up switching the power off button on my PC.

[An Fiach 10]

I've had it too but managed to ctrl+alt+del to get out of it. Apparently the game causes a system hang on exit sometimes

[Rough Knight 9]

I get this on one of my windows 7 machines. Never saw the issue using XP Professional. Has anyone had this issue with XP.

Maybe just a vista or win7 issue.

[kridian 33]

Yesterday I installed Windows 7 64bit on a fresh drive and I have just experienced this problem. I just tried to update some keybinds and then quit the game. Gray Screen. I couldn't end the .exe in the processes manager because I didn't have a cursor. Ugh. :mad:

Wierdness.

[scars09 9]

i have the prob with xp 64bit, most of the time i can kill the process by pressing alt-tab, shift - tab, delete, left, enter.

blind fly mode :)

[Tankbuster 1744]

and then quit the game. Gray Screen. . Ugh. :mad:

Wierdness.

How did you quit the game? I find this problem is worse if I Alt F4 and even worse still if I do so from the editor.

[kridian 33]

I didn't successfully quit the game upon pushing the exit button. Gray-ville.

Then I did the ole Control + Alt + Delete to get into the Task Manager where I couldn't end the ArmA2.exe because my cursor was not operational.

Going to try some things.

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update

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For what it's worth.

I ran the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer and it added a file that I thought I had. I turned off transparency from Aero (Win 7) made sure the Steam Community option was turned off (Steam\Settings\In-Game Tab). Maybe something with that(?)

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update 2

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Scratch the above, it still did it, just once in a 2-week span. Still a mystery(?)

Edited March 14, 2010 by Kridian

[oldbear 390]

I have also the problem on XP SP3. I believe it's related with the new "modules" we get since last update. It happens on an irregular base, I have not be able to reproduce at will so ...

[Victim ZSU 10]

I've always had it, occasional hang at a grey screen on exit - only fixable with ctrl-alt-delete -> task manager -> ArmA2.exe -> end task button.

While it is only a little thing it is damn annoying.

[ast65 10]

Well, from my experience this only happens if you exit the game too fast, that means while it´s still loading the background- menue- movies.

When you´ve returned to main- menue just wait 10 secs before exiting game.

[Victim ZSU 10]

Thanks I'll give it a go...

As an aside, I already know that there's a way to prevent cinematics on the main menu when you first start ArmA 2, but what about on subsequent returns to the main menu after playing / editing?