Game crashes after playing 2-3hours

[Dreepa 10]

I ve got a prob.... I played arma fine half a year ago. Now, with 1.05 (and probably newer grafx drivers) the game crashed with a windows error message after playing 2-3 hours. I can immediatelly restart the game and play on, again for about 3 hours... Some kind of counter of doom it seem lol.

Anyway, the windows error message says the following thing:

Problemsignature:

Probleme event name: APPCRASH

Appliationname: arma2.exe

Applicationversion: 1.5.0.62017

Applicationtimestamp: 4b2f54d8

Errormodule Name: arma2.exe

Errormodule Version: 1.5.0.62017

Errormodule Timestamp: 4b2f54d8

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 0025f874

Operartingsystem Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1

Region-ID: 1031

Additional Info 1: a79e

Additional Info 2: ac6d821c3de1305a970c2d7432b40c98

Additional Info 3: 4944

Additional Info 4: be854784e11ca4090d3df17bcafcc3ea

But that info probably wont help much....

[no use for a name 0]

My first thought is maybe a heat issue; but that usually causes artifacts and very low FPS before a CTD listing a DX9 file or something similar. It could also be a bad RAM stick that when it finally gets "full" it tries to write on a bad sector and crashes the game (I had this problem with Arma1 and a bad RAM stick). If You're using Win7 there's a built in memory checker that will scan your RAM for any errors. If you're using another OS; download MemTest86 and burn to a CD, then boot from that CD and it will do the same. Make sure you do a COMPLETE scan and that there's no errors.

You might also monitor your temps (mainly GPU and CPU) while running the game just to make sure they're not getting too hot

Edited March 29, 2010 by No Use For A Name

[Dreepa 10]

Its primestable with "lots of ram" tested.

Thing is, I played with 1.03 and no crashes. I m into software QA, so I already did all the obvious checks.

I uploaded the crash logs:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-2390180/ArmA2crash-Dreepa.zip.html

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