Vixente 10 Posted July 22, 2010 I am having a strange problem with the game: It runs perfectly but after a while it just freezes and cease to respond. But when i CTRL+ALT+DEL, task manager shows that the game is still using some CPU, exactly 50%. I thought it was some issue with the latest beta versions, but it wasn't. I did try the original release of OA and it happened too. It is really random and it happens both in singleplayer and in multiplayer. I tried a lot of things, disabling pagefile, messing with game settings, etc. Nothing helped. I didn't install anything recently. The only thing i did was reinstall both games, ARMA2 and ARMA2 OA in the same folder and in a different drive. ( D:\ ) Due to this and the problem, i thought it may be related to the hard drive having bad sectors. But i checked it too and all is fine. Temperatures are fine, computer still responds when this happens, but you have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill the Arma2 (OA) process. Taskman shows it as "Not responding", and the game logfile .rpt file doesn't show anything in the last lines. It didn't happen before, as far as i recall, when i was playing the Steam standalone Arrowhead version of the game. Windows event viewer doesn't show nothing strange neither. I use Windows 7 64 bit. System is rock-solid. No problems with other games. Any idea? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato Larsen 10 Posted July 22, 2010 Hi Vixente. I too encountered that problem yesterday. Though I have had no issues in SP, it caught up with me in MP after installing the beta(latest) on the server. We use steam on our server, so needed the beat to get server executable. My game is vanilla. Nothing on it at all. default out from steam. After about 2-10 minutes gameplay on the server, the game freeze. The other guys on the server did not notice anything at all and could play as normal. It did give me "loosing connection" and finally "lost connection" Just to note. I do not have win updater running by itself, I shut down Avast and all the normal things you try when you encounter these things. System is Win 7 x86 ultimate. ArmA 2 does not have that issue and no other games either. Everything else is as Vixente mentioned. Anyone else encountered this? Know how to fix it or what to fiddle with? Please let us know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato Larsen 10 Posted July 23, 2010 After installing latest beta on my game, it works as it should. No freeze. Just to let you know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vixente 10 Posted July 23, 2010 I play with beta too, and it happens sometimes. Its really random. Right now i come from playing Warfare like 2 hours or so, and no problem. Other times is just 10 minutes and game hangs up. Really bizarre. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato Larsen 10 Posted July 23, 2010 I play with beta too, and it happens sometimes. Its really random. Right now i come from playing Warfare like 2 hours or so, and no problem. Other times is just 10 minutes and game hangs up. Really bizarre. I am sorry to hear that. Are you on Steam or dvd? If steam, I am now using the "steam startup line" instead of having a shortcut to start from, just to mention that. Though it seems to work fine on normal shortcut as well. Both OA and combined works fine for me now. Using latest beta as "addon" starting from a shortcut from vanilla .EXE, not starting the beta.exe. Though I do not know what can cause your issue, (full load on GPU can cause issues with Win 7 in some cases I hear) I hope it will be solved in upcomming official patch 1.53 Sorry I could not help you any further. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
