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Really, really nice work. We now have a map with some decent believable terrain on it worth fighting for.

Yes, I've set the X-Fi to 'gaming mode', although I have also tried the other two modes in desperation. Re 'hardware accelerated audio' and 'EAX' within Arma I've tried every combination. i.e. one off, the other on, both off, both on.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, but been there, done that, got the T-shirt. I even used DriverCleaner between reboots to flush out any last remants of the old drivers.

Right, I tried going back to the motherboards onboard sound (ADI Soundmax) after uninstalling the X-Fi but the same crash now occurs there too (crash to desktop in VGA mode, then switch off signal to monitor). Next, uninstalled the onboard sound, put the X-Fi back in, uninstalled Arma + QC = still crashing as before. The weirdest thing is that Arma has been working fine for nearly 6 months without any having this problem before. I'm beginning to suspect something some dodgy hotfix from MS has borked Windows itself. Still, other games work perfectly stably, and Arma was working.

Thanks Warwolf, unfortunately that hasn't stopped the crashing. It's getting really annoying now having to reboot my PC every time I want to play Arma and it crashes I see somebody on the Nvidia forums is experiencing a similar issue (Arma crashing to desktop into crappy resolution and low colour depth), so its not something unique to my setup. In the meantime, I've tried several maxmem settings and updated DX9, but still no joy.

Hi, I've been playing Arma (SP and MP) fine for months now without any serious hitches, but in the last week Arma has gone to hell in a handbasket since adding an X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card. What happens is that after a few mins of playing (seems to be after a random amount of time) Arma crashes bringing up a Windows error message box "arma.exe has failed to respond". Weirdly, once its crashed Windows looks like it has dropped down into some super low-res mode and a low number of colours (16 colours at a guess, not 32-bit). At that point the only option is to click on close this app down at which point the graphics card stops sending a signal to the monitor. However, I know that Windows itself has not crashed as even though I can't see anything using the keyboard and mouse I can still run apps, shutdown Windows etc etc The only way to get anything on screen is to shutdown Windows (alt F4, or soft power) and reboot the PC at which point everything returns to normal. I've tried the WHQL and latest BETA X-Fi drivers from Creative and the WHQL and latest BETA Nvidia drivers (for my 8800 GTX), but these haven't solved the problems. This in Windows XP SP2, and once again Arma has been running happily for months now without ever encountering this problem. Other games appear to be perfectly happy with the system at the mo, I played Supreme Commander for several nights over the last few days while waiting for Queens Gambit. Has anybody else experienced anything like this?

Tons of really cool objects, but none of them are destructible. They simply catch on fire (which after about 30 secs or so goes out) and stay standing

Very promising, but would it be possible to fix the bug where you can't hit people sitting in the cars when shooting at them? At the mo the damage is applied to the car, not the passengers.

Guys, many of you seemed to have missed the point that its a list of the 10 hardest PC games, not from all platforms. That is why none of the console games you've suggested are on there.

Guys, many of you seemed to have missed the point that its a list of the 10 hardest PC games, not from all platforms. That is why none of the console games you've suggested are on there.

Now that multiple gun turrets are much easier in Arma (compared to OFP) do you think it be possible to make an ACAV for VTE? With an ACAV, we could make some pretty good convoy missions

Thanks for the help guys, I've settled on using the civies as members of a resistance squad as suggested for this particular mission.

Hi all I'm planning an MP mission where the humans play as civilians (armed) acting as insurgents. The problem is that even if civilians are armed and have shot up some soldiers the AI soldiers (East/West) won't fire on them, although civilian AIs have no problem firing at East/West soldiers (depending on how you have configured the allegiance of the Resistance). I've tried adding 'this setcaptive false" in the init line of the civilians but this has no effect so it seems like 'AI won't engage civilians' is hardcoded into Arma. Does anybody know a way around this?

Yeah, its weird that some objects work and others don't. I've also noted that M2s will position ok, while sandbags for example don't.

Oh monkey nuts, I guess that means you can't build any decent fortifications in MP missions then