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Nice post there blinkster. That's clarified a few things for me. I'm not sure I know enough about programming to put the blame in the Nividia camp or BI camp, although my brother (head dev for a large freight company here in NZ) reckons it should go more with BI. At any rate, your manual flush method has certainly made it more playable for me. I'm getting used to doing it pretty quick too. Lol, usually just before the chopper I'm in lands at a FARP near the present obj. I think I'm using the 1.60 something beta drivers for XP. Is there a newer version that that out? Evolution is a pretty wicked mission aye. I did some scripting in OpFlash and I have some appreciation for the huge amount of time the guy who designed that mission must have put into it. Ah well, guess I'll keeping waiting to see if Nividia and BI can come up with a solution for us. I've just started reading about this bug too: http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....9;st=30 and realised I get that one as well! Lol! ArmA is still a flippin awesome game in my opinion, despite these issues.

Well the sound thing didn't work. Thanks anyway quiet. I tried another sound card and still got CTDs. I've just had three CTD's in the last 30 minutes playing online and didn't have any in three hours last night. Weird. Thanks for that tip about manual flushing blinkster. I'll try that. I might try to setup riva tuner to keep track of my VRAM too... Is there in option in the hardware monitoring somewhere?

Hmmm no I haven't tried disabling sound quiet_man. I've got a budget creative labs card in there too. Disabled my onboard sound seeing I have nothing but trouble with it. Hmmmmm might give that a shot, cheers mate!

ARghhhhhhhh! I wish they were fixing it! Tried turning post processing effects on again, seeing as I thought this new maxmem=256 line was fixing my problems. ArmA BSOD'd and restarted my computer again!!!!!!! Hate it when you think a fix is working but it only works for a wee while... Arghhh! I so wish they'd fix this game! I just spent all day making a custom face and a squad patch, logged onto a multiplayer server and it only lasted 5 minutes!

Ok. I'm all fixed! Awesome! Played online last night for a couple of hours with no problems. I'd tried this switch on my arma.exe before: -maxmem=512 and after posting over here : http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....1104909 about the same issue, sickboy suggested trying maxmem=256 as well. I tried that, and hey presto, it's all fixed! Awesome. I should have figured that myself really, seeing as I've got a 320mb card, not a 512mb one. At any rate, pretty handy fix. I also ran it at maxmem=320 for an hour, which also seemed fined. Awesome... EDIT: Ah crap. Tried turning post processing effects on again. ArmA BSOD'd and restarted my computer again. Hate it when you think a fix is working but it isn't! Arghhh! I so wish they'd fix this game! I just spent all day making a custom face and a squad patch...

Hmmmmm strange how similar our systems are and you're not getting any problems. Althoughhhhhhhhhh, another big thanks to sickboy!!! Last night I realised after confidently pointing out that I'd already tried both the fixes you mentioned, I hadn't actually tried maxmem at 256. Wicked! It's all working, no worries! Cheers mate. I ended up setting it to 320 (seeing as my 8800 is a 320mb version) which runs fine too. EDIT: This fix was only temporary. ArmA has started BSODing and crashing to desktop with the usual graphics artifacts again! Doh! Thanks anyway sickboy, you got me hopeful there for a bit...

You b'stard! Lol. What CPU?

Thanks sickboy. I've tried that too! I had everything on high with my new system seeing as it pretty much kicks ass (well at least in every other game). Ah well, maybe the next patch aye? I've emailed 505 games support and the PR person at BI. I doubt I'll get a reply though. I'd be interested to hear from any 8800gts owners who don't have problems. I've seen posts other places indicating not everyone with 8800's have problems. I wonder what the systems that are having problems have in common...

Thanks sickboy, I've already tried both those solutions but no joy. The crazy thing is, I had similar problems with my old PC. An athlon xp322+ with a 6800GT. Haha, here's the really unfunny part though, the problems are even worse on my 2.4 gig core duo with an 8800GTS! I loved OpFlash, why doesn't ArmA like me? Meh...

Mate, I'm just as gutted as you! Seems to be problems for many 8800gts users. I've had similar textures problems. When I set post processing effects to high, it even BSODs and restarts my computer. I've also got an 8800GTS and an E6600 2.4 gig core duo. ArmA has been unplayable for me with all versions including 1.05. I was hoping 1.08 would fix it, but no! The crazy thing is, I even had the same kinds of problems on my old PC. An athlon XP 3200+ with a 6800GT! It's been gutting to read about people who have the game running fine. I was sure when I put my new system together last week all my problems would be solved Makes you wonder if the developers got the hurry up to release the game before it was really ready. I've also read some people saying the nividia drivers for the 8800 series cards are pretty average, but that doesn't explain my problems with my 6800GT. Meh, I sure hope they fix this!!! If you really want then to do something about it, sign up for the bug tracker and vote for this guys bug: http://bugs.armed-assault.net/view.php?id=2321 If this isn't exactly the same stuff you've been getting, I'm sure you'll find your bug somewhere there, although there's lots of them on there to wade through...

So has anyone still got problems? My copy of ArmA is still pretty much unplayable with the 1.08 patch. If I turn post processing effects on, it even BSOD's then restarts my PC! Meh, It's a real bummer to pay money for an unplayable game. The texture problems are all still just as bad for me under 1.08 and it gets really bad after 5-10 minutes. I still get crashes to desktop with post processing on low and mega loads of crazy vertical artifacts coming off some vehicles. Not to mention crazy shadows, slow drawing textures and super simplified geometric models.