morry67

Just purchased Armed Assault on 8th March 2007 after 5 year wait.  Will not start on my machine which meets all specs and is fully updated /patched whatever.  I have tried starting game without patch (ver 1.04 ) and with patch (ver 1.05) . The PC sits there for a few seconds..the small disc shows on screen ..then the copy protection blocks show up with the ticks in them....then it comes up with "ArmA has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience." Each and every time..3 installs ....I can play the demo and had a german version I PAID for and downloaded in November and that worked as I was so keen to get this game as me and my mates have played OFP solid at LANs for 5 years. But this wont even start!! Please give me some idea of whom I can contact for support as all  contact numbers are overseas and make no mention of AUSTRALIA. (and I am not ringing the number on the box and paying $2.50 minute for the privledge) Pentium 2.4ghz 1Gig Ram Gigabyte GA-8S655FX MB Nvidia 6600 GS 128Meg Ram Win XP SP 2 all updated DirectX 9.0c Nortons Internet Security (on) Armed Assault 1.04 (patching to 1.05 makes no diff) HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

I havent been using my onboard AC97 chip since I had the board..I disabled it in the BIOS and use a Sound Blaster Audigy SE.....I did this as Jack Sensing was screwed up on the on board sound. I am using a Sound Blaster Audigy SE (or LE?) And I downloaded the latest drivers for that and still had the winmm.dll prob. I have the same system setup after a full reinstall and the problem has not re-occurred so it doesnt appear to be the AC97 chip? Or can that still cause probs when its disabled in bios...oh and btw I did a full re-install of XP AFTER I disabled it...it didnt get the chance to load any drivers. What do you reckon?

Fixed it!!!!! All I had to do was back up EVERYTHING on my machine then reinstall XP and then SP2, Nortons, all my programs etc etc. But bloody AA now works......... Well for 5 minutes anyway then it locks up like all of mates copies do as well (5 of them have lockups after 5-10 minutes) After 5 years this is not good enough Bohemia!!!! We have waitied and waited for the sequel to the best Mil;itary Sim we have ever played and we get a game that still crashes after 5 patches!!!!..... As for my issue it was Winmm.dll..........I even took my Hard Drive out of my machine and plugged into another to remove the winmm.dll file and tried a new one once back in my machine...Nope ..no good............unistalling Directx is not possible on XP........the fix above is for Win95......even without Nortons installed it still crashed. I suggest if yopu have WINMM.DLL you will need to reinstall XP to fix it as my friend above suggested... Now I am waiting for Patch 1.06....1.07?.....1.15 Morry

I am in Perth Thanks for the quick reply mate. I will have to look into that error then ...there is a post on here somewhere about the same thing. Cheers Morry