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Same thing has been happening to me and a friend.

power supply ? Did you connect both 6 pin power connectors to the card...and does your PSU have enough amps/watts to power it.......

I disable scaling in nvidia's control panel. I get blacks bars on sides, top&bottom, or both depending on the resolution. Meaning whatever the res of the source is, its centered and displayed pixel for pixel. Native is 1920x1200, so I have bars on top and bottom with 1920x1080.

1920x1080 works good for me.... I turn off scaling so that theres never any stretching on my screen. My map has black bars.

Have you tried overclocking your E6750 yet? I'd pretty much bet it would be possible to get to or pass the clocks on the CPUs your thinking of upgrading to. Also if you are going to upgrade... being an overclocker, Id choose others to save money. Q9550 vs E8400 for me. I'm kinda wanting to upgrade from my E6600@ 3.32Ghz, I'm wanting a quad but the E8400 is cheaper and can overclock higher. Which will be better for games that aren't multithreaded. or..Maybe I'll just hold out and go i7+mobo+DDR3......$$$$ though.

....Before names are added to banlists, did the server allow this player to join with any mods he wanted??? If so... the server should be fixed and he should be removed. Also Im not  so sure he was cheating. Both the player, and the person filming didnt die they each shot at each other.

This is pretty much what PB does, except they ban by CD keys or Hardware depending on type of hack. Anyways, PB does not stop all cheaters.

As its been said, the server allows any mods/scripts. A player could do anything he wanted then. Its not BE's purpose to stop that. So BE has nothing to do with your problem. Its a server settings issue. But also there isn't, has never been, and will probably never be a perfect anti-cheat.

May have found a possible fix/reason for the freezing. Well I read on an Americas Army forums, where someone was getting freezes, and someone told them. They were also getting freezes and what they did to stop getting freezes was disable cd/dvd rom. So I decided to give it a try. Disabled my dvd burner, and floppy drive for the hell of it, through device manager. Played about 7 hours tonight without a problem. Maybe just a fluke again, but I'll keep playing. I'll try BF2 tomorrow, I had got a CTD when I tried it. Though I dont know if I'll be able to do that since it requires CD. I used to play BF2 without a problem. If this is related to cd/dvd rom, Im thinking its possibly related to Securom. Which is what comes with the Atari version right? Even thought its disabled in the patch, the software, registry and whatever should still be there....shouldn't it? Edit: Well after about 6 hours today I got another freeze, but I did reapply my overclocks, and alt+tabbed several times as well.

Id try the latest available betas 177.40 http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=265395

Got the same freeze then tree texture replace today.... Alt+Tab out then back in cleared it up. Played for like an hour more without errors. Then when I was closed down game. I got just a black screen. Had to reboot. Got this in Event Viewer. But also the other day. I decided to install ETQW to test and see if I get any problems since its an opengl game. First I had to re-enable page file since that game uses alot of memory. Was still getting crashes, not freezing or corruption, but related to nvoglnt.dll. Figuered it was the same problem.... but I also then decided to turn back on the nvidia startup items and service, also a few other windows services that I disabled to see what would happen if anything. Afterwards I played a good 4-5 hours of ETQW without a problem, before the crash would happen within a hour. Took a break came back to play some ArmA and got the freeze+texture corruption that I explained at the beginning of post. RPT still says freeze caused by ntdll.dll In one of the other related threads, I had said I got a freeze in Crysis, which is directx too. So I guess Im going to end up reinstalling Crysis and see if I get anymore freezes. While I also keep playing ETQW to see if I get anymore crashes. Maybe I'll install BF2 another directx, to see if it happen with it too. I dont have another opengl game though so.... But I guess what Im getting at is, maybe its a problem with directx and nvidia.....

Well, Ive replaced my power supply to a more powerfull and better one. (Replaced old one since a connector was burning in it.) Tried more drivers.... Still get these same problems....

I believe the problem is that theres two entrys for Next target in the key config, the one further down is the right one for when in vehicles I believe.

Try running without SLI. ArmA doesnt support SLI I believe. But also what about your PSU ?

Well Ive had this issue on 2 different mobos, the 965p-DS3 with latest bios, and now on my new mobo EP35C-DS3R. With latest NON-beta version. Theres a couple beta bios's but it looks like they are just to support new CPUs. === However currently Im trying out the nvidia drivers 162.18 WHQL. I havent gotten a freeze yet with these. Using Pre-render on 2, but I'll switch to 1 to see if it'll cause a freeze faster.

Yes, few hours ago I install W'XP SP2, disable all update services, install july'07 DirectX - same problem appear after 1.5 hours of playing. Do you use any addons? I'm using @ECL addon pack which contain many different addons like RHS weapons, for example. In RPT file I found next strings: I use addons, but they arent the cause for me. Since I also play without them (depends on server). Never tried that....@ECL @rowdied Yes Ive tried changing the pre-render frames (2's best for me) and vsync. Ive also disabled my sound to test if it was the cause, it wasnt.

No, I havent found any fix yet. Just that pre-render frames to 2, seems to help some for me. I dont have the finances to buy and swap out different hardware but since others are getting this same problem, and after all the stress testing Ive done. I dont believe its a hardware problem..... You say XP SP2...did you test with just straight SP2 with none of the other updates that came out before SP3?? Thats pretty much the last thing left that I can think of trying....that and maybe going back even further in drivers then 163.75 .

No I dont know the cause, but if I had to guess Id say its caused by a windows update. Pre-render to 2 just seems to make the game last longer before it freezes, then 1 or 3 for me. Default is 3. Ive been trying older drivers as well, currently on 163.75. I got a freeze but this time instead I also got Windows Error screen, you know the ones where it asks you to send in a report... This is also after v1.14, so dunno if driver or patch had anything to do with that or if it was just a fluke. --- One thing I dont want to have to do, but may do in the future is reformat and only install SP2, not SP3 and other updates. To see if its caused by those newer updates. But thats a real pain to have to do so thats like last resort.

I get the same problem. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=73223 I havent found a fix, but something which seems to help the game last longer before it freezes for me.

Yes it probably is caused by steam as they use an overlay. Isnt it possible to disable it though? I dont have steam installed currently, but I believe theres an option to turn it off.

Its probably because the missions over writing his viewdistance in settings. If you play on a mission like evo or domination it lets you change your view distance threw the mission. Try it that way.

I've seen some in the small wooded area just west of Masbete.

Well Im still getting freezes, but it seems to last longer with Pre-render frames to 2

Ok new update: I think my DX theory was wrong. I had found out I had set Maximum Pre-rendered Frames to 2 instead of 1 like I would usually do. So I set it to 1 and started getting freezes again. Set it back to 2, and no freeze for a couple hours. So I reinstalled latest DX and same drivers... Put Maximum Pre-rendered Frames to 2 and played for about 4 hours without a freeze. Ive tried 1 and 3(default) before with freezes, but its looking like it might be working with 2.... Weird Id say but if it works... I'll keep playing and report if I get any more freezes.

Update: I believe Ive found the culprit on my system atleast.... Its Directx. I installed an older Directx (Dec 2006), in safe mode, then nvidia drivers 175.51 (Quadro), and Realtek HD Audio drivers. Ive used both the other drivers before with freezing. But I played today with zero freezes for 8 hours or so. It could be a fluke so I'll keep playing and report if I get anymore freezes. If it is directx, Im not sure which months updates started the freezes or why..... btw: Â I also played with all my overclocks and my normal settings. Link to download the older dx I used... http://www.filehippo.com/download_directx/1981/