rockape

hi, i posted a couple of weeks ago with the same problem and decided to put the whole lot in the drawer untill a fix came along...then i thought one more go. uninstalled arma and queens gambit, went into the folders and everything that may contain trace of the games and deleted whatever i found including my anti virus software, and all vista security. if it was related to arma in any way it got deleted.. i then installed arma on its own..but i didnt attempt to play it...then went on to the arma armed assualt site and used to the gamers hell mirror to download the pathes one after the other. still not attempting to play the game at all. finished downloading all three patches. shut down and restarted (not just a restart) gave it 5 mins to properly warm up, crossed everything and preyed a little....bingo!!!! fully working; no hitches. sweet, smooth, perfect. then installed queens gambit..perfect again...running vista 64 prem 8gb of corsair ram with 3 8800gtx 756mb cards in sli on an asus striker 2 formula mother board...i have not got a clue what i did right. i did not want to tinker with anything as i am such a techno phobe its untrue. but there you go, running fine on 8gb of ram with vista at 75fps. hope this helps. it can be done but i honestly dont know how i did it. my cards were completely up to date...i cleansed the system of arma and BI then updated my cards...then installed then patched... I DID NOT USE THE BETA..other than that i figure i just got very lucky.

latest driver...problem is i get to the intro screen and it's blacked out in places

thanks for the reply. yes i did take a look at all the posts. i see some are having success while others are not. then again..there is a lot of success then it all goes wrong again. i understand price means nothing; my point was: i expected it play everything for that kind of money, ( i know: i am nieve). ie i even play MOH WARCHEST and the original CALL OF DUTY on it with no problems. what i didnt expect was a huge FPS by a well known maker to fall on its arse. as i mentioned; i am a complete noob; as far as getting into the programs are concerned and the last thing i want to do is start messing with stuff i know nothing about. dropping RAM and msconfig; all that stuff is way out of my league. and as much i enjoyed flashpoint on xp i dont want to start messing with my rig for the sake of 1 game no matter how good it is. to be honest it just scares the hell out me and i dont want to risk even the slightest chance i might do something bad and not know how to reverse it. if it was a beat up junk pc then i would not have so much hesitation. vista 64 premium...quad core 6700...8gb corsair ram...3x500gb raid hard drive...3xnvidia 8800gtx 756 SLI....asus striker formula 2 motherboard with fully customisable AI SUITE. 4 big fans on the outside and some on the inside. using FRAPS as a monitor i get an average of 85 frames per second on far cry 2 when its very busy rising to 117 when things calm down. thats maxing out on all settings and max resolution. COD4 is an average 80 frames per second again maxing out on everything. thats the stats but as i know now they mean nothing as someone explained in the forum that different games do different things with memory. regards rockape

morning guy's. just a note to say "thanks". i decided to come on this forum to see if i could fix the issues i have been having with ARMA and QUEENS GAMBIT. not only have i found you all have the same problem; but it's unfixable for someone like me, (a complete technophobe). i just paid 3.5k (whats that about $5k usd) for a dream machine then went and bought every decent FPS game you can think of COD4... CRYSIS+WARHEAD...FAR CRY2.. ARMA ETC ETC ETC. I am having the same probs, initial screen is blanked out. tried the reinstall so many times, re-updated the graphics cards so many times, all the usual noob things..no joy. then i come on here and see all this tech stuff. ..so..ARMA and QUEENS GAMBIT goes in the drawer till one of you guys figures it out or BI comes up with a fix. cheers guys. now i know i'm not the only one gutted that i cant play these superb games. all the best