Delta 5-1

I cleaned out the drivers I had on there before which were 6.7...simultaneous in the sense that I installed 7.5 then installed the hotfix on top of that and now running them....sorry for the use of the word simultaneous that added confusion heh...yeah I just meant installed 7.5 then the hotfix. I just cleaned out the 7.5 hotfixed drivers for my old 6.7 drivers and everything's running fine again...just glad I can fall back on those for now..

I'm still no joy here..CTD after about 10 seconds of play with the 7.5 patch and hotfix installed simultaneously, even tried to run it without the actual 7.5 patch and only hotfix alone..once again a CTD...looks like it's back to ati 6.7

Considering it took me four months to get my ArmA running with the 6.7 drivers, if it ain't broke why fix it

Well it's confirmed, my ArmA works again as it did, with small glitches that it had when the game first out which I can deal with (slow texture loading) but it IS the ATI 6.7 drivers that only work...they are not compatible with the 1.07 beta patch at all and will only work with the 1.05 patch. I'm just happy I finally get to play ArmA again...not a hardware problem at all as my PC is NOT overheating as many have stated to others and me...I'm just glad I didn't fork out the cash to get a new video card. So my advice is to simply revert back to ATI 6.7 catalyst and ONLY use the 1.05 patch, you will get the old texture loading slowness, but the game WILL work if all is well. Once again, thanks to all that helped me here!

For a while I was receiving help from some gracious guys over at www.armedassault.eu, I had problems with my visuals cascading out with white jagged shapes after about 1 minute after a mission started...since then I've tried everything only to find out that for some reason my machine refused to be able to use high detail anymore....since then I've lowered down to low settings and the "jaggies" disappeared but now I have a major problem with constant CTDs and system reboots especially when I zoom in on any action or city terrain...I have no idea what to do anymore but to think that my gfx card is fried, even though the only game I EVER have problems with is only ArmA and the card is only 4 months old now, every other pc game I own runs absolutely fine even at the occasional high settings I place them...if anybody can help my situation I would be gratefully thankful as this is causing me to lose faith in the stability of this magnificent game...I'm patched up to 1.07 beta fix'd...here's some specs: Pentium D 2.8 ghz dual core 2 gb DDR2 RAM Radeon 1900GT 16x PCI-E Foxconn 955+ Motherboard All updated drivers even 7.4 Catalyst

Ok good news so far, it seemed I only crashed out immediately after mission start with 6.7 drivers when i was using the beta 1.07 patch/mod...when i use the standard 1.05 patched ArmA my game is once again playable! Will update to see how it goes...thanks a lot men..

Yeah xMongx, I think it is the driver problems...didn't see your post on first page 'til now..I tried the 6.7 catalyst and my CTDs happened right away after the mission started...a lot quicker than how ArmA ran with the new 7.4 drivers.

Ok thanks, will turn off AA, anything that gives me hope at this point -_-

No equal sign after maxmem between the value? Just a space you say huh?

We all know how you feel Netwalker, trust me...I haven't been able to play a full mission for about 3 months now....right now BIS is hard at work trying to get us a new patch I'm 100% sure...just give it some time..this stuff happens with new software..

On 2nd thought you may be right OFPDude, today I tried something different and set my resolution to 1280x1024, the first missions went well...then the bad news, on the third time i got the restart...gonna crack open the case and see what's happening inside....thanks

Sorry I can't help much on this situation as I have the Czech DVD version, the only thing I would be able to suggest is contact the vendor who you downloaded the version from, either something got screwed up during transfer or their version is bad...it's obviously something to do with the A10 addon that was included with the Combat Ops US version...I too know the feeling of hopelessness of not being able to play so I at least wanted to offer a suggestion..good luck

Nah it's an ATI driver leak confirmed by ATI/AMD...thanks anyways..

I can recall these problems happening for a lot of past PC games after launch, ArmA doesn't like our computers so it must be taught a serious lesson by the code programmers to LOVE our computers which will probably take some time. Either way i'll still be here waiting for the new patches, no other PC game appeals to me to the same extent. Just been playing OFP meanwhile, try the Dynamic Afghanistan campaign while we wait...you won't be as sad about ArmA!

Maxmem=1024 gave me a hard reboot in game while maxmem=512 gave me a drwtsn32 msg CTD...I would love to play this game as it is the best military sim I've played but the bugs need to be fixed because we simply can't play BIS..especially ATI users it seems..

Nonpoint, Will try your maxmem=1024 settings, I also tried 1500 maxmem, got to play a lil' longer however still got a crash a few more mins in....

OFPdude, Never overclocked the video card, messing with page file to make sure the game ran off the 2gb RAM and not my slow ass HDD which is pretty old..

I might add that I was able to play for 5 mins, the artifacting only appeared when I faced the buildings that I was using as cover, as of now I'm running a thorough test of GoldMemory v6.92 to see wth is wrong with my memory or if it's just ArmA programming...

Interesting development: I ran ArmA on low once again this time with a page file, I ended up getting a lot further down the mission however when i was near some buildings I got the damn artifacting syndrome again (this time for a whopping 5 mins) until receiving a BSD stop error that said page_fault_in_nonpaged_area along with the error causing file ati3duag.dll...rebooted after BSD, I then turned off the page file which was now set to 0 mb and running directly off of my 2 gb of RAM, restarted ArmA, I then got the same zoom in CTD at the beginning of the mission (30 secs in) which kicked me back to the desktop with same resolution as game once again....

Same problem here...if I let the game run at the title screen I get the same problem, I can move the mouse cursor around but the game absolutely freezes...just beautiful...maybe it's just best to wait until this game is patched a hell of a lot more because it's unplayable to many ppl right now as is... Pentium D 2.8 ghz dual core 2 gb DDR2 RAM Radeon 1900GT 16x PCI-E Foxconn 955+ Motherboard All updated drivers even 7.4 Catalyst

Ok I ran a "certain" gfx driver cleaner and the artifacting is non existant however I am still CTDing when I zoom in, here's a pic while I was zooming into my destination on foot 1 min into mission...the pic might be kinda small but nonetheless ArmA is on low detail and like I said all i did was zoom in on the city...no artifacting occurred at least :\ This is what happens when I zoom in..

Update: Â I ran testing for GPU Temperature on screen, when I start to approach a city with enemy soldiers, the temperature jumps up to 72+ degrees C for the short time I can play w/o crashing a couple of minutes...I think the temperature would drop if nothing was going on around me...ArmA kept CTD'ing without any warning while keeping the desktop at the resolution that only ArmA was set to..ugh, this is so awful...two-three months and I haven't been able to play my beloved ArmA because of this consistent crap I was thinking if my power source may have too much power as it's a OCZ GameStream 700W and could this have perhaps fried my video card? I don't think a reformat will solve the problem as the situation keeps pressing even with constant software alterations that I attempt in vain. Edit: And this all occurred when I still had the underclocking active, -50 GPU and -50 vRAM

Ok I tried underclocking to about 50 mhz below the standard running rate for vRAM and GPU settings and I can get through a little further on a mission before the artifacting slightly shows up before a CTD, especially when I move into a city with buildings...all this while still running on ArmA low gfx settings....is this the diagnosis for a weak video card?

Thanks for your reply, I'll check out that link you sent me as well as the GPU checks..when I said everything I meant everything related to software problems - uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, ArmA, repairing Windows XP w/o actually formatting so I can keep the important stuff that I can't lose from my PC...sorry for not clearly stating so in my first post, I guess I'm in hopes for a quick answer from ppl with similar problems in the past...I haven't opened up the case in hopes that I can solve the problem by modifying software settings as I'm starting to feel that my video card is responsible for this complete mess...it only happens with ArmA and NO other PC game which is a total piss off....here's what my artifacting looked like, this is not my actual screenshot but same situation...this situation was actually remedied through lowering my overall graphics setting to very low/low but now I get CTDs with DrWatson32 boxes for the most part, BSDs (however, this not lately after changing page file to run directly off of physical RAM) and system reboots without warning at times especially when zooming in on environment for all instances...even though I get a very good fps for the short time I can play... Similar Screenshot - Pay no attention to the gfx settings in this pic, it's somebody else's...just wanted to illustrate what my PC is doing only...

All I have to say Sickboy is that YOU ARE THE MAN, I thank you from the bottom my heart man....there was no way in hell I would be able to wait until Q1 2007 to finally play ArmA in the US over here...much respect and thank you so much...