Inc_Cat

Well I'm in norway... and now - many days later I got the same problem...? Only thing I did was to install Starcraft... and then all went to f...

I got the same issue!!?? All worked fine last night.. no game freez when entering multiplayer lobby.. and then no servers listed. Try to refresh.. another freez.. then still no servers.. Only change to the system is that I installed Starcraft... but that should not have made any changes to Arma Arrowhead??

Hi all It happend to be a "nice" happening, that my old rig died prior to the Arma 2 launch... so I got the change to buy a new one and I went uber.. Problem is that the rig runs like a charm, and plays any game outstanding and then some - EXECPT Arma 2, which i just can't get to play at all. Framerate isn't really an issue for me... I get decent playing regardless, my problem is that the game keeps crashing to desktop all the time... either by just clicking the Multiplayer screen in menu, or when loading the game.. or after playing a few min in game.. It also seems to happend more if I'm close to towns... Some crashes go straight to desktop, some I get a "headsup" with game starting to chop... then get loads of white lines/bars/squares... and bom dead... I tried just about everything in these forums.. the EVGA patch.. the crysis64.exe... the Nhancer application... different strings on my shortcut.. editing vram in config file.. you name it. Whatever I do .. no go.. all that differs is framrate which will go from decent to outstanding. And right now I would be more than happy with decent framerate...just as long as I can keep playing. I dont all these attemtpt both in the X64 Vista installation that came default with the rig, as well as in the Win 7 x64 RC1 Build 7100 installation (run dual boot). My specs are: I7 965 @3.2GHz 6GB ram Dual GTX 295's (tested both in single and quad mode) 128GB SSD discs Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 and Win 7 Ultimate RC1 Build 7100 (It's a Dell XPS) Need more info.. let me know. I also posted a bug report as requested in that other bug forum with the files requested attached. If ANYONE here has the same system setup... Please let me know how you got the game running at all... don't care about framerate now!

Umm as far as I know Arma 2 does not utilize DirectX 10.... And no.. eye candy wise it's exatly the same in Win7 as XP

As I said in my very short reply.. XP X64.. you wont "loose" anything. I got a high end system with I7 965 Extreme, 6gb Ram, 2x295's, SSD discs and so forth... XP 64 uses this just fine...Only "problem" I had was finding drivers for all my unknown devices:-) And off curse you want dualboot.. which may be very easy or a tad tricky to set up depending on your knowledge. If you have severeal partitions on your system... and e.g. a free "D" disc.. just install the other OS there. BUT NOTE.. unless you want to mess around with boot managers and such.. install the oldes OS FIRST, and then the newest one. E.G. Install XP on C drive.. then after install WIn 7 or Vista on D drive.. and it will automaticly give you an option of which os to boot when starting the machine. I also have arma 2 installed on my Win 7 X64 RC.... and hopefully will only use that shortly, once patches and drivers come out and make it playablee for me. And just as a side note.. FPS has never been an issue for me.. my game just kept crashing regardless. So I have the same awsome FPS in Xp as I have in Win 7.. difference is game is stable and dont crash. And I tried "all" tricks out there... That said.. I DEFINATELY agree with those who think we let BIS "off the hook" to easy. I don't care what people say about complex game code and jada jada... Arma 2 is a beta version - PERIOD! Furthermore it is outrageous that I actually paid money to participate in a beta test! Now if they gameplay wasnt so good I would for sure dump this game.. but that was the sole reason for my now 3 weeks and loads of hours trying to get this game running! On Vista or Win 7... ANY game runs like a charm, straight out of the box.. no modding, fixing or patching whatsoever.. Americas Army 3.. COD... Crysis.... Crysis Warhammer.. they all run flawless on 1920x1200 with all settings on ultra high. "End rant".. But at least.. now I can play... and XP x64 was my only solution. Bet 32bit also works just fine, but I wanted to use my ram:-)

Or install WIn xp... I tried it all... and went ahead and installed Xp 64 over Vista... and what do you know.. runs like a fricking charm!

Well I finally solved it... and it took weeks and weeks and then some to solve... Solution... Installed a fresh Xp x64 with the 182.5 Nvidia drivers. Then renamed to Crysis64.exe.. and runs like a charm. All high settings at 1920 I get around 60+- FPS in multiplayer... and did the benchmark.. got 4515 in result. Finally Im able to play it!

Well I'll join this club.. been trying for almost 2 weeks to get this running.. now I put the game on the shelf, and seriously consider returing it for faulty product. I7 Extreme+Win7 x64 and Vista x64+6GB DDR3+2x GTX 295 I try to run it at native res 1920x1200.. anything below looks awful. And my problem isnt really framerate.. but the constant crashes... never been able to play anything more than 10-25min... Totally unplayable, and I tried all the trics all over the web... Ande even just did a reinstall of Win 7 ... with same shyat...

I have no problem getting SLI working.. nor have any problems with framrate with one or two cards. And to be honest right now I would be happy with 10 in framrate.. if the fricking game would just keep from crashing. Now it's impossible for me to play single or multiplayer.. crashes all the time regardless of what i do.. thus wasted money. And this game is getting a slow death unless they manage to come out with some fixes!

Got dual 295's and I7 myself.. can't keep the game playing more than 5-15 min before it crashes...

Just found out that my I7 965 Extreme dont have Hypertreading. It's called something else which i can't remember now, and it's hardware based and can't be turned off (not in bios anyways).

Glad to hear you got it working, and I envy you:-) Personally I haven't had much problems getting it to run SLI... but my problem is it keeps crashing. FPS wise I've been happy all the time with just a single card or in SLI (quad mode) - allthough single card is more stable than Quad. Also tried just all suggestions in just about all forums (expect installing win XP and disabling HT). Do you have dual 295 with 1,8GB each or 1GB each? Also wonder how you are able to turn of Hypertreading in the Bios, as my bios (Dell) don't have that option, or it's called something else now? Wonder if that could stop the game from crashing. My specs are: Dell XPS I7 965 Extreme@3,2GHz 6GB ram Dual 295's (1,8GB each) SSD dics in non raid Vista x64 Ultimate and Win 7 x64 Ultimate RC1 build 7100 (dualboot)

Say agaon Fox.. you solved Arma 2 crashes by downgrading your cards? Please elaborate would you, as my 295's wont run the game more than 10-15 min max before it crashes...

Have the same problem with my rig.. brand new out of the box.. Tried every tip in every post.. nothing works.. the game keeps crashing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only thing I havent tried is installing Win XP..... Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7100) (7100.winmain_win7rc.090421-1700) System Manufacturer: DELL Inc. System Model: XPS 730X BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: Intel® Core i7 CPU 965 @ 3.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.2GHz Memory: 6144MB RAM Available OS Memory: 6134MB RAM Page File: 1603MB used, 13731MB available DirectX Version: DirectX 11 Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce GTX 295 DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E0&SUBSYS_064E10DE&REV_A1 Display Memory: 3691 MB Dedicated Memory: 879 MB Shared Memory: 2811 MB Current Mode: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (59Hz) Monitor Name: Dell 2408WFP(Digital) Monitor Model: DELL 2408WFP Monitor Id: DELA02A Native Mode: 1920 x 1200(p) (59.950Hz) Output Type: DVI

Scratch that... Boxed version still wont run.. same problems again. Was able to play solo campain for an hour.. then jumped on different multuiplayer servers, and it keep crashing... Regardless of what i do I get crashed... and I'm about to give up this. Some official word would really be nice.. as I see there is a lot of problems. My greatest concern is that the majority of posts here is about improving framerate.. but I dont really care about that.. I just want to be able to play the game!

I got CTD all the time.. regardless of what I do... and I tried "it all" so to speak... totally unplayable for me

Well got my boxed version... uninstalled the German download version I had and installed the new one. Then tried the benchmark test straight away... crash.. then ran the latest 1.02 patch.. tried it again.. crash.. Then disabled SLI, and uninstalled the EVGA patch and Nhancer... reboted and tried again... passed the test... This off course with running just one card. Dont know if its stable though, need to test it. But at least for the very first time I was able to run the test. Didnt mess with any settings, just let it be as arma put it (1920x1200 res) and all on normal. Benchmark score: Test 1 32.4667 Test 2 40.12 Test 3 34.7052 Test 4 54.1028 Test 5 34.6898 Score 3921,69 Will test more (ohh.. and this in Win 7) ---------- Post added at 05:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:52 PM ---------- Update...: It seem the game finally runs decent on my Win7 install..... the only difference is that I'm using the boxed version patched up to the latest 1.02 oposed the downloaded german version with English language files - which is scary if thats true! Since I have an apparent stable version running on Win7, I will now see if I can get it running stable in Vista with SLI... havent tried the older Nvidia drivers thing yet... so I'll try that one as well. Will keep you updated on my progress

My question is prob a stupid one.. lol. Got all the class names and such, but I can't for the life of me find or remember the strings to add a custom weapon and magazine to a player... ?

Hi all Just updated my Trend Antivirus, and now I am getting warning when I enter the Armed Assault website. Warning is "Tried to open a damaging website" Adress: http://toplist.cz/dot.asp....Assault Credibility - dangerous Category - Ad program/joke What is this about.. some hidden links in the arma website, or some sort of hit counter to make top lists? EDIT: This is the only site I get this warning on, and my system is clean of any Trojans or similar.

The domain is definately blacklisted, question is why? And even more so, why does the armedassault.com need to have a 1pix image with refferal to a toplist.cz site? Definately some sort of hidden tracker or other means to rize on lists. What does the toplist.cz site contain - I cant even get into that site.

Also see this post. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=57208 My intel reveals that a persons height in AA is approx 1,50m (1meter and 50 centimeter). And using that in your range formula makes it all work somewhat. As for sight adjustments, i found the following to work (looking at a standing person): 200m Minus 1 dot is impact point 300m Minus Aim center (seems to be the zero range) 400m Plus 0,5 dot is impact point 500m Plus 1 dot is impact point

Hi all We have something we're trying to sort out to be more accurate in the game. What we're talking about here is zero range for weapons ingame (and forumla to calculate distance using mil dots). The forumla I know, I would just like to know what the exact height (and prefably with) of a soldier is in Armed Assault? As for zero range. All weapons as far as I discovered has a similar to real trajectory. To further understand how that works in game, one need to know at what range are the different weapons zeroed on? M4 one belives to be zeroed at 300M So does anyone in the community, or prefably gamedevelopers able to give out data as to what range the different weapons are zeroed on? When I mean zeroed, that means the range you hit exactly in the middle of your scope, or similar. Getting this data would be really appriciated. Send me a PM if you have further questions.

Only the SPR has the ability to zoom scope. All other scoped weapons does not have that option, nor any adjustment features.

Nice work all! I would be especially interrested in getting hold of those screenshots in which you can see the 4 digit gridreference (eg. FH56). I'm not looking to stich them togheter for a huge map on the wall. But can use each part to print according to were the opeartion I'm participating in takes place. Any chance of someone hosting those screenshots you took? And did you name them with any type of rough grid refference, so that one can actually "easily" find the right one?

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