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I think I should be running this game ok with my setup: Asus M3N72-D AMD Phenom Black edition 9600 Quad core 8 gb Ram GeForce 9800 GT Vista Ultimate 64 bit Latest display and direct x installed But when I start the game I see the little ticks bar progressing, which then launches to a black screen. That's it, despite some hard drive activity - nothing - it just stays at black screen. Any ideas guys? I thought I should be ok running this...have no probs with arma 1 or any other game for that matter. I was hoping to buy the full game in a day or two, but is it going to be the same? Thanks for any help you can offer.:confused:

I joined a Domination game last night, where there was some sort of hacking going on when I joined. We were just being constantly being shot at the spawn flag by some wallhacker whos name wasnt appearing for the kills? Anyway got fed up of this constantly for a few mins, and what chance has an admin of kicking/banning this cheater if no name is appearing? We need something to sort this and soon .... for me public is the only multiplay I am gonna get. I cant really join a clan or something to get on a private server. My situation is that I usually be playing from around 11.00pm till around 03.00 am when my kids are sleeping in the room next door so I cant be hollering "INCOMIN'" on ts! Unless I wanna wake up the whole house which wont be pretty lol. I can listen just fine on my headphones though so thats fine for now:)

So guys...which are good addons to install to improve the sound in the game? Are you still able to join public servers with these addons? I seen an addon for car radio I wouldnt mind installing, and if you can recommend anything else that doesnt mess with joining multiplay games that would be great. Be nice to know what addons u guys are using .... I get the feeling Im missing out on something:D

Any help appreciated on this guys....game was running fine for me then I decide to install the new patch, now it wont run. During the patch install I got this error Clicked Retry a few times but kept popping up same...then selected skip. So when I tried to start the game it then shows this message and crashes to desktop Have tried to reinstall the patch a few times and now see this error as I try to patch Also tried downloading patch from 3 other locations with same results ... any ideas? Have latest direct X and display drivers installed (190.38) Also, it is a paid for game unlike a guys thread who was locked reporting a similar problem .... didnt see too many results when i googled it :S 02:30am now and another 4 hours wasted trying to get this game to run again after having it running so good!

I feel your pain...check this thread u might find some help...dunno http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=82817

Glad to see u got sorted Cjph .... I too successfully got it installed. Everything I did is in this thread...Disabling UAC,Uninstall everything,delete all related folders and done a registry cleanup, disabled firewall and antivirus, then reinstall everything again. Strange thing is I done the exact same routine a few times and still getting the patch error during install, and was basically giving it one last go when it didnt throw up the patch error...I thought wtf?? Then it was everything crossed for trying to start game and hey .... no pixel error message nor CTD:yay: Thanks again to everyone who put in on this >>>>> without these forums and the communities knowledge I would have no chance! Also...for the short time I managed to play last night...gameplay seems smoother for me and I may be able to squeeze a bit more eye candy outa my 9800 gt now:)

Yep plenty of free space there ... its driving me crazy tbh :s I have done everything from scratch around 7 times now with the same results. Tried with UAC disabled and running as admin...no difference though. That error....the one about pixel shader...is that a graphics driver error or direct x or something else? Do we know which version drivers the Bi guys use on there nvidia cards by any chance? At this point I'm really clutching at straws as u can tell and am wondering if a complete system reformat would be in order...I'll try anything...erm 7 times lol Thanks for the input here anyway guys...I think tonite will reformat and reinstall from start and see how it goes. If that fails then its back to the previous patch for me 'till someone sorts it :s

This is a legit 505 Games version, which I foolishly paid real money for. I already mentioned in first post it was not a pirated version, as at the time of posting I googled the error and could see how some guy using a pirate copy had his thread locked. Hope this clears this issue....I still have this problem if anyone can help

Can't even run game now...details below. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=82817

My problems here only introduced with 1.03 patch process ... getting boring now this :S http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=82817

Any other ideas for this guys? Getting the same messages etc and cant play ..... is really getting a bit annoying now no idea what to do.

Well guys...tried that with no joy. Uninstalled, deleted the folders and cleaned registry...then restarted, reinstalled game....once I started to install the patch it threw up the same error as above "error found in ALL\ARMA2.EXE" When I select retry just keeps coming back...once I select ignore it says patch installed ok. Then when I try to run game I get the error compiling pixel shader etc message and CTD :S Getting so pissed off with this game...wasting my gaming time taking part in a beta test I wasnt invited too. Really dont know what to do next:mad:

Thanks for quick reply...I have the 505 Games version....after I do a fresh install can I use the 1.03 patch, or do I need to install the previous patch first?

Hi guys Due to a guys post on these forums ref setting fan speeds to 100% with nvidia system tools , I was for the first time last night able to play for 3 straight hours ( and disconnected of my own free will) This is a first for me....previously I usually managed about 15 mins before I started to see graphical annomalies and then CTD.... then it was 3 hours on the troubleshooting forums :j: So seems like a lot of my problems have been caused by an inactive fan. When I installed nvidia system tools and set fan speed to 100% it sounded like a chopper taking off...a completelly new sound to me and made my pc mucho loud:) My fan has not been running at all and so the GPU has been overheating forcing the CTD. I have now reached a stable compromise at 60 % fan, it's not as noisy and Arma2 still likes me....but what I have now noticed is that when I restart my pc....no GPU fan activity untill I go into nvidia tools and set it again. So a question I now have is this ... Is this necessary everytime, or can I somehow make it stay running at 60% all the time? Wish I could find that thread about the fans etc to thank the Op for the fix;) Thanks for the help guys.

Thanks a lot guys...this is just what I need;) ---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:50 PM ---------- Cant figure it out how to set the fan speed....a little bit more complicated than I had hoped. Soon as I get the kids asleep will have a fiddle with it:s

Hey guys, been lurking around here a lot more than playing the game unfortunately no matter what I try though this game runs very poor for me. I'm talking real bad fps, like between 10-15 at best, but more often 8-10 and last night on multiplayer actually went down to 1 FPS which was a first....couldnt even move :S My CPU was reading 52% and Ram 29% at the time. Without a doubt the worst times are online, but it has been in single play at times as well. I only built this pc a short time ago, and although I cut the corner when I bought the Graphics card I still assumed it would be enough to see me through till I got the cash for something better. The guy in the shop said it would run any game you throw at it...he obviously hadnt heard of Arma 2 lol :P In fact it has run any game I play with no probs....arma 1 included in that. Does everything point to this card if my CPU or Ram dont seem to be stressed out? Am I really looking at having to buy another card to play this game or can I get it to run better somehow with what I have? Any suggestions are appreciated guys...shame, game looks so freakin' good when it does run a bit nice:o: ps....it be nice if BIS would step up and say something if there's something wrong with the game and they're gonna fix it:confused:

Thanks a lot guys for the replies....those suggestions have helped me a bit in the single player department, will give multiplay another try soon;)

Sorry silly of me not to put that: Visibility - 3045 texture detail - normal video memory - default antriscopic filtering - normal antialiasing - normal terrain detail - normal object detail - normal shadows - normal post process - disabled 3 d resolution - 1024 x 768 PhysX - disabled Another attempt at playing there and I was getting 15-20 fps...right up untill I got killed...game immediately CTD.

The "netsh winsock reset" trick works for some people, but a word of advice...if it does do the trick then you are running with no firewall protection...eventhough it may look like it is running ok. Next, the nvidia firewall is a piece of crap...and you can quote me on that..lol The best news about that is that if you suspect it is the problem...just turning it off will make no difference at all...you need to completely uninstall it. If your game then runs ok for online play you then need to source a new firewall like I had to...hope this is of some help.

this my initial post about problem http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=62976

Does anyone know of a customer support email address where it is possible to get an answer about a game problem? Ive had this game sometime now and getting no where and the few answers Ive had here are not helping either.

tnx for reply guys.....Im 505 games so I mailed them...I expect I will be playing operation flashpoint 3 by the time they answer:S

Reference the first fix for winsock they said if it doesnt work to make copy of your registry and do the following: Start Windows in safe mode, go to device manager, show hidden devices and delete the following non-PnP-drivers: HTTP AVMPORT NetBios over TCP/IP TCP-IP Driver for automatic RAS-connection Windows Socket 2.0 Non-IFS If I am to delete the above mentioned drivers will that cause me other problems?

Hi guys, I had posted a while back reference this same issue...I could see all games listed in browser but when I tried to conect to one it would look like it was going to then say conecting failed. The solution I was told was in this thread http://community.bistudio.com/wiki....servers (Can't connect on servers- Every attempt to connect to a server fails with an error message saying that the attempt to connect failed. Solution Execute netsh winsock reset with cmd.) This did work great, the only problem being that it renders the firewall inactive. The only way it seems to fix that is by reinstalling the firewall...which yes you guessed it....puts the winsock catalogue back to its previous state...hmmm, am I missing something here? Guys any help appreciated in sorting this matter so I can play online and have my firewall operational...thankyou.

Yeah is right version patch and the right servers I trying. As I said the problem is sorted by resetting the winsock cat but it then means having no firewall :S