Lucky7

Hi there. I have been playing ArmA relatively ok now for a while. I downloaded the QG last night and when I went to play it I had the star burst effect on the helicopters followed by ctd. After I rebooted I tried again and although it worked it was very slow with a massive drop in frame rates. I have just up dated to 163.75 drivers and now I get nothing at all. The last two boxes dont check when starting (I know the last one doesn't anyway). I have -maxmex256. Any thoughts would be brilliant. Cheers

Hi there. Could anybody explain, very slowly, how I can put my custom face into the game whilst using Vista 64? I have read and reread this tread, among others, and I am either doing something wrong or.....well who knows, it's vista after all. Thanks in advance Hiya Dont worry I have sorted it. I was just being dense.

I installed this hotfix and all the latest drivers and no joy. Back to 128.54 for me.

Hi. I had the same thing with a UH whilst refueling hovering over a garage. I thought it was a bit wierd then. My antialiasing is set to normal.

Are you running 32 or 64 bit vista? If using 64 bit use 158.24. These might help. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=68183 or this one http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=68183

Hi plaintiff1. I think I actually look like those guys

Cheers Hoz, I was using the wrong words in my search.

Ok. I now have SLI enabled and so far so good. Running Evolution in LAN mode, when I went to turn up the volumes it stopped responding, now when I respawn or stand still for any length of time I get a bright white strobe effect that whiteouts the screen. It goes away when I move somewhat. Also changed to TFT screen. Any thoughts?

Hi there after doing a search I can't find a thread to show me how I can have my face in the game similar to OPF. Is this possible and how do I do it. Any help appreciated. Thanks

Thanks Twisted1. I have been thinking of dual booting the machine but I am not sure of the machanics. I think the stability would be nice but as the machine is less than a month old I will contact the support people before I do anything. This page is quite explanitary, (its a link to a process, nothing illegal). http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html I have SLI disabled at present as I believe ArmA isn't supported or that the cards dont use it. The Manage 3D Settings in Nvidia Control Panel is set to default. I am going to enable SLI and then let the Nvidia CP use the default setting and see what happens. Umm, fear.exe, just what is it and how do I do it? I did a search and http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=67912 was all I could find and whilst interesting not really what I was looking for (cheers SWAT_BigBear) I thought that 10210 in 3Dmarks06 was ok, it was saying that it was in the top 25%. Though if I am honest I thought that it might had been a bit better, but it was straight out of the box with no tweaking. Like most people I just want to turn the pc on knowing it works without having to do anything. My pc knowledge is just above limited. I could just about run the game (1.08) on my old pc and never had any problems, it was very slow at times but never really crashed. It just meant I got good at flying choppers cos I couldnt shoot anything in MP (P4 2.8ghz, 1gig PC2100, ATI X1300 AGP, XP Home sp2, 120hdd 5400rpm). BTW I am currently running S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow Of Chernobyl and that looks fantastic.

Well I think that we have gone some way to solving the problems. I have just finished a good couple of hours playing Evolution on some server which, was fun, about to get to sgt when the tk'ing started, which was shame. The only real issue was the LOD but it also only lasted for a couple of seconds so I can live with that. Anyway I am running -maxmem=512 and xp compatible using the older 158.24 drivers. I tried the 163.44 but it was no good. My other settings are (just for interest): 1440x900x32 4:3 NORMAL 60hz Visibility 10000 Terrain LOW (default setting with high Viz) Objest Detail VERY HIGH Texture Detail VERY HIGH Postprocess LOW Anisotropic Filtering NORMAL Shadow HIGH Antialiasing Mormal Blood High (well you would ) I hope that this helps others to get a good Arma experience. Thanks for the help. Lucky7 (I only hope it will last)

No I haven't but I shall give it a try. Thanks for the idea though. Just wondering if the 1.08 hotfix would be any good as I am not really suffering from any of the problems addressed by that, other than the ladder thing.

Ok. Next I changed from 512 to 1024 which didn't work as the screen went all blocky the first time and then froze the second time. Then I changed it to 256 and that worked but it ran very slow with low framerates as new scenery loaded. So I reutned to 512, are there any other numbers I could use? Thanks

Thanks for that link there Dwarden. I have created a new shortcut and modified the target thus: "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA\arma.exe" -maxmem=512 Which seemed to work but.... I started the game and played Evolution on LAN with just me, after about 20 mins or so it CTD but rather than the 8007000e dialog box there was just the This programme has stopped working dialog box that you get with Vista. So has the 8007000e been fixed or was that another bug? I have read of dual boot systems using both Vista and XP would this be of any benefit? Thanks again.

Hi there. Having had trouble, I installed 168.24 which worked for a good while but now the 8007000e CTD has appeared ona regular basis. I have shifted through the history and gleaned as much as possible but could someone please explain to me (and possibly others) what is MAXMEM=512? Also deplinenoise's post about editing the /largeaddressaware in arma.exe was very interesting but what the hell did it mean Is there a walkthrough for that process or is it not worth it yet? Love the game and looking forward to the day when I can play for hours on full everything. Cheers