Mr Guarnere

I found kind of a fix to patch it to 1.8. All you need is a second computer/laptop that can patch the game with no errors :-p I have a laptop that cant actually run the game, but I installed the game and patched it fine to 1.8. Then I copied all of the files from the ARMA folder and pasted them onto my PC that can run it. Because the game is already patched to 1.5 on the PC all the registries are there already, all the game needs is the newest files. Other than this, I dont have any other fix, sorry.

Ok to get my game patched to 1.5 I did the following: 1) Uninstall the game and remove any files/folders associated with it. These files can be found in: C:/Program Files, C:/Documents and Settings/'Your Login'/Local Settings/Application Data/ARMA C:/My Documents 2) For the advanced users who know what they are doing I removed the registries - search for ARMA and Bohemia and just remove it all. 3) Reinstall the game and just leave it. 4) Run the patch. If you get a mismatch error at the 'Checking..' stage unzip the original file from the CD (ARMA/AddOns) folder into your games directory on your PC and overwrite it. Keep doing it until you get through the checking stage without an error. It should work 1st time tho with no error. 5) If you get a 'Cannot update file...' error then you need to go into your /Program Files/ARMA/AddOns folder and delete the .TMP version of the file that is trying to be update. Go back to the patch and click RETRY. Keep doing this until it does it - took 6 times for me on 1 file. Important thing to remember is try not to run any programs in the background. The way the patch works is it unzipps a .UPD file which is the update for the file you already have. It then creates a .TMP file in the same directory and then merges the 2 files together to create the .PBO file. For some reason the .TMP file creating can get interrupted and all you need to do like I said above is delete the .TMP file and hit retry for the file to be re-created. Thats it :-) Now I've tried this with 1.8 but it didnt work :-( Im currently in the process of trying something else and I'll let you guys know if it works.

Lol I promise I'll do it tomorrow evening, I keep forgetting - working too hard. Its 00:15 here atm so I'll post tomorrow. Just remember, it got me to 1.5 so far, not 1.8. Im still kinda working on that.

I've actually managed to find a fix for the patching problem - I managed to get it up to 1.5 so far and Im working on 1.8 - Im having seperate issues with my PC that Im trying to sort out so I cant really do it atm. I dont really have time now, but if anyone wants me to post how I did it let me know - this is to fix the 'Error found in \air.pbo (x1234567! = c7654321)' problem that people are getting. It takes a bit of time (30 - 40min) and means you have to reinstall your game and edit registries, but it worked for me. So, if anyone wants a fix, post here.

Ye I understand, it was a bit uncool of me to post that in the 1st place. I only just woke up and wanted to see if anyone found a fix to my prob and I wasnt thinking. I really dont know what to suggest.. On a good note, I managed to find a fix to patch the game ^^ I've just sucesfully patched it to 1.5. Lets see how 1.8 goes :-p

You shall wait a very long time my friend. I've tried to find some sort of contact for them directly, but I cant..

Its kool Max :-) And I'd just like to mention that my game wont work either - I cant even get the bloody thing installed let alone started. I cant patch it without at least 6 errors. I've been working for about 4hrs now trying to get it solved..

Do you think that we are complaining having shitty computers? Have you bothered to read the PC specs in this thread? All of us had ArmA running, either 1.05 or 1.06, depending on the country. I can fucking assure you that my PC can run arma without any problem, with and average of more that 30fps. We are not complaining about a new release game that doesn't run, we are complaining about a fix(1.08) that screws the game for many of us. So before posting silly comments take your time to read what is this about, because we are enough irritated to have also to read nonsense comments from those who have not problems with the fucking patch! Hey, screw you guy, I was just trying to help. I aint got the time to read through 8 shitty pages. I just posted what I had a problem with and how I fixed it.

Ok mate, I'll give that a go now :-)

When my game DOES work I have a problem with my sound - I get occassional white noise followed by a fizzing noise and then 'shutdown' noise (like you get on films when there is a powercut in the office :-p). It is very loud and generally annoying. I've tried to mess around with Hardware Acceleration and EAX in game, and also in Windows and I still get it. I tried 3 different sound cards, disabled the onboard, uninstalled any drivers I had for the old ones so there is no conflict. Still happens. Anyone get this too? Is it possible that this could happen when the process over works, like processes a lot of data for like 5 sec or something? I have an external USB sound card btw. Any suggestions appreciated.

John did you manage to fix it in the end?

Hmm, well that's what did it for me. The game wouldnt start - Id double click the shortcut and then watch the process start in Task Manager and then after 5sec turn off. Thats when I figured that out. Are you guys sure your PC is powerful enough to run the game? I had this with BF2 on my old PC, it'd start but then turn off straight away.

Ever since installing the game for the first time I had errors applying the patches. I get the xdelta3 error thing when it runs. Does anyone know how to actually fix this? Because Im having to 'Ignore' these errors when it installs, but the the actual game dont work. Why is there always a mismatch between the patch and the file on my PC? I've reinstalled the game, re-downloaded the patches and still it doesnt match. I've managed to kind of solve it - I unzipped the original files from the CD directly to the AddOns folder in C:\ARMA, and that kind of fixed the 'Checking' stage, but when it actually got to updating it broke again. Can anyone help at all?

I dont know if this will work for you guys but it worked for me: -Right click the ARMA.exe shortcut and select 'Run as' -Leave the 'Current user...' box ticked -Untick the 'Protect me computer...' box. -Click OK and it should work.

Any suggestions what I should set my maxmem to? I got Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS 512MB with 1024MB DDR2 RAM?