Outrider

Could you post your exact system specs please? Motherboard, sound card, graphics card (chipset and maufacturer), processor, RAM (both the amount you have and what speed the RAM is i.e. PC133, PC2100 etc)......... If I had more knowledge of what system you have I might be able to help you. I have had three different types of game crashes/freezes and two of them are to do with RAM!

I believe your problem is because you have 512Mb RAM yet have set the RAM in the preferences to 1Gb. Bring it down to 512Mb or below. Operation Flashpoint thinks you have more RAM than you really do.

Does your OFP freeze and do a sound loop where you here the same thing over and over again? Does this also happen in other games? If this is so check your RAM sticks. One of them could be out of place. I had this problem and when I swapped my 2 RAM sticks around, and also gave the sockets a blow to get rid of dust, the problem went away. Unfortunately I had uninstalled everything apart from Windows and a game that it happened very quickly in before I had found a solution. I don't know whether this will also sort the muddy green screen problem. It might because it might be where OFP thinks you have a certain amount of RAM then trys to use it yet can't. Just an idea.

I have this "out of video memory can't create 3d device" problem quite a bit. It is always caused by Operation Flashpoint and then it spreads to all my computer. Basically what happens is Operation Flashpoint goes crazy and thinks you don't have a graphics card anymore. DirectX will also think this so when you do the display tests it comes up with an error. The way to fix this is to wipe your graphics drivers off your computer and then reinstall them. I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128Mb that uses the Nvidia chipset. Everytime I try to upgrade my drivers I get this error but not due to OpFlash but due to DirectX being a horrible piece of software. I can only use drivers that have got WHQL on them and because I don't have XP none of the new drivers for Windows 9x or ME systems have WHQL. Luckily the graphics card came with drivers that had WHQL and work with windows 9x and ME. They are old but at least they work.

I do however have a fix for the people that get errors saying that the graphics card can't be initialised (or something similar). The problem I found on my system is direct X hating any drivers that do not have WHQL on them. I have Direct X 9.0b and I have to use my oldest drivers because they are the only ones I can get for windows 98 or ME with WHQL on them. I have a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 made by Gainward and I have downloaded drivers from Gainward and Nvidia when people suggest getting the latest drivers. But these only make Direct X go kaput and say you don't have a compatible graphics card. Even when I tell it to not search for WHQL it still doesn't like the non-WHQL drivers. Also another fix: for people using high power Athlon XP eg 2000+ but do NOT have any RAM higher than PC133 you will experience a nasty bug in all games where it freezes and the sound goes around in circles. At first I thought it to be a sound problem but that wasn't it. Then I upgraded all my drivers for everything but my graphics card (due to the above problem) to no avail. Only when I upgraded my RAM from PC133 to PC2100 did the problems stop. It has something to do with the nice fast processors going to fast for the older slow access RAM.

I had problem number one but I have the latest version of the game yet it still gives me the black to muddy green screens. I figured it was down to the amount of addons I had but I had masses more (over 1.5Gb) in the past.