Poseidon88

What sort of power supply is installed in the computer? A cheap or underpowered PSU can cause the machine to crash, especially when you start adding more power-hungry components. Is the card AGP or PCI-E? If it's AGP, make sure you install updated chipset drivers for the motherboard. Also, keep in mind that minimum requirements are just that: the bare minimum required to get the game running. You will most likely need to crank all the detail levels down to near minimum to get playable performance, though I don't think that would cause a system crash like you described.

I wouldn't waste your time right now. Â I bought ArmA last week, and tried to run it under Vista first. Â The performance was actually OK after patching to 1.8, but it was so spectacularly unstable that I actually set up another partition with XP just so I can play it. Â It's a little disappointing, as I really like using Vista for everything else I do, and nearly every other game I own (and there are a lot) runs perfectly on Vista. Â The ones that don't are so old, I mostly don't care that much. Â If they were willing to officially support Vista, I might have stuck with it, but as it stands it isn't worth the hassle.

Running with a static swap file is one of the oldest tricks in the book to improve overall system performance, though I don't see how it could possibly help with your frame rate (unless you have low memory and the system is swapping a lot of texture data). If you want to learn some more in-depth system tweaks, try this site: http://www.tweakguides.com/System.html They also have guides for tweaking performance in particular games, but I don't see a guide for ArmA.

That may be your problem right there... Â Ouch.

You can also activate iron sights/optics with a quick right-click. Clicking and holding the right mouse button will activate concentration mode, which zooms in a little more and steadies your aim for a short time (simulating holding your breath).

Okay, I guess I figured it out. Here's what I did: * Ordered them to target the car * Ordered them to "engage at will" (nothing happened) * Ordered them to danger mode (nothing) * Ordered them to open fire (nothing) * moved closer to the car When I got within about 30m of the car, all of a sudden they started shooting. So I guess it isn't broken, but it's not really intuitive. I'm still not sure what the correct sequence of orders is. The info in the manual doesn't seem to apply.

I've tried to play through the squad leader tutorial mission several times, but every time I get to the part where I'm supposed to destroy the car, my squad members won't attack. I tell them to target the car, which they acknowledge, then the instructor tells me to have them attack, so I hit the keys to select all squad members, then order them to open fire. Nothing happens. They don't even acknowledge the order. I tried "Engage" with the same results. Was this mission broken by a patch or something? I have no mods installed. All I did was install the game (US DVD version) and patch to 1.8.

My comments: 1. can you elaborate? Â Where did you get this 160.04 driver, if it isn't official? [edit] NM, just had to follow your link 2. Already have the latest drivers available from Creative. 3. Saw that in a different thread and tried it, didn't have any effect. 4. Not sure how this would help. If anything, having no page file makes apps more likely to crash from out-of-memory errors because the OS can't move any background processes out of physical memory. 5. I already install all my games on a secondary drive. 6. Haven't tried disabling v-sync, but I'm not too hopeful that this would have any effect. Â Unless there's some known issue... Thanks for your tips, though. Â Everything helps narrow down the problem at this point.

I bought the game on Friday and had a lot of problems. I run Vista Ultimate (32-bit). I wasn't able to find any posts that cover the specific issues I've been seeing. The game installed and loaded fine (patched to 1.8 before even starting it), but if I load up a mission, finish it, and then try to exit, the process hangs and has to be killed from Task Manager. Also, when I try to play the SP campaign, the game goes into some weird state during the opening cut scene. The screen blacks out with a message about a convoy driving through a town, then nothing happens. The screen stays black, the words just hang there. I can hear vehicles driving by, and if I press escape, the menu pops up with the scene paused behind it, but as soon as I continue, it goes back to the black screen. I was able to sort of work around this by exiting, then continuing the mission. That put me into the HMMV in the middle of a conversation, but partway through the drive, just as we were approaching what I assume was the first action sequence, the game started slowing way down, then crashed to desktop. Here are my system specs: ASRock 939 Dual SATA2 mainboard Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2 GB DDR400 RAM BFG GeForce 7900GS 256MB (158.24 forceware drivers) SB Audigy 2 ZS (latest drivers from Creative) Since I really wanted to play the game, and was unable to post anything until this morning, I set up a dual-boot with XP. It seems to run fine there, so I'm assuming the problems are specific to Vista. I'd still like to see these issues sorted out if possible. I prefer to work in Vista and rebooting just to play a game is a bit of a pain. But I loved OFP, and desperately want to love ArmA, as well. Any suggestions?