Para1

Thanks for the input here guys. I don't think its heat causing this, at least not for me; like I said this is a multiplayer issue only, in single player there are no issues whatsoever, heat inclusive. My crash occurs even if I just join the lobby and press leave. @Bigbear, thats a good idea, but I've already scanned my HD, registry etc up and down and I'm pretty sure its not a problem with the dll file itself, but between the file and arma. I've been messing around a bit with this, trying various settings. No joy. I'm most definetly angry now. Arma is a multiplayer game after all.

A windows update sounds like a reasonable culprit. Man this sort of thing makes me so mad. I'll post back if I find something, a solution or workaround. I do usually get the windows error screen too, but not always. Not sure about that, I had it using .08 and 1.12 also. Are you using XP then? Cos I'm on vista home 32, makes it odd that we'd have the same problem on different OS no?

Hi Chaos thanks for the reply! So have you concluded that the problem is not DX but rather the max pre-render setting? I was going to selectively disable EAX and the other sound-options but seeing as though you've already tried without sound I guess this isn't the culprit either. I reverted to older drivers for my 8600m gt, from 174.12 to 169.09, which doesn't even incorporate pre-render option in the nvidia control panel. Had the problem with the newer drivers too, playing around with settings between 1 and 3 pre-rendered frames. Would you know if my current drivers default to 1 pre-rendered frames? I'll post back if I have any success here, and keep an eye on that other thread. Surely there must be a fix to this issue. Cheers m8

Has no one seen this problem before? I thought the BI forumus would be the place to go for help. Any help would be hot because right now I'm thinking I bought a useless piece of software. Sorry if I'm bumping my own thread but this is rather frustrating, and I'm at a loss here. Oh and 1.14 made no difference, the problem persists. Thanks again.

Hi fellas, too bad my first post here has to be in the troubleshooting section but here goes: My NTDLL.DLL file causes a system freeze every time I try to go multiplayer in ArmA. I've posted about this at a few other forums to no avail, and now I'm at the end of my ropes: Without exception the ntdll.dll freezes the game after a few minutes in the MP lobby, whenever I try to leave the lobby, or after a few minutes in MP game if I manage to join a game quickly. The game is utterly unplayable. Mark that in single player it is dead stable, no hitches whatsoever. I'm posting my rpt file below. Note that I have exactly the same problem using the 1.12 patch, and I've tried to reinstall (no mods), scan harddrives & DLLs, fixed the registry etc. Any help would be hot! Cheers! ============================================== == G:\Program Files\ArmA\arma.exe ============================================== Exe version: Mon Apr 28 23:15:18 2008 Updating base class ->Default, by ca\anims\characters\config.bin/CfgMovesBasic/DefaultDie/ Updating base class ->Default, by ca\anims\characters\config.bin/CfgMovesMaleSdr/States/Crew/ Applying controller scheme Default Applying controller scheme Default Applying controller scheme Default No alive in 10000 ===FROZEN====>>>>>>BEG Version 1.08.5163 Fault address: 77F29A94 01:00058A94 C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll Prev. code bytes: FF 8D A4 24 00 00 00 00 8D 64 24 00 8B D4 0F 34 Fault code bytes: C3 8D A4 24 00 00 00 00 8D 64 24 00 8D 54 24 08 Registers: EAX:30040030 EBX:00000000 ECX:34069840 EDX:00000008 ESI:463409F0 EDI:46340A88 CS:EIP:001B:77F29A94 SS:ESP:0023:01C5F234 EBP:01C5F29C DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000 Flags:00000246 ===FROZEN====>>>>>>END And my specs: Windows Vista 32bit Home, SP1. Dual core T7300 (DDR2), 2gig RAM. GPU is 8600M GT using 169.09 drivers (I've even tried other drivers- no joy). HD is Seagate 160GB @ 7200rpm. Realtek soundcard.