SlipperyJim

Yup, some of the reports are the same. Hopefully enough people will come forward with this issue. I discovered that if the corruption occurs I can go to the options screen and change resolutions. It forces the game to reload all the textures. However if it is on a Battleye server you get kicked because your game does not respond in time. This problem only started with 1.14 patch for me. Considering many new features where added but never beta tested by the public no wonder it is buggy.

I get freeze, and then graphic corruption. Â If I switch resolutions on the Options screen it seems to reload the textures and things look. A lot of time after this has happened when I exit to desktop I get a black screen that only can be fixed with a reboot. Â You can tell the black screen occurs while windows is shutting down Arma and reclaiming resources.

That suggests to me something else is happening when no games at all work with the new drivers. You could try re-installing the drivers (make sure anti-virus/anti-spyware is turned off because sometimes they interfere with installs) and then run DXDIAG to see if your computer can complete the 3D tests under the DISPLAY tab.

Yes, I also have the freeze and then graphics corruption. As an added bonus sometimes when you exit the game the whole screen goes black and the only way to fix this is reset your computer. VERY ANNOYING. There are certainly enough of us having this problem. I really wish the fanatical fans of BIS would stop insisting the problem is with our systems. Nvida 8800 GTS 320 Meg 2 GB ram Xp Pro 175.16 vid driver

That is exactly when they released the new method of memory management in Arma. This problem also happens to me and seems almost random. One time it happened after only 9 minutes into a game. Sometimes it happens after a few hours. I immediately check my video card temperature (and my system temperature) after it happens and overheating is not the issue. I think it is a bug in the game because the game freezes for about 30 seconds before the graphic corruption occurs. Here is a screencap of a single texture being tiled filling up my whole screen: http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4130/arma228amgraphicglitchxp5.jpg

Chaos, the problem is not your hardware as some people will try to convince you and argue otherwise. The game or possibly the latest Nvidia driver has a bug that causes this problem. Considering it only happens with Arma I think it is safe to conclude it is a bug in the game itself. I personally think it is a problem with the new memory management technique that BIS has started to use but considering the game is so complex it could be from any of the recent changes. It happens to me also and it happens to other people on the forums. You will be playing and the game seems to freeze as if it is going to crash. After about 30 seconds the game unfreezes but you are left with corrupted graphics. Usually for me it looks like a single tiled texture is completely blocking your view (see screenshot below). If you hit ESC and then respawn back at base the world looks exactly like your screenshots with strange colours. The only way to fix it is to exit the game and restart it. I only have this problem with Arma and I always check my temperatures to see if it is the cause. Overheating isn't the problem. The last time I played for about 8 hours and it happens 3 times. I was forced to leave the server all 3 times to restart the game. http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4130/arma228amgraphicglitchxp5.jpg

MadDogX if you think walker and DM have been anything but exactly what you have accused me of then you are deluded. Go back and read it from the beginning. Make sure you cross-reference it with the other thread where walker is accusing me of cheating when I mentioned that BattlEye was kicking people. I posted feedback in this thread about 5 disconnects in a matter of hours. Walker then accuses me of being a liar about it. Pardon me for not sitting back and letting these fanboys get away with it.

This is a FEEDBACK thread. I gave feedback. I am not payed to report how to fix their game. As a paying customer I report a problem, they figure out how to fix it. See how that works? 95% of the people who own Arma probably never have visited this forum. Most of them have probably given up playing the game completely. Here fanboys like you are being an asshole to people like me who actually take the time to come report a possible problem. Just because you are superfan with no life does not mean everyone else has to be. The moderators can ban me all they want. Your fanboys in the forum aren't doing BIS a favor by insulting and driving people away.

DM you are nothing more than a troll. I came in good faith to post about problems with the 1.14 patch that I was having. Yes, I am not a rabid fan that I want to spend all my time documenting the bugs. Excuse me for having a life and not living in my mom's basement. I have not seen a lot of people reporting that servers are crashing in this feedback thread. Excuse me for bringing it up and excuse me for not following your high standards on bug reporting. The thread is called FEEDBACK. Not QA RESULTS.

Baam. Knew you were an evo hater right from the get go. I am sure the moderators will completely ignore the behavior of people like you as they always do. This forum has always suffered from rabid fanboys who flame and attack.

No the reason why certain people have a problem with the post is because they attack anyone who dares say anything about Arma or BIS. For some people this game is their life and they have become obsessed with it. They can't stand anyone being critical of it. As I already mentioned I do not wish to spend all my time documenting and experimenting on how to fix Arma. Ultimately I don't think BIS is listening to these feedback threads (I am not being critical but simply stating an opinion). I am posting because I hope that enough people will say "hey, ya something strange is going on here" and someone who knows the game engine will figure it out.

Thank you DM for that very helpful reply. Do you see the irony about you complaining about people who are whining? At least I am posting about server crashes that have started since 1.14. They only thing you are doing is looking for a fight.

Ah, I get your point. The problem still remains that when you hit "join" on a server you have no idea what mods/addons are allowed or not allowed. You don't even know if a server is checking the signatures. Arma has nothing in the browser interface to give you feedback. As for maps based on Evolution, it seems some people are suggesting that 1.14 has changed how some script commands are handled. If this is so, it could have a wide ranging effect on a lot of maps and addons.

DM I think the attitude in your post speaks for itself. As for posting server and crash logs, please explain how as a client I would get those things when a server (that I don't own) crashes. MadDogX, although completely off topic, I disagree because it is BIS' responsibility to ensure that servers aren't so easily crashed by clients. Once again I want to point out that this has never happened before 1.14. Why didn't we see it in the public beta tests?

You sir are already flaming by your suggestion that I was a cheater and then in the 1.14 feedback thread you suggest that I am a liar for reporting back-to-back server crashes. Funny, I was talking about players getting kicked by BattlEye and then you make that statement.

Yes, of course I did. However I have been a long time player of Evolution and I have never seen so many servers crashing before 1.14. Something has changed that is causing a lot of crashes. I have also seen problems on the Warfare map. Please don't let this turn into another Evolution hate thread. There already is enough of those. DM, I am sure walker is capable of responding on his own and even more people sticking their noses into it will only further de-rail the topic. Once again we really don't need any more people attacking others for reporting crashes and characterize them as "whining" like walker and now yourself have done. Thanks.

See how I am not attacking Hypno Toad or anyone else for saying the game works for them? I respect his right to post his experience with the game. The moderators shouldn't allow people like Walker and ShrubMiK to attack people that report problems with the patch. Contrary to what these guys try to suggest, we love Arma just as much as everyone else. We have all worshipped the hours of gameplay we have had over the years with Opflash and Arma. BIS makes some of my favorite games. However 1.14 is a complete dog for me. All the beta patches worked better than this.

walker, I am not spending a lot of time carefully documenting because it is a waste of time in my opinion. I have seen several games try to do this public beta testing idea and feedback from the community is always ignored. It is just part of the PR campaign to make us feel like we matter. I have been part of several of these "give us feedback" kind of threads with other games and the data was ALWAYS ignored. No thanks, I have been there and done that too many times already. Besides, we still have no idea if there even will be another patch since BIS has been silent about the matter. BIS released the 1.14 patch with UNTESTED new features. They weren't part of the public beta test. They don't care about what results the public beta tests got because we would have seen these new features in a 1.13 public beta patch instead of this FINAL. Can any of you actually justify releasing new untested features after all the public beta testing that happened? Come on. Walker, if you want to accuse me of being a liar then have the balls to do so instead of just hinting at it. Why on earth would I make the server crashes up? This is utterly ridiculous. First in the BattlEye thread you suggest that I am a cheater and now you accuse me of being a liar. Anyone who played this morning on the "15th MEU Recruiting" or the "1st Cavalary Division Arma 1.14" servers saw it happen. I also believe one of the servers was called "75th Ranger Regiment". After the third crash I joined another server and the first thing I said was "something strange is going on and that I didn't expect the server to last longer than 20 minutes". Guess what happened about 20 minutes later? When I rejoined the same server to confirm it was indeed a crash one of the clan members on the server said "you were right". Pft Leung was his name on the 15th MEU Recruiting server. Contact him and then accuse me of being a liar, walker. - All the servers crashing were variations of Evolution - I have no mods whatsoever. - After installing 1.14 and getting all the strange bugs I have been posting about I did a fresh uninstall, HD defrag, and re-install of the game. Nothing changed and all the server crashes mentioned above happened last night. Any you don't see how this is a problem that BIS should have already addressed long ago?

walker, I really don't appreciate you suggesting that because I am "whining" about BattlEye that I am a cheater. That is grossly offensive and ignorant. I only play cooperative games in Arma and would never even think of cheating. A lot of times I play as a medic and spend the game healing, or I spend the time shuttling people in a chopper. So far I have only seen BattlEye report once that it kicked someone for a "hack" and people on the server reported he was simply using X-fire. Most of the time BattlEye kicks people almost randomly (a lot of time it mass kicks people). BattlEye (or is it the 1.14 patch??) seems grossly unstable and there are constant server and client crashes and disconnects. We can barely play for an hour. I don't know what is causing this problem but so far I don't see what good BattlEye is doing. Perhaps if I played adversarial kind of games I would see it's benefit but so far I haven't in coop games. How the heck are we supposed to know which servers have signature checking on? I am absolutely tired of the script kiddies wrecking Arma.

ShrubMiK, it isn't a different complaint at all. 1.14 crashes, it has graphic/memory glitches, and it has massive lag/desync issues. 1.14 is what I am complaining about. There was no public beta test for several of the new features in this patch. They went directly to "Final". For some people they claim they aren't having problems and I congratulate you. For others like me they are having MAJOR issues. As a test I just did a full uninstall, a defrag, and re-install and the game crashed to desktop within an hour of gameplay. Update: Again tonight I tried playing and after about an hour the server crashed. 1.14 is almost COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE. Update2: Took an hour break from the game. Finally got enough interest in playing Arma again and joined a server. This time 20 minutes later server crashed. **sigh** at least I didn't have an hour invested in it. Thank god for small favors. Update3: Joined another game after posting here. That server lasted about 25-30 before crashing. Not making this up. Unbelievable. Update4: Joined a completely different server again and it lasted about 30-40 mins before crashing. What a wonderful night of gaming provided by BIS. Update5: Another crash after about 15-20 mins on a server. I swear on a stack of bibles. I am starting to get paranoid and wonder if I am crashing the servers somehow. This is ridiculous. This all happened on one night.

Possible BattlEye is kicking you because it can't connect. BattlEye is a complete waste of time and is so darned buggy. I constantly see mass kicks with BattlEye saying it can't connect. As we have already seen BattlEye does absolutely nothing to prevent hackers in the game. They can still run scripts and shut down servers. From what I have read BattlEye only fights the most basic wallhacks and such. BIS really spent the money on fighting hackers

Got this exact problem also only with 1.14 (it happened 3-4 times so far). I suspect it has something to do with the new way the game manages the memory. I posted about this in the 1.14 feedback thread and several people also have it. The game runs fine for a period, freezes for a second like it is going to crash, and then your graphics are corrupted and you have funny colours on the game interface. You have to reboot the game to fix it. I checked my video card temperature as soon as it happens and that isn't the problem. Card temp is almost at idle temperature since I run my fan high.

No, and in fact I brought up the idea of more patches in this thread and a moderator deleted it and said it was off topic. I started a new thread and the same moderator locked it saying there already was a "bug reporting thread". Seems they don't want anyone to discuss that we really need another patch to fix all the untested 1.14 changes.

Only have the problem with Arma. Rebooting the computer is not the solution. The problem with the game is still there, all you are doing is temporarily resetting the game. Lets face it, between 1.12 and 1.14 they added new features that were untested and then declared "final". Dangerous move.

Chaos, I haven't had it as bad as some of those screenshots but that is exactly it. Glad to see my hardware isn't dying or something. What video card do you have Heatseeker? My info: Card: Nvidia GTS 8800 320MB Driver: WHQL 175.16 (release date - May 16, 2008) I still think it is a bug with the game (ie memory management) but I guess we should compare notes on vid cards.