SlipperyJim

This is the third time I have suddenly got corrupted graphics and the only way to fix it is to exit the game. This time it happened after only about an hour and I immediately checked my video card temperature and it was perfectly fine. Heat is not the problem. The game pauses for a second and you feel like you are about to lose the server or possibly crash but then the game comes back alive with corrupted graphics. You can hear people in the game, you can even type, but the graphics are all messed up. Your screen is filled with the brown texture shown in the screenshot below. Menu colours are all pink or other strange colours. Some windows have multiple colours like corrupted data. I only have this problem with Arma and only since 1.14. None of the betas caused this. Is it a problem with their new memory management system?? Between the corrupted graphics and the constant server crashes every 2-4 hours the game is completely unplayable.

How about calling it "Arma 1 With Patches"? It has a certain ring to it.

Since the moderators are deleting all discussion of this being the very final patch for Arma 1 in the feedback thread I figured I would try to ask the question here. Will there be any more patches for Arma 1? Hopefully a developer, an employee of BIS, or a moderator has this answer.

Last night again I had an odd situation in which the game's interface becomes corrupted. The graphics feel like they have been corrupted and I was forced to shut the game down. When I got back to Windows things were still acting funny and I had to reboot. This has happened twice with the 1.14 patch after playing for a fairly long period. Considering the game is using that new funky memory management I blame the patch. It is possible it is Nvidia's latest driver but I doubt it since they didn't really change anything to do with 8800 cards as far as I know. Now before someone says it is overheating and video artifacting because of heat I must say that my old BFG card had that problem so I know what it looks like. This looked more like corrupted memory.

Baddo, don't be a troll just because you think 1.14 is absolutely perfect. My point about the CTI filtering is that if you are going to bother adding a new feature (in this case a new game mode) then make it work properly. Don't leave the game buggy. It makes absolutely no sense to add a new game mode but not include it in the game mode filters. That is just plain sloppy work. There are loads of old bugs that still aren't fixed. 1.14 added new bugs that need to be fixed now also. As far as I know CTI was never beta tested with the public yet somehow it has become part of the "final". - Servers crash a lot more. You can't go 2-4 hours without a server crashing. Is the cause addons? If so why did 1.14 break all the addons suddenly? - Performance hits. I had better performance in the early days of Arma. - LAG, LAG, LAG. Massive amounts of lag online now. Desync problems. What did 1.14 do to mess it so badly up? - "Where are you?" bug. The game has this problem in 1.14 than ever before. The AI shouts this out endlessly until you disconnect from the server. Annoying as old hell. That is exactly what I think they are counting on. People will be fed up with all of Arma 1's new bugs they will gladly buy Arma 2 for the fixes. It is called "planned obsolescence". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

So really what you are saying is that the 1.14 patch broke all the addons.

Tonight I filtered the BattlEye servers and they were almost completely empty. All the BattlEye servers were 2/32 or 1/20 but most were completely empty. I had to switch to games without BattlEye to get populated games. Why are people avoiding BattlEye?

As the thread says the cheaters are back ruining Arma again. So much for their cheat protection. The only thing that BattlEye seems to do is kick legit players because it can't connect. Well done BIS.

So many server crashes. I can't play longer than 2-4 hours without the server reseting. BIS how come 1.14 is such a big step backwards?

All last night I was affected by lag on a server with pings of about 40. Every time I got in a helicopter it felt like we were crashing into the ground or spinning because of lag. Did BIS actually test the CTI game mode in a public beta test? Update: The hackers are back and are screwing up servers again big time! Didn't take them long to hack 1.14 and get by the game's cheat protection. The 1.14 servers crash on their own all the time (usually I can play for about 2-4 hours before the servers crash) and if it isn't the servers crashing it is cheaters. Ugh!

You would think that for a software company that if you can't afford to make a feature work right then don't add it in the first place. It would be a shame if they spent all this time and money on VOIP for example and we can't even get a view while in a helicopter that doesn't make it seem like you are about to crash into the ground due to bad net code. I never had this problem before 1.14 except for very early versions of the game. If this was indeed the last patch for Arma 1 instead of adding all these buggy new features they really should have concentrated on a stable version. We really do need another patch. It seems ridiculous that we can't even filter for a CTI game properly.

Actually I would love to hear a new statement because as we all know in life things happen and people have been known to change their minds. Would be great to hear from BIS what they intend to do with Arma 1 at this point. 1.14 seems to have introduced more bugs for me than previous betas. I find the lag in 1.14 to be as bad as some of the very early versions of the game. Even though I am playing on a server with a 30-40 ping the view from a helicopter when in flight is completely lagged out that it appears you are crashing or flying upside down a lot. I have also found the confused AI bug to be much more frequent in which they quickly repeat "Where are you?" endlessly until you go mad. Would be sad to leave the game in this shape. It is such a marvelous game otherwise except for the bugs.

Nope, I am not confused by the word "final" but thank you for assuming I never finished high school, lol. I seem to recall reading a developer saying that this was the last patch for Arma 1. Hope it is not so because BIS needs to fix old bugs and fix new bugs they created with the new features.

Nope. Evolution and I don't use any mods/addons. Just had a nasty crash in 1.14 that I have never seen in Arma before in all the betas and previous patches. The server crashed and all the clients crashed to desktop. So far 1.14 has been really bad for me. Funny enough all the beta patches worked better. I guess they are getting us ready to want Arma 2's fixes.

Bug with phantom AI asking "where are you" still present. 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? 4: Where are you? Was on browser screen and everything froze and graphics went funny. Never had this problem on previous versions.

Final does not mean last. Actually I am pretty sure they said months ago that this was the last patch they were going to release for Arma 1. Would love to be wrong on this.

Went into armory. Clicked on a unit and game froze. Had to force game to shut down. When I don't have a filter selected in game types I can see warfare games but they show up as "Unknown". When I choose "Unknown" in the game type filters the warfare games now don't show up. Shame this is the final patch. Looks like more patches required

There are a billion games out there already that serve the DM/ TDM crowd. I, for one, am glad that BIS has cared so much about the coop community. Of course it feels like there is a shift to make a more mainstream game and I suspect they will move back to the adversarial masses on Arma 2. Just a personal theory.

Cheats and crashes.

Have any of you ever thrown a puppy off a cliff? Ahhhh, come on, admit it.

At the top of the read me file for 1.12 it says: *********************** ARMA BETA PATCH 1.11 README *************************** When installing this beta patch is says that to uninstall it you have to re-install the whole game. It reports it is patching a 1.08 game to 1.12?? Did the other beta patches report this?

Getting the Linux servers patched is an absolute must! Half of the servers out there are stuck on 1.08 because of this. The community is split up.

Well you can only say that when you get the free copies of the game in your hands. They sound shifty. BTW very cool of you to use them as prizes instead of just taking the cash.

shinRaiden, despite the buried flames that you obviously feel above, that was one fine piece of writing. +5 for creative flaming. I forgive you for being hypocritical You should be a wordsmith by trade.

W0lle, who ever said they should stop work on the patch?! Amazing how you can twist this into such a negative characterization. There is only one thing I have been critical about BIS and Arma and that is how freaking long it is taking them to get the patch out the door so that the massive security hole is closed that allows kids to run client-side scripts. Is it so bad to say something like this? One year to patch the biggest security hole I have ever seen since I started multiplayer gaming. I called Dslyecxi a fanboy not to simply insult him but because the term actually applied. He attacks anyone even mildly critical of how BIS is handling this patch. His dedication to the game is admirable but are we less of a fan of the game because we complain that the patch is taking too long? I love Arma but it is pretty useless to have a multi-player game that is abandoned because everyone has moved on. Perhaps we should not buy Arma 2 and just wait until Arma 3 is released and has more fixes applied??