Talbot

I have played a couple of MP games and they were just pointless. Everyone is a rambo and you have the usual w*nkers sitting in a bush for the entire round popping players off. I want to play on TS with a team but I don't want to have to join clan or something like that. They all take it so damn seriously, it's boring, this is a game, nothing more. Just wanna have coordinated game play because without it ARMA MP is dead boring, unless you like Vehicles, which bore me to death.

When playing MP games (or even SP games for that matter) the sound seems to be totally screwed up. Tanks sounds like they're about 10 metres from me yet they are in fact a good 500. When I'm shot from a distance, it sounds like I'm being shot from about 2 metres away. When I turn my back on tanks, the sound goes muffled... its as if the sound doesn't know if its coming or going. Running a Creative X-FI Extreme Sound Card with the latest drivers. I have turned EAX off both in-game and on the audio control panel. Hardware Acceleration has been turned off in-game... it seems to change the way the sound operates but doesn't change the basic principle that a tank sounds like its 10 metres away when in fact its on the other side of the sodding battlefield.

Mine looks like: START "" /D"%CD%" /B "%CD%\beta\arma.exe" -mod=beta -nosplash -maxmem=512 I haven't checked to see if its using more RAM than specified but the issues I had with the textures and crashes just vanished.

I'm running the 1.05 Beta. I will try and make a video, maybe its just the way war is... but it confuses the hell out of me because I can never ever tell which way anything is coming from, especially vehicles. So I end up running straight toward danger without even realising it giving some camping b*stard the satisfaction popping me one. Helicopter sounds are more or less perfect, they sound distant when distant and loud when flying over my head... all good.

I pretty much did that and my graphical and crash problems have all but vanished. Have you tried taking out the FDF Mod line?

I forgot to mention I had tried them as well when I was diagnosing my crashing problem which is fixed now.

A batch file is (mostly) just a text file where each line of text is executed as a command (exactly as if you had typed it manually). Open the batch file in any text editor and you will figure it out You have made me feel a bit stupid, thanks a lot. (Done it, cheers).

attention, I received a warning for this kind of comment!! I've been having the same problem but what adds insult to injury was the fact that the game would crash randomly and give me some retarded error. However, for some reason, after adding -maxmem= 512 to the command line .exe short cut I played for 4 hours and had absolutely no crashes and no texture distortion. This was suggested to me by.... I forgot... someone clever. This was with the original 1.5, not the beta. I can't figure out how to get -maxmem=512 working with that batch file. I have probably jinxed it now and it will start crashing and giving me the texture bug again.

attention, I received a warning for this kind of comment!! I've been having the same problem but what adds insult to injury was the fact that the game would crash randomly and give me some retarded error. However, for some reason, after adding -maxmem= 512 to the command line .exe short cut I played for 4 hours and had absolutely no crashes and no texture distortion. This was suggested to me by.... I forgot... someone clever. This was with the original 1.5, not the beta. I can't figure out how to get -maxmem=512 working with that batch file. I have probably jinxed it now and it will start crashing and giving me the texture bug again.

run in windowed mode in Vista should fix this... add to the commandline of arma shortcut: -x=1024 -y=768 -window replace 1024 and 768 with the resolution you wish. Yep, thanks Gonk. I managed to get the maxmen thing working with the original shortcut .exe but how do I get the resolution command line and the maxmem working with the beta batch file? Adding -maxmen etc to the end of the command line for the batch file does not work. <span style='color:red'>Moderator edit: Do not include pictures in your replies.</span>

This has worked, thanks. Well... at least it works with the original 1.05 but how do you force the batch file for the Beta to use it? And what does maxmem actually do?

Yes, I started it with the Batch file. Wish there was someone else getting the SAME error message.

Just crashed again. Was running perfectly through the third or fourth mission in the campaign. I reverted, saved and loaded several times. I had shot all the convoy soldiers when a script was loaded and the game crashed with the error. Gonna try that short cut addition, see if that helps.

If I hadn't have installed DX then I don't think the game would have loaded at all. Probably try that anyway. I have DX 10 installed, is that a problem? It runs more or less perfectly for a while but then randomly drops to desktop with the above error.

Seriously getting tired of this error....

This beta, as well as the official patch, is still crashing me and giving me the texture bug. BIS.... in all honesty, you are not a company I'd like to invest in. Fairly appalling performance from you.

Still have the bland texture problem. Runs perfect for the first couple of loads but then starts to get worse until the trees and terrain are just blocks. Running Vista with an 8800 GTX. The problem occurs with XP too.

Until then is there absolutely no way to disable Vsync in ARMA on Vista?

Those who have dual booted with VISTA and XP; how much of a performance hit have you experienced between the two OS's? Is VISTA behaving itself or does it give you miserable performance?

P4 2.8Ghz 533Mhz FSB 2x512MB PC3200 RAM Nvidia 6800GT 256MB Score: 1995.14 Please tell me that score is normal for my system. It is 5 years old and has been through numerous akward upgrades. I have to rest with the fact that I won't be playing ARMA until the new system in January (Vista month).

My only gripe is with the performance. This game would be so fun if only it performed on my system. As it stands, 800*600 is the only resolution that gives me playability. Even then I have to turn Shadows off to get it to run smoothly. This would be fine but it looks horrific, worse than Doom 1. I shall have to wait until the end of January (new system) before I can play this. Gutted.

Yes, it should work fine. This is very similar to the setup of my primary working machine. Excellent, ordering the German version.

SO ARMA will run suitably on a 1GB, 6800GT 256MB, 3Ghz machine?

Just noticed that, oh dear.

How was the performance Gart? I basically have the same system as you and if you can run it nicely with those kind of visuals then thats a YAY! from me.