Ventura

Great news, Can't wait to start doing missions where real war is going on. V.

Greetings, I must say the ambient, arty and civ modules that came to be on arma2 are looking like a brief water mirage on the desert landscape, not close to DAC and surely no cigar worthily. :bounce3: Sure it would be great to integrate it on "arma next version" or standalone expansion for that matter (with at least the explicit credits to the original addon maker), but i honestly think it would lack the flexibility of community interest of free content development.(not undermining the maker's say how it goes :-D, but this addon always looked like what really missing on Arma2 AI). I had some time to play with this addon (DAC) on ARMA, and since then i've no doubt that is the best macro ai handling system i have ever seen working on Opf/arma/arma2. Im sure when ever it will came out, Silola will grants us a DAC with same quality seen on previous versions. Have fun working on it, creating should always be fun. Have a nice build, Ventura.

yes!!! really, i wondered that myself. Even beacuse im not knowned by my originality...

Alittle bit off-topic, but still related to troubleshooting Well, I have to say, that 1.09b solved all unplayeble issues, on my rig. *The fog, *The atl-tab. *the maxmem, *the speed on north part of the island, and other minor issues... (amazing! and all of that, with no graphic drivers changed). But now, online, some play 1.08 others 1.09b there are alot saying, that they dont install 1.09b because its a beta. The ones that see ARma running on 1.08, are too afraid to even try 1,09b... When is 1.09 full comming out? Ventura.

Even with, older or the newer, i get same crash.... Im sorry Dwarden, its understood you wanted to be right, even i wanted you to be right. but it looks like its wider then that. Ventura.

Greets all, Just trying 163.44 , with no maxmem, and so far so good, played 1 hour last night on the net (Evo red) . Pagefile at 2,5 gigs, all XP, mobo's drivers, and bios updated. 1 more hour and will up the all the settings to high to se if it crashes. will see. Ventura.

Thank's Sickboy, that was the kind of info i was looking for. I sure cant edit more, specialy the scripts, because the ALT-TAB issue. Just got to find a solution to my hard drive workload wich starts lagging the game at some point. I got all drives defraged all times, i have alot of small partitions, about 15Gb each so don't have to defrag all disk at once, usualy 1 to 4 games per partition, swapfile on a diferent disk drive, (away from the S.O. and installed games disk). Going to check all updates latest drivers for audio card and chipset, and SO. Leopardi, i think its just for stability. Regards, Ventura.

Well, If theres an ingame advance settings, its BIS responsability,to make it work. if someone edits a config file that's his problem. We must all agree on that. I talking about crashing, not low fps. I sure dont agree on that, crashes can't be handled by test performace. And its near impossible to code a test performance that acuratly sets settings acording to all hardware configurations in the market today. And when it fails? should the developer tell the customer "well, now you have to edit that little config file in that folder...". Developing does take time, and which is usualy controlled by the Marketing department and the finacional department. With this kind of pressure to release games, bugs do happen, and alot are time taking with high cost. I think this one, is one of those. regards, Ventura.

Well I do play arma, i love the game, but i haven´t bought a 8800 just to play it. I usualy play with low on AA, shadows and AF, normal on all other settings except blood and postprocessing efects high, and very low on terrain. 1280x1024 Res. Even so the game crashes if no maxmem=512 or lower is defined. I tried high on all settings, and the game WORKS AND IS VERY PLAYABLE, bushes do drop fps (only looking trough the scope), but with that i can live (loading and unloading huge number of textures on the leaves of the trees, thats some hard code to optimize) . but then... it crashes "8007000e". (usualy happens when im on the north side of the island). At some point, i can even believe, that arma got out just when an unforseable turning point in graphic tecnology - DX10 - could make some incomatibilities with DX9 software. Be that as it may, I'm still under the impression that these crashes are related to some kind of ingame wrong memory handling. Does anyone, by flushing regulary textures from cards memory, got an extended time of game play? say from 5-15min to 30-1 hour? btw, ALT-TAB!, why does it make the "8007000e" worse? (crashing sooner than later). Ventura.

Leopardi, I too can set the settings at maximum (or very high) on my rig, a get a flowing game.... for a while... just as soon as the damned "8007000e" error and the game crashes. If i set the maxmem parameter, another problem comes up. My disk drive starts scraching like a cat on heat, probably, because memory on the graphic card is loaded, and the game starts moving textures to the disk. (just speculating..) Maximus, I think the fog issue and the "8007000e" are diferent problems. right? The fog issue, as some impact on game play, i know specialy if youre flying a plane, at 500 or 600 Km/h or Mph you dont have time to aim to a target, or evade a mountain, but the game still works. Im talking about crashing, 5 to 15min of play. Im talking about not being able to play a mission longer than this time. Its like starting a trip to the beach on vacation, and de car stops working on 5 to 15mins the way from home, and then you got have to get back to home and start the trip all over again. (nice vacations, maybe you get there sometime in your holiday.) Point well taken, i agree that maximum settings could be left to some of the future graphic cards, but the problem im underlining is that i have to lower my perfectly aceptable settings to "low" or, in some cases even "very low". (exp: grass, should be off because its transparent to enemy AI.) because theres a bug, in the game which crashes or degrades performance to a level of unsatisfatory gameplay. i hope i got my message over, english is not my first language and probably im just sending the mesures of the playmate of the month. Bottom line, fix this bugs, or present us a solution to this problem, because im really ceptic on this, it smells like this will be ignored and ARMA2 is coming on, only to fix this bugs and not much more. The question still stands, can anyone play this game in high to very high config, and dont crash with "8007000e". Thks ppl. And good gaming. Ventura

CarlGustaffa, What "older" card are you using to play ARMA? seems that if this problem happens on older cards, no so frequently, maybe is because, to get performance out of older cards you do have to lower video settings. Making this problem should be associeted with high settings, not graphic card related. Ventura.

Smells like a very big pile of horse digested food. Can someone tell me which graphic card should i buy, to play ARMA in maximum settings? Game releases should be playable in maximum settings? right? They did developed it on a card that supported maximum game settings!? or were they speculating "Geez, sometime in the the future there will be a graphic card that will make ARMA look very nice". (sometime between ARMA and ARMA2?!. Seems that the 8800 and the new ATi's are somehow incompatible with ARMA, "cannot create system memoryblabla!". and reducing memory with the -maxmem is not the solution, it throws my hard drive in an insane workout lagging the game as hell. SO? is there a graphic card that plays arma in maximum video settings? or this game has been developed in such a way that there is no anser to this question? I usualy play alot of game types, all have bugs, some more that others, but theres allways patch to fix them. Strangely, ARMA is the olnly one which reports me, (and alot of other BIS CUSTOMERS by looking at the posts here), this error, and BIS doesnt take this seriouly. Well they should! Specialy, because i heard there's a ARMA2 on the horizon, and i still can't get the minimum satisfaction out this product, which i bought with my working money, and beeing told only the minimum requirements! not the maximum. No! its not a NVIDIA PROBLEM only, its an ATI problem too, some of us, also reported having this problem on ATI graphic cards. Well being our money in your pockets, WE (the ones that share my point of view) say you (BIS) should talk to NVIDIA and ATI, to help resolve this issue in the next patch or do WE have to buy ARMA2 TO get this issue resolved? Can someone tell me a configuration that you've seen working or experienced this game on maximum settings? Ventura. ps - I have a AMD 64 X2 5000, with a XFX 8800 GTS 320 RAM, a 10K sata drive, and 1,5 Gb ram. is this obsolete? or is it too good to play ARMA?

Well armaVidz, Theres a saying, from where i come from "better take youre hourse from under the rain" Because it aint stopping soon. fortunatly Bohemia struck a gold mine, Made OPF the most versatil game ever, the best tactical/fps/simulation ever. ( VBS were sold to Security companies/ and probably government security agencies around the world as training simulators) people just dont throw money out of the window. the simulator/tactical/fps as to be worth something. Yes they did it. but not before 9, or more, patches released to correct the issues. (Well this was the first of its kind, maybe i should go easy on this one).but Later on.comes ArmA. Well everyone expected to be brilliant, And they threw it out to the "Opf" community as a payed beta testing version?, couldnt even run in most PCs. (i feel sorry for those poor b*st*rds who pre-ordered. i must say i was tempted.). It was a long wait till 108 patch, wich still doesnt come close to make it a stable game. (i cant play or edit missions for more than 30min without happening some "8007000e" ctd. Im not asking to correct all gliches in one go, but buying a product like Software product, wich is a piece of engeniering as complex as... say... a 20 story high bulding (why not?). Would you buy a flat there with missing doors or windows, or part of the roof ! you cant take a leak without your umbrella, because its rainning there?!. it simply smells as money thrown to the fire. Now we have a new player. Codemasters, I havent seen sh*t from them, execept that exceptional vague, very short, full motion picture... and Bohemia is releasing ARMA 2 just to be on some vague race! and what about us? the customers? Us the costumers, wich by the way are the same community, wich are developing, not only freeware addons to make the game more interesting and apelling, but alot of your late to come corrections (the EVOLUTION MP Campaign even as an option to FIX THE HEAD BUG!!! for cry not loud!!, and we are expect to buy "ARMA 2" a year from now?, being that what? ARMA with DX10 and 1.10 patch and running only on VISTA? I know im not spreaking for everyone, i guess there are alot of us, who buy the dam thing just by its cover color.. donno...but i think there are some questions that should be asked! How much is ArmA 2? Are we expected to buy our own paches in the near future? If so how much for the 1.9999 pach for Arma? I like the game, but the frequent bugs, gets me fustrated. I hope bohemia pays very good attention for there marketing policy. Ventura.

Greets, I've been flying around the island,( unfortunatly is almost the only thing i can do smootly in AA) with the hotas with no key emulation and no problems. Could you specify, maybe i can help. Regards, Tiago Pires