-G-Shock-

Yes. eventually its possible to scale up the minimum detail settings till the performances feel the load. In my experience, no game has every crashed due to the detail levels causing overheating. I'm not even sure this is the case actually because i saw in the windows reports a dx9.dll error causing the crash. Most games have safety triggers inside so that if you select things you shouldn't select, they just don't work, or auto-scale down. It was very very n00by of the devs not to insert these triggers in the game and the very well insertion of a button to auto-detect best settings would have come very handy. A game should work bad but still work and never crash in these cases. Bad bad mistake but there's all the time in the world to fix it in future patches.

I slew down the details : all to the lowest, deactivated AS filtering and AAliasing. The glitches are completely gone and i'm finally enjoying the game. Generally, when the symptom is a CRASH, it's a game bug. When it's low performances then yes it's low hardware specs. In this case we're dealing with a game which has just been released and with only 1 minor patch (not 1.1 but 1.01). It will surely get better. Very n00by of the DEVs not to post the suggested settings for the typical hardware configurations. A button to test the HW and suggest settings could help a lot. I've gone crazy after settings for 2 days, i'd never seen a game where your PC reboots...games CTD, they don't make the PC go in critical error. Anyway suggestion to all those who have experienced a similar problem: try sliding down all the details (to the very minimum like i did if necessary) and meanwhile play and enjoy. I'm sure BI is reading and they will come up with fixes allowing a better use of our hardware specs.

I think everyone's missing the main point. We don't have to change our settings. Our settings work with all games. America's Army, Battlefield, FEAR work PERFECTLY on my system with default factory settings. It's BI who've got to fix the game. What do u mean 3 days for patch remaining? Are they releasing the fix in 3 days?

Well what can i say i see that you're all in my same situation... These are my specs : check this. I am stuck at the helo training mission. I can't get to the lz to pick up the squad and complete it because between the second and third waypoint the ground starts flickering...objects change color or become transparent. All i can do is quit the game. If i don't, the PC will reboot. When not rebooting (because i deactivated the autoreboot) i will see the blue screen, still my DXdiag is perfect with no error. I have the latest Nvidia drivers for my card and the pc is brand new. The game is german version patched to 1.01 and i applied correctly the english language pack. This can only mean one thing : ArmA 1.01GER is bugged. I tried any possible setting in the Nvidia panel and inside the game...down to the lowest settings. The issues remain. I think there's no solution to this issue without a patch.