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WOOT! problem solved. The problem was the chipset drivers, I re-downlaoded them and tried agian, just on the off-chance it would work, and lo-and-behold it did. Thanks for all the support and advice that was given on this one fellas. cheers, chris

Also, I have already cranked everything down as far as it will go, anyway, I am above the minumum requirements.

it is a 230V input, 300W output PSU, which seems a little low to me. Although, wouldn't the pc crash completly if it was a power problem?

I have the saitek joystick, I love it. It's fantastic, it feels great and you can adjust various things to make it more comfortable I would definatly buy it

ok, I will re-update all the drivers on the oc when I get home. Thanks for the posts, as for the 128MB 6800 card, the minumum requirment for the game is a 128 6600. So I don't see a problem there. I can run oblivion and bf2 at good settings without a problem. I have tried installing using my disk and my brother's cd key (unlike the person with the "same CD key error" we are two brothers who buy two games for two PC's.) So I used the exe on my disk to install it and it still crashes, which points to hardware or system set up, but then I can run other games with demanding requirements, and it's fine. I will get home and post the error code that x-fire threw at me when it crashed (I know x-fire can cause ARMA crashes, but I have tried with and without and it still crashes, also, I have always played ARMA with x-fire on and I have had no problems), maybe that will point to a problem? *edit* oh and I have tried using older drivers, that didn't work either

stil doesn't works, can I get some help please?

I am downloading some older drivers for the g-card. It isn't the latest card in the series and the current drivers will most likely be optimized for the latest card in the series. So I thought if I where to download older drivers that might work

Ok, I just upgraded my bro's computer to a 128MB 6800GS ( I know the GS's arn't as good, but it should still run ARMA, especially the fact that the minimum spec is a 128MB 6600) I really need help. Heres what I did. He needed a new HDD, so I put that in, installed XP, then installed the new G-Card and downloaded the latest drivers, installing them. After installing ARMA, I used the same EXE's to patch it as I did to patch mine (proves they wern't corrupt?, or could me using them to patch have some how currupted them?) After playing the game for only a few minutes, it crashed the computer completly, making it completly unusable. The only option was to restart using the button on the front. So I duly re-installed and re-patched (same patches as before) Ok, so now this didn't work, so I turned in for the night and thought about it. Next job I, once agian, re-installed ARMA, thinking it could have been done wrong twice. It appeared I was wrong, same problem. Next I re-installed the nVidea drivers, which changed the way it crashed , now it crashes with "ARMA has encountered a problem and has to close; send error report, do not send error report" the usual thing So, I re-formatted and tried agian. I downloaded new drivers, reinstalled everything (partly becuase I had to becuase I re-formatted ) Guess what, it didn't work. I really could do with help on this, throw anything at me you can think of, the next thing i'm going to try is to go 1.04-1.07-hotfix-1.08. I'm going to do that because that is how I patched ARMA and it works for me.If that fails, I will have to download new patches, which on a 0.5MB line will take a little while Any help would be fantastic and greatly appreciated