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  1. Posted · Edited by rusky25

    Ok. This thing drove me mental for a long time but I finally came up with a workaround that works for me.

    I have a pretty good rig as it is and from testing ARMA 2 on multiple machines with with different hardware, I've narrowed the problem down to the graphics card. From reading various threads around the interwebs it seems that most if not all people experiencing this problem are nVidia card users (I have a 8800GT).

    Anyway, onto the workaround. I simply manually underclock the graphics card's core and memory bus speeds and increase the fan speed to 100%. I do this by opening the NVIDIA Control Panel (right click on desktop) then open "Adjust GPU settings" under the "performance" tab. I change my default core bus speed from 650 to 600 and the memory bus from 950 to 900. Then slide the fan speed up to 100%

    I'm no expert but by doing this I havn't recieve a single BSOD after hours of playing. I know it's a pretty shitty solution that shouldn't need to be done.

    Once you've finished playing ARMA, simply revert your changes to default.

    If this works for others or if anyone is able to improve on it, please post here and give your results and feedback.

    I hope this is helpful.

    Keanez

    You sir, can marry me. I will change my sexual preference for you. Thanks you so much for the suggestion i can now play the game, so far no crashes.

  2. Posted

    This is so fucking frustrating, i cant begin to say how mad i am about buying this game, and too actually think of supporting BIS bastards, they care nothing of the gamers and consumers who buy there products only with how much money they can now stuff up there ass. Sorry if that rant broke any rules. Just extremely mad beyond belief right now.

    Rant over.

  7. Posted

    I can Run Crysis,Stalker any Driving Sim,Amra and as many 3Dmarks as you like but it dosn't crash or freeze my PC.

    With ArmaII it can crash with just the player unit on the small Island after just 1 minute or it can work for an hour or two with a full blown battle. It is totally random the amount of units or the intensity of the battle have no impact on my system and the freezing issue.

    Yea exactly i appreciate the suggestions bulldogs and i did do all that, i have built my own PC so i know it in and out and all the ends with my eyes closed, i did do what you say pop it all apart and do a twice over, but nothing, i also took the liberty of updating all drivers but still nothing, i can see what you mean by what it may seem like a hardware problem and i would agree with you but there is simply nothing wrong with it in this instance. I can run many games a bit more demanding in ARMA II and i don't get anything like it, yes i do get stress on the hardware but like i said, i don't believe its a hardware issue in this particular case because 1. what i just said, 2. Multiple people are having the same issue. but i do thank you for any input and suggestions i am willing to try anything at this point, in the mean time i think only a revised patch will help us here.

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    Agree with all the comments.

    BIS have really ballsed this up. Why release a game that they know DOESNT WORK. I used to be a software tester for a UK company and if I had allowed a program to go to release with this amount of trouble I'd have been fired. Simple.

    BIS, if you are listening. Guys you really need to fix this without blaming the users systems. Ok systems need to meet minimum specs but having read a few CTD threads it is abundantly clear that the problem is Arma 2 having more code problems than a beta release. You got away with it in Arma 1 beacuse people had faith in you after the Codemasters split.

    The fact you have done it again with a game you have supposedly "Been developing for 10 years" is simply piss poor program management and bad coding. Also, you should fire all your testers, they obviously cant do their jobs.

    Rant over - A very dissapointed OFP/ARMA/ARMA2 fan.

    Hmm well said sir, i have played all the OFP,ARMA games out so far, (Besides ArMA 2 :mad:). and i can agree with you they need to step it up quite i a bit.

  9. Posted

    Hopefully now the demo is out they can start and fix some of the more serious stuff, many of the post about crashes are spread out. There are more than just three or four of us.

    Oddly when I first played the game 1.01 and 1.02 I would get lockups that I could escape using task manager but from day 2 I've had no more CTDs just lockups that can only be fixed by a system reboot.

    This game has been out since May in Germany and last week Europe. they should have come across this at least ONCE and fixed this ages ago. this is horrible, and i know its not our PC's because from everyones specs that are posted they meet and go beyond the demands of the game.

  10. Posted

    i so agree, i just bought the game today and i just got a horrible OS failure. the game froze during training and stuttered a Minuit and i got the blue screen of death. and my os failed to boot after, so i just reset my pc and i got it going. This is horrible. Honestly has no one have a solution?

  15. Posted

    I did update my graphics card drivers, and tried again and gotten the same result

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    Now looking through this Forum a few other people have this problem, Anyone got anything?? I am extremely bummed out here over this, i hope someone can come up with something..

  17. Posted · Edited by rusky25

    Hi there, i just recently have gotten the demo of ArmA II off of steam, through playing most of it i am receiving a very odd issue i cant seem to find anywhere else, When i got to load the game it loads fine, i get to the main menu fine, i got and load one of the training missions fine. I get to the map and hit begin and works loads fine, now when i get to any of the levels it works for the first few minutes and then the Game just Freezes with the sound still going, i wait and it just clicks off, does not crash to the desktop, nothing. so i am forced to restart my pc.:confused:

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