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  1. Posted

    Have you tried replacing your rig with a lower end say E6750 and an 8800GT Video card? - My game runs great hours on end. I actually have to try and create issues to make things break and fail at it most of the time.

    Like ALT/TAB'n to desktop and watch'n a Youtube video while connected to a MP Server for say 20-30 minutes then realizing ... OH YEAH ! I was playing ARMA and ALT/TAB back to play for a few hours more from where I left off.

    I mean for the most part I think it is all in the Nvidia Drivers and the GPU/chips on the card that are creating the issues. I have an IDENTICAL 8800GT "spare" card that I just got back from EVGA that under the same exact configuration and driver crashes me to desktop after 10-20 minutes of playing. So I think the card is either bad or the chips on the card are a diff revision or something stupid like that. I know it is NOT ARAMA and more related to the NVIDIA Drivers and chips on the cards. Did they CHEAP out on some chips and perhaps the drivers create issues with these chips? I dunno, but I get that damn openGL error 13 when I use the other card and so far have not found any reason why it would crash. ArmA does not use OpenGL at all, so that is why I say it is NOT ArmA casusing the issue. ArmA may simply "trigger" or stress the card enough so that it does caus the issue though. Again, thats a hardware/driver issue.

    So ... Try using a different video card and use only 1 at a time and see if you still crash. It is the Nvidia crap causing the issue though, I am quite sure of that.

    Make damn sure all your mobo chipset drivers are up to date and such, I know you have done all that to no end, but I have found stupid issues in the past were simply because a certain driver was "buggy" or perhaps my bios was out of date. What about the FW on the video card? Up to date? Just diggin here.

    Sorry for the short book.

    So basically you are saying that 99% of all 295 cards are bad since just about all of us who have them can't run the game.

    I probably agree that it is an nvidia issue with this game EXCEPT my top of the line nvidia card runs every other game out there flawlessly. If I had this same issue with all games than I would be on nvidia forums blasting them for a fix. Since that is not the case it is my opinion that the onus is on boh to fix the problem. Or at the very least come on here and say we did not develope this game for the top of the line nvidia card currently on the market and you sir are just fucked. But, thanks for your $50 and we will make good use of it.

  2. Posted

    MPBR what driver version are you running?

    ---------- Post added at 01:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:32 PM ----------

    Remember I'm double posting my ass off here with the hope it helps my chances.

    So I woke up this moring hoping, in fact praying, that my some miracle someone had posted some sort of solution.

    Alas, nothing, not soe much as a fuck you from anyone.

    Can we please have a seperate forum for people who can't even get the fucking game to work? A lot of the crap in this troubleshooting is stuff like, AI sees to well, my joy stick needs tweaking. Well to be honest fuck off from the TS section at least you can run the game. How about giving us guys a chance to have our posts read.

    Again, unfortunately my social life sucks and I will spend the majority of the day playing WC3 tower wars on one monitor and bumping this thread on another.

  3. Posted

    Since I don't get any fixes from my other post I figure I would start 2 threads and double my chances of getting a reply.

    After 10-20 minutes of playing with out fail my game totally crashes to desktop and it says.

    "ArmA 2 Has Stopped Working"

    That's it. Nothing else.

    I have an

    I7 920

    Vista 64

    295

    6 Gig

    Sadly I have absolutely no life with little else to do here but continue to start threads asking for a fix to a game that I was told would run fine on my computer. A simple reply from Bohemia telling me to fuck of will be fine. A reply saying we are working on your issue and there is currently no fix will be fine also. A reply saying we are currently working on your issue is not ok.

  4. Posted

    Installed two new hd's. Running vista 64 on them with clean install and first driver to install is 1.825 for video card.

    I then installed arma 2. I then crashed after 10 minutes.

    Is this basically the same thing you are talking about pchaxor? Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing you were referring to ? If it did then that is exactly what I just did over the last 3 hours.

    Jonney faning the flames is better than not saying anything at all. Freaking pch up here with and old school 8800 says it is a driver issue. I have not yet seen someone in here with a 295 tell me how wonderful the game crashes. I think pch only furthers the arguement that people with top notch rigs are being left behind in this game to help get the masses caught up.

    I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME I PAID FOR WITH HARDWARE FAR SURPASSING THE REQUIREMENTS.

  5. Posted

    What I see in this thread is people answering their own questions. :)

    I would look more at the Nvidia Drivers being the cause of your problem.

    Do this: ( I know it sounds gay, but just do it anyways )

    1. Download the latest Driver (wdm) to your HDD.

    2. Get the latest version of DriverSweeper 2.0 b2? Driver-Sweeper-beta-2.0.0

    3. Unplug your net cable and all access to the inet.

    4. Uninstall The Nvidia Display Driver, Physys and that Stereoscopic 3D driver - DO NOT RETSTART WHEN IT ASKS YOU. (sweep first)

    5. Launch Sweeper and tick the Nvidia Display driver and Physys driver sweep and remove.

    6. Reboot

    7. When the System comes back online it will try and install the default driver perhaps even a VGA driver - thats fine. DO NOT LET VISTA OR WIN7 DOWNLOAD THE DRIVERS!!! - If you have to sweep and reboot again.. do it. CLEAN IT ALL OFF.

    8. Once you are using the default WDM driver or VGA driver, then load the Latest Nvidia Driver 186.18 or whatever it is for your card. (NOT BETA)

    Other

    Try a defrag or running sfc, Malwarebytes, AVG and make sure your CLEAN.

    At least this is my practice when it comes to Nvidia Drivers and Vista/Win7.

    I will say again: DO NOT LET VISTA OR WIN7 AUTO DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO DRIVERS! - UNPLUG YOUR NET CABLE!

    g'day

    Wait im confused. What question has anyone answered here? I have the most up to date driver installed, the one people here are referring to, and the problem is there. I have always had the driver 1.8250 and it works flawlessly with every other game out there.

    Are you telling me to dl a different driver than the one everyone says they are running?

    So since it obviously isn't my driver as the one I am running is the only driver ever installed on this VGA what is thie issue here people?

    Fnucking shlt it would be nice if someone officicial would at least tell me to fNck off so then I would at least know they read these.

  6. Posted

    I haven't turned error reporting off. I love me error reporting because it usually points me in the direction I need to go to fix something. In this case nothing.

    On a different note I still see we can't get a lick of reply from anyone official. What is up with that. Even Huxley (The worst FPS experience in recent memory) replied to forums posts regarding issues and attempted to fix them.

    All I get after I play this game for 10-20 minutes.

    "ARMA 2 HAS STOPPED WORKING" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WHY THE HELL HAS IT STOPPED WORKING. CAN NO ONE TELL ME ANYTHING????

    ---------- Post added at 07:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:44 PM ----------

    I really love honesty from people which we get none of from Bohemia.

    I think of myself as a fairly well off person financially with what I would think is more disposable income than most.

    What doesn't someone from Bohemia simply come on here and say, "We don't have the resources to fix all the issues right now. We need to hire more peopel but can't. If you can get together $35k we can probably get your specific issue fixed by the middle of next week." NOW THAT WOULD BE SERVICE. Just straight up coming out and saying what the issues are and then giving a option to solve it. This would be so much better than the current state of things which is pure silence and a corporate attitude of "Fuck Off".

  7. Posted

    I would be just as excited if someone official simply came on here and said,

    "Look you guys, we are catering the masses here and your high end cards and CPU's are not a priority here. Just fucking chill out and we will get around to fixing your, the minority's, issues when we damn well feel like it."

    That would actually make me feel much better about what is going on here and I could at least move on to another game instead of trying over and over with teh hope that I am missing something to get this game to run.

    For those thinking of buying the game. Do not under any circumstances buy it if you have an I7, 295, and Vista 64. You will not be able to run it. Don't think you can.

  8. Posted

    I think it's an issue with GTX 295 GFX cards and something to do with the way the memory is addressed as it is essentially 2 cards in one running in SLI, which ArmA2 doesn't seem to like.

    Other than that I don't have a clue.

    I think me,you and most of the other GTX295 owners are just going to have to sit it out and hope that BIS brings out a patch to fix this, otherwise I'm afraid ArmA2 is only going to be good as a coaster for my beer.

    And I have no doubt they will refund our money since the side of the box said we could run the game but they failed to mention the 295 didn't count...:)

  10. Posted · Edited by jepaul

    With out fail every game I play crashes within 10-20 minutes of playing. I get no error messages and it simply comes up and says "ArmA2 Has Stopped Working" nothing else. This goes on and on. What is the solution to this?

    I7 920

    Vista Ult 64

    6g Ram - 1600

    295 - 7.15.11.8250

    I run 3dmark and Prime stress for hours with no issues.

    I run crysis, MOW, any other game you can think of for hours with no issues.

    What is the problem here? None of the files asked to upload appear anywhere.

    I understand the attitude of devs not being able to fix everyones problems but there seems to be a few more in this game than most on release with drastically fewer fixes. My clan mates all with far inferior rigs seems to run with no problem and from what I have read it is the players with high end PC running the most up to date hardware with the most issues. Have the devs simply catererd to a broder market and are taking a wait and see approach for those with more disposable income?

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