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  1. Posted · Edited by enterman

    i personally only update windos, and my graphics drivers, have never uodated my motherboad/bios before.

    is this really needed? as you dont hear much about those sorts of driver updates mainly graphics and windos.

    You, perhaps, do not hear about them much. It's the kind of thing you have to look up and update on your own in a very tedious and scary fashion. The only reason ever to do it is if you're having issues (like the ones with ArmA 2 which no other update could fix). If you are having blue screening or crashs to desktop in ArmA 2 then you should do it otherwise DO NOT under any circumstances do it as it can seriously mess up your computer if you do it wrong. As in you could do irreparable damage to your motherboard. So if you do decide to do it, make sure you have instructions you understand for your specific board and bios.

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    Update: After playing a lot since I made my post yesterday, I haven't had single crash to desktop or bluescreen :yay: The only thing I can attribute this to my Bios update. Considering it hadn't been flashed since April of 2007 I guess it's not so surprised (thought I had flashed a lot more recently than then lol) but regardless, anyone having problems should look into that!

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    There are more people reporting CTD. To be honest it happened once with me but I'm almost pretty sure it was related with my Outpost firewall. For a couple of seconds in the multiplayer menu the game freezed and then CTD. I re-ruled again ARMA II in firewall and never happened again.

    But you could (you should) report the crash into ARMA 2 community issue tracker.

    http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=76670

    That PSU of yours is a single 12V rail? For 750W it must have a big amperage. I tought nowadays every PSU would have multiple rails. So, it seems, the debate goes on over the advantage of having or not multiple 12V rails.

    I doubt it's my firewall, I've only been playing single player and using the editor so far. I got that PSU early 2007 :P I'll report it then, thanks.

  4. Posted · Edited by enterman

    The cause for your BSOD can be different from others. Again does this happen only with this game?

    I know that Zalman it's a good cooler. Your CPU should be cooler with it, but then again you are overclocking.

    Please don't take offense, but would you considerer to try the game without the overclocking?

    As for the DPC do you think it's related with the Nvidia driver?

    Yes I've been debating trying without the overclock anyways however the strangest thing just happened. Since I made the previous post the game, besides 2 crashes to my desktop never blue screened... I may have jumped the gun when I said my bios update did nothing because that is the last thing I've done and so far haven't seen a BSOD. Maybe it's just a fluke but I'm going to continue attempting to play but I still cannot narrow down the crash to desktop issue besides the DPC Latency Checker which if it identifies a problem doesn't really tell you a whole lot on how to fix it. Oh and yes, this is the only game I've ever seen those particular blue screens. My CPU temp seems to be leveling out at 71 in-game now and GPU at 78-79. Any ideas on the crash to desktop? It could possibly be the Nvidia driver, I updated the driver with a new one released yesterday but I was getting the same crashs before updating the driver (though it wasn't a major update or anything, maybe if I can get a month or 2 older one).

  5. Posted · Edited by enterman

    I have a similar BSOD in XP so I'm doubting it's OS related. The bluescreen code varies. Sometimes it is "0x000007E" and other times "0x00000B8". The B8 has this message accompanying it: "A wait operation, attach process, or yield was attempted from DPC routine." The 7E has no message. I've tried using the DPC Latency Checker and I shockingly enough have no problems unless the game crashes to the desktop in which case it will have a massive red spike saying that there is a problem. So far I've tried updating my bios, opening my case and aiming external fans inside, reinstalling latest nvidia video drivers, updating all other nvidia hardware in my computer, reinstalling the game, messing with video settings, but nothing works. My temps still get amazingly high in-game even with an external fan blowing inside (CPU at 76 and GPU at 80, I'm using this Zalman for CPU cooling) however it will stay there a while before I get a BSOD (30 min - 1 hour). My ambient atm is CPU at 44 and GPU at 56. I normally get a few crashes straight to the desktop as well no matter what I'm doing in the game itself.

    Specs:

    EVGA 680i SLI

    E6600 @ 3.4GHz

    EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX Superclocked (Running one so no SLI issue either)

    Corsair XMS2 Dominator 2GB

    PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750 Quad 750W

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