keanez

I'm glad this has worked for others. Judging by the lack of recent replies in this thread I suppose quite a few people have had success using the "fix". I have noticed more threads being created with people having the same issue though as this thread gets burried into oblivion. So... bump bump, up you go! ---------- Post added at 01:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:50 PM ---------- Oh, and BIS. Please do something about this. It's obviously the game that's causing this to happen, not faulty hardware. 12 pages long and still no official word on the matter. You guys are awesome...

I also forgot to mention, although my PC seems to be able run the game on reletively high settings smoothly, to avoid the BSOD I have to drop the settings down to the medium range. It took me a while and many freeze ups tweaking the settings to find the best quality without the PC freezing up. I just wish more people were having this problem then it might force BIS into looking at it. As it is, I don't think they really give a shit. I have seen NOTHING from them regarding this problem, they have not even acknoledged that it is an issue. Play around with your graphics settiings in game and follow that method I posted above and see if you can come up with some decent results. Like I said, I spent quite a lot of time getting this piece of shit to work ;-)

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