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You can close the thread, both error message + CTD were not reproducable (thankfully)

I'll see if I can help on this one as well, had the exact same issue playing PMC coop last night, 1st mission auto save loaded, my friend stuck in loading screen and me stuck with an AI companion. I'll create a ticket and upload my savegame, I don't have a crash report, since that happens on his side, not mine. * edit bug report

Tnx, I feel less alone now :-)... And so far the game is running with some glitches left and right, but at least it's possible to play it now. Mind you, a game should not need fixing to be able to play it. A steam game that works as long as I start it outside steam and such... I don't believe the story that it's all AMD's fault here. Arma 2 is poorly built, it's plain and simple. It is the only game that gives me issues, I've been playing tonnes of other games with full gfx on (GTA IV, Portal 2, ME2, etc.) and not a single problem. The main disappointment for me was the fact that years later on a different system I get the exact problems I had back then. And of course it runs great for most people, great for them. Nevertheless IMHO Arma 2 is a buggy game. Always has been, and looking at the ATI issue thread still is. I'm still gonna play it now though :bounce3:

Hmm, dug into the ATI bug thread, still alive and kicking, 1200 posts or so. A sad sight IMHO. One of the tips was to not launch using steam but launch .exe directly. Seemed to have worked, I played for an hour without issues. Anyways, just needed to vent a bit, was quite frustrated with an unplayable game ages ago (paid full price and never got to play it, that kind of frustrated), and new OS + card + new chance for Arma 2 Arrowhead and the very first thing is an error message + CTD. /rant off fingers crossed I can start enjoying this game now :-)

I was one of the many people who was not able to play Arma 2 after launch due to ATI card issues. This was not fixed after 2 patches or so, and I gave up completely on Arma 2. Now, more than a year later at least I've decided to go for the Steam deal, I now have W7 x64 running, a fancy new gfx card, all good to go. After a fresh install the first thing i see when starting the game is an error message saying "no entry bin config.bin\bladibladibla. went on with the game and had a CTD in 2 minutes. I don't even know if I want to try to figure out what is wrong this time. I can't believe I fell for this. Again :mad:.

I do. I thought it was similar to the receiving bug, perhaps not, I don't know.

Have this bug as well, worse than in 1.02 it seems. Game is basically unplayable. Still. Can't be arsed to try every silly suggestion made in these forums, most of them don't seem to work anyways. Can't be arsed to be constructive either. Just plain disgusted with this game.

Would have voted disgusted if it was an option. I've been playing computergames for 25 years or so and cannot remember a game I bought and never got to play cause it just doesn't work. See the 52(!) page ATI issue thread in Troubleshooting for details. Fecking game is broken, and I've already seen the word 'expansion' in the forums. Disgusted :(

I used to have major graphical glitching errors, although these seemed to have diminished by lowering graphical settings. Now I'm mostly getting the 'Received' bug instead. Really annoying. I do feel it is related to the graphical glitches bug (), not a clue how or why, but the Received screen seems to be flushing the VRAM as well, when I return after a Received screen all seems fine again for a while. Intel Duo Core E8400 @ 3.00 GHz 4 gig RAM ATI Radeon HD 3870x2 ATI Catalyst 09.7 beta Win XP Home SP3

Sure thing. Intel Duo Core E8400 @ 3.00 GHz 4 gig RAM ATI Radeon HD 3870x2 ATI Catalyst 09.6 Win XP Home * edit 1 and playing on most things on normal and Video Memory on Very High. The glitches appear quicker with higher settings, but in the ends I start seeing funny things and the whole thing goes funny. The SHIFT+-+flush does help a bit for a while. Sometimes. * edit 2 upgraded ATI Catalyst to beta 09.7 with same results * edit 3 used both -winxp and -maxmem=2047 addition to .exe, with same results

Signed up for the forums, just to say I have the same issues. Massive graphical glitches all over the place. Chernarus Island is unplayable for me.