raybee

I have almost reached the end of my patience with this game since purchasing and installing it over the weekend. I have a brand new PC with 64-bit Vista, 4GB RAM and a XFX GTX-295 graphics card so I know my system can handle it. I was a die-hard fan of Operation Flashpoint and have been looking forward to Arma2 for a long time. I shelled over my hard-earned cash in Australia for this game and since installing it have suffered crash after crash. I have never experienced a game that has crashed as much as this one and have tried to google every answer known to man to solve it (am patched to 1.03 and have latest NVidia drivers). I continually experience reeeeeeally bad lag, graphical bugs and regularly crash to the desktop for no apparent reason. I so badly want to be a champion of this game but my patience for dealing with the continuous crashes is wearing really thin. My game time is limited enough as it is without losing most of it to continuous game crashes to desktop, or at best "Arma 2 has stopped working"... (yeah no s__t...) Is there some checklist I can run through to fix this game before I am forced to smash my desk and yell very loudly again as it crashes?

Thanks for the feedback guys. Yes it is an i7920 CPU and no I don't have view distnace at 10,000 - more like 5,000 since trying to drop down all of my graphical settings to avoid frequent crashing to destop (which still hasn't helped). I have only been playing the single player campaign so far but will give MP a go to see if it runs any better. Fingers crossed... I do intend to upgrade to Windows 7 sooner rather than later, but I really balk at the idea of having to upgrade my OS just to make a game run properly... even if it is a damn good game. The reason I went with Vista 64-bit was to get access to the extra RAM that I assumed would help most games (and for database development which loves the RAM) but it sounds like perhaps I was misguided... Anyway thanks again for the feedback. Will soldier on for a bit longer with it before throwing in the towel completely.