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it might be, even though I am the admin must admit I have not got my head around the supposed double layer of admin rights on windows 7 tried installing the patch with full admin rights, still would not patch. any ideas on fiddling around the admin rights on win 7?

Hello Is there a known problem with windows 7 and installing patch 1.05? I just cannot install it :( have downloaded from 3 different locations and still coming up with cannot install the patch. worked find on vista 64 on old machine, now on new machine and windows 7 cannot install. game works fine (steam version) on 1.04, but would like to update the game. any ideas? cheers

is there a specific uk 1.14 patch for arma? as when running arma i have dutch and english language choice in the video options, yet it never goes to english. is this the main arma download or the patch causing this? will i have to go back to metaboli? or is there a way of fixing? thanks

yeah it might not, all depends on the card you have, how old it is and what the symptoms are. it might not even be a video ram issue, it just looks like one. but i have found I can play arma2 by underclocking my card but I have faced the fact that I do need to either do some major upgrading (graphics card, processor and possibly some better hard disks) or get a brand new pc. I bet arma 1 looks amazing on the hardware I have, will have to get in contact with metaboli and get the download going

found that it could be a video ram issue :( which could be due to overheating or my gpu going wrong :( now the issue only happens in arma2 using a msi 8800gt 512 which was overclocked from the factory so am trying to find some safe underclocking values at present using msi afterburner I have it set to : core clock : 620 (was 650 - 660) shader clock : 1550 memory clock : 930 temp has not gone over 65 running arma 2 in windowed mode ---------- Post added at 11:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 AM ---------- this link might help people : http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html

darn it just crashed but I managed to play longer than I did with service pack 1 on vista now I do not know what to do

ok mine seems to be fixed (fingers crossed) upgraded to vista64 service pack2 re installed nvidia driver 191.07 have managed to use the editor and setup a small battle and kept that running for over 10 to 15 mins, no crash at all tried armoury for around 20 minutes, no crash at all tried single player campaign mission and got to the place where it used to crash, no graphical crash at all so I am happy at the minute it does make me realize I need to get a new computer though :( so there is hope folks I will report back if any errors or graphical crashes

ok have tried default video memory setting and also high texture settting, still get the graphics crash :( am going to try the 182 driver and if that fails the 186 something strange is going on with the graphics drivers I am also not getting any arma2.rpt files so the game itself is not crashing ---------- Post added at 10:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:03 AM ---------- is this .cfg right? language="English"; adapter=-1; 3D_Performance=48387; Resolution_Bpp=32; Resolution_W=1280; Resolution_H=1024; refresh=75; Render_W=1280; Render_H=800; FSAA=1; postFX=1; HDRPrecision=8; lastDeviceId=""; localVRAM=520028160; nonlocalVRAM=1878769664;

what happens with mine is that I get strange green/purple/red snow and then it crashes, I usually get a BOD ---------- Post added at 10:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:03 PM ---------- does anyone get a bod with a nvlddkm.sys error message (it is a nvidia .sys file) ? ---------- Post added at 10:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:08 PM ---------- I will try what you have tried jackhorner, but not holding out much hope at the moment

yep I am getting the artifact issue and crash/bod :( using windows vista 64 8800gt 512 athlon 5200+ dual core will try on win xp tommorow (dual boot) & not looking forward to download 4+ hours, but will see how it goes has anyone found a stable driver on vista 64 yet? did anyone have this happen on the demo? I did with driver 178.13, but updated to the latest 191 and the demo ran fine, but the full game does not all very strange and not sure what else to try now