Beeone

Hello, I bought Arm2 and Arma2 CO with the intention of playing it + DayZ. However, i encounter a problem: screen freezes from menu to game every 3 seconds, making it unplayable. I have snooped around on the Great Internet and saw that some people experience the same issue, without finding a similar pattern in the rigs. What annoys me is that no one seems to have discovered anything about this, every little trick that has been tried has failed yet (cannot post links because postcount is too low :() I have an old computer but it *should* run the game finely, even with very low graphics. I of course tried downgrading the graphics, etc. No luck as of now. My computer: Core 2 Duo E 8200 @ 2.66Ghz MB: P35-DS3 Mem: 4096GB DDR2 GC: HD6770 1GB Vista 32bits Any ideas ? Thanks a lot

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Thanks for both your answers! Being bad at computers i tried the 'no powerplay' thingie but all i managed was crashing my computer (i might have done something wrong), but the lead was good, i'll try to do it properly. For Snowsky, yes i tried downgrading my settings to the point i thought i was playing a 90's FPS, but the problem stayed the same. I'll try to do again the 'no powerplay' thingie in a more proper way. For now I am fairly annoyed I cannot play this awesome game. I'll update with more info whenever I can. Thanks to all !

Hey, Thanks for the answer. My HD is a Samsung SpinPoint T - HD321KJ - 320 Go 7200 RPM, i defragmented it, used ccleaner, tried with ou without gamebooster, antivirus off etc. Video drivers are the latest. The problem is the same on Arma 2, OA and DayZ. I'm reading here and there that Arma2 is highly demanding CPU-wise. Maybe i should try overclocking ? I'm really out of options, mainly because i'm bad at computers.