Complete freeze up in game A2/CO -

I just had for the first time a complete freeze up running A2/CO - Wonder if others have to - Recently bought a new GTX 460 and trying to figure out if it was a Vid Card issue (with RMA conerns) or if this sometimes happens in A2/CO.

Now I've ran A2/CO with my old 8800GT and never had a complete freeze up like I experience today - Was just playtesting on the fallujah - Not more than 20 units on the map -

My 4 man unit started wlaking and slowly it became very stutter to the point of my guy walking in slow motion.....next a complete freeze up.

Shift + (-) flush didnt do anything - Nor did trying to Ctrl-Alt-Tab - Had to restart -

Booted up again and things ran fine. But I'm still wondering do others experience this once in a while? Or is this likely my new Vid card having issues as I may go the RMA route...

Thanks

Edited December 18, 2010 by meade95

ARMA sometimes does strange things and bugs out. I wouldn't worry unless it happens constantly.

BTW, This is the wrong thread to post in. Should be in Troubleshooting"

It may be the island you had the freeze on, and possibly in relation with the card, but try other islands and see how your game responds.

Also any posts that deal with troubleshooting or game problems go here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/forumdisplay.php?f=83

my game has started freezing up since installing the 1.56 patch. it killed my hard drive yesterday for good. managed to chkdsk fix it after 8 or 9 tries. have ordered a new one and discussed the problem with my engineer.

we think Arma overloads hard-drives more than any other game.

I have 5 dead drives on the shelf - all died during an arma or arma 2 game over the last 3 years.

he thinks I should: get a solid state drive, fix the pagefile for arma2 to 4gb (max and min) so it doesn't move around and frag the c drive.

meanwhile i'm not putting the game on until i put in a new drive...

you can look in your RPT file to see if you got any messages from your custom map.

I'm wondering how the maxmem and cpucount etc affect the system stability... is there a good explanation of how to use these commands? I put cpucount on 4 for quad and maxmem on 2gb caused windows to run out of virtual memory a lot, so put it down to 1Gb and it was fine until the patch. i think it's swapping from RAM to virtual memory very soon in game and then spamming the hard-drive endlessly, wearing it out...

I have 5 dead drives on the shelf - all died during an arma or arma 2 game over the last 3 years.

Isn't it a bit over the top to assume that all of your HDD's died or "got killed" because of A1+A2? Did you even maintain your pc or is it just a huge data trashbin?

FYI: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma2:_Startup_Parameters