brandon
May 13 2009, 04:12
That's the error I get after a screen freeze, and if I "cntrl+alt+del" and get to the task manager and kill Arma, the screen will go black and I must reboot. If I don't kill Arma, my icons are half the size of Montana. Last night I crashed a Blackhawk with like 8 people in it because I was the pilot and my screen frooze and gave me that error. I have the latest Nvidia drivers 185.XX and it still does it. My computer runs Arma on full graphics with everything on ultra high without a hiccup, until I lose my drivers and the screen freezes. It might play for hours, it might play for 10 minutes. It's unpredictable.
Any suggestions?
wipman
May 13 2009, 09:01
Hi, i'll suggest you to go back to the NVidia Drivers 1.78.14, when i upgraded to the 1.82.whatever... i did get really few FPS more common display errors
that could be solved by just hit ALT+TAB, but then the game's objects like houses, trees, bushes and vehicles began to switch from the 1St LOD to the lower
ones if i didn't used some kind of zoom in game other than the ACOG sights zoom, which gave me even lower FPS. And after close the ArmA... then it froze
my Windows XP SP2 and giving me a black screen that forces me to do a manual reset. This on a Dual Core, with a 8800GTS & 3Gb of RAM. Let's C ya
STALKERGB
May 13 2009, 15:15
i have the same problem, mine never lasts more than about 15 seconds when i'm in arma. Mine isn't fixed but i have upped the voltage going to my GFX card and it does very rarely do it now. If you are running vista (like me) then it happens much more frequently than on XP. Many people have reported dual booting into XP and the error going away. Nvidia don't seem to have an answer either. Anyway hope that helps, there are loads of forums with other solutions (which may or may not work) if you google the error they should come up.
Hopefully will be replacing my 8800GT soon though, with a bit of luck the error will go with it.
brandon
May 13 2009, 20:31
Interesting replies. So rolling back the driver or increasing the voltage? Could it be an overheat issue? I never have problems with any other game, no matter how graphic intensive at any time, just Arma.
brandon
May 14 2009, 03:22
How do you "dual boot" into XP?
I tried rolling back the drivers to 178.24 and it froze up almost immediately, within a few minutes. I have to go back to the new drivers.
Wittmann
May 14 2009, 10:02
To dual boot you need a second HDD or a partition on which you install XP as a bootable system. Then you must alter the BIOS to allow you to choose your boot device rather than have a default on start up or else hit the function key that allows you to choose the drive/start up options when you first turn on your machine.
Option B is more expensive; get a new card, 8800's have always had issues with ArmA
brandon
May 15 2009, 20:54
QUOTE(Wittmann @ May 14 2009, 04:02)
To dual boot you need a second HDD or a partition on which you install XP as a bootable system. Then you must alter the BIOS to allow you to choose your boot device rather than have a default on start up or else hit the function key that allows you to choose the drive/start up options when you first turn on your machine.
Option B is more expensive; get a new card, 8800's have always had issues with ArmA
I have the 9800 card, as my sig indicates.
Last night I played for 3 hours, alt tabbing back and forth between my game and a word processing application I was working with and not a single issue. That's hard to diagnose. It seems that certain servers are worse than others.
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