Constant crashes

[ray243]

So far, everytime I attempt to make some ambush scenario, I always crashed. Even with vanilla troops and soldiers. I also experience massive lag after I set my viewdistance to the max. Could it be the viewdistance? Also, the crash error report:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ArmA2OA.exe
Application Version: 1.54.72.967
Application Timestamp: 4c77d25b
Fault Module Name: ArmA2OA.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.54.72.967
Fault Module Timestamp: 4c77d25b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0050d12c
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 18441
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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Another crashlog:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ArmA2OA.exe
Application Version: 1.54.72.967
Application Timestamp: 4c77d25b
Fault Module Name: ArmA2OA.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.54.72.967
Fault Module Timestamp: 4c77d25b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0050d12c
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 18441
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

[ray243]

Erm, anyone?

[Tankbuster]

We need to know your system specs.

In my experience, you almost never need play at full VD. You are probably killing your graphics card. In a fast jet, you don't need VD more than 7k. On the ground, 4 is plenty.

[Günter Severloh]

There are posts already discussing crashes, as well as a pinned topic,
is there some reason people cant search and or read.

I did a manual search for crash topics going back 5 pages,
and these are all the ones that I found, took me about 2 min.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=76670

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108172

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108345

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108418

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108718

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108500

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=108530

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=80292

Instead of asking guys what their specs are, explain the rules, getting specs
is only relevent to a post that hasn't already been posted somewhere else,
you find this out when you regualry look through the forums.
search before you post, and do so in the future.

If you dont know the rules, then ask and find out.

Its not hard to do a search, and find posts relevent to what your issue is or may be.
Its hard to get an answer for a question or problem when you have to search
through multiple posts with the same topic,
this clutter is called spam, and its called spam because people fail to use
the search button or manually look through the forum.

If your going to be in and a part of Arma2 OA ect.,
and play the game, your going to have to learn how to read,
and take your time to get the answer.

[ray243]

We need to know your system specs.

In my experience, you almost never need play at full VD. You are probably killing your graphics card. In a fast jet, you don't need VD more than 7k. On the ground, 4 is plenty.

Here is a picture of my system specs:

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6022/picture1ys.png

[Tankbuster]

Oh dear. You're NEVER going to get full view distance with that graphics card.
The rest of your system is barely over the minimum requirements. I'm afraid playing this game is going to be a frustrating experience for you on that machine.

[W0lle]

Wait a moment, your system can just run the game (passed min. requirements but failed recommended) and you run it all on max.

Maybe start with everything in minimum and then slowly work yourself through settings which let the game run without crashing.
Sorry but this game is not a 500 x 500 meters shooter which may run fine on your system, ArmA2 is way more demanding and with your current setup it will never run on max. - never.

[ray243]

Funny, I ran Arma 2 on Max viewdistance and it doesn't lags as much as OA/CO.........

And I ran the game in normal, I crashed again! What the fuck! I used Takistan troops and US troops! They are not modded in any way!

[kklownboy]

VD of 1200 is for you, and much lower settings, Objects should be low. A 3850, is not made to push this game over 1280/1024 resolution. No AA or AF.

Also with your set up i would run XP32...for this game.
You are letting Windows run your Pagefile? If not you should.
I know you can take the slowness in SP with "high" settings, as opposed to MP where you will just bog down, but your crashes are do to not having enough power to run 10kVD and all the trimmings(PP,Shadows AA AF).

You can try different ATi drivers, your card hasn't had a real update for awhile, the 10.4s maybe the last current one.

Ill try my 2900XT (little more power than your 3850) with my old AMD 2.4ghz CPU dualcore.

[ray243]

Ahh, thanks a ton.

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And, here is a picture of my settings just in case:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5...1601355750.png

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Now I am still receiving crashes. How can I determine it is a hardware problem or mod problem?