Laser beams??

[11bhooah]

So I finally got the game running pretty good. I played a mission in the campaign with no problems. Then I moved on to the mission where you have to blow the bridge. And an old isssue popped back up. When I fire my weapon, or when weapons are firing at me, they look like damn laser beams. They are pretty big, and if I'm in an optical view makes the target, or view completely non-visible. If I'm out of an optical view, either in frist or third person the tracers look like they are firing about 2 feet above my head. Also when I move the reticle around a small box will flash where the reticle is supposed to be. It also comes up when I move the cursor over different tabs. Sometimes there will even be weird text that pops up briefly then dissappears when navigating the menu options. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance....

Specs
HP Pavillion dv8000t
Pentium T2600 dual core processor @ 2.16ghz
2 gigs ram
Nvidia GeForce go 7400, 512mb updated forceware version 84.54
Conexant high definition audio, driver updated to 3.23.0.0
Windows XP Home edition, completely updated
German ArmA version updated to 1.01, with english patch
DirectX 9.0c

[Araon]

I think few screnshots of that problem would be better than just description. Could you try snap some?

[11bhooah]

I'll try to get some up tonight.

[11bhooah]

I think few screnshots of that problem would be better than just description. Could you try snap some?

*** *** I was unable to take a screen shot. When I alt tabbed out of the game to make sure it took. I was unable to open it. Since I'm using the -maxmem=1024 in my shortcut, it said I didn't have enough memory to open the program. When I closed ArmA, the screen shot was completely distorted.

*** *** ***To be more specific about the boxes around the reticle. If you drew a complete box, just big enough to fit around the reticle when not moving that is the size of it. What flashes on the screen looks exactly like tv fuzz. Same crap you get when theres no station on the tv. When navigating through the menu random text will pop behind the menu selections. From what I can see it's just letters, and maybe numbers saying or spelling nothing. The menu text is still visible, its just as though it's appearing behind it. Making the menu text transparent. Sorry about the screen shots, but I hope this helps. As I said in the first post, everything else seems fine now, just this one last problem. It only occurs after playing the game for about 10 to 15 minutes. Alt tabbing out does seem to help. Thanks again for all your help.

[11bhooah]

I was finally able to take a ss of the problem. Notice the text at the top. However getting a ss of the box around the reticle is more of an issue. It just happens too fast, and I have to push two buttons to take a ss. I'll post more as I get them. Thanks again.

[11bhooah]

Here is another shot of my map screen. Any ideas on this?? Thanks in advance...

[ExtracTioN]

try to reinstall the game patch it with the official 1.01 patch and dont install the unnoficial language patch and see what happens

[Ti0n3r]

Here is another shot of my map screen. Any ideas on this?? Thanks in advance...

This is what I got in Doom 3 a couple of years ago when I tried to overclock my geforce 6600 too much. It could be related to overheating.

[11bhooah]

Here is another shot of my map screen. Any ideas on this?? Thanks in advance...

This is what I got in Doom 3 a couple of years ago when I tried to overclock my geforce 6600 too much. It could be related to overheating.

How would I be able to increase my output from my fan, or reduce the tempature of my cpu, or gpu? Thanks again, for all the help....

[11bhooah]

try to reinstall the game patch it with the official 1.01 patch and dont install the unnoficial language patch and see what happens

I downloaded it from Metaboli, the updated version. So it was already patched. Should I try the re-install, run the patch on top of that and exclude the english patch? Or would that just be redundant? Thanks for your help...