Vista Troubleshooting Thread: The one and only

[kklownboy]

ok, i did have 4GB ram an resorted to using msconfig fix and dropping to 3, however 1.15beta fixed it so i just played beta with 4gb ram, now im runing 8GB of all matching corsair dominator 1066mhz, and neither the 1.14 or 1.15 version will run will beta only work up to 4gb max? i have a friend who plays with 12gb ***on his new alien ware machine both versions no problem. if i want to use the maxmem method how do i do it? ive searched but not found anything to talk me through all steps, do u add maxmem=3072 in exe or do u have to edit config files? i dont wanna keep booting my pc in 3 gb just to have to re adjust and boot with max ram 2 play other stuff

do you use more than 2g anyways? If you do then you will reboot when you need the RAM( only VM or encoding..PS?)Rt now its less than 4g for ATi 4870s in 64bit OS... A fix is coming ,maybe, *** its been said.
Your bud's 12g rig is not like your 8g rig... and never will, whats his gfxcard?

[SWAT_BigBear]

Quote[/b] ]maxmem=3072

should be -maxmem=?

[Nemesis_wales]

@kklownboy he ha sa nvidia 280 card i thin, i know hes not running any SLI thats for sure. its an alienware machine, x58 board. in msconfig boot advanced i cant drop to 4GB, only 3 or less. but i just thought sod it, ive put it back to max 8Gb and just playing company of heroes for now, maybe arma 2 will b better for higher end machines

[Grendel [APS]]

I'm having problems running arma now that I've bought 4 more gig of ram even though I've updated to 1.15 beta.

System:
Intel core2 E8500 3.16Gh
8 Gig DDR2 ram
Ati 4870x2 2 gig
Vista Ultimate 64bit
gigabyte 6-quad/ S-series mobo

While Arma ran fine on this system and the 1.15 patch before I put the new ram in, it now takes up to 2 mins of black screen to get to the main menu screen.

When the main screen comes up everything is blocky and in untextured grey tones, running at about 1 fps. As an added bonus all the menu buttons and windows are blacked out So all I can see of them is black squares and rectangles with no writing.

Any help appreciated.
Thankee.

[Kremator]

It's the 3 or 4 gig limit for RAM thats causing your problems. BIS still havent got a solution to this problem.

Shame really.

Set your RAM limit to 3 or 4 Gig and retry.

It will work but I haven't been that impressed with Arma on Vista versus XP (and I dual boot both OSs)

[TAO] Kremator

[Grendel [APS]]

*Sigh*. I thought it'd be something along those lines. I tried a bunch of the solutions that had been posted earlier with no joy.
I just posted hoping against hope. Oh well back to 4 gig, pity about the other games that perform better with the extra ram.

[Kridian]

Well I took the 1.15 patch for a test-drive and after about 20 minutes of play, the game just shuts off. A window pops up telling me ArmA has stopped working... yadda yadda. ***This never used to happen to me before so I guess it's something in this new patch.

Running Vista64(sp1). ***I'm going to try some black voodoo magic on it and see if it helps. ***
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UPDATE
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I shut off Vista Aero and the game's running perfect! Don't know if that did it(?) Better memory handling indeed though! Can't wait for ArmA 2!

[gL33k]

@ Feb. 08 2009,09:35)]I'm having problems running arma now that I've bought 4 more gig of ram even though I've updated to 1.15 beta.

System:
Intel core2 E8500 3.16Gh
8 Gig DDR2 ram
Ati 4870x2 2 gig
Vista Ultimate 64bit
gigabyte 6-quad/ S-series mobo

While Arma ran fine on this system and the 1.15 patch before I put the new ram in, it now takes up to 2 mins of black screen to get to the main menu screen.

When the main screen comes up everything is blocky and ***in untextured grey tones, running at about 1 fps. As an added bonus all the menu buttons and windows are blacked out So all I can see of them is black squares and rectangles with no writing.

Any help appreciated.
Thankee.

use -window start flag. it works with that.
i'm still wonder if 8GB are used by game... could be a great improvement.

[rockape]

morning guy's. just a note to say "thanks". i decided to come on this forum to see if i could fix the issues i have been having with ARMA and QUEENS GAMBIT. not only have i found you all have the same problem; but it's unfixable for someone like me, (a complete technophobe). i just paid 3.5k (whats that about $5k usd) for a dream machine then went and bought every decent FPS game you can think of COD4... CRYSIS+WARHEAD...FAR CRY2.. ARMA ETC ETC ETC. I am having the same probs, initial screen is blanked out. tried the reinstall so many times, re-updated the graphics cards so many times, all the usual noob things..no joy. then i come on here and see all this tech stuff. ..so..ARMA and QUEENS GAMBIT goes in the drawer till one of you guys figures it out or BI comes up with a fix. cheers guys. now i know i'm not the only one gutted that i cant play these superb games.
all the best

[ck-claw]

Welcome to the forums rockape.
Why put it in the drawer?

Have you tried the things ppl have posted?

ck