2 minute loading time

[Balschoiw]

With 1.09 patch my Arma started to act weird. I just removed the complete Arma from my harddrive, renamed the user-folders, downloaded the 1.05 patch again as I didn´t have it on my HD anymore (the download of the 1.05 patch alone took ~ 40 hours), reinstalled the program, patched it up to 1.09 only to experience the same weirds behaviour again.
When I start Arma, the checkboxes come up and dissapear. Then there is nothing happening for about 2 minutes. No joke. In task manager I see that Arma.exe is running and uses about 30MB space but there is nothing happening onscreen. After 2 or more minutes the loading screen comes up finally and Arma loads.
I also found that renaming the profiles in "My data" doesn´t do much for Arma. It simply creates new folders and copies over the content from the renamed folders.

Is anyone else experiencing that ?

Edit;
How can I totally remove everything Arma-related from my computer
Even if I remove my userfolders, userdata, etc it still greets me with my username when I start Arma. This is insane.
I want to do a totally fresh install of Arma without any registry remains or any userdate that have been saved before.

[Heatseeker]

With 1.09b you can still launch 1.08 thru the apropriate exe.
Does it happen with 1.08 too?
Never heard of this..

[binkster]

Nope but ive had slow load times untill I used Ultimate Defrag and put ArmA on outer rim of HD. ***Sounds like your pc, not ArmA.

[Mr Burns]

Have you tried adding commandline paramters?<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">-nosplash -profiles=x&#58;&#92;ArmA&#92;Profiles -world=empty[/QUOTE]
This´ll load ArmA the quickest way possible w/o any islands in cache. Also 1.09 get´s rid of copy protection (noCd *yay*), so the checkboxes at start should´nt be a problem.
Changing the profile path may help bypassing windows partition errors. That way you can at least find out if ArmA or your OS is horribly f...ed

[Balschoiw]

Quote[/b] ] Does it happen with 1.08 too?

Yes.

Never happened before. Once I updated to 1.09 the problem arose.
Since then even a total reinstall didn´t fix it.

Quote[/b] ]Nope but ive had slow load times untill I used Ultimate Defrag and put ArmA on outer rim of HD. Sounds like your pc, not ArmA.

I´m having O&O Defrag installed and it keeps the drives defragged at all times automatically once per week.
The PC doesn´t have any issues with all the other games and programs I have installed and running. I never had this problem with Arma before, only when I installed 1.09 it began.


Edit:

Uninstalled Arma, removed every profile I could find anywhere on my harddrives, ran a registry cleaning, rebooted, again ran a registry cleaning. Installed Arma 1.00 and i get the 2 minute lag again. This is incredible &#33;&#33;&#33; Although I have cleaned EVERYTHING Arma related from my comp it still greets me with my username in Arma.

I´m about to give up and throw it into the trash.

[ArmaVidz]

You&#39;re profile &#39;inside&#39; Arma shouldn&#39;t have the same settings. The profile &#39;name&#39; will always be the same because when ARMA creates your ARMA profile, it uses the Windows Profile Name (%systemdrive%&#92;documents and settings&#92;%username%).

If you have the same settings inside Arma i.e.: change controls, button assignments etc. then that&#39;s a different story and Arma is indeed retaining your ARMA profile settings.

If you go to %systemdrive%&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;%username%&#92;My Documents&#92;ArmA you should have deleted the file "YourNameBals.ARMAPROFILE

The YourNameBals.ARMAPROFILE is the file which contains all your settings and username that ARMA created. If you deleted - all your personalized settings go buh-bye

[Rexxenexx]

Man that sounds like my other computer. If you restart the computer everything loads fast the first time. The second time you try it takes forever to finally load. Thats how my other comp. used to do it.

[JasonO]

My friend had an issue where it took ages for ArmA to start. Vista&#39;s UAC was doing something with it we found out (was some check or something)

If you use Vista it might be worth trying with UAC disabled, at least for a little bit anyway.

[W0lle]

Note that if you use another profile then your windows username, the profile is stored in:

documents and settings&#92;username&#92;my documents&#92;arma other profiles

If you&#39;re using Vista, the path is different but the folder name remains the same.

Don&#39;t wanna scare you but maybe check the harddisk for defective sectors. A similiar problem (not with Arma) I had a few months back as my almost brandnew harddisk died.

[Balschoiw]

Installed Arma on a different hd, still the same issue.
I don´t know what the comp is waiting for when starting Arma, There is almost no CPU load, the memory consumption is at 30 MB for Arma and no HD activity. It looks like it´s checking or waiting for something.

OS is WinXP SP2.
I haven´t installed any driver updates or anything like that. My next step will be to remove DirectX and reinstall it. It´s really odd as the issue came exactly with patch 1.09 and now even 1.00 Arma has this 2 minutes when I start it. So either there is an issue with the copy-protection update or any of the changed libraries causes it.