system memory surface error

[sabelzahntiger]

Hello...

Here's the situation...

I'm trying to run ArmA GOLD on my PC (don't laugh):

P4 3.06Ghz
XP SP3
1G RAM
Radeon x850

I've taken every setting to the lowest, range=500, res=640-480, etc, etc, etc... I can run Bethesda's Oblivion at 20FPS with graphics to medium-high... I'm trying to figure out why I can't run any load on ArmA. I have tried it with every patch (1.14, 1.15, 1.16) and outta the box... Every time I try to run it it crashes to desktop when it seems like it might have to carry a load. These are the errors:

"Cannot create system memory surface 1555, 304x184 (size 148608B) error code 8876086c"

and

"CreateIndexBuffer failed (8876017c)"

I've also added the -maxmem=512/256 to my shortcut exe and nothing... Removed the pagefile... nothing... cleaned and installed video drivers and defraged and cleaned registration... nothing... Any ideas??? I'll be kinda ticked off if I just paid for a glorious paper weight... My European version worked perfect... but got rid of it when I moved back to Canaduh... Thanks in advance.


Also does anyone have the email for customer support so I can fire this off to them...? Cheers!

[sabelzahntiger]

anyone have a link where this is resolved and or an email address for ArmA support???

[DesertJedi]

This thread might be of use.

[sabelzahntiger]

Cheers for that mate...

Hopefully I can get some help from the maker of that mod... Or get his fix to work... Not holding my breath... But thanks again!

[sabelzahntiger]

dammit... still no joy with his fix... it was only for his mod... and I can't run anything long enough in vanilla let alone a mod... Anyone else have any ideas? Pretty please with cherry ontop!?

[Suma]

I'm trying to run ArmA GOLD on my PC (don't laugh):

P4 3.06Ghz
XP SP3
1G RAM
Radeon x850

"Cannot create system memory surface 155, 304x184 (size 148608B) error code 8876086c"

and

"CreateIndexBuffer failed (8876017c)"

The error code 8876086c in the first message (I guess it should be 1555 not 155?) means D3DERR_INVALIDCALL, meaning your card does is not able to create the texture which was requested. 304x184 is most likely some 2D bitmap used for UI. Perhaps your card has limited support for textures with not power of 2 dimensions?

2nd error code 8876017c means D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY - how much VRAM does your card have?

[Horus]

Check Arma.cfg file and see did ArmA correctly recognize size of your VRAM and system RAM.If you have graphic card with 256MB VRAM put this settings:

localVRAM=268435456;
nonlocalVRAM=268435456;

[sabelzahntiger]

Cool I'll give it a shot... Thanks for your help boys... Much appreciated!

[sabelzahntiger]

dammit! no joy... I'm not getting an error now, but just a CTD when ever a graphics load might start up...

So confused, Oblivion runs smooth-ish and it's pushing better graphics esp. with the mods I have running??? Confused!


oh... my cards got 256vram

[hamis]

Check Arma.cfg file and see did ArmA correctly recognize size of your VRAM and system RAM.If you have graphic card with 256MB VRAM put this settings:

localVRAM=268435456;
nonlocalVRAM=268435456;

Well,i have 4870 x2 2gb and cfg shows this:
localVRAM=528596864;
nonlocalVRAM=256638944;
What is correct value?