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Description

So I just got a new graphics card (R9 280X), and it makes Arma look amazing, the only problem is that after 30 minutes+ of playing the game freezes up on me. The frame stays on screen and I have to Arma to shutdown using task manager.

Can this problem be related to RAM/VRAM?
Also, when casually playing, my GPU averages around 60 percent load. Is this normal?

May any files be needed feel free to ask, as I do not have much understanding of bug reporting.

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Details

Legacy ID
3113882784
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Random
Category
Game Freezes
Steps To Reproduce

Unknown for others, for me it's playing Arma 3 30 minutes or longer.

Additional Information

Specs:
i5 760
Kingston 8gb (4x2gb) RAM @ 1333MHz
Sapphire R9 280X Dual-X 3GB @ stock speeds
Samsung 840 pro 256gb for OS
Seagate 500gb 7200rpm for games including Arma
TX750M 750 watt psu

Using Play withSIX for modded Arma, although crashes happen both on vanilla version and the modded version

Launch parameters:

-cpucount=4 -maxmem=2047 -maxvram=2047 -nosplash -nopause -skipintro -nologs

Event Timeline

Bohemia edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Feb 4 2015, 2:51 PM
Bohemia edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
Bohemia set Category to Game Freezes.
Bohemia set Reproducibility to Random.
Bohemia set Severity to None.
Bohemia set Resolution to Open.
Bohemia set Legacy ID to 3113882784.May 7 2016, 8:13 PM
Iceman added a comment.Feb 5 2015, 8:59 AM

Hello,
Thank you for reporting the issue.
We need crash dump files from this folder to analyze your problem.
C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local\Arma 3\
Can you upload somewhere in winrar package, please?
Archive smaller than 5000 KB can be attached directly to the ticket. For bigger archives, please use some free sharing service and post link here.

How to find correct crashdump file:
Try to make the crash happen
Look into crashdump folder
Upload crashdump with latest date in name (crashdump is rpt + bidmp + mdmp file with same name). Please try to provide as many crashdumps as possible, it helps us investigating the problem in a big way.

Thank you.

http://feedback.arma3.com/how-to-user.html

Bohemia added a subscriber: Bohemia.May 7 2016, 8:13 PM

I added a few crash files, today I crashed at 1:30pm but it didn't make a crash file for some reason, a few files were created while I was playing that I will post.

Also "Arma.RAR" includes an RPT and a BIDMP while the other 2 files only have RPT's in them (couldn't find BIDMP or MDMP)

Your pc specs are very smillar to mine, so i think this is not fault of hardware, i would suspect software.
Do you have updated CBA to newest version?
What mod are you using instead CBA? SweetFX?

Update: It crashed again after 15 minutes of playing, I disabled -noLogs and got an RPT and a BIDMP file which I am sharing as of now.

@vlad8011 The crashes today happened on a clean arma, when I use mods I do have CBA, but Play withSIX updates it automatically I think.

For being sure, please update it manually - i dont trust playwith six, since it broke my 4 mods and i had to download 8+ GB again, and finally whole game 11+gb!

Disable Specialist Military Arms mod and Blastcore. Also most of errors is beacuse some OFP2 character port (mod)

And first of all please delete "-cpucount=4 -maxmem=2047 -maxvram=2047" from command line

So I uninstalled the mods you mentioned and it now takes about half an hour extra for it to crash.

Vanilla Arma is still crashing though, no mods installed on it. I've also been told that it's my CPU that's causing all the problems but I want to know if there is a way to fix this before I have to buy a new motherboard and CPU.

BTW Thanks for your time vlad

Any news on my problem or is it just being ignored?

The status still says "needs more info", can anyone tell what info I need to give?

Okay so the problem might be what's called a memory leak (never heard of it). Apparently when my game "crashes" it gets me like 1 frame per minute. When I check my memory I don't see it getting updated. My processor usage is around 30% when it crashes.

Well i have now smillar problem - game slow down to 1 FPS after + - 30 min.

I wasnt look ther for a long time beacuse i wasnt ONLINE, but for sure you can try update all drivers (clean install), directX, and SOUND drivers. Also go to sound options in game and lower value to 24 (sound channels). This may be the problem. 60% usage of video memory is usuall, game is using wrong our pc's (not full) so many users have too few fps. But in the topic. Try to use many diferent settings in control panel > check teselation option.

dedmen closed this task as Resolved.May 20 2020, 3:52 PM