no joy. crash. Also in other games, BF4, FS2020.

Latest actions taken, thinking about anything that might trigger memory or access issues -

Nothing else I can do. Now stuffed with £1500 piece of metal. I hate Windows sometimes.

some suggested running in NVIDIA debug mode. It crashed again - :(

Damn, final steps no joy. Did DDU in safe mode. no joy. As with other GPU reinstalls, the first time I play, Arma 3 does not appear to crash for abit longer, maybe 30+ mins.

In T186575#2715490, @Leopard20 wrote:

By the way, have you verified your game files yet? Here's how to do that:

1. Right click on Arma 3 in Steam
2. Select Properties
3. Go to Installed Files
4. Select Verify integrity

ok, thanks for trying. do i leave the thread here or post somewhere else?

OK Thanks for the update. I tried what you suggested but it just crashed again after about 20mins play.

last few things I did yesterday included :-
running dxwebsetup and directx_Jun2010_redist to try to 're-install' DX11/12.
installed latest nvideo 556.63.
i saw a site that suggested going to registry - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers and change TdrDelay to 0. [Just read a site now saying TdrDelay should be 10 ????]

saw this error at bottom of latest RPT error log -

installed graphics drivers without debloating = still crash
reinstalled Visual C++ redistribution 2013 x64 = still crash

downloaded MemTest86 and ran from USB Boot. 4 passes with default settings = no errors

happening again regularly. i reinstalled GPU drivers (does continuing to debloating with NVCleaninstall and/or clean remove with DDU cause issues?). OC is off.

Happened again just now, after about 15mins of play.

In T186575#2706623, @Leopard20 wrote:

If you're using the perf branch, wait for the update or switch to stable.

I've just noticed a new graphics driver 566.14 from 12NOV. I have 566.03. Maybe that is the cause of the issues ??

I uninstalled and reinstalled Arma 3 via Steam. Is that a soft uninstall? Should I do a hard purge of Arma3 ? Which folders can I backup to keep my graphics settings, pofile and key bindings ?

most recent crash logs are here - RPT and mDMP https://filetransfer.io/data-package/ZQmLCxOa#link