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    ATI 7.3 Catalyst Drivers released

    http://ati.amd.com

    Some users report this has cured their memory handle leak, and random crashes (which is my problem at the moment).

    Not tried them myself yet, at work.
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    Re: ATI 7.3 Catalyst Drivers released

    Installed last night. I plan on having some gaming time this weekend (first in a month) so will report my results.
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    Re: ATI 7.3 Catalyst Drivers released

    How are you finding these drivers Shiner?

    I run the game at 1440 x 900 (but no AA or Ansio - find I don't need them at this resolution).

    Game still slows down over certain areas but on the whole, I think there is a slight improvement over the 7.2's. Frustraitingly the game still crashes on me (totally crashes - to reboot) approx 30 - 40 minutes into the game (including after a reboot, or the next reboot ad infinum) Hence the reason for not playing on-line lately, no point being part of a team if the "unreliability" factor presents itself.

    I was thinking along the lines of the card overheating. But I can play GT Legends all day long running a Logitech G25 setup with no problems. The same running Prem Pro and piecing together the latest family yawn-buster. Plus all the other programs/apps/games (F4AF,Lock On)!

    Totally unrelated but here are two observations made during a home made "fly about" the Island this afternoon.

    1. The Ammo truck re-supplied my AH-6 once I shut down the engine but only did a partial re-supply with it running.

    2. Team Speak Overlay. Ran without any stutters or FPS loss WITHOUT TS running! (Go figure). So I tried a quick experiment and reduced the bandwidth used by TS from Unlimited, to 128k - However, no noticeable improvement. The Game still staggered along if I had both TSOL and TS running.
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    Re: ATI 7.3 Catalyst Drivers released

    On further investigation of ArmA Crashing. XP Event Viewer (Applications) reports the following (after the crash). Doesnt matter if I am running Beta, or 1.05

    ERROR: Faulting application arma.exe, version 1.5.0.5143, faulting module arma.exe, version 1.5.0.5143, fault address 0x0040d696.


    0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
    0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
    0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 72 6d ure arm
    0018: 61 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e a.exe 1.
    0020: 35 2e 30 2e 35 31 34 33 5.0.5143
    0028: 20 69 6e 20 61 72 6d 61 in arma
    0030: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 35 .exe 1.5
    0038: 2e 30 2e 35 31 34 33 20 .0.5143
    0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse
    0048: 74 20 30 30 34 30 64 36 t 0040d6
    0050: 39 36 0d 0a 96..


    So if there are any MS Guru's out there that know what it all means, please explain! Ta very much.
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    Re: ATI 7.3 Catalyst Drivers released

    It is an unhandled exception thrown from ArmedAssault.exe. Without any source to trace the line I doubt you can get much out of it.

    The fault address is the memory address that was pointed to when the fault happened.
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    Re: ATI 7.3 Catalyst Drivers released

    I haven't noticed any change, but arma runs nicely on my machine regardless. Played about 8 hours today with only a single crash that ended my gaming.
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