Bought original ARMA off of steam...graphic glitches

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Alright, so I haven't played the original ARMA before and with the imminent release of ARMA 2, I decided to buy it for $20 and give it a go to see what I've missed. Here's the thing, the graphical glitches are so bad that I can't get past the intro/main menu, it's just a big black box with some scrolling water at the bottom. Please help me, I can't patch it to the latest version because whenever I try to install the 1.14 patch it says that "There is no space to install this application". I recently used Partition Magic 9.0 to take my single 250gb hdd and put 4 partitions on it. 2 for XP and Vista and the other 2 for just strictly data for either operating system. I also recently upgraded up 4GB of RAM(2x2GB) mixed with my other 2GB (2x1GB) of RAM. So as you can see I've done a lot of things to my system recently and now I'm trying to get ARMA up and running...but with no success...anyone have any ideas?

 

[minmaster]

how much HD space you got? it doesn't sound too good if you don't even have the space to patch the game.

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Originally posted by: minmaster
how much HD space you got? it doesn't sound too good if you don't even have the space to patch the game.

More than enough, I have about 80gb left on my Vista storage partition, which is where I put steam, etc.

 

[minmaster]

then why would it tell you that you don't have space?

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Originally posted by: minmaster
then why would it tell you that you don't have space?

That's the $64,000 question. It's very confusing, I wonder if the partitioning software had some side effects like showing that there isn't enough space which is why it can't install or something...but I've got a fever and the only prescription is more FPS action!

 

[Sam25]

This is a tad confusing. You might want to take a look at the link below and go through 'The Patching Process' thread to see if it helps:

http://forum.armedassault.info/index.php?showforum=4

 

[schneiderguy]

Try installing the 1.16 beta patch.

 

[pontifex]

you need a particular patch. the 4GB of RAM causes the problem. Had this problem with the demo but since there was no patch for the demo, i couldn't play it.

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Resolved? I reinstalled Vista on my Vista Boot drive and ARMA seems to work flawlessly...though I still can't install the patches, but whatever.