Full screen though not showing the game

[flospy 8]

This happens on both the original arma and DayZ.

I open the game and can play for a couple of hours, but then it goes black. It stays full screen but I can't see the game itself but I can hear everything and control everything, but see my desktop.

Once this happens, every time I restart the game it happens after 5 minutes, not a couple of hours.

This has happened since I redownloaded the entire arma CO.

What's happening?

[Grazhny Bratchny 0]

I have the same issue. You can temporarily fix it by pressing left shift and then your keypad minus key, and then typing FLUSH.

This I believe flushes the VRAM and forces the game to reload its graphics.

Of course this doesn't prevent the issue from occurring again, and for me at least occasionally when this happens the game will totally freeze and I need to end the process in windows task manager.

I've heard that it may be an overheating issue although many have said that their cards were at normal temperatures when the crashes occur; you may want to find a temp monitoring program and get some data on that.

Also, what kind of card are you using? I'm using an nvidia GTX 250.

This issue doesn't happen to me in any other games that I've played, I assume the same is for you.