arma3_troubleshooting

[steady hawk]

I do believe I'm familiar with this error message and trying to get the old topic

Well the search suggest to reinstall Visual Studio C++ 2013 and/or DirectX 11

[mighty sandal]

how do i do that

[steady hawk]

Google both

[grim pasture]

that hurt my brain

[pine kite]

A bunch of DLC come with showcases. Some with multiplayer scenarios, some with time-trials. Otherwise you need to find a scenario on the workshop that makes use of it, or make a scenario in the editor that includes DLC stuff.

[mighty sandal]

can you help

me with it

[steady hawk]

I've already done my best. It's your call to comply

[uncut trellis]

did you find and install the 2 mentioned things

[mighty sandal]

no

[mighty sandal]

no

[steady hawk]

Then do

[pine kite]

This page should have links to both Visual Studio C++ 2013 and DirectX. But Google would have found them too if you searched for it litteraly: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unusual_Process_Exit

[shell elm]

hey can someon help me with polpox artwork mod? i made cages for me and my guys and the guns i placed down with weapon placer are seen by them as a SAW (m249) anyone know a fix?

reference picture, the noveske's are seen as a m249 by other players except the one with the eotech on

@steady hawk

[bronze river]

why not add the pic from their perspective aswell?

[uncut trellis]

How is the weapon swap made?

probably issue in how that transfers over in MP environment

[shell elm]

will do thx

[bronze river]

polpox artwork supporter isnt meant to be used in mp anyway

[uncut trellis]

that is true too

[shell elm]

oh, anything you can recommend to place my weapons in a way that it will work?

[bronze river]

you can use vanilla placement and maybe disable simulation by right clicking on it

[shell elm]

will it still work with weapons from private mods?

[bronze river]

maybe, if they have the same mod as you they will see it

[shell elm]

so i would just need to go to props and search the weapon i need to put down?

[bronze river]

yes, and use the tools on the toolbar to place the asset however you like (you may want to read the tutorial first before placing stuff)

[ocean cosmos]

some mods may not have them and i very much doubt those mods will

given their quality

[shell elm]

yh as i thought they dont

its whatever thx for the help

[grim bear]

Hello bois. Recently I have rented a server from apex hosting for Arma 3 antistasi, and I have 0 experience in server related stuff at all.
But with the help of guides, I manage to rename each and every single mod I had to lower capital letters, and move all the mods' keys into the keys folder.
Currently I have faced an issue where a no entry error appears eventhough I have looked twice to make sure the names are correct, does anyone here are experience enough/know how to solve this particular tricky issue? Thanks in advance!

[uncut trellis]

No entry means either the mod is broken/badly made creating classes in wrong place/missing config entries where they should be or its corrupted

most likely the compat mod you use is just made poorly

[grim bear]

I see, I guess if it works on singleplayer it doesn't meant it will work the same on servers?
I guess right now my alternative method on solving this issue is either find another compat mod, or entirely remove it right?

[uncut trellis]

it proabably will still "work"

but it wills spam the warning

[grim bear]

it doesn't somehow, once connected to the server, you can choose which side you wanted to be in, then when the game loads, the error happens and I'm stuck in that screen

Maybe next thing I need to try is to remove those compat mods and try to see whether it runs? (why didn't I think of that??)

[uncut trellis]

sure yeah

[grim bear]

For now, thanks for the guidance Goat, really appreciated it!

[golden vale]

do you have any other errors/warnings popping up?

[golden vale]

Which screen are you referring to as stuck in that screen out of curiosity is it the role select screen or is it when you are in antistasi selecting which faction you are fighting

[grim bear]

its the one where you select opfor, blufor, independent that screen

there are other error messages, but those didn't hinder the progress of players joining, let me get a screenshot

these are the errors that appears when the server starts, the no entry error appears when a user with correct mods joined in

[steady hawk]

This pretty much indicates one of the Mods you have is badly made

[grim bear]

Currently I am reuploading RHS mods just to make sure

[grim bear]

it seemed so, I will try to identify which one and remove it later on

This is the compat mode that I'm using, are there any alternative I wonder?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=773131200

[steady hawk]

I do not think a compat Mod can cause such error

[ruby sandal]

Using these links steam://connect/IP?appid=107410 or steam://connect/IP
Players are getting the error Unable to connect to server, app id specified by server is invalid
Is this a steam thing or an arma thing or a server that needs to be fixed?
Or is there a new url type we need to use?

[steady hawk]

Well, I think... that (your first error) is made from some Mod that uses the compat?

[grim bear]

hmm interestingly the error points to compat mod, I assume one or some mods having some issue

[golden vale]

so the role select screen and after pressing continue you get the error you press close and it puts you in a default loading screen ? or what exactly happens we could use more details on what exactly happens

[steady hawk]

Try ACE, RHS and compat alone and see if it does

[grim bear]

allow me to rejoin the server so i can get a screenshot ya

[grim bear]

that will be my next task, will do

[bold salmon]

hi. can any one explain: how do i make ai squad members, using IR ? i use moded version

[steady hawk]

Please define:

• ai squad members, using IR
• moded version

[bold salmon]

arma 3\i add many mods from steam\every ai have laser optic , but i cant command them to activate it

play DUWS

[steady hawk]

laser optic
Laser Pointer you mean?

[bold salmon]

yes

how can i command them to activate it?

[golden vale]

If you mean ordering your AI subordinates to use their lasers select them with F1-F10, then press 6 and scroll through to the Turn On Laser option.( found this with a simple google of your question)

[bold salmon]

i find it also, but no option in 6 to turn on laser. i think it was only in arma arrowhead. i use arma 3

[steady hawk]

Not 100% sure if there is no command to turn it on or off, but there is a script command

[grim bear]

@golden vale This are the process I'm going through

The sixth screenshot is the one I am stuck in

You can't click anything, the start button is greyed, and I can't choose the players as well

[bold salmon]

i really try to avoid using all scripp issue. im not familiar with it

[uncut trellis]

seems to me you got a broken mods in your set

[golden vale]

something related to niarms is breaking by the looks of it

[grim bear]

Currently what I have done is only having ACE, RHS, and the compat mod, and this error message appears

it means something wrong witht hte compat mod? even I already included it?

[golden vale]

The fact that those warning appear shouldnt affect you being able to load into the game

[grim bear]

but when I try to load in as a blufor this appears

[golden vale]

that pops up cause you dont have those on the server then

[bold salmon]

@steady hawk any idea?

[grim bear]

@golden vale @uncut trellis @steady hawk Hey Guys! I'm here to say thanks for the guidance and help!

The ace compat mod issue is due to

there is an optional folder in ACE mod file, that you need to bring it out to addons if you are using it, hence I did it and it WORKED, after 24 hourish of work finally its up and running with no gamebreaking issues! THANK YOU SO MUCHHH

edit: addon folder of the ACE, not addon folder of Arma, My bad I didn't write it clearly

[quartz oar]

so i had like 98 mods and i deleted them all, when i try to join a server that needs mods they dont download

i always get stuck here

[quaint jewel]

Did you check your downloads view in steam? that should show its downloading and its progress

[quartz oar]

oh

[pine kite]

That seems wrong. You shouldn't put any folder into the Addon folder of Arma 3 itself. Can you point to where you got that information from?

[grim bear]

oh no, addon folder of the ACE, not addon folder of Arma, My bad I didn't write it clearly

[quartz oar]

well it has been downloading and its finished. but the mods are still not downloaded

i again tried to join the server and download the mods but steam doesnt show it and im still stuck

nvm i had the mods

but if i try to join this comes

[quaint jewel]

Check if you have @rhsgref/addons/rhsgref_a29.pbo in your files

[quartz oar]

no

is there a way to fix it?

[ocean cosmos]

!steamverify

[rustic eagle]

Steam file verification process:
Right Click on game -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Verify Integrity of game files
Arma 3
Steam Workshop Mod repair process:
Open Launcher -> Right Click on mod -> Repair
The first process will automatically verify Steam Workshop items as well.

[ocean cosmos]

bottom part

[quartz oar]

the mods dont show up

steam says they are installed

[uncut trellis]

try restarting steam

[quartz oar]

finnaly

thx

[fierce moon]

i need some serious help with setting up a server. I have upnp enabled on my router port forwarding into a server works just fine the missions is setup fine and all the settings but yet for some reason my friends can't see my server but when they host everybody sees theirs

[pine kite]

You might be getting a connection from your Internet service provider called Carrier-grade NAT. That could prevent your attempts to port forward. As you don't have any control over the additional layer of network address translation.

Also, you don't have to port forward if you connect to other servers. It only matters for incomming internet traffic to servers. Not your outgoing traffic.
And doing UPNP and port forwarding manually in your router at the same time will conflict. One or the other.

[fierce moon]

how do i find out about the first thing. and yes i have only enabled UPnP

dude everything in my country is like shady and ghetto and nothing is normal and the only option i have is to buy a dedicated server because i have been searching for 3 days how to fix this issue

[umbral narwhal]

You have to check whether the WAN IP of your router is the same as your externally-visible IP (google "what's my IP")

[magic totem]

Anyone else getting "get matrix of physx factor is not valid" repeated over and over since this update?

[twilit wigeon]

What does this error mean?

[magic totem]

Reverify Arma files through steam. Should fix that

Thats an error with a vanilla Arma file

[twilit wigeon]

alr

[scarlet saffron]

Addon Builder not packing for anyone else?

[stray bear]

Just got this game yesterday, can't start the launcher because it needs NET Framework 4.7.2 but when I want to install 4.7.2 it says I already have it installed

So I have no clue what to do

Is there any way to make the workshop mods activated without the launcher at least?

[storm tangle]

In your windows search bar type " Turn windows features " and open the app . find Net frame work folder in it and in WCF services check if TCP port sharing is on . that worked for me

[stray bear]

Alright I'll try that

[stray bear]

Yeah it is on

[dull valve]

Can’t place groups for opfor in Eden editor

I’ve found a couple modded placement groups that work

But most don’t

“No entry ‘bin\config.bin/CfgGroups/opfor.OPF_F’.” Is the message that shows up whenever I try

[scarlet saffron]

My addon builder isn't packing. Any help?

[uncut trellis]

is there some error related to that?

[scarlet saffron]

taking screenshots, 1 sec

on open: https://i.imgur.com/RuP9n59.jpg
on pack: https://i.imgur.com/a3qycr9.jpg

just that stupid line below, nothing else.

verified files (of tools), same error.

[uncut trellis]

how big folder are you trying to pack?

have you tried using P drive?

[scarlet saffron]

small

no

been using this for years though

[uncut trellis]

could be some typo I suppose

that it cant process maybe

[scarlet saffron]

80kb

[uncut trellis]

though addon builder should not really care much

[scarlet saffron]

can't pack any mod, not just this one

nevermind, found it 😛

it doesn't pack if you disconnect the drive with your private key in it 🤣

thanks HB. It packs again.

[uncut trellis]

HorribleBoat

[scarlet saffron]

Oi, sorry. HG

[uncut trellis]

😄

[frosty cosmos]

I have a dedicated server crashing after it loads into the game. You can join, slot in, and click 'continue' on the preview map. At that point, after a wait, the server crashes

Has anyone experienced this?

[umbral narwhal]

Kinda the wrong question.

There's a lot happening on the server at that point.

See if there's any obvious cause in the RPT. If not, check if it has the same problem in vanilla or on a different mission.

[frosty cosmos]

I've done further troubleshooting and think it's related to playable characters dying on loading

This didn't happen in SP, but it's happening on the server and when I launch as MP from eden

[drifting quartz]

no reason i should be getting 13 frames in combat with an RTX 3060 and AMD Ryzen 5

[ivory hamlet]

Need help what should I do please

[umbral narwhal]

Does the server you're trying to join require the CSLA DLC?

[ivory hamlet]

Not sure its my first time i tried all server even auto search can't find any server to play

This are the dlc i have

[umbral narwhal]

You don't have CSLA ticked?

[ivory hamlet]

I didn't buy that

[umbral narwhal]

oh wait, that's the compatibility data mod.

[ivory hamlet]

What does that mean?

[umbral narwhal]

sighs

ok, click on the server in the launcher. Then see what it has listed under "optional DLC".

[ivory hamlet]

I did

Shows missing dlc

So if i don't have the dlc I can't play that server?

[umbral narwhal]

Usually you can play with the compatibility pack as long as it's not on a DLC map.

But it looks like the compatibility pack here has a different key and it's not allowed on the server, so you can't.

[ivory hamlet]

I see thanks

[stray bear]

Anything else?

[pine kite]

Don't lower settings, keep them up to not shift processing to the CPU. Don't go overboard with the rendering distance settings. Keep them to what is actually visible and not obscured in your actual ingame area. No point in rendering what is outside of your immediate view.

And if you loaded a ton of mods, then reduce those. There could be some that are simply detrimental to FPS.

[stray bear]

can anyone still help me?

[uncut trellis]

you need to install the thing it mentions

[stray bear]

I did

It says it's already installed on my pc

I really don't know what to do

[nova elm]

Have you tried verifying your installation through steam?

[stray bear]

I haven't tried that

[mystic robin]

Guys can anyone help me out? I‘ve just downloaded Arma 3 from steam, but every time I try to press play on the launcher the Arma.exe app launches in the background, making my mouse cursor disappear. If I try to Alt+tab into it, I get a black screen and task manager shows that the process isn‘t responding. Tried verifying files, reinstalling the game but nothing happens. Any ideas?

Nvm managed to fix it

Somehow the Razer mouse App stops arma from working lol

[uncut trellis]

I think someone has mentioned this before too. Such things can be hard to debug

good catch. 👍

[stray bear]

Didn't work

Still like before

Anything else?

I can't really load mods

[umbral narwhal]

Uninstall relevant versions of .NET and then reinstall, I guess.

[stray bear]

I did try that

Nothing really changed

[umbral narwhal]

Try this thing: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30135

[stray bear]

Alr I'll see

Nothing changed

It's still the same error thingamajig

Are there any alternative to the launcher where I can lauch mods?

[umbral narwhal]

You can run the thing with a batch file but that's going to be a monstrous pain.

You did restart windows at some point, right

[stray bear]

Yea

But it's still the same thing

[storm tangle]

I dont wanna advertise or anything . but there is an app called Driver booster . It will download anyfile needed to launch games . give it a try

[haughty shoal]

i keep getting this error when i try to load any fixes ?

[real tree]

Is there anyone here familiar with setting up a hosted dedicated server, running mods/Antistasi, using Nitrado? Though it doesn't specifically have to be Nitrado, i just need help getting everything to show up in game on our server

I used Filezilla to upload everything, but my mods aren't showing on the server i don't think, and i don't know how to load Antistasi properly on a server

[golden vale]

#server_admins has a lot of experienced people that can help out

[real tree]

Aaaah, right, never even noticed that channel, ty

[stray bear]

Anything else?

[stray bear]

I fiddled around with bat files and managed to load all of my mods, so thanks for that idea

[distant ibex]

for some reason zeus on arma 3 wont load all the mods i have

only old mods actually load on zeus

i currently have zeus enhanced

[worthy sable]

Anyone got an issue where the vanilla interaction menu doesn't appear at all? Like doing scroll wheel does nothing interaction prompts dont appear i cant heal downed players cant enter vehicles, nothing....

[bronze river]

you need to set in the editor to allow mods and dlc in game setting parameter

[distant ibex]

im talking about specifically zeus

i have all the mods in the eden editor

but not zeus

so the mods work in eden but not in zeus

[bronze river]

but yeah if you want to set up zeus via editor you need to edit the parameter to allow mods and other dlc stuff, i will provide the screenshot of it if i have the time or you can check it on your own in editor mp game setting.

in vanilla zeus try to look in parameter when in lobby to check if it allows mod or not.

[distant ibex]

this?

asking me for a file

@bronze river which file do i put in

[bronze river]

right let me just boot up the game, i mean in lobby parameter not launcher parameter

[distant ibex]

how do i get there

excuse my slight lack of arma 3 knowledge

[bronze river]

this is what im talking about

also set that to enabled

i think you need to learn on how to set up a zeus server from editor, lots of tutorial online for it.

[distant ibex]

im not worried about zeus servers..

im talking about singleplayer editor stuf

i think the first image should work tho

[chrome current]

might be hidden in Faction Filter

[distant ibex]

where is that located

[chrome current]

CBA settings > ZEN Faction Filter

[distant ibex]

there we go

[distant ibex]

this fixed it

[bronze river]

👍

[distant ibex]

ty

another thing

very small but annoying

whenever i change a units position in zeus

they move to fix the position

then they go back to a wedge

could platoon commander or vcom be causing this?

[distant ibex]

formation*

[bronze river]

Looks like it

[vernal fractal]

hello, i need some help with my Arma 3 launcer, it keeps saying "unable to import preset". i have tried everything, can anyone help fix it?

pls @ me to get in contact with me, or just dm me

[pine kite]

Can you open it in a browser? Should be a regular html file.

[fierce moon]

i need help setting up my nitrado server

[oblique birch]

my arma 3 says it is blocking file c and it want run

im redownloading the game

can enyone help

[uncut trellis]

3rd time. write the exact error or screenshot it

[oblique birch]

9/15/2023 2:36:10 PM - Blocked loading of file 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uxtheme.dll'

thats what it says

[uncut trellis]

try reinstalling your directX drivers. Arma3 install folder should have a _commonredist folder where you should find one

[oblique birch]

wreres that at cant find it

[uncut trellis]

looks like it may have moved. this could lead you to right place. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/common_redist

[granite onyx]

I keep getting an error saying

how would i fix this (i tried wiping all the files but it wouldn't let me delete some due to this)

[pine kite]

Cloud file provider is not running means Onedrive messed with your Arma 3 folder in Documents and the files are not accessible in some way. Consider uninstalling Onedrive.

[granite onyx]

me dumb so how would i do dat

[uncut trellis]

you can likely find insturcions online if you put "uninstalling onedrive" to google

[granite onyx]

thank you

[oblique birch]

it works iff i dont do it threw the launcher

[granite onyx]

i get thus now even tho onedrive is unistalled when i try to del the files

[uncut trellis]

try restart windows

[granite onyx]

ok ty

[real tree]

For some reason, after dying, i'm not able to turn my character to the left without going really goddamn slowly, any way to fix this? I tried relaunching the game, but i'm still having this issue

it's when i turn with the mouse, i can turn right no problem, but i turn really slow to the left

What did I dooooooooooo?

[uncut trellis]

got mods?

[real tree]

Yes, but it was fine before i died

And its been fine every other time so i don't know what would've broken?

[umbral narwhal]

Remove the mods and see if it fixes it?

[real tree]

Yeah I could do that

[vernal fractal]

i already did that

[teal reef]

Can someone help me out here, I’m having trouble with heavy desync on one of my servers. For some reason, certain players load into the server fine with zero issues but for other players when they try to load in the server gets hit with severe desync (players aren’t moving, everything’s frozen etc), for several minutes until the player joining disconnects. The console I look at only reads a bunch of “object 0:0 not found (message type_185)” etc. the numbers in “0:0” vary but that’s the overall message. I can really use someone’s help here, I nor my other friends who know the server can’t solve the problem.

Update: We tried All launching the mission at the same time and most people loaded in fine (including the people causing desync), but there are still some individuals who can’t join

[frozen needle]

Kind of an odd one, not sure if this is something anyone can help with. Recently I can't use mounted guns - they'll start aiming up and left like they're connected to a controller.
Here's a clip of me showing it to my mate on our server. I'm happy to try anything 😅
https://streamable.com/q4h7d0

[teal reef]

Update again: After running the server for a bit with no problems someone tried joining the OP mid way and it is now desyncing heavy again

[uncut trellis]

perhaps just broken mission scripting

[teal reef]

How would I check that?

[uncut trellis]

well for starters test the server with some simple vanilla MP mission and see if it can hold stable

if it does its more likely mission issue and not server software/hardware thing

[teal reef]

Could it be the wall of errors in the logs?

[bleak obsidian]

any idea why one player might appear as an "empty" rifleman? it's an uncommon occurrence but it prevents the mission script from displaying their name tags, map icons, and revive/carry actions
someone else mentioned they couldn't see the same player's name either, though i can't say it affects all other players too, or if the empty player registers themselves as an empty player too
fwiw i remote executed the following expressions globally and they were as expected:

• isPlayer _target was true
• _target in allPlayers was true
• allGroups findIf {_target in units _x} was not -1

[teal reef]

Can’t I turn logs off?

[ocean cosmos]

turning off logs doesnt turn off errors

[bleak obsidian]

i see "object not found" errors a lot in my server without issue, mainly because players are running mods not loaded server-side, so i don't think it's necessarily a problem for you
you can also turn off that specific warning in server.cfg too:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Server_Config_File cpp class AdvancedOptions { LogObjectNotFound = false; };
that being said im fairly inexperienced in managing arma servers so i can't guess what's going on with your desync

(took a while to answer cause writing the hyperlink timed me out)

[pine kite]

Removing log messages doesn't solve the problem. They are an indication that something is wrong with the mission script, or the mods used. Isolate the cause by not using a likely suspect mod, or try to understand the meaning of the error and see where this can be fixed. IF it can be fixed by you. Often a scenario or mod cannot be fixed by the server hoster or player. Only the mod or scenario creator can fix their mod/mission code.

Maybe others can give a more specific answer if you upload the RPT log file of the client/game or of the server.

[tiny phoenix]

Hi guys, how to create a room play with my friend

I follow the YouTube say download the zerotier and create a WiFi id

But my friend can't find my room

[steady hawk]

What “YouTube” you refer?

[tiny phoenix]

https://youtu.be/rjX9hBrOaOM?si=QuFSiP0IgrxxooNF

This

The last one zerotier

[steady hawk]

Okay, what exactly you've done and what exactly is invisible for your friend? Room as in your server?

[tiny phoenix]

Ya same

My friend also download the zerotier

And I copy the network Id to my friend

And I also can see the network have me and my friend

So I create the room in game

But my friend can't find my room

[teal owl]

soooo this happened today
from what i gathered, did i really downloaded one too many mods?

[long flame]

ARMA3 is being bottle necked by my gpu because the games launcher wont let me allocate more then 8GB of NVRAM and I have way more then that, is there a mod or steam launcher option to bypass that and allocate more of my NVRAM

[lyric burrow]

i’m having an issue with authentication, i can’t connect to my steam account for the first time because the website kept timing out

[steady hawk]

authentication
In what/where?

[steady hawk]

What exactly you've done before this error?

[teal owl]

i've just reinstalled windows 10, and installed the game brand new... + downloading about uhm, 200 out of my 775 mods

here's is the log the launcher generated

[steady hawk]

🤔 I think I've never heard of such instacrash

[teal owl]

its not actually, it only crashes if i click on it

launcher works fine as far as im aware

once im through with this week's op i'll unsub to all mods and reinstall all my mods

[steady hawk]

Uh, it crashes when you click PLAY?

[teal owl]

no no

[teal owl]

it crashes when i click ok here

or click close*

[steady hawk]

I thought the error is already a crash

[teal owl]

it isnt, weirdly

[steady hawk]

Uh, so

[teal owl]

it just pops up and does nothing, when i click ok THEN it crashes

[steady hawk]

Huh...

[teal owl]

weird, right?

[oblique birch]

Arma 3 still not working steam want give ne a refund

[umbral narwhal]

Arma MP always generates object-not-found errors, even with no mods and a trivial mission.

[oblique birch]

is said battle eye isblocking c file system32 and wow 64 dll file

Steamrefuses to give me a refund

[steady hawk]

You can either try to verify your game and/or sfc /scannow on cmd

[lyric burrow]

tried connecting my bohemia account to steam, the website kept throwing 504 error at me

[steady hawk]

Do you mean in your Arma 3 Launcher?

[lyric burrow]

no like i purchased this game 6 hours ago and i tried to connect my bohemia interactive account to my steam account but the website that was supposed to connect my accounts arent loading

[steady hawk]

And that is not even necessary to play Arma 3, no?

[lyric burrow]

not necessary yes, but i want to join a unit

[steady hawk]

If you're brand new to the game, you want to play the tutorials first

[uncut trellis]

sometimes such systems take a while to synchronize, try again later and if it does not work you can contact BI tech support through the contact form on BI website

[lyric burrow]

ok thanks

[pine kite]

Ahh, wasn't that Units website out of order 99% of the time?

[primal aspen]

Anyone know how to read a .mdmp minidump file? When I try opening it, it seems encrypted or something. 🤷‍♂️ A player is experiencing game crashes every time he attempts to connect to my server, but he can connect to other modded servers just fine. As far as I know, this isn't a widespread problem because other people seem to have no issue connecting so I want to try to see if I can make any sense of his crash reports.

[ocean cosmos]

only BI can

[pine kite]

Bohemia Interactive Feedbacksite people/Dedmen and collegues know. Upload it to the feedback tracker with a description what happened before.

[ocean cosmos]

if you want to do something then check the rpt not mdmp

[primal aspen]

Oof, bummer. Thanks. I've checked his RPTs but don't see anything. Although, he changed his malloc and it did make a slight difference: 1) he did not get a bad_module_info error when his game crashed and his RPT shows a different Fault Address. However, nothing else indicates anything remotely useful which is why I asked about the mdmp. 😅

[teal reef]

If I can find the RPT I’ll show you guys

I’d also like to point out that during OPs the CPU for the server would skyrocket to over 100% usage

That’s probably the issue, but again I don’t know a solution

We moved to a different server previously to test it out there too but it did the same thing

The CPU power would still absolutely skyrocket

@uncut trellis ^

Figured I’d mention you too since you also tried to give me help

[fringe salmon]

why does my arma freeze while loading the game or loading a level? i have lots of mods installed is that maybe the problem? my game runs on 200 fps in the mainscreen and on 100 ingame

it works though when i wait everything loads normally

[uncut trellis]

yea loading mods especially badly made ones can take a while

[hardy light]

does anyone know how to fix mic issues? PTT doesn't work for me.

[uncut trellis]

there are some ideas in the pinned messages aboutt that

[hardy light]

not helpful

"Set default mic in Windows settings" isn't the winner

Windows
set mic to default recording device, tested it in voice recorder, enabled app permissions, checked to see it wasn't turned off in sound settings, sounds, and volume mixer, updated, tried the troubleshooter, restarted my computer, checked drivers for realtek mic and audio (I don't use a headset)
Steam
tested mic, tried PTT in Arma after changing the settings on Steam with open mic, PTT set to caps lock, levels all the way up, every combination thereof put mic as default device
Arma
verified files, uninstalled and unsubscribed to all mods and re-downloaded, tried to configure in audio settings, but it would not recognize i had a mic, then deleted all arma files from my computer and started from scratch, still nothing.

Also tried disabling audio enhancements in Windows, which also did not work.

I've scoured threads and forums for days now, and this is really starting to get tiresome

Mic works in other steam games, and chats. It's just Arma that has the problem

ran steam as admin, joined servers from the Prairie Fire DLC menu, and from launcher

if there is some little trick, I have seen it online and tried it before deleting the game entirely and reinstalling it

disabled razer cortex, that doesn't make a difference either

tried realtek audio console from my windows start menu, also didn't have anything helpful

[uncut trellis]

is it a usb mic or analog?

[hardy light]

analog

in the laptop, i don't use a headset

[hardy light]

i used to have task force radio, and remember being walked through changing some things regarding comms. it is no longer installed, but am curious if this is the issue?

[hardy light]

i don't think it should be, since i deleted all files and reinstalled them

[hardy light]

this PTT thing is the bane of my existance right now

[hardy light]

defragging HDD

[long flame]

?

[pine kite]

What makes you think this assumption is due to NVRAM. (which means non-volatile ram actually, RAM memory that doesn't loose content when power is lost) Why even bother with setting video-RAM settings? Don't set it. Let the game use whatever. The game is limited by the CPU most times anyway. As it runs on a single core mostly and the remaining cores partially. The average of them makes the CPU appear partially loaded. One core is still huffing and puffing to get the job done.

[pine kite]

So, why do you think defragging your HDD benefits getting you microphone working? Please explain.

[hardy light]

why you getting all puffy with me and the furry?

[pine kite]

Seems like you are making strange assumptions on what the cause of the issue is.

[hardy light]

come at people like a normal person and not a catty, passive-aggressive know it all dork

[hardy light]

strange? Arma says to defrag before install.

[hardy light]

It's literally what they say to do to make sure the software works properly

[pine kite]

Unless your HDD is fragged very much you won't notice a difference (in performance). Certainly not in how your microphone works. it is unrelated.

[hardy light]

The way my mic isn't working and how I've chronicled what I've looked into to get it working, something is definitely wrong, and I'm making sure all the T's are crossed, I's are dotted, and everything is done cleanly.

[hardy light]

Looking at all the related stuff has made me have to look at things that may seem unrelated or as if they wouldn't have an impact

[pine kite]

Actually, I managed to get a game or discord not to record my voice by setting the Windows privacy settings after installing Windows. Then I wondered why nobody could hear me talk. After undoing that paranoia setting it was fine.

(I am not saying the paranoia was unwarrented to be, nasty Microsoft wants to know everything)

[hardy light]

Above, I have looked at all those things and verified that my mic does work on applications in Windows, on this forum in voice chat, and games run through Steam. I'm exhausting my options to find the culprit at this point

[hardy light]

Yeah, I don't volunteer them my logs or info, definitely don't like my stuff being shared either.

[pine kite]

I have to go to work now. Sorry I can't help further.

[rain river]

Have you tried using a program such as Voicemeter? Creating a virtual audio device with your headset? Perhaps that could help?

[hardy light]

It seems like a common problem, and people seem to have to go delete files to make it work. I just don't know which ones

I don't use a headset

[rain river]

Or sorry, microphone.

[hardy light]

I haven't tried to create a virtual audio device, no

That's not something that has come up on forums on steam and bohemia or here

ill try that. maybe 10 minutes and ill let you know

[rain river]

Yeah I'm mentioning it because there doesn't seem to be a clear solution to the issue. VM is pretty simple to use, but there's a lot of tutorials on YT too if you need any.

Sure

Another thing could be (unlikely) that your game's installed on a drive that doesn't have permissions to use your microphone perhaps? That for whatever reason it needs admin perms or what not.

[hardy light]

it is on an HDD

so are my other steam games though

[rain river]

Yeah doubt that's the issue. 🙂

[hardy light]

it could be, theres no avenue im not willing to explore, ive tried it all at this point

the vb audio cable doesn't give option in device manager to be an input

[rain river]

If you put your mic under 1 of the Hardware inputs, then play it through 1 of the Virtuals, that doesn't work?

[hardy light]

i got audio and recording working

gonna try in arma

[rain river]

Good luck 🙂

[hardy light]

you'll know soon!

[worthy quarry]

when i start arma 3 i just get the error 0x00009a. It works when i turn off battleye but not if battleye is on. I reinstalled the game and its still broken. any ideas on what to do next?

[steady hawk]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unusual_Process_Exit#0xC000009A_-_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES
Have you checked/tried these?

[worthy quarry]

yes i have

[steady hawk]

It mentioned about DirectX and Visual C++ 2013 but you haven't, have you done these?

[hardy light]

no-go

[worthy quarry]

i did

[rain river]

Then Im out of options, sorry dude @hardy light

[hardy light]

trying another thing

id like a solution, not just for me but for people with this problem

[little gazelle]

Hello whenever I explode a tank or car there are these sparks that constantly do spark sounds and its very annoying when theres 10 at the same time. Does anyone know how to turn them off or get rid of them?

[steady hawk]

Restart your computer then?

[little gazelle]

Video of the sparks

[steady hawk]

A feature of a Mod

[worthy quarry]

did that like 10 times

[hardy light]

how to post an image onhere

[untold fractal]

Are you running ACE?

[rain river]

Copy paste I think?

Just in general, i usually use the cut-tool to make a picture and just copy-paste it here.

[steady hawk]

You must check the #rules

[little gazelle]

i am

can i disable it in the option of the addon?

[steady hawk]

Search for Ammo Cookoff or something

[untold fractal]

Yes ammo cook-off

[little gazelle]

ty

[hardy light]

nothing about images in rules

[steady hawk]

Reaction I mean

[hardy light]

copy paste isnt working

[untold fractal]

You need to accept the rules with the reaction at the bottom. You get the user role then which allows you to upload stuff.

[hardy light]

tried other settings on steam, and it didn't work. also tried stereo on and off. nothing.

[hardy light]

thx

[pine kite]

Sounds like ammo cookoff. If you don't want that, don't kill the tank/whateverhasammo. But yeah, probably an ACE setting that disables it.

[slender olive]

Guys, I have trouble with Arma. It's not launching. (No, I did not move the files around)

[little gazelle]

maybe reinstall it or remove all mods then activate some and launch to find out of a mod causes the issue

[long flame]

Because my task manager has my GPU running at 8GB of NVRAM used for the game and doesn't go above it and my CPU never goes past 60%usage

[fringe salmon]

is there any way of making it faster without changing hardware? My new Gpu will come soon tho, will that make it faster?

[umbral narwhal]

For loading time? Unlikely.

[uncut trellis]

use less mods. load only what you actually use and not everything.

[pine kite]

Check the popup info for "video memory limit". It says the maximum is 8192MB. So I guess there is an engine limitation or something. Even, a warning that with values more than 2GB there are unforeseen consequences. So don't try that if your enjoyment of the game is depending on it.

[karmic halo]

Is anyone else getting this msg since 2.14?

I own all DLCs and have no mods loaded. Files have been verified. I've never gotten this before the recent update.

[solid zodiac]

Anyone able to help me out possibly with this, keeps saying ace mismatch

[rocky stirrup]

I'm having difficulty having my friend direct connect to my hosted server. I opened up all the ports according to portforward.com. Would someone be able to direct connect to me to rule out that anyone cant join me?

[umbral narwhal]

@rocky stirrup Sure, give me IP and port

[rocky stirrup]

@umbral narwhal ty pmed!

[regal hawk]

i am having a strange issue lately where i seem to be getting a "zone of corrupted image" looking area at the bottom of my screen when Arma 3 is running, checked, it's only arma 3, made sure my display settings are correct, updated my drivers 4 times since the issue started, anyone have any ideas what's going on?

Picture in arsenal for visualization

[umbral narwhal]

Do you run Arma in the same screen mode as everything else and have you tried fullscreen windowed?

[regal hawk]

yes to both

[umbral narwhal]

Same in fullscreen windowed?

[regal hawk]

huh, okay let me check something because i swear i've had it set to fullscreen windowed

apparently it was in fullscreen and not fullscreen windowed like i thought it was

ookay so checking here.... it's apparently resetting the setting from fullscreen window to just fullscreen which is having the problem, every time i start the game up

Not entirely ideal but I can at least work with this information

[twin hare]

Hello, i have this error, i don't know why, :

[2023-09-18 10:43:38] Client version: no bootstrapper found
[2023-09-18 10:43:38] Connectivity test: Starting test, fetching 'http://test.steampowered.com/204'
[2023-09-18 10:43:38] Connectivity test: OK!
[2023-09-18 10:43:38] Connectivity test: result=Connected (since 0.0s ago), prev=Unknown, in progress=0

[2023-09-18 10:47:43] Client version: no bootstrapper found
[2023-09-18 10:47:43] Loaded Steam library folders configuration: D:\Exile\steamapps\libraryfolders.vdf
[2023-09-18 10:47:43] No install folder configuration files found.

---

I must have made a mistake during the last arma update, since then I have had big rollbacks, and this kind of error appears, if anyone could help me

[winter karma]

https://imgur.com/SpTiJNS
My turret is moving weird. WHat could be the cause?
It's vanilla.

[steady hawk]

Do you have any input device than mouse and keyboard?

[winter karma]

No

Freelock and infantry is OK

Only in vehicle turret

[steady hawk]

Can you check Controls > View > Aim Up/Down/Left/Right?

[winter karma]

Its all set.
View aim U/D/L/R is set right,
Vehicle Aim U/D/L/R is set right.

[steady hawk]

Hmm 🤔

Just in case, what if you unplug your mouse?

Just for the test

[winter karma]

I'll try

you mean unplug and plug

[steady hawk]

No, unplug and see if the issue is there

[winter karma]

How?

[steady hawk]

Uh, unplugging the mouse?

[winter karma]

I mean, the problem is that turret rotates slow when I move mouse

Unplugging will just stop turret

[steady hawk]

I never knew that 🤔

[winter karma]

It's not random motion

But feels like it stutters only in turret mode.

[steady hawk]

Well you didn't mention that I thought something was sliding

[winter karma]

Yap

It's not like 3rd input device problem

[steady hawk]

So, you mean... your mouse moving doesn't really move the turret, only slowly?

[winter karma]

I've played arma3 for 4k hours but this is whole new bug

Yea

[steady hawk]

How about other vehicle?

[winter karma]

https://imgur.com/0vBb5nS

All weapon turrets are stuttering, except camera turret

[steady hawk]

This... is strange

Just in case have you done verify already?

[winter karma]

Which verification?

[golden vale]

Wasnt there mouse sensitivity options? i dont recall if there were but if they are there check those

for vehicles ^

forgot that part

[steady hawk]

I think... there is no sensitivities option

I mean, only general one

[winter karma]

https://imgur.com/sDlZfp5

Don't think so

[steady hawk]

!steamverify

[rustic eagle]

Steam file verification process:
Right Click on game -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Verify Integrity of game files
Arma 3
Steam Workshop Mod repair process:
Open Launcher -> Right Click on mod -> Repair
The first process will automatically verify Steam Workshop items as well.

[steady hawk]

^ this is what I mean

[winter karma]

oh not yet

Yea it was since last update and I forgot it

[steady hawk]

Then maybe your updating went somehow wrong, is one possible reason

[winter karma]

I hope so

Ok finished verification. Missed the message. Now checking

Still same...

[nova elm]

That might just be a low DPI mouse with a high sensitivity in the windows settings.

[winter karma]

https://imgur.com/rOR4r3E

https://imgur.com/xhedt28

[winter karma]

Mouse is OK

Also window setting is

[steady hawk]

Maybe, just in case once again, delete arma3.exe and arma3_x64.exe and re-verify?

[winter karma]

ok

[steady hawk]

Since the verification process does not compare the entire thing

[winter karma]

Yap

Fail..

Seriously... What the hell is this bug..

[steady hawk]

Well, failing verification in this case is normal... but it still does it?

[winter karma]

Verification success, no bug fixed

[steady hawk]

Hmm let's try to see other possibilities

[lime sphinx]

🧠 create a new profile with default control settings and try there

[steady hawk]

Oh, I forgot that

[winter karma]

🧠🧠🧠

[steady hawk]

Maaybe this is one way

[winter karma]

I'll try reset keys before

[steady hawk]

You want to backup your profile before

[winter karma]

AH

Setting the mouse smoothing to maximum gives good turret movement, but weird for infantry movement

I used to set it 0 for 4k hours

[steady hawk]

I also always used 0 and have no issue actually

[winter karma]

Yea

[steady hawk]

I know something is wrong on your end, but... 🤔

How about your hardware? OS too

[winter karma]

Its windows11, logitech wireless mous

[steady hawk]

Hmm...

[winter karma]

The thing is

default mouse setting in arma still stutters in turret

Means something else is affecting

[steady hawk]

New profile too?

[winter karma]

Ah not yet

I'll try new profile

Still weird for new profile too..

[lime sphinx]

fun stuff

[winter karma]

😔

I think I'm out of options

maybe the last option if full re install

[winter karma]

Full re install failed..

[steady hawk]

That would mean... some hardware related?

I don't know, how a hardware issue will do such

[pine kite]

Clean the eye of the optical mouse. Might be dirt in there.

[winter karma]

Only in vehicle turret mode?...

[karmic halo]

No one? 😢

[steady hawk]

cus you use pirated copy?

How is the RPT?

[karmic halo]

16:35:00  index                                                         name      appId   owned  installed  available   isDlc
16:35:00      0                                                  Arma 3 Maps     249861      no         no         no     yes
16:35:00      1                                        Arma 3 Tactical Guide     249862      no         no         no     yes
16:35:00      2                                                  Arma 3 Zeus     275700     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00      3                                                 Arma 3 Karts     288520     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00      4                                           Arma 3 Helicopters     304380     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00      5                                          Arma 3 DLC Bundle 1     304400     yes        yes         no     yes
16:35:00      6                                              Arma 3 Marksmen     332350     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00      7                                                  Arma 3 Apex     395180     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00      8                                           Arma 3 Laws of War     571710     yes        yes        yes     yes

16:35:00      9                                                  Arma 3 Jets     601670     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     10                                          Arma 3 DLC Bundle 2     612480     yes        yes         no     yes
16:35:00     11                                                Arma 3 Malden     639600     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     12                                  Arma 3 Tac-Ops Mission Pack     744950     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     13                                                 Arma 3 Tanks     798390     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     14                                               Arma 3 Contact    1021790     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     15   Arma 3 Creator DLC: Global Mobilization - Cold War Germany    1042220     yes         no        yes     yes
16:35:00     16                           Arma 3 Creator DLC: Spearhead 1944    1175380     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     17                      Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire    1227700     yes         no        yes     yes
16:35:00     18                        Arma 3 Creator DLC: CSLA Iron Curtain    1294440     yes         no        yes     yes
16:35:00     19                                            Arma 3 Art of War    1325500     yes        yes        yes     yes
16:35:00     20                           Arma 3 Creator DLC: Western Sahara    1681170     yes         no        yes     yes

[steady hawk]

Hmm...

[karmic halo]

So only not owned is maps and tactical guide, but these are not installed

Other than that the rpt is clean.

[patent kettle]

was it vanilla?

[karmic halo]

Yes

[patent kettle]

weird then.

[karmic halo]

Kinda yeah 😄

[patent kettle]

I've seen rare occasion where the button to load into altis in editor had "Purchase" instead of the standard text xD

[karmic halo]

16:35:08 Arma 3 | A3 | true | true | NOT FOUND (Empty) | | |
This one is normal, isn't it?

[steady hawk]

22:07:12 Arma 3 | A3 | true | true | NOT FOUND (Empty) | | | Mine says same

[karmic halo]

Good

I am kinda sure it has to do with the sale going on atm.

nvm

A clean profile seems to have fixed it.

[steady hawk]

Hmm, does a profile do anything with loading DLC or such?

[karmic halo]

With the main menu UI certainly.

I wanna check what variables I have that could cause that.

[steady hawk]

["$STR_A3_TACOPS_POPUP_DEVELOPER","We've detected not all loaded DLC has a valid license. Please support us by purchasing DLC officially in the ongoing sale. Thanks!"]Tac-Ops related? Dunno...

[karmic halo]

This caused the issue. dedmen helped figure that out.

[fringe salmon]

is there a way to disable errors showing?

[uncut trellis]

what kind of errors

and when

[fringe salmon]

when you do something and it says some texture is missing

[uncut trellis]

in editor, no.

and if you got missing stuff, then you should fix those things

or disable broken mods

[twin hare]

Can anyone help me understand where this error is coming from? it creates a huge rollback on our server

[2023-09-16 11:33:52] Client version: no bootstrapper found
[2023-09-16 11:33:52] Loaded Steam library folders configuration: D:\Exile\steamapps\libraryfolders.vdf
[2023-09-16 11:33:52] No install folder configuration files found.

[hardy light]

is there a way to check my mic in the console?

[steady hawk]

What do you mean by "check" and "in the console"?

[hardy light]

to see if the mic is working, i don't code, don't do script or whatever, just trying to figure out if it's something in the code of the game that's messed up that isn't letting my mic show up and work

[steady hawk]

It uses Windows' default Audio Input

[hardy light]

do i need a radio in my inventory to use PTT on the voice channels in game?

[steady hawk]

Maybe maybe not

I forgot that is true or not

[hardy light]

there is no radio in the arsenal or my inventory in-game, I don't know how people have them or what's going on, but if that's a possibility I should pursue that

[hardy light]

Got a radio in game, still nothing

[fading wasp]

what is Addons functions_f_decade.pbo

Says its unable to verify.... I can't play the game

[quaint jewel]

-> #arma3_questions message

[fading wasp]

Im here troubleshooting my game

[quaint jewel]

and I gave you the answer

[fading wasp]

server is updated

[quaint jewel]

Are you sure? the update came out 43 minutes ago.
And the creator DLC (server) branch was updated 6 minutes ago.

[fading wasp]

yeah its my server - I can try again

Should i verify game files server side?

[quaint jewel]

yeah verify steam files on both server and client

if still it doesn't, delete that bad pbo to force steam to redownload it

[fading wasp]

I see - I will try. Thanks 👍

[nova elm]

If you are using prof on either, you'll need to wait a bit for that to be updated.

[fading wasp]

Makes sense!! Server is on prof... Thank

ETA?

[nova elm]

Sometime in the next hour or two is my best estimate.

[fading wasp]

Cool thanks.

[nova elm]

Update on that, 20-30 minutes is the new ETA

[fading wasp]

Okay much appreciated - oddly enough... It worked after verifying game files on server 😍

Does the branch change to steam branch when updating?

[nova elm]

Not sure, you can check to see if the extra profiling binaries are present

[neat oxide]

RHS sever wont join, something with PBO file, anyone else getting this?

[nova elm]

Server probably needs to be updated #arma3_questions message

[neat oxide]

gotcha fam

[neon lagoon]

functios_f_decade.pbo right?

i have that one

it wont let me join any servers

[ocean cosmos]

read the chat

neil said the server needs to be updated

[neon lagoon]

im just checking if i have the same one

[ocean cosmos]

yes you do

[toxic igloo]

only thing I found about this error is that you should verify the game files.
That did not help

I have no mods LOADED

[nova elm]

Please read earlier messages

[toxic igloo]

my bad

[frozen needle]

Anyone able to shed some light on this error?
Verifying PBO failed: addons\functions_f_decade.pbo
Nobody can connect to our server 😅

Ah, nevermind - literally just read the one above

Ignore my dumb ass

[granite gust]

need help with mic
for about half a year, my mic in game is not working
I have changed microphones, whole headsets, changed windows mic inputs, re installed arma 3
need help

[fading wasp]

I have had some friends who have had issues with USB headsets in the past

They solve it by just switching to a standard AUX type that doesnt use third party stuff

But I use arctis and never have had an issue

[granite gust]

I used razer nari for years and only had this problem when I pressed "auto adjust" in mic sensitivity, now whenever I press that it just closes itself
I switched to arctis 9 and still going on

[fading wasp]

dang thats weird, that would drive me crazy.. Maybe its a firewall issue?

[granite gust]

3 different AV software including stock windows
so not that

as I said, I pressed auto adjust and it broke my ingame mic ever since
now when I click it, it opens for a milisecond and closes, tried different profiles, reinstalls and all

[fading wasp]

Hmm.. yeah thats not fun.

Maybe.. (this sound crazy) create new user profile on your PC and log to steam there and download the game on fresh system profile

[granite gust]

I see what you mean. will do that later

but yeah, it is maddening

on a side note, VON is disabled on official servers now?

[fading wasp]

Hmm, not sure. I've been addicted to modded servers for couple months so would not know 😆

[granite gust]

I normally play modded aswell, but friends just got in so we are playing coop

[fading wasp]

Hey wait, does your mic work on other games

[granite gust]

yes

it works on everything

except arma

[fading wasp]

OOoooo ok, was going to say try different usb port

[fading wasp]

What about profiling branch - have you tried this?

#perf_prof_branch message

[granite gust]

I am on prof already

also, can you not place full arsenal as zeus anymore? nor change parameters?

[violet heath]

Been having this issue to do with profiles causing infinite loading for a few people on our dedi server recently: #arma3_troubleshooting message

It’s a pretty disruptive issue though I cannot seem to find a permanent fix or even useful logs to resolve. Anyone have some insight?

[granite gust]

nope that didnt work

[drifting quartz]

bohemia sucks ass, arma is hella unoptimized and not fun, the game was not worth full price that I paid for it.

[granite gust]

yeah, my mic in game is currently dead

[little tree]

I get this error when trying to start the server.

[fading wasp]

Bummer - I hope you find solution

[granite gust]

one day

[hardy light]

new update, fixed t-100 issue where gunner could not fire if a player was sitting in the driver seat and

t-100 cannon charge could be held when exiting the gunner seat

splendid

I'm guessing that was very high up on the priority list next to fixing PTT for players to use :smh

seriously, that seems pretty low compared to common mic issues that keep people from using basic game functions

[quaint jewel]

Which loading screen specifically. Before role selection, after? Can you hear game sounds in he background behind loading screen

[quaint jewel]

Same

If it's after role selection and has sounds in the background, it's a init.sqf script that is not finishing.

But a empty mission (for example the vanilla Zeus missions) should then work

[violet heath]

I’ll try confirm with those who had the issue, thank you for responding. When you say sound you mean like in-game effects or menu music/ambience etc?

[pine kite]

Then the server is missing a mod that adds some kind of JLTS radios. The other mod 3AS needs that.

[quaint jewel]

ingame, like wind and bird sounds

[upbeat spire]

My guess is gonna be you are using JLTS mods and TFAR. But you are missing a Compability for those 2 you can find it here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2332457910

[sullen bolt]

hey guys ive created a mod and signed it using dsutils, in the launcher its saying its not signed though

[fringe salmon]

How do i copy missions to a other profile? SOLVED

[twin hare]

missions.sqm?

[fringe salmon]

how do i edit them?

and what do i have to do?

[twin hare]

Sorry, but can you be clearer?
Are you talking about mission.sqm for the map?

you can drag it into your user profile (Documents) and launch Arma, with the same profile.
Then you go to the main menu of the game, and you go to the Editor section

There you can select your base map, then at the top left directly open the Mission.sqm map concerning your server.

From there, you can modify from the editor what you want, then you don't just have to save it, if you don't want to, like many servers, lose a lot of FPS. you must seriously use the "EdenExile" mod to transform your modifications into a script that you can drag into your server folder, and thus not overload your mission.sqm file which must remain as light as possible

https://github.com/Dealman/A3DTools

[spare wraith]

So my unit is having some issues with ACRE. A select few can hear each other, we give each other our radios and then it switches, some can hear others, blah blah. I’m a little confused on what’s going on

I have preset channels that were renamed, my other 3 guys have the correct names channels. I and another do not, we have default channel name

[lavish geode]

greetinngs, im having issues joining public vaniila servers currently testing koth and invade and annex; all will repeat the same thing as the video. Its unresponsive to my keyboard except esc which exited the server.
Tried one server with kick when inactive and it kicked when i left it for a while, thinking maybe i was connected but the ui is gone.
Tried hosting my own server wirh my buddies and no issues.

Any solutions or help would be appreciated
#steamdeck

[lavish geode]

NVM SOLVED myself. I guess for linux/steamdeck, use the Profiling performance build in the the beta option at arma3 properties. Quick google to protondb helps me

[pine kite]

You missed this reply #general_chat_arma message in #general_chat_arma . It's part of the ACE mod I believe, so support should be in their discord or whatever.

[fringe salmon]

Why does a black screen sometimes appear and the game freezes?

[uncut trellis]

do you alt tab out of the game?

[cobalt star]

mhhh seems a lot...
22:31:38 Server load: FPS 48, memory used: 1390 MB, out: 134035 Kbps, in: 273 Kbps, NG:0, G:2508, BE-NG:0, BE-G:0, Players: 39 (L:0, R:0, B:0, G:39, D:0)

out: 134035 Kbps

any clues on how to diagnose it?

[golden nova]

diagnose what, bandwith usage?

looks pretty normal assuming that for every player Arma often takes from 7 to 10 mbps serverside, I remember an extensive "research" about that on BIForums and it was very similar to what our server used on weekly missions.

if you want to reduce bandwith then play with less players or less-scripted missions using less mods

[cobalt star]

mhhh

players went near the first objective (with a lot of desync) and when the dynamic simulation of the ai triggered the bandwith went down

to around 10000

[golden nova]

then a broken script or broken mod that caused the packet queue to clog up, hence the mass amount of guaranteed messages sent at once. I doubt anyone is capable of pointing out exact issue just from the server log, instead you could find a focus group and test two similar missions - one without any mods at all if possible, other with the preset you have been playing on

[cobalt star]

i think i found what the problem was... there was a group of events handleling some markers... im killing the mission maker he wrote a script that updates some markers but recursive for every player

killed the events even better

[golden nova]

you can try mitigating the "clogging" issue through rising up the MaxMsgSend parameter but it might just postpone the issue for a few minutes depending on how bad that script was written

[cobalt star]

just removed all the events fortunately ive got the ids in a variable

[umbral narwhal]

Some sort of unit error surely...

[hushed blaze]

I am trying to use the diagnostics branch to help in making one of my mods, i have been trying to use the script:
"EPEVehicle" diag_enable true; to show what the transmission is doing but only get thrust info, How do i get it to show RPM, Current Gear and all the good stuff i see in youtube videos?

all i get is a debug menu with EPEVehicle:

thrustLWanted:0.0000 thrustL:0.0000
thrustRWanted:0.0000 thrustR:0.0000

and literally nothing with EPEForce

[quaint jewel]

Multiple people reported that EPEVehicle diag is broken

[fast lava]

Sorted now

[steady beacon]

Why my WARLORDS /AI BLACKLIST , DOSENT WORK!?? (NATO)

[rare finch]

Hi, I'm having trouble importing presets in Arma 3. I've been able to do so normally until yesterday and now when I try to import an html preset the launcher just gives an error saying "Unable to Import Preset." I can open them all in browsers and if I drag the files it queues them for download but doesn't load them. I've tried verifying and validating my game files, uninstalling / unsubscribing from all mods, and reinstalling Arma 3, however nothing has fixed it so far

https://puu.sh/JQBDi/9e614b642b.png

This is the only error that shows up, if its any clarification

[gilded ferry]

Anyone familiar with this kind of error

i tried reinstalling

it still says the same problem

[gilded ferry]

none?

[quaint jewel]

Pinned messages. Look for the CTD one.
Your error is dll not found

[hushed blaze]

im strill trying to use EPEVehicle on the diag branch to help with my broken vehicle mod, is there any reason why my vehicle has a top speed of 60kmh but will only go 24kmh?

Gearbox and Wheel code is fine, i think its the model, but i cannot for the life of me figure out why

[quaint jewel]

Would be better to ask in #arma3_config the people that know are more active there

[hushed blaze]

ty

[fringe salmon]

Recent crash I am getting with latest ArmA 3 server version (Windows) - I have mini-dump but cannot upload it here (too large)

I hope I posted this in the right location

[cunning sierra]

upload the minidump file from the path in that log

[fringe salmon]

When I open the minidump, its just a bunch of giberish

Could you further elaborate?

Apologies on not understanding

[cunning sierra]

it's only readable by the game devs

[fringe salmon]

Ah I see

I can't upload

size is too big

[cunning sierra]

you can made a feedback ticket with the files

[fringe salmon]

By chance, got a link to that ticket creation process?

I'd be happy to fill it out

Thank you for the help on reporting this proper

[cunning sierra]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/maniphest/task/edit/form/3/

[fringe salmon]

Thank you!

I book marked that

[golden nova]

if that's a community mission then ask its author about issues you have with it.

[signal heart]

We had a member of the community make it, no one else has had issues with it.

He also does not know what may be wrong.

[main star]

Morning all, having an interesting issue with one of my members as of Yesterday.

When trying to connect to the server, it tries connecting forever. This is the log he sent me: (baring in mind this modpack works for everyone else, and this isn't the first time we have had this issue)

What I find interesting, is that it seems to claim that Arma 3's Directory does not exist

20:36:48 Arma 3 | A3 | true | true | NOT FOUND (Empty) |

[patent kettle]

Nothing interesting, Arma always shows this in log.

[main star]

I'm looking here as the last time we had this issue, it was this same error but for two mods that we had installed, but we just removed those mods and it worked again

[main star]

This is the first time I've seen this

Ah okay yeah I just verified that with my own logs

Right, can anyone tell what the issue is?

I'm very confused haha, but I don't see any other issues wih the file - But then again I am not experianced in this

[fading pulsar]

With us its ussualy profile folder.

Tell your player to make a new test profile and try to connect to server

[pine kite]

If other mods show that, then there is an issue with downloading that mod from Steam. Somehow it didn't get finished or something broke/partially saved/interupted it.

[main star]

We fixed that issue last time, I'm just saying that's why I picked up on the Arma "Not Found" thing

[main star]

I'll try that tonight

[pine kite]

You will find more of those "red herrings", warnings/errors that don't actually signify a problem but show in each working server/client.

[main star]

Yeah it wasn't until I checked my own log that it showed the same thing for me

[umbral narwhal]

@main star That's running the perf/profile version. Tell him not to do that if he's having problems.

(stable build is 2.14.150957)

[quaint jewel]

stuck at connecting to server (before role selection) is either Arma units being down (which it usually is on weekends) or his steam not connecting properly

[umbral narwhal]

IIRC with units you get to the role selection screen but it doesn't fill it in until it times out after a minute.

I really wish the RPT gave more info about the connection process.

[main star]

Thank you, I'll tell him.

[wind dock]

Ever since a platform update around last winter, my groups server is very hard to find. What do I mean by that? Some of our players can't find the server at all from the launcher even when they search "Internet" for the server name and let it scan every server. At the same time, other players of ours can find it in favorites if we wait 30 seconds to a minute but we also can't find it in "internet". What could be causing our server to be so elusive?

[umbral narwhal]

You mean no-one can find it in "internet"?

Or is it only some players who have the problem?

[wind dock]

Some can locate it in "Internet" but it usually takes forever and also weirdly works better if you don't type the full name

[umbral narwhal]

I guess Steam has an order in which it sends out the server list and if you're lucky you get an earlier slot.

Maybe you can finesse it with name changes

Not sure about favourites though. Personally once I've favourited a server it shows up reliably.

And you can always add them with steam -> view -> servers.

[wind dock]

Thank you

[fringe salmon]

How do I fix "Unable to import preset" error?

[azure anvil]

so, basically there is this mod called Balkan Wars 1990-1995 which is a suitable mod for ARMA 3.. alright.. but it doesen't work.

whenever I put it in the launcher, and launch it up there are some errors that pop-up.. and genually I can't play any scenarios

@ocean cosmos @uncut trellis

[ocean cosmos]

broken mod then

[azure anvil]

hm?

[uncut trellis]

either one of the mods listed in your launcher is broken and you cant use it

or you have installed some other mod files mixed into the games own files and those are broken

or you dont have all the necessary required addons

[azure anvil]

right

[uncut trellis]

from the looks of it you need CUP core and/or terrains

[azure anvil]

yea

[uncut trellis]

best would be check the mods workshop page for its requirements

[azure anvil]

is this it?

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=583496184

[azure anvil]

give me a second.

[uncut trellis]

well either one of the other mods requires it or the list is incomplete there

unfortunately this is done with poor naming and cant really tell what mod its from

[azure anvil]

hm

[quaint jewel]

CUP Worlds. Is CUP Terrains
None of the mods list it on workshop, but yeah its somehow required

But even with that missing, it should load anyway

[abstract bridge]

Have been getting errors here, STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION
Arma been crashing right after load up.

Any fix?

[uncut trellis]

Check pinned messages for link to wiki page about unusual process exit and find you error there and do the possible fixes

[versed viper]

Upon installing Dayz Tools to convert one of my islands to SA, I've found out "new" tools actually broke my A3 tools. For example this option disappeared (grayed out), any ideas how to fix this?

[uncut trellis]

could try verifying arma3 tools and runnign them once for registry setup

there may be some overlap between them

though you would want to run the layers through the external fast convert bat anyway

[tidal gazelle]

Been having some arma 3 PIP issues. Sights been really dark and some random dark shadow in the optic? Anyone able to help or share some settings? DM's open.

Messed with my settings and shit kinda messed up.

[wanton scarab]

im trying to get my arma 3 server running again after it being down for a long time and i have a problem right now of it not showing up in arma
when i go to the start logs i see this and think its probably the problem but i have no idea how to fix it

pc specs are
ryzen 7 5700G
32gb 3200mhz ram
500gb nvme ssd
and i have a 1gbt lan connection to the server

im running the arma server through
firedeamon pro

[fading pulsar]

That is not the problem, and is always present.
Keep looking

[wanton scarab]

this is where the log ends

[fading pulsar]

This indicates server started and is... well serving

[wanton scarab]

it should be all ported but its not showing up on lan or the internet

[fading pulsar]

If you are on same lan or same pc even try direct connecting using local IP (or loopback/localhost if on same pc).

If you cant, check firewall on hosting computer.

Next, make sure inbound ports to hosting computer are forwarded correctly, port range 2302 - 2306 udp inbound.

Lastly if all this works, ask friend outside your lan to check if it pops up for them.

[wanton scarab]

this is all the ports that are open for arma
would the minecraft server also running on the same server be causing a problem?
i tried to connect with the public and lan ip but each time all it did was just bring me back to the server menu after hitting join

[fading pulsar]

You didnt forward 2302 (or not in the shot)

[wanton scarab]

at the bottom

[fading pulsar]

Ah twice

This is windows fw?

[wanton scarab]

tcp udp

[wanton scarab]

yes windows 10 pro WDF

[fading pulsar]

Im not sure which ports minecraft runs on.

Server log indicates it started correctly, port forwarding at least on win fw looks correct. (Tcp not needed)

[main sinew]

I have some weird fps behavior with arma 3 whenever I don't have anything open like for example I get really choppy fps by default unless I press escape or are in a vehicle then I get normal fps

[fading pulsar]

And only ports 2302-2306 are reqiired

[main sinew]

I've restarted the game and still get the same result

when I go in zeus my fps greatly improves

[wanton scarab]

so i dont need the battle eye ports?

[main sinew]

same with arsenal

[fading pulsar]

If you intend to run BERcon you need one additional UDP of your choosing. Rest of the ports are outbound

[wanton scarab]

should i try to get rid of all them and try opening the server with UPnP

[main sinew]

so I replaced everything my character had on with a loadout and now I get normal fps

[fading pulsar]

You can try

[main sinew]

I have narrowed it down to ace's leopold mark 4 optics that are killing my fps

[main sinew]

the pip one

[fading pulsar]

Good luck, im off to sleep.

If all else fails you could change gameport to something random like: 12345 and forward 12345-12351.

But if any other service would already be running on 2302, it would refuse to bind and close with error.

[fading pulsar]

Ah...

Update server program to newest version. Its runnin 2.10, current game is 2.14

Also you can get more halp in #server_windows

[frosty veldt]

Hello, could I ask for help with my arma3 server? im using admin and for some reason when I try to install a mod it says (see screenshot)

I have contacted the people im renting with but they don't know what is causing it, please can someone help me with this

🙏

[pine kite]

It's not clear if those are UDP. Don't know what all the other ports are meant to do for you. (the collumns to the right would have explained a bit more about that) But the server only requires incomming ports UDP 2302-2306 range to be allowed/not blocked. Outgoing ports are usually open, unless this is a very hardened server with strict firewall security rules. So no point in specifying outgoing rules.

[pine kite]

UDP that is.

[fading pulsar]

Yes.

[hot hinge]

Can someone please help with this not working countdown?

[gritty onyx]

What's with steamcmd not updating the game with app_update 233780 validate command? It verifies the files "successfully" even though I've even tried deleting the functions_f_decade.pbo to fix the PBO mismatch

[umbral narwhal]

Have you checked it's the server that's out of date and not the client?

[gritty onyx]

Lol... I just finished verifying my files and it works now (I think). My game was updated though, but I guess you never know...

[violet pumice]

Having a kind of weird issue where BIS_fnc_exportEditorPreviews isn't saving any screenshots
It cycles through all the vehicles correctly and creates the folder(s) where the assets should go, but then there's no actual files there

Tried on three different profiles to see if maybe my name was causing some issues, but none of them worked

[violet pumice]

I found this post on the feedback tracker (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T120379) and the final message mentioned that their HDR setting was lower and was causing it to not work. I auto-detected my settings again and it's working fine now

[abstract bridge]

Sorry for late response. Its not listed on there, tried reinstalling arma but that didn't work so im stumped.

[uncut trellis]

whats the full error you get?

[uncut trellis]

you probably need to use the report tool to send the crash dumps to BI support

[umbral narwhal]

@abstract bridge What's your CPU btw?

[violet pumice]

Is there a weapon equivalent for BIS_fnc_exportEditorPreviews?
Like it takes a weapon's model and creates an image that can be used in the inventory

I assume no, since I was looking around in the BIS functions and didn't see anything, was just curious.
I've just been dropping them and editing out the background in photoshop and using that

[ocean cosmos]

create GWH prop for 3den, use that instead 🧠

[abstract bridge]

ryzen 5600x

[umbral narwhal]

yeah ok that's not gonna have instruction set issues.

[violet pumice]

Would basically be the same thing, still have to edit out the background.
Not to mention it probably would be rotated

[abstract bridge]

32 bit arma works fine but always crashes due to how the zeus in my unit makes the missions + get bad framerate.

[uncut trellis]

in this day of age, you should not really use 32 bit exes

unless your system is 32bit

[abstract bridge]

yeah

[uncut trellis]

but it likely means you got something messed up in your windows or parts of it

[abstract bridge]

considering factory reseting

[uncut trellis]

it might not help if your factory settings dont contain some of the older parts Arma might need 😅

[umbral narwhal]

It crashes even vanilla, right?

[abstract bridge]

yep

both profiling and vanilla

[umbral narwhal]

I mean without mods.

[abstract bridge]

yes

[golden nova]

I remember getting error of similar name in Chrome when having system hardware acceleration enabled but I guess it's only error name that is in common

[abstract bridge]

this is hardware accel

i swear to god

restarting my computer

[golden nova]

is this a recent PC build? Have you had any issues with it before? Maybe one of its component is faulty, difference between 32 and 64bit exe is mainly RAM usage so perhaps one of your memory chips causes the crash

[umbral narwhal]

Unlikely you'd have a consistent illegal-instruction even after a reinstall then.

Normally RAM issues are a bit random.

[golden nova]

would windows event viewer have any logs regarding component issues?

[fading pulsar]

Just a side question, do you have your documents backed up by OneDrive?

[golden nova]

dunno if Enderz's using 10 or 11

[umbral narwhal]

Nah, it wouldn't know about that sort of component issue. If something with ECC was flaky then yeah.

My best guess here is that it's crashing in a corrupted DLL rather than Arma itself.

[abstract bridge]

Using windows 11

[abstract bridge]

PC Build is from May 2022

[abstract bridge]

no (I do not use onedrive)

[fading pulsar]

okay, nvm then

[ocean cosmos]

you can get them to produce transparent backgrounds

check "Configuring Asset Previews" in the see also

basically just disable DoF

[violet pumice]

Would still be lopsided no?
Or does it take the picture from above for weapon holders

[ocean cosmos]

🤷

[abstract bridge]

Would deleting alll dlls then reinstalling maybe work?

[uncut trellis]

what does the first error popup look like

[abstract bridge]

Some local map mod, uninstalled it though

[sharp portal]

Just downloaded Arma yesterday, can anyone point me in the right direction for loading Prairie Fire DLC on an iMac please.

[uncut trellis]

if I remember right you need to make a shortcut that uses the launch parameters to run sogpf folder

-mod=vn or something along those lines

[sharp portal]

Cheers will search that.

[sharp portal]

got it: open -a Arma3 --args -mod=vn -p default -no-remote

think I need to go to basic training, thanks again

[sullen bolt]

I'm hosting a server with a mod that i have created and am getting the following error

This appears to just be a signing isue but ive made sure that my mod key on the server as well as on the client are the same. Ive also confirmed that they keys are located in the right place on the server (keys folder) and in the arma 3 launcher it shows as green and ok to join. I'm really not sure what the issue is here

[umbral narwhal]

What did you use to create the mod?

@sullen bolt

[sullen bolt]

just created a pbo archive and added sqf files to it

signed with DSUtils

I use faster for server launching and have made change to the steam protocol settings

running 28 mods

[umbral narwhal]

Yeah, PBO manager doesn't create correct PBOs. Even if signed, they fail on verification.

You have to build your addon PBOs with something else.

[fringe salmon]

how can i apply configs on mods on a dedicated server? For example "ACE adjustible armor"

[sullen bolt]

oh really, damm

what would you recomend I use?

thanks for the headup around this.. pita

[umbral narwhal]

I use addon builder personally but it's broken for some cases so I think most people use Mikero or HEMTT

At least I never found any way to build mixed binarized + SQF addons with the addon builder command line. The include syntax is busted as far as I can tell.

[sullen bolt]

awersome I just used it and working now! thanks so much, im curious as to what causes that. Do you know why it doesnt work?

[umbral narwhal]

If you use this utility it'll tell you exactly what's broken:
https://github.com/BrettMayson/bisign

I don't remember the details.

[sullen bolt]

huh i used that and it verrified my files file

weird

[broken igloo]

Why are AI placed inside vehicles just not spawning when I run the scenario?

[uncut trellis]

mods might do stuff

[broken igloo]

Like what?

[uncut trellis]

move the units somehwere maybe. dunno, test what you are doing without mods first

if that works then you know its a issue with mods

[broken igloo]

Well is this a known issue with any particular mod? I've got a ton loaded.

If I'm going to unload all the mods and play vanilla I might as well not even play the game then.

Dudes in the ediotr

Dudes not there when running scenario

This has only happened with vehicles. AI on foot always spawn

[uncut trellis]

never heard of any doing thatt

but yeah if you got ton of mods, then likely you got one that does this for some reason

could be some AI mod

[pine kite]

Well, you know which mods you have loaded, you test it! How would we know which mods cause which problems? There are thousands on the work shop. And how would we know which you happened to pick of those? You never even provided a modlist of any kind.

[abstract bridge]

Seems like it was a fuckin reshade DLL that caused this. Hopefully now arma stays as this and doesn't die again.

[pine kite]

The Law of Conservation of Misery at play here. No matter how much you try to improve a situation by changing/adding improvements, new bad things pop up that make it not function better or become less reliable.

Be critical on what 'fancy'-mods you add.

[steady hawk]

Posting this will result nothing

[violet heath]

Found the offending init.sqf script and fixed it, ran perfect with no issues. Thank you 🙏

[timid brook]

I dont know ho too host.

[topaz ravine]

Hello, so i have this problem, that if i join this server, it just gets stuck on 'receiving data'

[umbral narwhal]

One specific server?

[topaz ravine]

nah

every server

it just gets stuck

receiving data, it doesnt even load, its full black and the game is responding

[umbral narwhal]

Make sure you're not using a VPN.

[topaz ravine]

im not.

[umbral narwhal]

Restart windows and your router.

[topaz ravine]

didnt work

i just tried it 15 min ago i swear to god

and restarted pc for like 3 times lol

[umbral narwhal]

Either your internet connection is busted or you've done something very bad to Windows.

[topaz ravine]

wdym bad to windows

internet is fine

i verify my files then it works

i close my game try to go again

it doesnt work

so i have to verify my fils

well now its like this

[uncut trellis]

go here

[topaz ravine]

thanks

[topaz ravine]

none of them worked xD

[quaint jewel]

Send me report

[topaz ravine]

how

?

[quaint jewel]

go to my discord DM and drag&drop that file in there. If too large, upload it somewhere else

I can look at it in 14 hours maybe

[topaz ravine]

it didnt work after i reinstalled the game

i closed the game

opened the game again just to try once

and it worked

so idk hella sus imma try tomorrow also see if itll open or nah

[cobalt onyx]

hello i have a problem. when i load up my saved game it doesnt work right. like i play on ace and the map tools arent working gps, micro dagr etc. can someone help or explain the problem?

[pine kite]

Do you even have ACE loaded in the launcher?

[cobalt onyx]

yep

im not that stupid

like the menu of the ace is working but the map tools and gps doesnt pop up on the map

[pine kite]

Well, it's easy to forget to load the mods back in if you played on another server in the mean time.

[cobalt onyx]

okey

[pine kite]

You do need those tools in your inventory to be able to use them.

[cobalt onyx]

yep i have them

they pop up in the menu but they are not responding

like you know

they are on the ace menu but they are not responding on the map you know what i mean?