arma3_troubleshooting

[minor merlin]

ah

[uncut trellis]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unusual_Process_Exit#0xC0000135_-_STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND

this is the page with the suggested fixes

[pine kite]

Has links to the right Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 file. Make sure to install the 64bit (x64) version of it. Arm version won't do anything for you. And well, x86 (32-bit) might, but you would want to use more memory for the game anyway, so only install that as a secondary option.

[minor merlin]

do this then?

Also, why does it do this everytime I launch the game? Even if I already ran it once? I might just not allow it to make changes to my device so it stops doing this

Installing it, I guess we'll see

it looks like this computer never had it in the first place

bro, this computer is all jacked up

[uncut trellis]

Yes that is what I was saying when I said it bugs

its old file

arma is old game

its not installed by default anymore

and the install that comes with Arma seems to bug

[minor merlin]

it won't let me download the C++ thing and keeps saying that another install is already in progress and must be completed first, nothing is downloading other than the C++ thing

[quaint jewel]

You can go to steam settings on arma 3.
And under beta's select profiling branch

That one doesn't use the old 2013 thing but instead the new 2022 one. That might work better

[minor merlin]

will it allow me to play with everyone else tho?

[quaint jewel]

yes

[minor merlin]

like connect to servers with people using the old version?

bet

[minor merlin]

The Performance Profiling one?

[quaint jewel]

ye

[minor merlin]

k

Does Arma need to run this? Or can I just not allow it to make changes to skip it?

[quaint jewel]

it needs it

[minor merlin]

oh

I skipped it and it launched

[quaint jewel]

When you let it start it would probably start, realize its already installed and do nothing

[minor merlin]

the last few times it just sat there for like an hour and then launched

if I can connect to a MP server then I'll leave it be

[pine kite]

It doesn't. Those things are not installed by Windows itself. Usually comes as automatic installations needed for applications. As Steam does in case of Arma 3.

[minor merlin]

ah

is there a built in FPS limiter in Arma? or do I need to do it through settings?

[quaint jewel]

it has vsync in the settings

[craggy mirage]

Hi anyone know about this issue, We have a member that is having issues installing the modpack.

When mods are installed they instantly corrupt and when you go to the location that they're stored it's empty, but his mods are stored in ext. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content

But everyone I have seen has it in - C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3!Workshop

Anyone came across this issue before.

Done the basics like reinstalling arma, removing mods, changing mod folder,

Any help would be much appreciated and never came across this issue before. 🙂

[golden nova]

!Workshop folder is the symlink one and it is supposed to be like that. Mods are stored in some obscure Steam directory, !Workshop is for easier mod browsing but it's does not contain any mod files except symlinks.

you can tell him to go to \AppData\Local\Arma 3 Launcher\Logs and browse the log files to find anything concerning

[soft perch]

My volume goes very low when i start to play. On the regular screen it is normal. I have looked at every setting and can't find anything. It started this after i installed Teamspeak.

[mellow mesa]

I cant seem to remove the multiplayer tag from scenarios, Any one got a possible solution?

[steady hawk]

Do you mean in Workshop?

[steady hawk]

What do you mean by regular screen?

[soft perch]

Where the dashboard\mods\server is

[steady hawk]

Not sure what you see

Do you mean Arma 3 Launcher

[soft perch]

Yes

[steady hawk]

And your sound volume gets lower when the game has launched?

Sound volume as in game sounds or entire sounds on your Windows?

[soft perch]

Yes. It is normal even after i press play. When i go into like single player campain that's when it goes down.

[steady hawk]

What about my second question

[mellow mesa]

Cant edit the tags on the WS page, its when im uploading it from the editor

[soft perch]

Just game volume.

[steady hawk]

You cannot change tag in WS but from ingame interface

[mellow mesa]

You indeed cannot. The problem is when im uploading scenarios it wont let me remove the multiplayer tag

[steady hawk]

Then make sure:

1. Unload Mods and if it goes away, a Mod does
2. If doesn't work, try to uninstall Teamspeak just in case

[steady hawk]

Again, in-game interface is where you need to look. That you will see if you upload a mission

[soft perch]

Will do next time i'm on. Thank's.

[mellow mesa]

Thats where I am ffs. I remove the multiplayer tag and go through the rest of the tags and the multiplayer one just adds itself back.

[steady hawk]

That's a news to me, I didn't know you're there and exact symptom until now

[mellow mesa]

its when im uploading it from the editor

[steady hawk]

I actually thought you're saying because you're trying to change tags from WS page

[mellow mesa]

I apologize for not specifically saying I was in that screen then.

Any ideas though?

[steady hawk]

Does the mission a SP or MP one, or rather, designed to be played in SP or MP, just in case?

[mellow mesa]

Sorry was busy in something, SP and is even saved in missions instead of MPMissions

[bold kite]

@steady hawk so I went into my arma 3 file, the only files in there are these. ( ill attach photo)

[steady hawk]

This is not where you should to look

[bold kite]

Ohh ok 🤦‍♂️🤣

[steady hawk]

Steam > Arma 3 > Right Click > Properties > Installed Files > Browse

[bold kite]

Ok thankyou, so i will need to delete that file you said?

[steady hawk]

Yes

[bold kite]

So i just got a message that says 21 files failed to validate and will be reacquired

Would you say to delete all the Structure_f files?

[steady hawk]

?

You already verified?

[bold kite]

So i verified it the first time didnt work, 2nd time it said this after verifing the files "So i just got a message that says 21 files failed to validate and will be reacquired"

[steady hawk]

That is normal and intended behavior

[bold kite]

Okays it is 67% patching now

[quaint jewel]

His hard drive is probably not NTFS formatted.
But where the mods are installed doesnt matter, the launcher can handle both locations.

Well besides the issues you describe it should work 😄

Might also be related to the formatting issues tho

[quaint jewel]

I think multiplayer Tag comes from having multiple u it's marked as playable.
.make sure there is only one

[bold kite]

@steady hawk trying to rerun the game now after validating the files the 2nd time

It worked the 2nd time

[pine kite]

Did you save or export the scenario as multiplayer?

[spiral arch]

what if my upnp works but my friend cant see my server?

what do i or him need to do?

[trail niche]

Vanilla or modded ?

[spiral arch]

1 mod

[trail niche]

I've had situations where people had to wait several minutes before they could see my server
Try join by Steam, or direct IP

And check you have the same modlist

[spiral arch]

ok we are going to try this quickly

None of the options worked

Idk why, when i start my server i get no errors whatsoever

could it be something from my friends part?

[golden nova]

how did you confirm that you have upnp and it works?

just selecting it in Arma 3 and seeing the lobby does not mean you actually started hosting

and since upnp is "plug and play" it would work, if it doesn't then you don't have it, you can get into your router settings to see if it's enabled or contact your internet service provider

for hosting through IP you need to have a static IPv4 address, others won't work. If you don't have one either then you can either use radmin/hamachi for creating a virtal LAN and play thhrough this or buy a hosting

[spiral arch]

you do have a point on the upnp part, however im 100% sure i have IPv4 adress

[craggy mirage]

Hi, yep that would do it, I found out they used to use Linux on the drive and was formatted differently.

Thanks for the help 🙂

[golden nova]

then configure your ports and do that this way then

!localhost

[rustic eagle]

Arma 3
To host a server or a game session locally, you need to make sure first that your WAN address / external IP uses the IPv4 protocol!
Check your router’s status page in the settings to confirm. (If in doubt, ask your ISP, Websites like “whatismyip.com” give you a false positive!)
Local servers and games can not be hosted on an IPv6 network, or IPv4 via DSlite tunnel!
https://www.avg.com/en/signal/ipv4-vs-ipv6
Once you have confirmed that your connection uses the IPv4 protocol, you need to manually open / forward the ports 2302-2306 UDP (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Dedicated_Server#Port_Forwarding)
See your router’s manual on how to do that, or ask google: “<your router model> + port forwarding”

[golden nova]

refer to the last two sentences

[pine kite]

Then maybe your ISP gives you a connection where you don't have a unique IPv4 address on the internet. It might have you behind a Carrier-grade NAT solution. You get an IP from them that is not routable across the internet so packets go the wrong direction and die along their way.

Or their NAT blocks packets across the ports that Arma 3 needs and you can't forward those.

[mellow mesa]

There is only one, which is the unit marked as player

[mellow mesa]

Havent Exported it, but its saved under missions and Im yet to open it while local hosting

[quaint jewel]

Okey looked up the code.

If you are running in MP mode (Eden running in local hosted server), or if any object contains the "ControlMP" attribute and its set to true.
I do think thats the "Playable" one

Place down one unit. Tags "Scenario, Singleplayer, Dependency, VR"
Place second unit. Tags "Scenario, Singleplayer, Dependency, VR"
Make second unit "Playabel". Tags "Scenario, Multiplayer, Dependency, VR"

Are you really sure no unit is playable? Check the Entities list for pink names?

Oh I got it..

Ugh

Have two units.

First unit is player, the UI automatically shows "Playable" as checked box, because "Player" implies that. But inside engine internals, Playable is not actually checked, because Playable stands for "ControlMP".

Now set second unit to "Playable", its "ControlMP" is now on.

Make the second unit also "Player", now the unit is "Player" AND "Playable". "ControlMP" is still on. Even though it has no effect, and you cannot turn it off because the UI forces it to be on when "Player" is on.

So fix @mellow mesa
go to your "Player" unit. Uncheck "Player" and save. Go to the unit again, see that "Playable" box is still checked, uncheck that and save. Go to the unit again and Check "Player".

Now it should be fine

[mellow mesa]

Such a backwords problem and solution, Exactly what I expect of arma

[ocean cosmos]

need an ft reminder?

[quaint jewel]

no I'm already typing

[mellow mesa]

And that fixed it ffs. I love arma

[quaint jewel]

will be fixed in 2.18 probably

[wild bane]

Hi, let's see if anyone has a solution for this graphic glitch of faces models/textures that a colleague of my unit has in the interiors of the vehicles... the faces are really scary!!!! Thanks!!!

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/780748475431911424/1220006845423423559/20240309023950_1.jpg?ex=660d5eea&is=65fae9ea&hm=4da5cea5603e6ae014e745790cc449924a45074afab38b06eb3d98d4acc16839&

[golden nova]

everyone has this and there's no fix

the further away a person is while in vehicle the more glitched out the textures will be

well there's no fix unless Dedmen or KK find a solution but this has been a thing for hundred years now

[uncut trellis]

kinda looks like inverted mesh

[golden nova]

so would that be some inherited issue for every vanilla face? And how insignias are rendered

[uncut trellis]

if one of the distance lods were inverted then yes. but it is a bit doubtful all the heads would have that same issue

unless they share distance lods (which now that I think of it could be a thing since they are uvmapped the same anyway)

[golden nova]

i guess it's a "won't fix" case at this point of development

[ocean cosmos]

its pretty easy to fix actually

if it is what HG says

[golden nova]

and wouldn't break any mods that somehow inherit stuff from vanilla faces?

like thee ToH Characters one.

[uncut trellis]

no

but it could be something wrong with the face shader too

[ocean cosmos]

no itd just require reusing the res 1 lod elsewhere with sufficient decimation if necessary

but i dont know if anyone on live ops is familiar enough with model stuff to do it

[civic blade]

i need help

why doesn't my friend's server show up to me?

[golden nova]

probably because your friend configured it wrong

!localhost

[rustic eagle]

Arma 3
To host a server or a game session locally, you need to make sure first that your WAN address / external IP uses the IPv4 protocol!
Check your router’s status page in the settings to confirm. (If in doubt, ask your ISP, Websites like “whatismyip.com” give you a false positive!)
Local servers and games can not be hosted on an IPv6 network, or IPv4 via DSlite tunnel!
https://www.avg.com/en/signal/ipv4-vs-ipv6
Once you have confirmed that your connection uses the IPv4 protocol, you need to manually open / forward the ports 2302-2306 UDP (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Dedicated_Server#Port_Forwarding)
See your router’s manual on how to do that, or ask google: “<your router model> + port forwarding”

[civic blade]

we did it twice but it doesn't work

[golden nova]

well you can do it 10 times but it's not something you make work with brute force.

have him verify what the bot sent

[civic blade]

i mean we did what the bot says twice

[golden nova]

then it works 👍

is he trying to host via UPNP or did he do the portforwarding?

[civic blade]

upnp

[golden nova]

maybe have him join this discord so he can send a screenshot of either a UPNP setting enabled in his router configuration or that he actually has IPv4.

[civic blade]

ok

[civic blade]

@golden nova

[golden nova]

did you try contacting your ISP to confirm that the UPNP actually works? Old software or their own restrictions could cause it to not work.

[spiral arch]

no, how do i do that

[golden nova]

find a phone number to the company you have internet from and ask them if UPNP is allowed for you.

[civic blade]

do i also need to do that?

[golden nova]

only the host

[civic blade]

ok

[spiral arch]

i cant do that rn cuz its late in my country

so no one will answer

[golden nova]

you can try that tomorrow then. My ISP has a 24/7 technical support, some might not have it.

in the meantime maybe try hosting through Radmin or similar

[spiral arch]

radmin vpn?

[golden nova]

yes

both of you download it, you create a network in it, your friend joins it, you host the server and your friend looks for it in the LAN tab within the game.

I've been playing Extraction scenario with some of my friends that way, works pretty smooth

https://youtu.be/HKJp1JzC0ls here's a tutorial how to do that, should be good enough. It's in Spanish so toggle on captions if you no hablo espanol

[civic blade]

i speak spanish

[spiral arch]

the server doesnt show up

i hosted and he couldnt see my server abd we tried the opposite too

[wild bane]

ouch! thanks!

[rain jasper]

arma keepsa doin this

im on mac

can anyone help me?

[solar root]

Yo

Anyone help with downloading mods plz

[ocean cosmos]

not without knowing what you need help with

[bold talon]

my Arma III doesnt start, I have (I think) ~30 mods loaded, none of which cause problems. It freezes at the startup screen where it says "Bohemia Interactive" I have no control of my mouse at this point and need to ctrl alt del to restart.

[golden nova]

does it start without mods?

[bold talon]

Ill try that

[bold talon]

Works without mods

[golden nova]

then it's pretty clear you have at least one mod that does cause problems

[bold talon]

Thanks, I’ll check them all out

Is there an easier way then just loading them one by one?

[golden nova]

you could look into the log files assuming you didn't disable them in launcher parameters and game itself started logging things, but loading stuff one by one is the most reliable way

!rpt

[rustic eagle]

Arma RPT

Arma generates a .rpt log file each time it's run, which contains a lot of information like the loaded mods, or any errors that appear, this log file can be very useful for troubleshooting problems.

To get to your RPT files press Windows+R and enter %localappdata%/Arma 3

Additionally see the wiki page for more info: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Crash_Files

To share an rpt log here, please use a website like https://sqfbin.com/ to upload the full log, that way the people helping you can take a look at it and try to figure out the problem you're having together with you.
Note: RPT logs can hold personal information relevant to your system, the game or others.

[bold talon]

Ok thank you

[pine kite]

Loading them halve by halve can shorten that path. Whichever halve keeps the problem, has the problem mod.

Though some may depend on eachother. So you might need to keep some in groups to avoid other issues.

[hollow panther]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/513423282968461315/1220663137280200754/2023-10-22_19-52-21.mp4?ex=660fc222&is=65fd4d22&hm=4d92ecaa4811a66ef4c460105edb1a46a1a8ccaa0353ce480fe78f8516eed3cb&
Does anyone know anything about this issue?
Ran on a dedicated server and the issue is sometimes nonexistent for some but massive for others.

[cursive harbor]

Hello everyone! Does anyone have experience in Using a Tobii Eye Tracker together with Arma 3 via FreeTrack Protocol? For me it simply does not work and iam in contact with the Tobii Support for multiple Days now but it seems like even they cant find what is the Problem.
I set everything up through the TobiiGameHub, have FreeTrack enabled in the Arma Controller Settings.

[steady hawk]

I recall this issue is somehow related with RAM or VRAM. How big is your RAM?

[hollow panther]

My personal PC is 64gb, the box is also 64.

This was what it looked liked when the video was recorded.
Monitor:
Server FPS: 46, Mem used 3788MB, out 1918 Kbps, in 231 kbps. 21 Players connected.

[umbral narwhal]

It's a client thing, not server related.

Are you running stable or perf/profiling branch?

[hollow panther]

I'm not running any betas, no. Just normal/stable.

None of the other 20 players are either from what I know.

[umbral narwhal]

Stable is capped to 4GB unless you set -maxmem. Can cause issues like that.

[spiral arch]

i need help, i just cant get multyplayer to work

[civic blade]

true, same

[spiral arch]

ive watched tens of videos and nothing works

[rocky stirrup]

I'm trying to host a steam workshop mission on my dedicated server but we cant join because it says 0/0 players in the server browser and when we try to join it says server full. Any ideas?

[golden nova]

wrongly made mission, mod mismatch, a few possible reasons

[civic blade]

hey honger we need help

the server isn't still working

[golden nova]

I told you the way I'm following to host and it's Radmin, if it doesn't work for you then you either make some kind of mistake during set up (which isn't really that hard) or idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[civic blade]

i just want t play with my friends in a server but the server doesn't show up

[civic blade]

oh ok

[golden nova]

maybe try getting it to work without mods to rule out a mod issue

[civic blade]

already tried

[golden nova]

dunno then

[umbral narwhal]

Sounds like you're down to plan D of renting a server then.

It's not uncommon for VPNs to fail to work, and because they're the most technologically complex method of all it's probably impossible to diagnose.

[pine kite]

Most likely cause if your ISP giving you a Carrier-grade NAT. Noting but such a VPN/Hamachi/Zerotier solution that could be a work around to that. But indeed, throwing money at an internet hosted server might be the only sure way of success.

[umbral narwhal]

Setting up an Arma DS is quite challenging too, but it is the only option that will work with any ISP or router.

Does it feel good having to dump 10 quid a month on some garbage hardware run by clowns? Nope but that's Arma.

[golden nova]

I wonder why would radmin/hamachi not work though. It is pretty foolproof and I've never seen it not work.

ISP can't make it not work, Windows can't make it not work either unless there are some "family restrictions" set up

[pine kite]

All we got sofar is "server is not working, server does not show up". Which indicates there is a communication issue to/from Steam servers. But it is not much to go on. Mystic, please explain in more detail if you want any help.

Us guessing about your setup, or what you tried already doesn't work.

[hollow panther]

Is that a parameter? And if so what would you recommend it should be set to?

[umbral narwhal]

6-8GB maybe

[umbral narwhal]

Hmm, seen plenty of reports of them not working (often initial connection but can't get into games), but I don't know what underlying technology they're using.

No connection might just be windows firewall blocking Arma.

[still thistle]

My server crashed 3 times today, all seemingly at random points

Which files do you guys need?

[celest garnet]

Does anyone here know how to fix a buggy server browser? I’ve been having issues where I only see less than 50 servers on official and internet pages. No mods, no filters, please help

[golden nova]

need for what? it should be up to you to make it work stable (be it mods, missions or resources)

[grand valve]

I have a friend that cannot join my when i host a server with direct connect but others can anyone know what could be going on

[umbral narwhal]

@grand valve Check if they can connect to other Arma servers on the same port.

[vagrant bough]

What does this mean

[pine kite]

It is not a known error code according to this list. So make sure to post that error on the feedback tracker and upload that report and files to it. So the developers can check it out. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Unusual_Process_Exit

[tribal condor]

Does anybody know why this is happening? Arma isnt running

I literally just started my laptop

[golden nova]

have you tried starting your game without 223 mods loaded at once?

[tribal condor]

Yes

Twice

I used to do it all the time too, it never really affects the mod manager, just how long it takes to load

And performance while playing

[golden nova]

and you don't see the game when you browse all windows through alt-tab?

[tribal condor]

No

[golden nova]

!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.

[tribal condor]

I did it last night

Reverified the files

[golden nova]

does the arma3 exe file show up in task manager?

[tribal condor]

Nope

I even started the game just to close it in the mod manager

I mean

Just to close it in task manager

[golden nova]

by mod manager you mean the launcher?

[tribal condor]

Yes

[golden nova]

do you have any custom parameters set in Parameters tab? try turning them all off

[tribal condor]

Everything is off already

[golden nova]

why is it always win11 users having such problems? that windows version is cursed

did you check the logs if anythihng is generated?

!rpt

[rustic eagle]

Arma RPT

Arma generates a .rpt log file each time it's run, which contains a lot of information like the loaded mods, or any errors that appear, this log file can be very useful for troubleshooting problems.

To get to your RPT files press Windows+R and enter %localappdata%/Arma 3

Additionally see the wiki page for more info: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Crash_Files

To share an rpt log here, please use a website like https://sqfbin.com/ to upload the full log, that way the people helping you can take a look at it and try to figure out the problem you're having together with you.
Note: RPT logs can hold personal information relevant to your system, the game or others.

[tribal condor]

Well I know how but I don't exactly know what to look for

[golden nova]

anything that says warning or error.

would be best to see a log file from a non-modded game

[tribal condor]

K one sec

Only places where warning is found

No errors

[golden nova]

pretty weird you don't have the arma3 exe in task manager when it generates that rpt.

[tribal condor]

Well I just started the game for it to generate an RTP

RPT*

The game starts just fine despite it saying it's already started

[golden nova]

I think I misunderstood your problem

[tribal condor]

So far I've only found one other person who's had this issue and no answers

[golden nova]

if the issue is you can't modify mods because Launcher says game is running while it's not, then go to \AppData\Local\Arma 3 Launcher and browse the logs there, maybe on a fresh windows start, before you start the game itself

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/232108-launcher-says-the-game-is-running/

[tribal condor]

Mkay fixed it

No idea what I did

Was just messing around in task manager

[shadow chasm]

https://youtu.be/QhZ3naEKO7c

One of my members is the only one having this issue anyone recomend a fixx

[celest garnet]

Anyone?

[golden nova]

units sliding around when moving quickly has been a bug for ages and everyone gets it, because that's how the game tries to predict movement for hit calculations and other server-related stuff. Your friend might try lowering their ping or getting a stable wired internet connection instead of wifi (or whatever that would be better than it's now), otherwise you're just in bad luck.

[trail niche]

if everyone else is ok, and you are the only one with a lag issue, then most likely "you" are the issue

check your ping for starter, if it's high (above 60-70) then it means either your internet connection is too slow or the server is too far from you

[celest garnet]

Barely any servers visible, this is both internet and official, any help to get the thousands of servers I once saw?

[quaint jewel]

Send me that report

[vagrant bough]

How

[quaint jewel]

pack it up and DM, or upload anywhere and send link

[uncut trellis]

validate your install files on steam

!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.

[lone bison]

So im trying to get my server up and running on a new server host.
Its a dedicated server and after getting all the mods set and admin shit figured out, it just lets me into the server with a static screen and water can be heard, i have access to the admin commands but nothing happens even when i change the mission.

[quaint jewel]

0xdead means there was an error message. What did the error message say

[quaint jewel]

that is a warning, not an error.
But looks like your game files are corrupt indeed
what is the error message you got after that?

[umbral gust]

Is this a place to ask about commonly used mod questions as well or does anyone know where I can ask about something with ACE? (Specifically, why does it always force 32bit)

[vast ruin]

Hey idk if i can get help bcs the mouse is out of place everysingle time i start the game

[trail niche]

on their discord
and no I won't give you the link (because I'm lazy)

[trail niche]

try going windowed fullscreen ?

[vast ruin]

alredy use it

[trail niche]

you use any external device other than keyboard and mouse (controller for example) ?

[vast ruin]

yea but they r disconected

[trail niche]

you have that problem only with arma ?

[vast ruin]

yup

[ocean cosmos]

#channel_invites_list

[trail niche]

thx

[trail niche]

check resolution, disable vsync if needed (it is a graphic problem most likely)

[umbral gust]

There's no link on their site for a discord 😐

[ocean cosmos]

#channel_invites_list

[umbral gust]

OH bless. Thank you.

[trail niche]

sigh
"arma 3 ace discord"
first link
at the bottom of their github page

I should really add googling to my skill list in my resume

[vast ruin]

Desactivated force window mode and suddenly worked

[trail niche]

nice

[vast ruin]

Im kinda new at arma so where can i find like a server to start or something (alredy did all tutorials)

[trail niche]

you can use the server list in the launcher for a public one

but I really recommand joining a community

!lfg

[rustic eagle]

Are you looking to play with people?
pick one channel:
#looking_for_game to tell others you want to play
#looking_for_unit to tell others you are looking for a group
#communities_arma3 to browse through advertised groups

Note: Please follow the templates in those channels (if applicable), and don't use them for discussions.

[trail niche]

!gettingstarted

[rustic eagle]

Arma Reforger
To get started with Arma Reforger it is recommended to play through the tutorial, which provides a simple overview of the basic features of the game.

Arma 3
If you're new to playing Arma 3, it is recommended to have a read of #info_help_tips and especially the getting started guide (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Getting_Started).
Those resources will provide you with a good way to learn the basics of playing Arma 3 in both single- and multiplayer.

[vast ruin]

any group you recommend for beginners?

[trail niche]

nop, because English is not my first language so I never took any interest in english-speaking communities

find an active one, ask if they are beginner-friendly, and you should be good

[vast ruin]

i mean i speak english and spanish so idk (spanish would be better but still comunicate well on english)

[vast ruin]

ok then

thx

[trail niche]

there are communities in every language, my advice is to find one in the one you are the most comfortable with

easier to learn that way

[tawny spoke]

im having this problem, it only happens in Virolahti where textures are really low quality, not letting me see shit

[uncut trellis]

does it happen with no other mods but Virolahti?

[tawny spoke]

no other mods, only Viroalhti

I changed objects to Extreme and the problem is still there

[ocean cosmos]

virolahti is notorious for issues like that

turn things down not up

though ideally just dont use virolahti

[tawny spoke]

any other map like Virolahti but without any issues?

[exotic gazelle]

Hey, my game soft crashes and disables clicking anything on my whole monitor whenever I click the button to open a scenario in the Eden Editor. I open Eden Editor, click the "Scenarios" button, select the Open option, and then the game freezes. My cursor appears on the monitor but I can't click anything, including other applications I open from my 2nd monitor. The only fix is to restart my PC. Hitting CTRL-O while in the Eden Editor causes the same result

[uncut trellis]

Try verify your game install in steam

!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.

[teal lark]

Mods I'm downloading in the Arma 3 Steam Workshop are not appearing in the Arma Launcher Mods menu?

[steady hawk]

Are you sure it's a Mod, not a scenario or composition?

[teal lark]

bruh

they were all compositions..

I'm sorry I just wasted your time, I'm honestly been doing too much mary jane rn lol

[steady hawk]

Only took 10 seconds

If you call it a waste, gaming is a massive waste

[teal lark]

nah gaming is never a waste, I do it because I like having fun playing cool games and trying out mods n stuff

[steady hawk]

Heh. Have a nice explore and gaming

[pine kite]

Sounds like this is a problem bigger than Arma 3 or Steam itself. If other applications hang the PC then either hardware is failing or Windows is messed up. Bring it to a local PC repairshop or something.

[icy arch]

Hey so i made a custom picture on a screen object for briefing area. and the picture can only be seen if you are close Enough or use binos and zoom in. Otherwise the screen will be black. Any suggestions or fixes for this?

[golden nova]

make it paa instead of jpg.

[pliant temple]

happened after installing the update and cdlc, idk what happened

steam is down anyway but id love help when possible to figure it out

WHY

why is it locked

[steady hawk]

Probably restart Steam

[golden nova]

or just launch it as admin so it clears its cache or whatever.

another obscure issue, another win11 instance... they really nailed the new windows os didn't they lol

[pliant temple]

did not work

[pliant temple]

did not work

[golden nova]

then contact Steam support.

[pliant temple]

done that did not work

[pliant temple]

done waiting for it

[golden nova]

👍

[pliant temple]

well maybe its the comunity dlc

[steady hawk]

Well I just looked very carefully and it seems the folder is somehow locked/used by other software. You can check which software it is by... some software, Google may help

[long tangle]

Hello, im using faster for arma as server management. whenever i run sog pf on the server with headless clients, the HC cannot connect, probably because they dont have SOG PF(?)

any help? :c

[pliant temple]

What softwear? It says arma 3 is using it

Maybe moving the folder will help

It is a maybe but it says arma 3 is using it

And i didnt install any games before it or any programs

[pliant temple]

Thing is i did also restart the pc so idk

[pine kite]

Maybe. Does the headless client have the vn folder loaded as mod in -mod= ?

And check the RPT log file the headless client(s) and server generates to see what issues they have.

[pine kite]

Pretty sure it is "this why!"

[pliant temple]

Yeah no

I tought that

But no its not helldivers

Can try tho but i dont think its helldivers

[fringe salmon]

Having an issue recently where the TFL M107 sounds are not working. I suspect this is due to the inability to cycle fire modes, is there any specific fix for this issue?

Not TFL, RHS

Whoops

[golden nova]

did you try with just rhs?

[fringe salmon]

Yes, it appears to be magically working now. i suppose i'll just have to dissect this problem

[golden nova]

Arma 3 has a limit of sounds it can play concurrently, maybe too much stuff was happening at once and sounds for the gun were suppressed in such way

[fringe salmon]

It was just in a testing scenario with no other weapons firing so it's likely a mod conflict issue

[uncut trellis]

Tfl as in the private mod made out of stolen content? That's banned crap you can just delete.

[pliant temple]

i may have managed to fix my issue

[pine kite]

I'm not talking about helldivers. I'm talking about some kind of game security protection software that might not play ball with Arma's new CDLC. Thinking along the likes of a internet security type of software that is too protective.

Seems like it does exactly what you experience: analyse other applications happening in the background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard

[pine kite]

Please explain the outcome of what might have caused it.

[pliant temple]

i honestly dont know

[pliant temple]

that wasnt the cuase did just test it by installing the dlc,

the cuase was arma 3 using its own file

or at least trying to use its own launcher

i killed the entirty of arma 3 and its files to do fix it

[pine kite]

Ok, makes a bit of sense.

One would think that Steam checks if the game is playing before messing with it's files for updating. But, I know, it's Steam!!!

[pliant temple]

seems to be a freak accident

i wiped the entirty of the game files to fix it

[fringe salmon]

this thing @pine kite

[pine kite]

Too small screenshot. No idea what that place is about.

[pine kite]

And explain what the issue is to begin with. Are you trying to host a server? Or are you tring to join a server?

[fringe salmon]

Host

All I want to do is play with my friends, worked before, now it suddenly broke for all of us, not a single one of us can host.

[pine kite]

That looks like you are trying to host a server from within the game. Then 2302 is the starting port and should be good as it is.

The following thing needed is either checking that UPNP checkmark, or if your router does not respond to that then try to manually set up portforwarding in your home router configuration. And that is the tricky part, especially if you don't have much understanding of networking. As every router brand and router model can look different or has it placed in different menus. There is no one size fits all tutorial for that.

Some Internet providers might even give you a connection where that won't work at all anyway. And it is hard to diagnose that for sure.

[fringe salmon]

I disabled upnp this time only

Earlier I had it enabled

since one time it didnt show up when it was disabled

but ye maybe that will fix it? I hope.

[pine kite]

Then keep it enabled if it worked before. Your router might need a restart to unclogg it.

But as said, your internet provider may have changed their network config without telling you and now it doesn't work anymore. Renting a server might be the simpler solution.

UPNP is basically an automatic setup for port forwarding. It makes your PC tell your router to forward incomming traffic to your PC. Otherwise it would block everything. So not checked would certainly not work.

But not all routers have that enbled by default, as it can be considered a security hole.

[pure trail]

Wondering if anyone can help me. Im unable to revive using various types of medkits for some reason. Which medkit is able to provide the “withstand” function when bleeding out? Thank you

[umbral narwhal]

That's a mission or module feature. The item itself won't do anything.

[pine kite]

Don't cross post the same question in multiple channels please. It makes communication confusing.

One channel, the most appropriate suffices. People that know it will answer it when they get to it.

[pure trail]

Np apologies👍🏼

[trail niche]

do you use mods ?

[pure trail]

Yeah I’ve got a few, maybe 20 in total

[subtle gale]

Is anyone else gettign this new lobby crash?

Its then causing people to get kicked for battleye not responding....

Only happening since update.

[icy arch]

Anyone else experience a lag after a few min you join a server? Like it really lags looks like its loading the map or textures Idk. I have pretty good pc But yeah

[trail niche]

Do you use mods ?

[golden nova]

No

[umbral narwhal]

Lag after joining a server is pretty normal but not for a few minutes.

[lilac turret]

hide terrain objects isn’t working for some reason

it hides it in editor but in singleplayer or multiplayer it’s not hidden

[steady hawk]

Very known and somehow not altered all the day

[umbral narwhal]

hmm. Always worked for us as far as I know.

"very known" as in something you can work around?

[keen trench]

My friend has this error when booting up arma

He can't join my server due to this error

We have the same modpack

Anybody knows how to fix this?

[quaint jewel]

his CUP mods are corrupt

he can verify the files in launcher, in the modlist on the three dots or smth

[keen trench]

He did it 3 times

Nada

[trail niche]

maybe he's missing a mod

check you have the same number

[pine kite]

In any event, the error message doesn't lie. Something is definitely missing or not loaded.

[harsh prairie]

Having issues when opening the attributes of vehicles s specifically in the editor (presumably because of the vehicle loadout). Game becomes unresponsive and only comes back a while later

[trail niche]

Typical of very heavy calculation for the game, basically it needs several seconds to "load" everything
Modded vehicle ?

[ocean cosmos]

normal, caused by a bug in the game
use this to fix

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3023395342&searchtext=3den+attributes

[distant olive]

My friend server is having a Issue the Error code Tell us that its SKM_Object and we Deleted that from our modpack and from the servers. But when we try to launch it we get that Issue again

[trail niche]

When does he have the error ?

[leaden fog]

i keep getting 0xC0000005 STATUS ACCESS VIOLATION help?

[umbral narwhal]

Immediately on startup, or later?

[rancid bluff]

A friend of mine has the issue that this advanced flight model hud is stuck on his screen no matter if or outside a helicopter, it's not even activated

[golden nova]

activated where

currently it's handled either by toggling the advanced flight model or within difficulty settings when you switch from Arma 3 to Reaction Forces category

if he has both AFM and that difficulty entry disabled then tell your friend to restart game.

[rancid bluff]

The difficulty settings is a good point, he bought the DLC

Gonna tell him to check

[rancid bluff]

Where would the reaction forces category be?

That's the difficulty tab

[golden nova]

so he's seeing the AFM UI without Reaction Forces loaded??

[distant olive]

ON startup

[umbral narwhal]

Make sure the launcher is closed and then repair Arma in steam.

[maiden burrow]

Does anyone know how to fix this issue. I’ve made a custom load out for a unit in the editor through virtual arsenal and I’ve applied to the spawned unit and saved it as a composition. however when I spawn the unit in, it reverts back into the original loadout. Is there any fix for this

[somber zodiac]

I just moved my base to another location in arma 3 Antiastasi, I go to the flag to save my game and it doesn't give me the option to, what should I do?

nvm, the map thing disappeared thats why, im just gonna move it again

[steady hawk]

Known issue in RF. Fixed on next patch

[ocean cosmos]

normally a relog fixes it too

[wild pawn]

I downloaded one of nanners reshade mode yokes, tried to open my game and it didnt let me. I got a BE error message and this. I deleted the reshade.me thing i downloaded but it still comes up when i try to open my game

got this error as well

It works with be turned off, but Im going to need BE to work

[magic prawn]

I recently purchased a non-VPS arma server for our unit after the guy who paid for and managed the last one left and am trying to figure out how to get it to start. Inevitably our mods throw up errors upon server launch. Is there any way I can just bypass the error messages? On our old VPS it was as easy as clicking "ok" on a dialogue window, however now that we dont have a direct remote connection to an OS thats no longer an option. Hopefully one of y'all just knows what to plug into the command line when it encounters one but any help is appreciated. The server host we're using now is HostHavoc.

[umbral narwhal]

have you considered removing the broken mods from the modlist

[magic prawn]

not an option really, most of them are just broken for no reason, the only way to fix them would be to edit all their stuff but i hve no idea how to do that

just odd dependencies that dont exist

[umbral narwhal]

Normally a missing mod dependency is a fatal error. You can't click past it.

[magic prawn]

i simply click "OK"

same dialogue would pop up on the vps before

[umbral narwhal]

Doesn't that mean it skips the mod?

Like why not just remove the mod?

[magic prawn]

bc some of them have vehicles we use

i think it just skips that specific entry

[ocean cosmos]

jsrs sma almost certainly doesnt 😛

[magic prawn]

yeah but this is a screenshot from my pc taken right now

some of the mods would throw broken uniforms and such into the game but we would just not use them

bc the other uniforms from that mod would work

[uncut trellis]

I introduce deliberate errors onto my server

[pine kite]

Error messages are not to be ignored, but fixed. Warnings are non-fatal. Those can usually be clicked away. But Arma 3 is still telling you to do your homework as server manager.

[uncut trellis]

why my server dont worky

why game runs bad

[magic prawn]

the server would run fine from our pov

no drops in performance for the most part

[pine kite]

So said the Titanic captain too.

[magic prawn]

ik what youre talking about and we have had the server grind to a halt bc some dude wanted us to include his private mods that were a disaster

but our usual list would just work

[quaint jewel]

You didn't delete the reshade thing.
There is no dxgi.dll in the Arma directory. But you have one.

[pine kite]

Then trace back what was missing from it. Or rebuild the mission.

[magic prawn]

yeah but how do i add whats missing if idk what its supposed to be in the first place

our usual server dude just left and now I got thrown into this lmao

they were never fatal errors, just missing stuff

[pine kite]

Post specific error message in troubleshooting channel or so. We are guessing blind now what your issues are. Maybe the class names in the erorr messages point to mods, or creators of mods.

Well, if your scenario relies on those things, it's pretty fatal.

[magic prawn]

the mission files never did, as we'd place enemies through zeus and all that

ill get the exact error in a bit, reconfiguring some other stuff with the server atm

all the mission files had was naked spawns and an arsenal and maybe a building or two

[magic prawn]

nvm, found the command

[wild pawn]

i cant find the file, how do i remove it?

[golden nova]

You have the path to it on the screenshot you posted...

[wild pawn]

its just not there

[rustic onyx]

Should I delete ACE3 ballistic too?

[rustic onyx]

Already fixed xD

[lilac turret]

Got an issue right now where my kitboxes are flipping everywhere and falling over when I start the dedicated server. They’re all snapped to the floor of the building and have been completely fine when tested in editor so I’m not sure why this is happening only in the dedicated server. If anyone has a fix let me know would be much appreciated.

[uncut trellis]

kit boxes?

🐱

[lilac turret]

containers, boxes whatever you’d like to call them

[trail niche]

stuff interacts differently in Editor and on dedicated server (a bit more complex but let's keep it simple)
try making your boxes 20-30 cm off the ground at start, so they will fall a bit (they are probably interacting weirdly with the floor of the building)

[grizzled moth]

how do i fix this issue it says cloud operation unsuccesful when i try to join a a3 server

[umbral narwhal]

Remove onedrive.

[scarlet heath]

Howdy yall, I’ve never had issues with hosting servers in the past via UPNP, but now I can’t get it to work at all. Friends can’t see my server. The only thing that has changed is I recently upgraded my hard drive so I’m starting from a fresh install. I tried setting a static IP and portfowarding, but that’s not working either.

[umbral narwhal]

Assuming that it's windows, you need to set your network connection type to private (rather than public) and enable network discovery.

@scarlet heath

Also need to make sure Arma is allowed through the firewall.

And UPNP will conflict with port forwarding settings, so don't do both.

[scarlet heath]

Copy! Arma is definitely allowed through the firewall. Network discovery could be the issue. Thank you for the suggestion @umbral narwhal

[umbral narwhal]

Note that the network type & discovery don't affect port forwarding, only UPNP.

[scarlet heath]

Network Discovery was on and private was selected. Still no dice. I rolled back the port foward changes and I'm still not getting anything using UPNP

[lilac turret]

Tried that, still not working unfortunately. Might be a problem with hide terrain objects. I’m currently hiding a building where the building with the boxes is. I think for some reason the building that’s been hidden has its collisions still on for some weird reason.

[umbral narwhal]

The fresh install might be a coincidence and your ISP moved you to CGNAT.

[scarlet heath]

Ahhh. SOL in that case?

[umbral narwhal]

Depends on your ISP.

[scarlet heath]

I’ll troubleshoot that end. Thanks again

[vernal ore]

For some reason i cannot seem to get my unit emblem displayed

[trail niche]

the uniform you use may not have a patch slot, try with vanilla uniforms

[vernal ore]

Its also not displaying on trucks and such

[trail niche]

vanilla trucks ?

modded vehicles (and such) can have the exact same problem as uniforms

[vernal ore]

Well, the thing is that a buddy of mine has another unit wich works fine even with modded stuff

[trail niche]

some modded stuff works, other not, but if you have a problem with a vanilla feature, then first troubleshoot it with vanilla stuff to rule out problems from mods

and check the unit is selected in launcher

[vernal ore]

The unit is selected and all

[trail niche]

then it could be a back-end problem with units, and there is nothing to do about it

check the logo has the right size and format in the unit screen

[vernal ore]

its 600 x 400

[trail niche]

sigh

please moderators, please, in this channel add an automatic answer from a bot to any sentence with "?" that says : Have you tried reading ?

[vernal ore]

its min 512 x 512

not MAX

[steady hawk]

400 < 512

Also, Arma supports only 2^n resolution

[vernal ore]

what resolution?

[steady hawk]

Texture resolution

[vernal ore]

I think i am doing something wrong then

the smallest i can make it is 602 x 400 pixelx :/

[uncut trellis]

thats no engine acceptable resolution

512x512 is closest

[trail niche]

your image MUST be above 512x512 pixels large (so make it bigger) and YxW with Y=W

[uncut trellis]

1024x1024 would work too

and so on

[vernal ore]

I cannot make it equal

[trail niche]

then it won't work

it's not a debate, your image must be equal, tons of tutorials out there for that

otherwise it simply doesn't work

[uncut trellis]

leave empty black space

[vernal ore]

How the hell do i do that

[uncut trellis]

pretty much every image editing programs has image scaling tools and another tool to set canvas/image size

youll have to study what ever program you are using

[umbral narwhal]

They don't have to be square, do they? Like 512x256 is fine.

[uncut trellis]

probably in this instance square image is what is expected

[umbral narwhal]

Oh, unit images, yeah.

Surprised they're that large.

[manic condor]

Uhh, had this problem for a while, but I can't use the zoom option for my optics

Like increasing magnification, i can do the hold down zoom, but things like drone camera and all I can't zoom

I've switched keybinds but it simply wouldn't work

[vernal ore]

Well i made it 512 x 512 but still nothing

tried it with vanilla and everything

[pine kite]

Check that you are using the correct player profile that you set the keybinds in. Or press the numlock key once again to make the keypad active. (default keys are there)

[manic condor]

I don’t have a keypad lol

I bound it to E(and unbound the other keys that use it) and it didn’t even work then either

I’ll check the player profile part I guess

[steep breach]

Hey I'm working on some Zeus stuff and my compositions keep disappearing.
I've made three enemy factions in the editor and every time I go to save them, all seems to be well. I save them all under separate categories within compositions, and while in the editor they seem to work fine. However when I get into Zeus only a few of them actually show up and I can't figure out why. This is the 5th or so time I've gone through to save them all and it's really starting to bother me as I've put a lot of work into making them. Once they're saved I don't modify the files at all

[manic condor]

Checked both, its both camera controls and pg up zeroing i belive

Oh wait pgup works

So if i recall correctly, can’t zoom on 50 cal emplacements

[sweet mango]

is there a way to get firewill's aircraft to work on mac

I am a mac user

I have had all of his aircraft downloaded for a while and I can't seem to find out why his aircraft don't work

[sage pawn]

A friend of mine on a Mac is trying to join my Windows server, but keeps getting a message saying it's a different version of Arma 3 and it won't let him join. I'll say in advance that I have seen messages that apparently the Mac version isn't up to date, but those were dated 2022-2023, so IDK what the current situation with the Mac version of Arma 3 is.

[trail niche]

#linux_mac_branch

[trail niche]

#linux_mac_branch

[stiff dust]

I'm having issues with editor noting happens at all if I press play scenario it just stays in editor mode even if I put it on player in the npcs attributes aswell as I've disabled all dlc and mods and verified steam files. nothing online for it either

[grim tinsel]

Can you post a picture of your mission setup ?

[trail niche]

by default, if you press play scenario in Eden it will be singleplayer, you need to set 1 AI to "player"
if you want to try multiplayer, click "play" on the upper part, select "play in mulriplayer" and setup a server (either lan or internet), then you can choose betxeen all AIs that have "playable" ticked

[grim tinsel]

Although no matter what it should always at least put you into a camera when you press play

[stiff dust]

it does nothing at all

just continues as if I didn't press it

[trail niche]

share a video of that please

it may be a bug, but chances are there is simply a setup problem

[grim tinsel]

^

[stiff dust]

yeah I'll get into it now and clip it

[forest chasm]

Has anyone else had an issue with the Firewill planes where when you are in the second seat, whenever you zoom in with the TPOD, it automatically turns to a random position?

Whenever I am in the second seat of the F18 and am using the (drone?) camera, whenever I zoom in it turns in to a random position, making it really obnoxious to use

[pine kite]

Take away any mods that might change the sounds. See if the sound changes.

Or try ACE alone and see what the audio should be.

[ocean cosmos]

ace changed the cookoff sounds yesterday in update

you should actually read the patch notes of things that update

[pine kite]

Well, even if it is the default sound now. You are still free to dislike it.

[stiff dust]

@trail niche https://medal.tv/games/arma-3/clips/24SKSwLGLywrDl/d1337Pbsj8Nl?invite=cr-MSxQSnosMjEwOTg0MTg1LA

[trail niche]

thanks, that does look like a bug 🤔
does it happen in vanilla too ?

[stiff dust]

yes

[trail niche]

never saw that bug before and a quick google research didn't find anything relevant

guys, can someone help him ? I can't

[uncut trellis]

try refresh your game data perhaps

and test without mods until it works

and post your rpt log here too

!rpt

[rustic eagle]

Arma RPT

Arma generates a .rpt log file each time it's run, which contains a lot of information like the loaded mods, or any errors that appear, this log file can be very useful for troubleshooting problems.

To get to your RPT files press Windows+R and enter %localappdata%/Arma 3

Additionally see the wiki page for more info: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Crash_Files

To share an rpt log here, please use a website like https://sqfbin.com/ to upload the full log, that way the people helping you can take a look at it and try to figure out the problem you're having together with you.
Note: RPT logs can hold personal information relevant to your system, the game or others.

[somber zodiac]

In arma, whenever I like zoom in or something I reload my gun. Whenever I zoom in and Im driving a vehicle, it will eject me, any answers?

[umbral narwhal]

Sort out your key bindings?

[leaden swan]

anyone knows how to solve this annoying issue where ur mic doesnt work/stops workin in game?

[steady hawk]

Are you sure you're in the right channel

[trail niche]

If it's really for Arma 3 and not Reforger, check first that your mic is working in other situations apart from Arma

On Steam mainly

[leaden swan]

yeah no its for reforger

but i tought u peeps might know

[steady hawk]

#reforger_troubleshooting

[leaden swan]

my mic is fine, is just this game

[leaden swan]

k

[stiff dust]

how would I do that?

[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]

Probably this is what HG mean

[stiff dust]

I've already done that

changed nothing

thanks though

I have done it 4 times with all mods and dlcs disabled and it did nothing

[steady hawk]

Are you sure your vanilla game means definitely zero optional PBOs?

[stiff dust]

all mods were turned off and dlcs were turned off in steam game settings

[steady hawk]

It still could mean your game could load optional PBOs, if you ever moved a PBO somewhere to somewhere

[stiff dust]

how would I check for PBOs?

[umbral narwhal]

That steam verify copypasta is missing the key step that you need to close the Arma launcher. Otherwise it ignores most of the files for some reason.

[stiff dust]

I thought that was a given

to close the game I mean

[umbral narwhal]

Launcher isn't the game.

[steady hawk]

How many files you got in Arma 3\addons?

[stiff dust]

I meant in general

[steady hawk]

What do you mean in general here

[umbral narwhal]

I'd have expected steam to tell you to close the launcher first if it wasn't going to do the check properly.

[steady hawk]

You need to close Arma 3 and Arma 3 Launcher to let Steam know you aren't launching the game

[umbral narwhal]

But it just silently checks 10% of the files instead :P

[stiff dust]

yes I have done that

[stiff dust]

256

[steady hawk]

Which game version then?

Wait it's 2.16 yeah

[umbral narwhal]

has 392

[steady hawk]

Yes. You have TOO few files there

[stiff dust]

the latest version

oh mb I went on the subbed mods section on workshop

yeah 392 my bad

[steady hawk]

Okay, let's say, if you launch arma3_x64.exe directly, does it work?

[stiff dust]

nope same problem

doing the same thing just does nothing

[steady hawk]

I would suggest to delete the exe and do the verify again

[stiff dust]

nothing still

[steady hawk]

🤔

Delete dta folder and Addons\3den.pbo and its bigisn then?

[stiff dust]

huh

[steady hawk]

And try verify again I mean

[stiff dust]

then launch it from the 64 or launcher?

[steady hawk]

Try _x64 first I guess

[somber zodiac]

It hasn't done this before, it recently started this doing like a week ago.

[tough comet]

pleasee someone

this happen everytime i play multiplayer

i cant join to multiplayer server

[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]

Do a verify

[tough comet]

!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.

[tough comet]

i do 55 times verifying integrity

[steady hawk]

Then which server you try to join

[tough comet]

it happens on every server

[steady hawk]

Then try to delete listed PBOs and its BISIGNs and try verify again

[tough comet]

where

[steady hawk]

What where

[steady hawk]

It lists multiple PBO files

[tough comet]

ok

[pine kite]

Be thurough! Everywhere in the Arma 3 install folder. Make sure the launcher, Steam and the game is shutdown when you delete files. Then do a verify in Steam. Takes a while to download everything again.

[stiff dust]

did nothing still

[fringe salmon]

i dont know why but whenever htere is a F-22 spawned or rendered in my game

i crash

[brazen niche]

Hello, i am currently not at home for a while, so i am working with my laptop. The A3 Tools are not working for me, i does not register me accepting the EULA (I accept them, but i cant use any tools with the error "You must argree to the EULA....") restart, reinstall did not help.

Fixed it by moving the tools to the OS drive, weird.

[trail niche]

Try repairing the mod on your end

[fringe salmon]

F-22 is a mod?

according to Zeus, its listed as a vanilla item

[halcyon lily]

Hey every time try to open the uniforms tab in ACE Arsenal I get this message and my game crashes. Im certain its a mod causing it but I have 266 of them and I dont want to disable them 1 by 1 does anyone know how I can identify which one it is?

[umbral narwhal]

If you paste the RPT then I'll find it.

Seen edaly before but I can't recall which mod that is.

[halcyon lily]

Where can I find it?

I did save the crash report if its in there

[umbral narwhal]

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Arma 3

[halcyon lily]

alright 1 sec

this is the latest

[wooden junco]

how do i fix this?

[umbral narwhal]

Libertad AIO.

[halcyon lily]

if I repair the mod it should fix it right?

[umbral narwhal]

for some value of "should"

[halcyon lily]

well I just did and I'll see if its fixed, if its not i'll just disable it thanks for the help

disabling worked thanks man!

[fringe salmon]

okay so whenever I get to the loading range of an airbase or F-22, my game crashes

[trail niche]

Synchronize a curator to Alpha 1-2:71

[visual mortar]

why are all my mods corrupted suddenly?

[golden nova]

who would know

plenty of possible reasons.

mod updates, cloud drive corrupted game files when backing them up, faulty drive

[visual mortar]

im reinstalling arma because one of the files got corrupted and i couldnt delete that file so i just renamed the folder it contains in steamapps

so i redownloaded arma and it made a new folder and it installed the base game n everything

and now its reinstalling all of the mods

it reinstalled some mods but for some reason everything else got corrupted

[trail niche]

Did you try to verify files before downloading whole ?

[visual mortar]

yeah i exhausted every method

it verifies but the file didnt go away so i just did what i did

[trail niche]

Well then as honger said a lot can be at fault here

[visual mortar]

i checked crystal disk info n it says my drive is good

[trail niche]

Could be a software issue, turn off one drive if you don't use it could prevent it to happen again

[golden nova]

if you manually created a folder within Steam's files you could have corrupted the Steam itself.

[visual mortar]

my other steam games r fine

only arma 3 specifically for some reason

its all been fine until yesterday it suddenly went 2 shit

[golden nova]

and I gave you a possible reason

[trail niche]

Multiple actually

[visual mortar]

its reinstalling cup rn let me see if it breaks again

yeah cups corrupt for some reason

its installing the other mods fine

looks like cup is fucky rn

[keen trench]

Hey, i am having problems with Zeus, i am in a server and i can't access Zeus. When i made the mission, before putting it in the server, i created the Zeus. As a backup, i logged in as an admin and "Created a Zeus" with ACE options, but still nothing. When i press Y, it pings the Zeus.

[trail niche]

Try another slot/ try reconnecting to the server
Maybe the module bugged somehow

[keen trench]

Maybe becuase i placed it outside the map?

[trail niche]

Shouldn't matter, but I always placed mine close to the slots, as they are invisible anyway, so you can try

[visual mortar]

yeah its all going smoothly now for some reason CUP vehicles completely destroyed my arma files

[uncut trellis]

sometimes you need to delete previous files for verify to redownload working copies

[somber zodiac]

Does anyone know what this menu is called? I scroll to bring it up but if I scroll again it does the action. Does anyone know how I can make it so that it won't do the action if I scroll again after bringing up the menu?

[trail niche]

either check keybinds or the mod is surely the problem

[somber zodiac]

ok thanks

[pine kite]

Or you just have a sensitive mousewheel click (3rd/middle mousebutton)

[somber zodiac]

ah

[somber zodiac]

do you know what setting that is called that does the action?

[pine kite]

These are the keybinds related to the action menu:

But check what you have there. I don't have the issue.

[umbral narwhal]

I don't see how FTP would care about whether your mods are signed or not.

The common issue there is that you can't connect to a server with an unsigned mod when you have verifySignatures=2.

Options:

1. Sign the mod yourself.
2. Don't use the mod.
3. Disable signature verification.

[tired shoal]

I managed to get everything working but now my database is having an issue?

how to fix

[smoky jay]

Genuinely stumped on what's happening, this is the sum total of the server logs of the server im trying to run kek. Im likely forced to just disable mods 1 by 1 and see if anything changes but ive never had something where it stops the server loading in its tracks

server also goes into a state of "Server is running!" on 4netplayers but doesnt show up on the list as a result

[modern echo]

any idea why arma 3 is using a lot of memory?

it's taking up 9gb of ram after like half hour

[smoky jay]

thats normal isnt it?

the game is a vampire

[modern echo]

it's not normal that it's taking up insane amounts of memory without freeing them

[smoky jay]

you use 64bit?

[modern echo]

ofc, i only have 16gb of physical ram and im using a mechanical hdd and windows is paging basically everyhting causing freezes

[smoky jay]

Yeah, consensus is just that 64bit simply uses shitloads of ram

like 5-8gb

Sorry I dont have a better answer.

I have 16gb of ram and dont really encounter issues though

[modern echo]

well im having issues especially since im on a fragmented hdd and stuff

i mean, it doesnt feel completely normal for arma 3 to consume 6gb+ without mods

[smoky jay]

Are you new to arma 3 by any chance?

its honestly pretty common consensus amongst players that it's an unoptimized piece of crap lol

[modern echo]

nope, im aware that its unoptimized, just not this much

[smoky jay]

Its why people are stoked for reforger, cus it actually runs better

[smoky jay]

I mean to put in perspective, it's also a game that only uses CPU and ignores the GPU lol

[modern echo]

it does use the gpu.... is it as bad as something like source engine?

[smoky jay]

It uses barely any of the gpu

[modern echo]

:/

[smoky jay]

If it's that bad for you, you can use 32bit version of arma.

will max out at like 3gb

[modern echo]

true i guess

wouldnt it have worse performance and many mods requiring 64 bits?

[smoky jay]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

i dont know honestly

I just googled.

[golden nova]

why? Stable branch is limited to 8GB, performance will use as muchh as possible.

if you want to limit the RAM then switch branches or use custom parameters.

and/or use different memory allocator.

[modern echo]

im running performance branch, does that have higher limits?

[modern echo]

i think even on stable i had the same memory issue

[golden nova]

that's what I wrote.

[modern echo]

okay, i'll limit it through launcher parameters

[pine kite]

We don’t have a dedicated server
and
we are loading mods onto a hosted server
That is contradictory to me.

[potent gyro]

This is on a Dedicated Server:
Anyone who can decipher RPT files able to assist us. Server is hard crashing and we have no idea what the cause it, I did a full wipe and reinstalled of our mods on the server and verified both the Server Client and copy of Arma we have on the servers.

Will crash at either 40-50 minutes to 90 minutes then today it happened at almost 2 and 1/2 hours.

[modern echo]

a friend of mine doesnt have the same ridiculous amounts of ram on windows 10

[modern echo]

-maxmem is not having any effect apparently

its still going beyond

on perf branch

[worn kiln]

anyone aware of tis bug

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/716315557657313342/1226375097682755715/20240406_232547.jpg?ex=662489d0&is=661214d0&hm=29fbba7c06edb39c5b990cde4ab17b68b26c42ac57a5b56dcda76c1dddcbf2a8&

[steady hawk]

Pinned

[worn kiln]

idk why picture no load

[steady hawk]

That's not what I said

[worn kiln]

what are you saying then?

[steady hawk]

Check pinned

[bleak slate]

Hi all. Having two issues with VKB STECS-Mini throttle in Arma 3 with helicopter fyling.
Main one is that the throttle is only working from about 30-50% to 75%, anything before or after that does nothing (very smal range of effect makes for very twitchy throttle/collective control). Googled heaps, this appeared to be an issue in the past, but all suggest remedies have not worked. Also noted that it was consistantly only an Arma issue, and did not effect other flight sims. Is anyone able to help me rectify this? I am failry to know to PC gaming and ARMA, so any explanations should be aimed at the level of a 5 yr old.
The other issue is that the sound of the throttle is reversed. Throttle up and the engine winds down, throttle down and it spools up. most annoying. Does it when throttle reversed as well, ie throttle v Collective.

[tired shoal]

I have created a database and set up xampp and extdb3 into my server but its not connecting

[restive sequoia]

Check the logs from extdb3, it will tell you whats wrong

[tired shoal]

it says no such node

[restive sequoia]

Did you adjust extdb-conf ?

[tired shoal]

I created and set up the database on xampp mysql and HeidiSQL, linked the database in the extdb-conf and when i load into the game it just says

[pine kite]

So you can remote connect to the server, which is a dedicated one. As filezilla is an FPT (file transfer protocol) service you are in a way remote connecting to it. But it appears you only have access to the files. Which makes me wonder how you manage to start and stop the server. You would need to have some kind of terminal access to start them with a command-line.

FASTER is just a graphical front-end application to manage that command-line and fill in various config files automatically. If you have FTP you can download/edit/re-upload those config files yourself. And upload mods from your own computer through FTP. You don't need a graphical front-end as long as you can tell the server to start and stop the server application. Infact, I think this is the better way to do it, as you don't have to deal with another complexity layer which you must interpret first in how they intend to control the server with their way of setting things up.

[modern echo]

most likely using a web control panel for that

[pine kite]

Isn't that the same are remote connecting to it?

[restive sequoia]

Make sure database name is correct in the extdb config!

[fringe salmon]

Apparantly i have this square on the bottom right

how do I remove it?

[steady hawk]

My wild guess is TFAR

[rare spear]

Having a bit of a weird issue that I haven't had for years, up until a few patches ago
Smoke particles seem to tank my FPS (from around 55-60 to around 18-22, sometimes lower, but pretty consistently cuts it by more than half)

Specs:
Ryzen 7 3700X
32GB of DDR4 RAM
RTX 3080
2TB Nvme SSD (Internal)

Running at 1080p 60hz (Fullscreen), particles set to low (though even on high it has the same drop), FSAA disabled, PPAA set to CMAA, shadows standards, textures/objects ultra, PiP disabled, view distance set to 2000 (except for shadows set to 50)

Is this expected behavior in arma? or is this unusual with a probably fix?
In my unit, half or more of the people attending the same operations don't have this issue

[steady hawk]

Mods and more situations when FPS drops please

[rare spear]

Its genuinely just around smoke particles
No mods that change particles as far as I know

[restive sequoia]

Depending on the density/amount of different smoke effects these frame drops are part of arma imho

But nvm, didn't read your last sentence that the other people in the same op don't have this servere problems.

[trail niche]

ace do interact with smoke

[umbral narwhal]

Try to replicate with a minimal modset. That's far too much to diagnose.

IIRC there's an improvement to AI visibility checks through particles on the perf branch but I don't know if that's relevant to your problem.

[modern echo]

not necessarily

[sweet shadow]

so my server says that the TFAR beta mod is not yet setup.

The RPT file says that that "@Task Force Arrowhead Radio (BETA!!!)" directory is not found, other mods seem to be working just fine

would appreciate any help. One thing to note is that the exclamation marks in "(BETA!!!)" are missing, I'm not sure if thats the issue

[pine kite]

Can you check what is in that specific mod folder on the server? If that is actually empty then the server is right (which it always is anyway) Posting the entire RPT log file might help diagnose it, as the top has atleast part of the commandline.

[sweet shadow]

the folder exists in the server

lemme get the entire RPT

[pine kite]

Ok, but what is in those folders.

[sweet shadow]

this is in the addons folder

[pine kite]

The servers need files. If those failed to download, then it doesn't do much with it.

[sweet shadow]

keys folder

[pine kite]

You can try renaming it to just TFARBETA and change that in the commandline too. Maybe the system does choke on the exclamation characters.

[sweet shadow]

will that affect the users who installs it with the normal name with the exclamation marks?

[pine kite]

Shouldn't be. That is checked through the signatures, those bisign files in the screenshots.

[sweet shadow]

right

[pine kite]

That wasn't the keys folder. But it appears the files are there. I just don't know what the server requires to not show that error. Simply try to rename that mod folder. As the commandline is missing those exclamation marks. As the folder does have those, the server is looking for the wrong modfolder.

[sweet shadow]

alright it works, thanks a lot! and yes that wasnt the keys folders, my mistake

[eternal marlin]

Probably someone already mentioned that but recently my Arma server started consume like weirdly a lot of RAM without ever cleaning it. The amount of used RAM did not go down ever if I cleared all the placed objects, wrecks, units, etc from the map.

[fringe salmon]

Yea its TFAR

[umbral narwhal]

Working as intended apparently.

If you want the previous behaviour then -maxmem=4096 should work.

[valid badger]

this is a pretty simple one, but its been bugging the hell out of me nonetheless lately.

everytime i enter a MP game, any background audio i have gets degraded, but the moment i exit, it goes back to being clear. any ideas on the fix?

i have also tried messing with audio output and mixers, but nothing has worked so far.

please @ me if you see this and have an answer

[olive depot]

anyone able to help me out with some hiddenselections? just having trouble changing the texture of a shirt in the editor. I keep getting a string error no matter how many different ways I try to type it

[steady hawk]

Not sure what is your goal/what you've done

[olive depot]

using the setobjecttexture line, what is the correct way to write it into the init box? he's what I thought was the right way: this setobjecttexture [0,texture_name] (trying to change the shirt texture, but I get a string error, and nothing obviously changes)

[steady hawk]

#arma3_scripting

[olive depot]

copy

[rain beacon]

hey so i cant do upng for reasons but my friend can do upng but his server never pops up for me and if we are on the same network the lan server dosent pop up for either of us, is it because i cant do upng?

[pine kite]

No, if you are both in the same network then UPNP has no purpouse. Only if you need players from outside on the internet to join the hosted server, whichever of the 2 of you is hosting.

Most likely the one that can't be seen by the other has his network profile in public mode. Then it tries to stay stealthy in the network.

[rain beacon]

alright he just changed it gonna try that

[rain beacon]

still cant see his server im not sure why it wont work

[drowsy bolt]

Hello, I just bought the S.O.G DLC but after downloading it, it doesn't show up in the launcher. What should I do to fix this?

[uncut trellis]

try restart steam

[drowsy bolt]

I've done that already, I even verified the integrity of Arma 3 files but still didnt work

I've verified it again and it worked finally so nvm

[drowsy night]

Hey, Im new to Arma 3 and downloaded RHU M4A1 mod and successfully loaded files and launched game " play with mods" but the weapons wont show up any where. What might I be doing wrong?

[steady hawk]

"Anywhere" like where?

[bronze river]

where is this 'any' you were talking about?

[grim tinsel]

*where is this 'any' you where talking about?
FTFY 😄

[lethal loom]

Ive been getting an error telling me my settings are corrupted in the launcher, then all my settings are reset. I have completely deleted and reinstalled arma Ik this may not be the proper place to ask this but please for the love of all things holy can someone help me

[drowsy night]

like i said im new and would assume it replaces the spar 15??

[grim tinsel]

In most cases mods dont replace weapons, they add new ones on top of the existing ones

I'd recommend checking in the virtual arsenal (main menu -> tutorials -> virtual arsenal) to see if the mod is being loaded correctly and you can find the weapon

[drowsy night]

Well I found the virtual arsenal which is awesome. The weapons were in there. Thank you

[pine kite]

Then you need to find a scenrio on the workshop that either uses that specific mod, or allows all weapons to be chosen/delivered in the field. Or you just make your own scenario in the eden editor and provide it to the player through some arsenal. Basically, you can't expect every mod to be available in any scenario you want to play. The creator had a certain play-balance in mind for you to accomplish the goal in it.

[fringe salmon]

Can anyone send me their Battleye folder? I am on MacOS and my battleye folder is missing

[pine kite]

Pretty sure that would fall under illegal distribution. If there is a Battleye executable for the MAC release of the game, then the game would be distributed with it. Maybe people in #linux_mac_branch know of a way to deal with it if it is missing.

Also there is #arma_battleye with perhaps more information on how to deal with MAC issues.

[fringe salmon]

2 blocked messages

[steady hawk]

You could unblock someone who tries to help you or just ignore then

[pine kite]

For crying out loud. Go F yourself then and help yourself next time.

[fringe salmon]

Be nice man

There's a reason why you are blocked

[pine kite]

Explain it first then

[fringe salmon]

Lack of IT knowledge, macOS doesnt use .exe

[ocean cosmos]

dont bother valen

theyre just here for trolling

[pine kite]

You are expecting there to be someone among the majority of Windows players to send you their Windows Battleye folder. Who is having a lack of understanding of what MacOS supports? I posted links to the channels where this is likely to be discussed (if it really needs to be) Have fun with that.

[golden nova]

Now this is an example of brainrot, gentlemen. What a clown lmao

[ocean cosmos]

i would react with the clown emoji too but they blocked me for trying to help them too

its very funny

[fringe salmon]

i am NOT a brainrot

im the smartest

and the strongest

[uncut trellis]

If you're blocked the people who most answer questions here don't rub it on their noses. Ignore them if you want, but don't flamebate them with "blocked crap"

[honest crescent]

I Also have a problem of approximately the same nature as yours, after updates (ACE, CUP, etc.) ACE Arsenal began to work terribly, the game began to take longer to start, and stuff like that. Namely, when you open the section with uniforms, the game freezes at 1 m 30 sec and every time you want to edit or just look at a unit’s uniform, although with the same set of mods 2 weeks ago everything was fine.

P.S. The RPT report also shows about this thing. No alive in (some sec)

We can only hope that they will fix the updates because the updates talk about improving optimization, but it has only gotten worse xD

[frank fossil]

I am having a issue

You were kicked off the game. Invalid DLC licenses detected

[frank fossil]

I own all the dlc on steam

nothing else on internet is there a customer support?

[modern echo]

you sure you haven't put foreign illegal files on your installation? @frank fossil

[frank fossil]

I have Steam subscription mods installed no illegal mods

[modern echo]

try restarting steam and make sure you're launching it through it

[frank fossil]

I restart steam let me try

[modern echo]

just that? read what i said, files not mods

[frank fossil]

I havent played in years

[modern echo]

try validating your arma 3 installation

[frank fossil]

First thing i tried

Only servers i can not join is warlord

Zues works fine

and apex

So if there are illegal files how do i remove them. I am not having any luck solving this issue

game is still not working correctly

[modern echo]

uninstall arma 3 and delete the game folder before reinstalling

[frank fossil]

I am going to uninstall

and delete everything

I will reinstall cya in an hour

[modern echo]

not everything needs to be deleted, just the game folder

[frank fossil]

Even after completely removing the game

reinstalling

same error

I purchased every dlc I don't understand the issue

[steady hawk]

Restart Steam then?

[modern echo]

contact steam support or bohemia interactive support if its a legit issue, try starting with a new profile by using -profile=test

[unreal jacinth]

Hi Guys, died whilst in zeus as we are running ACE and it's put me into this screen and I can't respawn without alt-f4ing. I am in multiplayer as well

Any fix?

In game

Had this bug before and i believe it's pretty easy to replicate

[grim tinsel]

Have you made sure your respawn is set up correctly?

[tender dragon]

Technically, this is an Arma3 tools/publisher issue but I don't think there's a channel for this.
For the past 15 or so hours, I've been trying to update a mod I've had on the work shop for a few years.
Unfortunately, it now always fails to update with the statement:
Steam Client failed to process the operation:

Steam error code: 8
Steam error message: Invalid Param - a parameter is incorrect.

I've been trying all kinds of 'snake oil' type suggestions (which is largely all I can find by searching online) but nothing has worked.

I can publish the exact same files as a new mod so I know the content itself is fine. I just don't want to force the subscribers to change and start subscribing to a new mod.

However, I think I have identified the issue to some degree. When publishing fails, there's an option to open the item web page. This takes me to Steam which can't find the item as it has id=0
Interestingly, the 'take to web page' in the main publisher window does still correctly work.

So it looks like somewhere in the publication process it's lost the workshop id for this item. I'm guessing this is held in a file somewhere which has corrupted. However, I've not been able to locate such a thing.

If anyone else has experience of this or knows of a good solution, I'd be most grateful!

[tender dragon]

I've found an arma3publisher.steam.rpt and the error is slightly more useful, perhaps?
failed - Code: 1 - STEAM_API_DLL TODO

[umbral narwhal]

Hmm. I think Bob might have had this once with Antistasi.

but knowing Bob the solution was writing extremely threatening letters to steam so that might not be helpful.

[tender dragon]

I've also tried the command line PublisherCMD (which was one of the suggestions I've found).
This doesn't work either which is a shame as it allows specifying the ID directly. (Perhaps it's the ID that's broken at steam's end not the publisher?)
Oddly though, the comment from the command line version is:
"An item with the same key has already been added."
Not entirely sure what's meant by 'key' but the whole point of and 'update' is to 'update' something that's already there... 🤦‍♂️

[worthy geyser]

My arma game when I have 65 mods on, booted up yesterday, but now it goes through every screen, bohemia, arma, then goes black and not responding, and I'm left with a STATUS_APPLICATION_HANG (Antistasi pack made by my friend)

[vague lava]

Mod issue. Gotta find what is causing it

[worthy geyser]

It started up fine yesterday

Even got into the server (almost because my friend had to shut it off)

so idk why

[trail niche]

does it works in vanilla ?

[worthy geyser]

yes

the pack hasnt changed which is what confuses me

theres no visible error i can even work off of

[trail niche]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T121383

[worthy geyser]

ill try that later

[worthy geyser]

That is about even if it fails on vanilla

[trail niche]

maybe, idk, it's kind of a 2 clicks solutions so worth a shot anyway

[bitter fog]

Copied over from my message in #general_chat_arma

Anyone ever experience Arma 3 + Arma 3 Server causing Steam, Discord, or SteamUI to crash? And more importantly, anyone know of a solution to it?

It seems unrelated to RAM as it always happens when I still have about 4 gigabytes still free, but it does seem to be related to CPU usage, as it always happens after a prolongued period of 100% CPU usage. Could be Windows suspending apps to prevent an OS lockup.

Limiting the CPU cores Arma 3 and/or the Server can use in taskmgr seems to help, but isn't a foolproof solution. Limiting RAM just causes Arma 3 or the Server to crash after a while.

Discord crashing isn't the worst, just means I have to use in-game chat or TS3 - SteamUI makes the Steam app steal focus from the game every time it tries to reopen - but Steam obviously fucks up the game and the server alike, effectively crashing all three.

[dawn karma]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030463878087323698/1228055299689156780/unknown_replay_2024.04.11-21.48_-_Trim.mp4?ex=662aa69f&is=6618319f&hm=2c53af7ad2474bfad5b8adbfd5ecd96d597cd6fe26cd782e4763cd3a60c53767&

Hi, after I check the map game freezes on the map and then closes without any error on screen, only happens in one server I play.

my last rpt log

[worthy geyser]

does it crash in the middle of the game

or in the first few minutes

put those in the launch options that are in mineand try it

usually runs it a little bit better

wait i misread your message

discord is crashing from arma?

[hollow granite]

I have a question ? I made a gui with comboxboxes and editboxes and before it was working perfectly but now my game is crashing. I tried to see why and it seems to crash when the combobox is empty and selected and when i press the rmb while i'm dragging on the edit box, is it normal ? I removed all my mods and all the creator dlcs and it's still happening, i don't understand why, in the .rpt it's saying "STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzewNo8w00E, sadly i can't send the .rpt here, if you need it DM me

[quaint jewel]

need mdmp from crash

[hollow granite]

wait i will send it in your dm 😄

oh wait, it's a heavy file

[quaint jewel]

zip compress

[hollow granite]

i tried and it's almost 15 mb xD but it should be good

[quaint jewel]

Yeah game bug.
It tries to display the tooltip for element -1 inside the empty combobox

[hollow granite]

oh ok and what should i do then ?

[quaint jewel]

Don't know, don't press rmb while dragging

[hollow granite]

yeah but at the beginning, it crashed because i right clicked, now i know that so i will try to avoid. I have a question though, don't you need the .rpt ? I'm asking that because in the .rpt there is the fault address bytes but not inside the .MDMP, i'm just curious nothing else 😄

[quaint jewel]

or make it not be empty

The mdmp contains the fault address and much more

[hollow granite]

it contain the fault address and the fault address location ? I didn't see it then, btw thank you 😄

[quaint jewel]

it also contains the values of the variables, and whole path of how it got to the fault location

[hollow granite]

oh ok

[bitter fog]

It's fairly inconsistent, but tends to be later on, like 3-6 hours of game

[tender dragon]

Having been chipping away at this for a day or so, it seems that I can't publish this mod with any of the content signed although I can publish it as a new mod with the content signed....
Anyone have any ideas?

[bitter fog]

Wow holy fuck I only now realised how late Discord sent that, I despise this mobile app...

[bitter fog]

That would be correct, yeah. And Steam, and anything else that has some sort of web browser built into it/is based on Chromium

[fringe salmon]

you need to keep your phone on to send the message

this is a cell phone problem not a discord problem

[bitter fog]

I mean, if I click send in whatsapp, it'll send even if I switch to another app or lock the screen. Discord is unique in needing the app open in the foreground to be able to send messages

[fringe salmon]

that's a lie

Unless you're on android, it's your problem

Anyone know what's causing this green border?