arma3_troubleshooting

[vague nova]

i deleted mods that are 2gb+

im about to scrape the barrel and delete cup

[bronze river]

dont forget to unsub them from workshops or it will redownload in the future

[vague nova]

I'm unsubscribing from launcher

[vague nova]

I deleted every single mod I've ever had from the workshop and it didn't change the space I have

[bronze river]

have you restart your device

[vague nova]

Multiple times

I wanted to free up space and I got screwed by Bohemia instead

I'm verifying the integrity of files

There might have been a corruption thing where the stuff I delete saves somewhere

[bronze river]

find the folder named 107410 in your steam>steamapps>workshop>content, and delete anything in it

if it's empty then check the steam>steamapps>workshop>downloads and see if the folder 107410 is in there, if there's one delete it

also may want to clean up Recycle bin afterward

[vague nova]

Arma catches way too much space

I deleted and it's still there

[bronze river]

vanilla arma just around 38-45GB

[vague nova]

Oh

98 GB free now

Nice

I still don't get how 70 mostly lite mods are 100 gb

The heaviest shit I'll use is cup

And rhs

And sound mods

[bronze river]

workshop mods doesnt show real size on steam page

[vague nova]

Really ?

[bronze river]

RHS (all) can reach up to 30GB

[vague nova]

So when a mod says 200mb it's actually 6 billion terrabites

[vague nova]

Jeez

I did subscribe to all

What about cup

RHS and cup alone including maps will eat my GB

I only have arma 3 vanilla now

Do you by chance know how to free more space if you don't it's fine

You helped me

[bronze river]

same case

Cup Core + Maps is already 20GB

[bronze river]

try windows Disk cleanup

[vague nova]

Now units and vehicles

Why is it so many

It's just some tanks and people

And maps

And there's not much in cup too

[bronze river]

also multiple faction that has their own camos and equipments from 2 older games.

i dont have those installed so can't tell the size, but others might know

[vague nova]

You don't use cup

???

Teach me your ways of how you manage to play the game without these

I heard arma downloads mods twice

[bronze river]

don't need one, I just make Arma Screenshot most of the time.
and play with mods that I or my group want

[bronze river]

never heard of the issue

[vague nova]

So how do you have guns

And people

Without cup

[bronze river]

plenty of other mods that i can't say here since it's gonna be a long text

[vague nova]

So you use anything but cup weapons and units

And rhs

You use smaller stuff

[bronze river]

not a huge fan of CUP (no offense to the dev in this server) just don't want to use it that's all

[vague nova]

Cup is so small and big at the same time

[bronze river]

look for AEGIS on steam workshop, it will give stuff to expand the vanilla arma 3 experience

[vague nova]

Yeah but vanilla sucks a lot

The weapons there are bad

[bronze river]

like i said the size on steam workshop page is not the actual size, it will downloads the update after you finished the initial download.

[vague nova]

Jesus Christ man

Arma has 3 stages for me

Play

Enjoy

Delete everything

Repeat

[bronze river]

simply you play what you enjoy, and you enjoy what you play

[bronze jewel]

its the latest version still

[fierce yarrow]

Hi, I'm having an issue, after my game crashed earlier and I had to hard reboot my pc, my Arma 3 can never load up the main menu, it just instantly crashed, I've tried specifically verifying files, resetting files, launching with and without mods, and changing alot of my configs and parameters to no results, could anyone help me figure out what exactly is causing this / happening

[bronze river]

does it shows any error message?

you can try uploading your rpt files here for someone to check

!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.

[fierce yarrow]

i haven't gotten any errors thats the weird part

[pine kite]

While the game is not running temporarily rename your profile files so Arma 3 can't find them and make default files for it. Your current original might have gone corrupted somehow during the crash. Depending ony your selected profile it is either (Documents\Arma 3 or Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\somecustomnamedprofile)

If that is not the solution, then rename the files to what it was. (I usually add a obvious character to the filename, or add something like .bkup at the end.

[solar root]

Bro how do I stop the errors on arms 3 ?

[uncut trellis]

depends on the error

dont run broken mods

fix windows parts that dont work

etc

[solar root]

It’s like wen u try to play arma 3 to ply it it’s a error poping up

[uncut trellis]

you have to write down or screenshot the exact error

your description has nothing to go on with

and for posting screenshots here you need to complete verifcation at #✔role-selection

at the bottom

[solar root]

Ok thx bro

[wise stone]

My mic in arma 3 doesnt work unless I play on 32bit is there any reason for this? my mic is a blue yeti 3. I run as admin. Mic is set to default.

[pine kite]

There used to be issues with USB sound devices not working. Analog mics working fine. But that was supposed to be fixed since version 2.14 (and the pinned message about it is also no longer there/edited to show no longer an issue)

If you still encounter it then I suggest you report this at the Bohemia Feedback tracker site. So the devs can investigate this further. Does it crash the game if you run 64 bit? Or just not able to use/detect the microphone as input device? Is it set as default input device in Windows?

[steady hawk]

Yeah I would suggest to use 3.5 mm jack microphone just in case

[wise stone]

game runs fine if I use 64 bit just cant talk. And yes its set as default in windows

[pine kite]

Ok, then it is best to report it to the bohemia interactive feedback portal.

Is there any software that does filtering or audio effects on it before it is fed through to Windows? If so, see if you can disable that.

[wise stone]

No nothing like that

[ocean shadow]

My game performance has just died having been fine 30 minutes ago. Any ideas as to what caused this or how I can fix it?

[ocean shadow]

It also won’t run playably anymore

[bronze river]

Check for any memory leaks on your system, and check if your CPU is overheat it can throttle your performance

[warped heron]

Quick question, folks.
How do I change monitor?
Win + Shift + ➡ doesn't seem to work.
I play Borderless 1080p 16:9 (Both monitors match those sizes)
Kindly don't suggest changing primary monitor, as it defeats the purpose of why I'm trying to switch monitors.
Thanks in advance!

[bronze river]

you can't change monitor on arma 3

arma 3 can only play on primary monitor

[warped heron]

No workaround or mod? 😦

[bronze river]

nope

[warped heron]

Whelp. Much appreciated!

[modern echo]

try windowed, it's better when it comes to the mouse boundaries, ive got issues in borderless where it accidentally clicks outside of the game

[fresh jetty]

having trouble with Titan AT locking:

No button works, doesn't lock.

TI is on, target is hot. Ace nor vanilla lock-on works

[quasi oriole]

i need help... its been 2 days and no forum has been able to help me

18:34:20 Mission awdawd.chernarusredux read from bank.
18:34:20 Roles assigned.
18:34:20 Reading mission ...
18:34:20 Error loading mission.

why is there an error 😭 ive tried 4 seperate missions,

[uncut trellis]

tried without any mods?

first thing of debugging error, turn off all mods and try to do the thing you do

[quasi oriole]

Okay ill try that right now

[quasi oriole]

unloaded the mods and its still having the same issue, so ima guess its server related..

BUT i have no idea where to look as its my own personal box with no tech support 😭

[uncut trellis]

then best to describe everything you do and have since it was not clear that its server you are having problem with

maybe someone with server experience has ideas

[umbral narwhal]

Simple editor mission with moving vehicle?

One issue we found is that sometimes people mis-use the fog settings in zeus and drag all three to the bottom. This bugs out Arma so that it's visually clear but weapons don't lock.

It was common enough that we changed Antistasi from remembering all three fog settings to resetting two of them on load.

[umbral narwhal]

Are these valid MP mission PBOs that you can run locally by putting them into the mpmissions folder?

[quasi oriole]

Yes

[umbral narwhal]

Are you using FTP to upload them?

[wet pumice]

how do i get rid of that annoying black box at the top of the screen

[uncut trellis]

fix the error or dont use broken mods

[pine kite]

Lol, that is actually how you deal with errors 101 programming class.

[halcyon lily]

I am having an issue where if I join any servers I am able to move around a bit then get hit with an infinite loading screen but I can hear sounds

Clearing MPmissioncache did not fix it

[south sierra]

shows up everytime i launch arma

then results in this

[uncut trellis]

!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.

[south sierra]

i think i did this before and relaucnehd it and didnt work

[uncut trellis]

you can try deleting the problem pbos in arma 3\addons folder and then try verify again so it properly gets fresh ones

[south sierra]

im gonna unintall and reinstall iut

[uncut trellis]

deleteing the addon folder and running file verify should do the same trick

but maybe be a little faster

[solemn vortex]

Hello folks, I have a Problem. I randomly timed out while playing.

My Internet works the whole time (Tested by pinging 8.8.8.8 every second with instant timeout setting), VOIP and TeamSpeak also work the whole Time, without any break or lag.
Disabled Firewall, changed Lan Port.

I can instantly Rejoin without Problems.
It happens nearly every 30 Minutes, but the Range is 15–45 Minutes

Reinstalled Arma and my Mods, deleted my Profile and started with a clean one, rebooted my PC and Router.
I played over 2 Hours Arma without Mods on a Offiziel Server, it didnt happen.
On the Server where I got the timeouts, there are also over 100 other players at the same Time, and no one else seems to have this issue.

There's nothing in my RPT that suggests any Error.
I don't know what the meaning of the content in the netlog means, but I attached it.

[stray gazelle]

@solemn vortex What was the ping or the server you joined was located at?

[modern echo]

contact your isp

[pine kite]

What does "... changed Lan Port." mean anyway?

[pliant cairn]

Hi all, I am hoping someone might be able to assist with an issue I’ve run into hosting a mission on my Linux Arma 3 server. I don’t have any logs handy atm but hoping someone might be able to expand on seeing this issue themselves.

Was running a mission with 28 players, using a tested list of mods, the only addition being a map and faction mod for the campaign. We had 30 minutes or so of using this faction both Zeus placed and eden placed without dramas. The players then moved in vicinity of a larger town, where on their arrival, all the AI in the mission froze. Players movement and server FPS was unaffected. I could place objects in Zeus and they’d move for 5 or so seconds then they’d freeze also. No units could be deleted.

After a few minutes, things would ‘catch up’ and all queued movements and deleting of units would take place.

This repeated again about 15 minutes later, this time with the player base a distance away from any towns, and with only 20 or so ai present in the mission.

I’m thinking it was a server memory issue, and after looking into the mod, there are isolated reports of memory issues created by some errors in the mod that were present in our logs.

Is this sort of symptom something you’d expect to see from excessive memory use causing the server to have a moment?

I would have thought that if that was a case, the percentage of units being managed by the headless client might have remained unaffected?

Any insight is appreciated!

[flint swallow]

Gettting system error in Arma 3 whenever I press play. I've made my Bohemia account for it but nothing worked.

Also I did reinstall the game and verified files, nothing fixed

[solar root]

Here watch this video

It we’ll fix ur problem I agreed to it

[south sierra]

its fixed

thanks though

[solar root]

Ok

[south sierra]

ill keep the vid saved jus in case if theres a better way to fix it instead of unin and installing

[umbral narwhal]

If the server FPS is unaffected then it's probably not memory. When you run out of memory it thrashes the garbage cleaner and the frame rate crashes.

Sounds more like network limitations to me. Maybe post your basic.cfg in #server_admins and get it critiqued.

[pliant cairn]

Will do. Thanks for getting back to me 👌🏽

[steady hawk]

Please write in details. What error exactly, when it happens exactly

[ionic fern]

So I have an issue where AI are just randomly falling to the ground and then getting back up repeatedly

I've yet to see any civilians doing it, only armed AI.

[umbral narwhal]

conflicted/broken animation mods, probably.

[ionic fern]

ive removed all animation mods as far as I know

im checking again

maybe it could be a injury animation mod

[ionic fern]

ive tried unloading them one by one

still happening

[golden nova]

Then remove all mods and see again.

If vanilla keeps doing that then verify files through Steam.

[ionic fern]

alrighty

may lose wifi in a sec

getting absolutely pounded by storms rn

[flint swallow]

Launching from steam, going without a unit, then pressing play, I get this

[ionic fern]

vanilla dont seem to be doing it

imma load one of my newest mods and see if its the issue

it is not that mod

or its dependencies

aaaaaaaaaaaa

[steady hawk]

Usually reinstall DirectX 11 and Visual C++ 2013 do the fix

[ionic fern]

no idea what I did, but seemingly its fixed now.

for now atleast

nvm

OPFOR forces still having the issue

[ionic fern]

aswell as BLUFOR

no clue what to do about this now

[solemn vortex]

16ms

[solemn vortex]

Will do

[solemn vortex]

Someone said it could be a broken Lan Port

[pine kite]

Ok, the physical plug in the router. That makes a bit sense.

Sorry, I have no idea how to diagnose this or where the issue could be hiding. I wouldn't know how to interpret that network-log either.

It might be better if you post the RPT log file of the client when you encountered this issue. Not sure if it does contain any leads to the issue though.

[ionic fern]

i believe it was the nerexis anti wall glitch fix mod

[worn jungle]

Hello,

Didnt find any solution where this comes

2024/05/09, 11:00:33 Setting invalid pitch 0.0000 for L Alpha 1-2:1 REMOTE

Works on local hosted,
But on dedicated hosted gives that error.
On local host

  _killedEhId = _unit addEventHandler ["Killed", {
            TRACE_1("Called Killed",_this);
            [_this select 0] call FUNC(handleKilled);
        }];

Works and unit have killed eh
Same result on dedicated, unit have EH (checked with _unit setVariable [QGVAR(KilledEhId), _killedEhId,true];)
But killed eh is not ever called.
Event is executed server only.
Rest of code works, but killed EH doenst.
Just thought does invalid pitch something.

[pine kite]

@worn jungle people that hang around in #arma3_scripting might actually know what you are doing here with eventhandlers.

[worn jungle]

Yeah, seems its just locality issue.
but i will continue at #arma3_scripting

[languid merlin]

Arma 3 losing fps when tabbing out or pushing esc button. The Fps drops to 1 and the game just does not work. I have the game running at a solid 75 fps with vsync on. Even if I turn vsync off I still have this massive drop. Is there a fix for this thanks.Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700F, 2100 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
3060rtx graphics card.

[golden nova]

tried without mods?

[languid merlin]

No.mods can do that what mod would cause such a issue

[golden nova]

it depends on what you're playing with it can be caused by a single mod or only by a combination of few. Start from removing half of your mods and if issue is gone, add mods one by one until game breaks and you'll know the culprit.

[steady hawk]

Or even try without Mods

[golden nova]

maybe start from that. No reason to verify mods if it could be an issue you get with vanilla game. That's why I asked about trying with no mods.

[languid merlin]

ok I will try that

thank you

[mild girder]

Good day to all! On April 9th, I received a ban on the official Zeus EU#12 server ([OFFICIAL] Arma 3 Zeus by Bohemia Interactive (EU) #12). No third-party software or anything else was used. The ban is only on this server, I still play on the rest of the official ones (i.e. not a global ban on Battle Eye). We assume that this could have been done by a Zeus player with Z.A.M (Zeus Advanced Module). Can you tell me what can be done or where to ask?

[golden nova]

DM Dwarden

[languid merlin]

Still having issue frames drop to 1 fps when hitting esc button and leaving it for 1-2 min

[south sierra]

Im havin issues tryin to host for friends

its not upnp or whatever

or my firewall

as i fixed both things

[golden nova]

what are the issues then

[south sierra]

server doesnt show up

[golden nova]

then how are you sure you fixed the things you mentioned

[south sierra]

it shows an option if upnp fails/ u dont have it

and i turned on the stuff that wasnt allowed in my fireawall

[white mortar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1230918858760781976/1238242858733928523/image.png?ex=663e9306&is=663d4186&hm=aaae81fe5178e721597cfbf380b4f9bdfb83c7cd0782e71a6195d07ed0c24667&

any idea where i can find this addon?

or what mod it's located in

[ocean cosmos]

cup terrains core

[white mortar]

yeah i got that lol

i'll try repairing the mod

[white mortar]

i didn't name it correctly in the startup parameters...

thanks for the assistance...

[flint swallow]

i tried insallitng Visual C++ 2013 but it says "This app can't run your PC. To find a version for your PC, check with your software publisher."

[steady hawk]

Which file you've tried to install

[flint swallow]

a friend sent this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

I'm not exactly a tech genius

[steady hawk]

Which OS bit you have

[flint swallow]

64 bit

[steady hawk]

Make sure you run _x64 version of exe

[flint swallow]

do I need arm.exe as well?

[steady hawk]

I don't think so

[umbral narwhal]

You want this updated version btw: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/update-for-visual-c-2013-and-visual-c-redistributable-package-18d278e8-1c79-2630-e8ae-e9f4679b2393

[mental river]

You probably downloaded the ARM version

[mental river]

IIRC the performance/profiling version requires VC++ redist 2022 now

[umbral narwhal]

yeah, but that probably doesn't uninstall itself.

[rustic onyx]

eh..

[pine kite]

And I didn't see that SkayaLight is runnign the performance/profiling version yet. So The old Visual C++ 2013 for x64/64bit is still the thing needed. Until Steam adds it to the default install.

[white mortar]

Hey, so I have a server through Nitrado. I get a Wait for Host error and my server restarts. Any help?

15:54:53 Warning Message: You cannot play/edit this mission; it is dependent on downloadable content that has been deleted.\na3_characters_f

one error i keep getting.

[livid hound]

what is the mod i need

[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]

What you need is just this

[steady hawk]

a3_characters_f is an official addon which means your server data or something might be corrupted

[umbral narwhal]

nah, that's a "normal error" on a dedicated server.

Whatever problem you have is nothing to do with it.

[white mortar]

Oh okay, thanks.

[umbral narwhal]

I guess the server's crashing. RPT might help if you can find that.

[stoic jolt]

Hello

i ran out of space while downloading mods in arma 3

i uninstalled some from the workshop folder and also from the steam library

they still end up taking storage space

any idea why this is caused?

[bronze river]

go to folder Steam>Steamapps>workshop>downloads see if there's a leftover download in there, if so delete it

then restart steam

[stoic jolt]

nope

nothing there

i checked before nothing was there

now im reinstalling arma 3

hoping that fixes it

[bronze river]

then unsub from big mods first, so it wont add to the final size

[stoic jolt]

there were like 2 foldiers that were having the mods

a folder that had numbers like 17140 and a !workshop folder

[bronze river]

the !worshop folder in a3 main directory is just a sym link to the actual mod folder in the 17140 (all of the mods file are in it)

leave it alone

[pine kite]

After the launcher properly downloaded the mods it ends up in a folder with the ModID as the name in Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\107410 So if you don't want it to be on your system anymore, delete that ModID folder. But unsubscribe from it first or it will be back as quick as you start the launcher.

[stoic jolt]

alright thanks

[pine kite]

The names of mods inside that !workshop folder in Arma actually are the symlinks to those modID folders.

[rose niche]

How to remove mods arma3 steam version ?

[pine kite]

Unsubscribing should get them removed automatically.

And #arma3_troubleshooting message if they don't after unsubscribing.

[rose niche]

dont work ,it says I still have Mods

[golden nova]

post a screenshot

[golden nova]

post a screenshot from launcher

you need to deselect all mods in launcher to start the game without mods.

[rose niche]

I dont have launcher

I click play and game start

[bronze river]

how do you get the game?

[rose niche]

Steam

[bronze river]

then launch via steam?

[golden nova]

how did you subscribe and install mods if you don't have a launcher? They do not load into the game if you don't select them in the launcher.

you must have manually pasted files into the main game directory or something.

[rose niche]

Steam workshop

[golden nova]

if your game starts without launcher after pressing play in Steam then right click on the game in Steam -> Properties -> General and show the launch properties

[rose niche]

I run it via steam

[rose niche]

I have 2 options run arma 3 or launch experimental Arma 3

in any case there is no launcher

[golden nova]

show me a screenshot of this window

[bronze river]

i like when u make this red arrows tutorial thing

[golden nova]

huh

[rose niche]

Opcje urochamiania=launch options

[golden nova]

yeah I get that, I don't understand why you have a dropdown button in the launch options and I don't

if you go to ..\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3 do you have an arma3launcher.exe file there? If so, when you open it does it start the aluncher

[rose niche]

I don't have arma3launcher

[golden nova]

when did you buy this game and where? Maybe there's some hidden/obsolete version sold on G2A or any other 3rd party key sellers. First time seeing this

[rose niche]

On steam sale

Winter

I think

[golden nova]

@quaint jewel we need an adult, any idea why his Arma 3 is different from ours? I do not see a button to select Arma 3 or experimental Arma 3 in steam properties

[quaint jewel]

what is "experimental arma 3" ?

[rose niche]

Battleeye dont work and more fps

[quaint jewel]

wha?

[bronze river]

[quaint jewel]

I never heard of that

The solution to most Arma problems is to first take a look at what the problem is

!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.

[golden nova]

he doesn't even have a launcher in game's files.

[bronze river]

is it safe to copy the launcher from other people's directory and add it to ours if we missing the launcher?

[golden nova]

so it's more than just the game's fault, like Steam would download some weird branch of the game or something

[quaint jewel]

yes, but there are more than just one file for the launcher.
And you probably don't have all launcher languages

[bronze river]

DX12 Arma 3

[quaint jewel]

Problem is probably not related to launcher or not.
Need rpt

[rose niche]

I can try deleting all arma files and run steam integrity test this

[quaint jewel]

Send RPT and I'll tell you why the mods get loaded

[rose niche]

I can't find it

but I managed to get rid of this message, I turned off all mods in the game (bottom left menu)

Thank you for your help and I'm sorry you wasted some time because of me

[golden nova]

thing is your issue is still not resolved because a) in current game version you are unable to disable games in thhe main menu (files are already loaded, you do that through launcher) and b) you still do not have said launcher

are you playing on Linux or something?

[rose niche]

MacOS

[golden nova]

well, should have started from stating this lol

macos' A3 does not have a launcher indeed.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Play_on_Mac

[rose niche]

I tried this but it didn't work

[quaint jewel]

MacOS also wouldn't have RPT in that place

Probably mods copied into the games addons folder, where mods should never be put

[red perch]

Sorry Im having trouble, and dont know how to read the log

[quaint jewel]

crashy. I can check on monday.
Try removing some mods

[red perch]

Can someone help me pls

i dont know what the heck it is

[modern echo]

wiki does not explain but you probably should manually create a !Workshop folder and start symlinking all the workshop content folders in there with the proper mod names

and then control what mods are active from in-game

[pine kite]

Dedmen wrote that he will look at it monday. Can't get better service from Bohemia Interactive employee than that.

Meanwhile, what you can do is not enable the -noLogs parameter so the game actually creates an RPT log file. And selectively disable mods until it starts working. You never explained exactly what the issue was, or what happens when it crashed.

[pine kite]

Lets not suggest to break how Steam and Arma 3 work together to load mods. The Arma 3 Launcher should work to begin with to disable mods.

[modern echo]

mac does not have a launcher so basically users have to manually put mods in the game folder, i think the launcher method is a good one for already downloaded workshop mods

[modern echo]

still, mac doesnt generate rpts apparently

or at least i dont know where they are located

in application support? preferences?

[modern echo]

where are rpt files at on mac?

[golden nova]

compatdata/107410/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/local/Arma 3/ nope, that's for linux

[pine kite]

Maybe, but where did Bluey mention that he has a Mac Install of Arma 3? I didn't read that. So it would be a suggestion to do such things based on an assumption.

Somebody else mentioned earlier they have a Mac version installed.

[rose niche]

In library/arma 3

I solved my problem, I just needed to download the launcher from the Internet

[haughty geyser]

how do i create a admin password in a localy hosted server i cannot find the config

[fair quail]

Antistasi the mod doesn't show me my save files on Windows11 when i load back into the game
I can play normally and can do anything but when i save i wait a bit and exit and for some reason when i get back to play the game doesn't show me any saved files
I play on lan by myself

[haughty geyser]

i cannot access zeus

[pine kite]

You don't need to. When you host you are the admin.

And the server config files don't apply to a locally hosted server. It's all your game GUI.

[haughty geyser]

why cant i access zeus is it because im running it from eden currently?

[pine kite]

Could be. If you are making your own scenario then you need to add a Zeus module to it to allow you to use it. It's not functional by default.

There are plenty videos on how to make a scenario with a Zeus in it via the eden editor.

[pine kite]

This is where your saves show when you start a server running Antistasi Community (but also Ultimate and Plus I think). If those don't show you never saved your game in the world through the mapboard object. Or didn't wait for the autosave to do it. Or something corrupts your Arma 3 profile which prevents the save from being recovered. Like having a server instance running on your computer in the background referencing the same profile as the game is playing. Can't do that as the file will be locked for one of them.

Onedrive has also been known to mess up the saving of your profile. But that usually comes with an error message about cloud-something. Consider uninstalling Onedrive if you don't need it for other stuff.

[bronze river]

or disabling Onedrive on the Arma 3 save folder, works for me

[pine kite]

There could be less destructive methods of getting OneDrive to co-operate. I just don't know about them and never cared.

If you can create a message with clear steps and screenshots of what needs to be clicked, it might be usefull to sticky/pin that in this channel.

[silver latch]

Anyone know why its as default and I can not change the device?

[pine kite]

If Windows only finds one audio output device then there is nothing to change to.

[silver latch]

There are plenty more than one device

[pine kite]

Are they disabled?

[silver latch]

Nope

[bronze river]

connected via 3.5mm or usb?

[silver latch]

USB

[pine kite]

Those have been known to cause issues. But supposedly that was fixed in a recent update 2.1x

[bronze river]

is the driver for said audio output installed or detected on device manager?

[silver latch]

Both detected and drivers are fine

Its a new headset since I last played arma

[bronze river]

try speaker and see if it's still the same, or older headset

[silver latch]

Yeah ive tried pretty much everything

[bronze river]

perhaps some brand may not show their name or just referred to as Default

gonna check that, brb

[silver latch]

The main issue is that I cant click on it and pick what device I want

[pine kite]

You can select that USB device as the default output device in Windows Settings/System/Sound

[bronze river]

is it a pc or laptop, and is ther other audio output such as speaker connected?

[silver latch]

PC, all connected

Never had this issue before

Everything works fine, I just wanna be able to choose which device. Its greyed out

[bronze river]

yeah something is off there

[silver latch]

Yeah its confusing the fuck outa me

[bronze river]

i unplugged my headset and it switched to default speaker (laptop), and after i plugged my headset it shows option to pick my headset or speaker

[silver latch]

Well dunno what to do then mate, its all plugged in

[bronze river]

what brand is your headset just for additional info?

[silver latch]

Logitech Pro X

[bronze river]

does your headset show up in the sound setting like this? (red circle)

[silver latch]

Yeah done all that

[pine kite]

Does it show? That is what he asked.

[silver latch]

Yeah its there and as default

[bronze river]

welp looks like no other choice than to ask the higher ups for help, @pine kite should we ping Dedmen?

[pine kite]

Well, I'm sure he runs by this channel sooner or later.

But it is weekend, so he's allowed his days off.

Better is to post the issue on the Bohemia Feedback tracker and upload any information about the device and drivers.

If Dedmen calls in sick tomorrow someone else there might pick it up.

[silver latch]

Aight man, im just try figure it out myself

[ocean cosmos]

not that its uber relevant but what windows version are you on

[bronze river]

Is this it?!? is this the Win11 audio issue (on arma3) that I've heard of?

[silver latch]

Im windows 11

[bronze river]

your answer^

[red perch]

Sorry, basically after like 10-15 minutes, it would freeze then crash and I would get some error and some violation crap

[red perch]

been enabled

[umbral narwhal]

not enable

You don't enable -noLogs if you want people to read your logs.

[bronze river]

uncheck the no logs square

[teal lark]

uhh help?

[cold pond]

can someone help me? my arma 3 wont load past after clicking play from launcher at the loading addons spot please help

[steady hawk]

Try vanilla first

[pine kite]

The "some error and some violation crap" contains important information. Make a proper screenshot or write it exactly over.

[quaint jewel]

-cpuCount=8 -exThreads=7 -noLogs
Remove these start parameters.
Then verify your game files in Steam.
Then start the game again, let it crash and send me a new log if it still crashes.

[modern echo]

why people specify those cpu related parameters?

[golden nova]

probably because they find shitty videos on youtube like "how to get MODERN 60+ FPS performance in ArmA III! THIS will BLOW your Mind!" that list these as things that make your game work better.

[bronze river]

get better and faster CPU usually helps (3.2Ghz and above)

[pine kite]

Or their server hosting company preset those parameters. And they are just oblivious to them.

[modern echo]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[somber dock]

hello everyone, i am currently trying to diagnose an issue with AI behavior and i tried to use "AIDriving" diag_enable true; but the black boxes that show up are entirely empty. i have no idea why. can somebody here tell me how to make it useful?

[golden nova]

are you using the dev branch for that??

[somber dock]

oh never mind....... i found out it only works if i am the passenger and a member of the squad........ it refused to work when i am the leader.

[fringe salmon]

Not sure if it goes in here or questions but when loading into a server after selecting my role it says "Recieving data" its been stuck on this for quite a long time, ive restarted arma and all i dont know how to fix it.

[somber dock]

i got this problem back when i was running an Arma 2 server. if i remember right, that happened if there was a syntax mistake in the mission file. are you self-hosting the server or is it remote-hosted?

[fringe salmon]

Remote hosted I believe, im not incharge of the server just playing so if it is I cant do anything about it

I thought it might be a client issue from myself

[somber dock]

if your internet connection is working properly, it is most likely a server problem. are there any other servers you can join?

[fringe salmon]

I will chat with the person in charge of the server, its just a unit training one so it should be alright but il try switch to a different connection before I do that

[somber dock]

do you happen to know the IP address of the server?

( i do not need to know the actual address)

[fringe salmon]

Ive got the direct connect thing if thats what you mean?

[somber dock]

but if you do know the address, you can use the ping command in cmd.exe to see if there is anything odd with the connection towards it. if that is gibberish to you, just let me know and i will explain.

[umbral narwhal]

There's a common A3 server failure mode where every new connection gets stuck on "receiving data", so normally you get someone else to check if they have the same problem.

People already in the server are generally fine.

[fringe salmon]

Oh right, let me just switch to a different wifi and il try it I want to see if its just a connection issue with myself

[somber dock]

if at all possible, using a cable is much better.

[pine kite]

Wifi being unreliable in itself. Better use an ethernet cable connection to the router at your location.

[fringe salmon]

if I could I would love to but im quite far away from the router, not literally im above it but drilling through the floor isnt ideal

[somber dock]

in the past, i was in the same situation as you, unable to get a direct line to the router. i used a DLAN kit. however the things i had were unreliable and every now and then they would refuse to work until i replugged them. maybe there are better ones out there. they provide internet through the power network in the house somehow.

[fringe salmon]

maybe but it all depends on how affordable it is

[bronze river]

get repeater to make the signal closer to you

lan hub can also helps but if you dont want to drill into the wall or floor then ignore this msg

[fringe salmon]

alright il note it down

[fringe salmon]

i asked someone else to try join they had the same issue so il just have a chat with the owner, and il think about something like that

[modern echo]

using the same mods and all that fine?

sure theres no popup about config related stuff not found?

[somber dock]

yes it is probably a server issue. but it could be worth checking this out anyway: https://www.techreviewer.com/learn-about-tech/powerline-adapters/#pros-and-cons-of-powerline

[fringe salmon]

thanks, i will check it out

[fringe salmon]

nope, and he updated mod list yesterday so I doubt he changed it again

[languid merlin]

I was playing the Sahara dlc and the game was running nice and smooth even with mods at a solid 75 fps. Then something started happening after playing for a while. I notice if I hit esc button to pause game or tab out the fps dropped to a unplayable state of 1fps ..What is the world is going on. I have a good Pc too here are my specs.
windows 11
Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700F 2.10 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
3060 rtx graphics card
nvme

[bronze river]

"Then something started happening after playing for a while" is this before you hit esc or after you hit esc?

[languid merlin]

I hit esc to pause game to get a drink and came back hit esc and the game went from 75 fps to 1fps

even happens when im in the editor making a mission

I also saw the fps dip sometimes in game but thought ok thats normal but then it got worse ..Then I would restart the game and get solid 75 fps so not sure if its a memory leak or what

[bronze river]

!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.

[bronze river]

try to post your rpt files here, Dev will check it if there's any anomaly in it

[languid merlin]

UNABLE TO INIT DXGI" i get this error

[umbral narwhal]

You mean when you force-close Arma?

[languid merlin]

so when arma freezes after it drops to 1fps I escape out of game and I get that error

Again when I first installed game it was running flawlessly

[umbral narwhal]

My guess is that you have a very badly behaved mod that's spamming unscheduled code when the game is paused.

[languid merlin]

must be a memory leak

have you heard of mods recently doing that

[umbral narwhal]

No, but then I don't work with singleplayer much.

There was someone else with a similar issue here recently. Not sure if it was resolved.

If it's repeatable then just remove all your mods and test.

[languid merlin]

can sound mods cause this

[umbral narwhal]

Any mod can cause any problem in theory.

Arma doesn't have boundaries.

[languid merlin]

ok

I uninstalled the game cause I was over it but may try again

I would play reforger but I dont think you can make singleplayer missions yet

[bronze river]

even vanilla play can cause memory leaks for no reason

[languid merlin]

I heard someone install arama 3 and put it on 32 bit and ran better then 64

have you heard that before

[umbral narwhal]

64-bit is the one that gets all the testing these days.

32-bit is mostly used by server providers to save pennies on hardware costs.

[bronze river]

try changing your arma 3 build to #perf_prof_branch, you can change it on steam > arma 3 properties, on Beta participation tab i believe

there on that tab that says 'None'

[languid merlin]

I have it on profile

[bronze river]

oh hmmm

then switch back to stable

and see if the problem remains

[languid merlin]

ok

I will reinstall it and try

[pine kite]

Sometimes you need to be creative. Like use existing holes for plumbing in floors and walls. But not everyone is as lucky. I grant you that.

[willow hollow]

Hey guys, i am getting a weird behavior on my A3 server. So... quick brief:
1 - i am running the server on the same machine that i am playing.
2 - playing exile mod with extdb3 conversion.
3 - significant mods that are installed A3XAI and ExileZ mod

the problem:
arma runs smooth for most of the time, no ingame action, or event happens. the server starts EATING all 32 of my cores and tops cpu usage in 100%

Context:
I noted that this mostly happens when i am playing the game too and i alt+tab from the game (happens in other situations too, but this is the one that triggers it the most)

I also noted that i have an option on task manager to "debug" the process that opens visual studio debugger. there not much is shown but on the "output" tab i also noted that arma 3 server is closing threads like crazy, which leads me to believe that it is also opening threads like crazy

I dont believe that it is related to the amount of AI, in the server. but could be related to arma server losing track of the treads allocated to AI (maybe?)

does anyone know this problem and/or have a solution?

this is a print from VS that i spoke about, but at the moment of the print the server was running smoothly. i was not able to print with my CPU topped on usage. but those last messages start being spammed when the bug happens

it translates to "The thread <number> was closed with code 0 (0x0)."

[umbral narwhal]

Creating and destroying threads rapidly isn't anything bad on its own.

I've seen cases before where some AI thread takes an unreasonably long time and you get RPT warnings for it, but I forget what piece of AI that's for.

[willow hollow]

hmmm, but is the only difference that i saw from when the server is running normally. it starts spamming those closed threads... i will try to look for what you said in the rpt

does this ring anything? LOL

[willow hollow]

ok, but now it got the same problem again but without that BE message

[final imp]

Anyone know why it shows that I have 59 gb of storage being taken up from "ArmA 3 workshop content" when I have none subscribed too and nothing in my either of my workshop folders both the "107410" and "!workshop" locations. Also it seems to try to download mods that I have had in the past when I try to verify my game files. If someone could assist me it would be much appreciated 👍 .

[amber night]

literally how

[uncut trellis]

mods make bad configs

[amber night]

so we have no way to play on there?

[uncut trellis]

like this, no

[amber night]

(for those without the DLC)

[uncut trellis]

you would have to get the mod maker to fix whatever the problem is

or the mission itself is somehow made wrong

[amber night]

ok I guess

[amber night]

how is that even possible though?

[uncut trellis]

bad configs that make connections to other configs probably

[amber night]

ah

[uncut trellis]

or use of some assets from GM in the mission maybe

[amber night]

how do I fix that?

[amber night]

I do use them, but I used them on the VR map too and it worked

[uncut trellis]

cant say for sure since cant know exactly what the issue is

and dont know what youve done

[amber night]

nothing really

I just started a scenario

on lythium

[uncut trellis]

removing whatever makes connection to GM would probably be good starting point

or lythium itself could be somehow faulty

[amber night]

and my friend with the compat cannot join it since the game thinks the map is weferlingen

[uncut trellis]

or some other mod you got running

mods cant break anything when done poorly

[amber night]

any way to know which?

[uncut trellis]

test

[amber night]

I have a lot of mods so it'd be faster to just tell my friend to buy the DLC

wait, can I use CDLC modules?

[ocean cosmos]

does your friend actually have lythium installed

[amber night]

yup

[ocean cosmos]

double check

friends can be dumb

[amber night]

he is quite stupid, but he opened the map in the editor

he did throw a flare instead of a flashbang

but whatever

that's besides the point

[ocean cosmos]

then yeah most likely bad mod

[supple sigil]

can confirm, I witnessed the scene

[amber night]

it must be an issue with the scenario for some god unforsaken reason

I cloned the scenario and now it works

for some fucking reason

whatever

thanks

[hot nymph]

I ran into such a problem that when I get into the car, it starts driving forward 5-6 km/h on its own. Help pls. arma 3

[humble pier]

hey, is there any way to reset teams relations with civilians or greenfors in zeus? my team cant get inside a vehicle after shooting independent clan

[bronze river]

tell them to respawn

[humble pier]

impossible during mission right?

[umbral narwhal]

Not sure. It's triggered by rating dropping far enough. I forget whether it resets if you add rating.

Normally we just override rating with an EH.

[mental river]

Check your keybinds and see what influences forward acceleration

Maybe you've bound it to the mouse or something?

Or maybe you have a controller or something that's sending input

Or maybe you have a bad mod installed

[hot nymph]

I didn't think it was because of the joystick, thanks

[modern echo]

it does mean you're still subscribed to mods, double check your subscribed items on steam for the arma 3 game filter.
it will try to download mods during validation cuz yeah, you can see the workshop items list in game properties -> workshop iirc
if you share the steam install with another account then its going to get cluttered by the other account subscriptions, i suggest cleaning the workshop content folder and letting steam rebuild it

[stray gazelle]

@final imp
Launch ArmA3 > From Launcher Go To Mods >"More" drop down buttons in the top-center of your launcher screen > "Unsubscribe All Steam Workshop Mods" > Now you have a fresh No Mod ArmA 3 Enjoy

[modern echo]

or also they could go to their subscribed items from their profile in the steam website and unsubscribe there

[stray gazelle]

yeah but they may play other games where they may have other things subscribed to there Workshop Items
They may also need to go through their workshop Item List to filter out Arma 3 Contents

This way you unsubscribe from everything Arma related and re subscribe to the ones you need if you do

[modern echo]

yeah, you filter it and unsubscribe from all in there, sorry

[final imp]

@modern echo @stray gazelle I got it fixed it was my acf file for ArmA 3 in the steam workshop folder that was manifesting stuff that I wasn't even subscribed to anymore. I just removed the file and it created a new one that is free of all the old workshop items and it seems to be working. Thank yall for the effort though 🙏

[stray gazelle]

No no me and Juesto were having a moment there
we were having a martial disagreement and you had to ruin it wow

:3

[final imp]

😂

[modern echo]

cool, so it was a bug of the badly designed steam client workshop content management

it doesnt clean up after itself unfortunately

[final imp]

yup

[pine kite]

Martial disagreement? With fists and all? Or a marital disagreement, with making-up in the bedroom?

[stray gazelle]

what ever gets you off :3

[modern echo]

lol

[fringe salmon]

Anyone know why arma 3 wont launch? tried downloading every net framework

[umbral narwhal]

what happens if you try to run the Arma launcher directly?

[modern echo]

should launch if you press stop then launch again (it skips the install script on subsequent launches until you restart steam)
.net framework 4.x is not installable on windows 10 and later because the OS already includes .net framework

[uncut trellis]

Try restart steam perhaps.

And give it some time to do the install

[weak aurora]

I keep getting the "Status access violation" crash upon joining any multiplayer server, I've tried with mods, and without, tried the profiling branch, tried changing the memory allocator, setting the specific system memory limit, the CPU count, running in admin mode, 64-bit. I've also fully uninstalled the game including left over game files from steam uninstall, updated drivers, PC specs aren't a problem, so I'm stumped. Its worth stating that the game is not installed on the same drive as my Operating System (my boot drive is not large enough for arma and all its mods plus whats already on it), and thats the only thing I can think of thats causing the problem. If someone can confirm that's a known issue, I'll give it a go moving arma across, but would rather avoid it if its not an issue.

[steady hawk]

!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.

[steady hawk]

Do you have latest rpt?

[weak aurora]

I do, but will generate a new one without mods loaded

[steady hawk]

Please do with vanilla

And post it here

[weak aurora]

Ok so I opted back to the normal branch, and everything is working fine now lol, I've tried it with and without mods

[steady hawk]

It actually could mean your game is anyhow corrupted

Who knows at this point if you can't repro now tho ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[weak aurora]

Even after a clean reinstall?

[quaint jewel]

Can you send me the last .mdmp from the rpt folder

[weak aurora]

It is too large to send in discord any solution or should I just make a google drive download

[quaint jewel]

pack it in a zip, usually makes it small enough

[weak aurora]

I'm hoping it just stays working now lol

[weak aurora]

this was the last .mdmp file, profile branch with mods loaded

[quaint jewel]

Mh interesting.
I wouldn't expect that to be profiling branch related

[weak aurora]

Yeah so looking at the RPT log its complaining about a problem in the mpmissionscache

so actually it might be joining specific servers on a certain map is causing the issue? Just a guess

[quaint jewel]

A broken terrain could be

[weak aurora]

but I'll clear my mpmissioncache folder then see if the problem persists

[quaint jewel]

its crashing trying to find a free position to spawn a vehicle

[weak aurora]

Yeah I'll just clear it, join several different servers and see if the issue persists

Well I'm not crashing anymore

so either it was a faulty mod, or terrain but I seem to be in the clear

Or its just not reproducing itself right now, but I guess for now I'll just be happy it works lol

Thanks everyone for the help

[quaint jewel]

It'll be terrain.
But the crash is quite interesting.
Looking at the code for that, I would expect it to always crash. We're definitely doing something wrong there

[quaint jewel]

Something probably went wrong when loading that terrain or mission.
I'd need to know both to reproduce the issue

[fading pulsar]

Ever found what causes that?
As soon as i add signature to my pbo, it starts doing that, if i upload just pbo with no sig, it updates just fine.

[tender dragon]

It seems steam has broken the mod.
I ended up re-publishing as a new mod and everything works fine but annoying for people who had subscribed. Thankfully, the mod was specific to our unit so not that big a deal, really.

The only thing I didn't try is rolling back to a much earlier version of the mod on the workshop before trying to update. I might try that at some point...

[fading pulsar]

Thanks. Ill try it

[tender dragon]

best of luck!

[meager jolt]

Hey gang, recently opened Arma 3 after not playing for maybe a couple of weeks, and noticed that none of my workshop mods are in the launcher. I've tried unsubbing and resubbing to no effect, as well as verifying file integrity through steam. Really not sure what the issue could be and I haven't found success crawling around Google. Any suggestions?

[civic badge]

anyone here playing on mac?

[steady hawk]

Don't ask to ask just ask.

[mental river]

Are you sure you're using the same account? I once had that happen to me when I changed accounts and Steam deleted my mods, since I hadn't subscribed to them on the other account

Also, go to the game installation folder and open the !Workshop folder (which is hidden) and see if there's anything in it

[pine kite]

(down to the files, don't take folders being present at face value.

[uncut trellis]

There are people who play on mac, but best to ask the actual question for speedier answers.

[meager jolt]

It appears that there's nothing in !Workshop any longer, but attempting to unsub and resub to any of the known workshop mods I used doesn't seem to change that

What's also strange is that in Steam, it will say that I'm subscribed to whatever I'm subscribed to.

One bit of context, idk if this helps at all:

I noticed this after my steam account got hacked by some dork in Novosibirsk. I recovered my account within a day, there didn't appear to be any funny business (I assume they wanted Payment details and I don't save payment info anywhere thankfully).

I've read some people temporarily losing their steam list of games after recovering an account, but not this. Also, it's clearly a localized problem to me, so idk if any of that really changes the calculus for the problem ^

[civic badge]

I have a follow up quesiton

[civic badge]

My apologies

FOR THOSE PLAYING ON MAC - would anyone be willing to help me load mods? I have followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXwcI4ju3A&t=101s as well as the bohemia wiki on the subject. However, My steam and arma folders are for some reason not where they should be according to the file paths in these tutorials...

(it would be awesome if someone wanted to walk through it over team speak)

Any help would be appreciated, just want to get my mod on!

[uncut trellis]

👍

lets hope someone can help you

[modern echo]

that's fine, you adapt the paths to where your arma and steam is actually located in.

[civic badge]

So... I loaded and named all my mods as such -mod=@babe;@m14;@rds2;@dataf; etc etc... (took FOREVER lol)

They show up on launch (see photo 1). I put them in the content folder of steam workshop (photo 2).

The tutorial I posted above says to place them in the arma 3 folder... which I am struggling to find. But I assume since I see them on launch at least I did that part correctly...?

So... Some noob questions... should mods show up/be activated/be useable when I use eden editor or zeus? Would they show up in virtual arsenal? Or are they limited to multiplayer, specific DLC, etc. I assume they wont work in scenarios or campaigns.

Honestly, my primary focus is to get "tier 1" weapons. I would like to have better sights, rifles, etc. more opitons. I would also like to improve performance/graphics/features, but honestly Im gettting pretty solid graphics quality with the M2pro. Its not youtube quality per say but its decent.

If anyone can poke holes in my process or help me find the arma 3 folder where these mods should go to get them to work, ooooor let me know if Im just all wrong... I would appreciate it.

[uncut trellis]

the folder should not matter as long as the path to them is written right

[civic badge]

So... Some noob questions... should mods show up/be activated/be useable when I use eden editor or zeus? Would they show up in virtual arsenal? Or are they limited to multiplayer, specific DLC, etc. I assume they wont work in scenarios or campaigns. ?

[uncut trellis]

depends on the mod but usually the content is made to show up everywhere like zeus and arsenal

[civic badge]

thats what I assumed...

[uncut trellis]

missions etc typically dont like extra mods on top and are best played with what they are designed with

[civic badge]

k

[uncut trellis]

weapon/gear mod might be accessible if a mission has open designed arsenal box so you can choose whatever you have loaded

[umbral narwhal]

Have you definitely installed the video drivers?

Paste an RPT here.

That's clearly not getting that far :P

Remove all this shit: -maxmem=15703 -maxvram=8192 -noLogs -64bit- -noBenchmark

You have a bunch of non-default parameters set.

Remove those and try again, then paste the new RPT.

[pine kite]

Poking holes in your process, I would only try your procedure with 1 mod and check if that works to get it in the game. But judging from the list of mod names (or rather your interpretation of them) some mods don't work the same as others. So you might not see some of them in the arsenal. Or they need to be installed as a combination because of dependencies. Make sure which ones need to be loaded together and do those alone. Once you figured how it works, you can step up your method and try to load multiple mods. Though be aware, you should not load all your subscribed mods at the same time into the game. Some might conflict, others will not be needed for whatever scenario you are playing. And it just wastes memory and CPU load when you load them into the game. Only load what you need for a particular scenario. I don't know how Mac OS works but they probably have some kind of shortcut thing which you can edit to keep those appart for each modset you would like to play with.

The string of icons in the bottom of the main screen suggest you loaded a lot of them. But many should show their own logo. These look like generic default icons which suggests to me the game knows it is supposed to load something, but can't fully extract it or load it. Ideally you would want to look at the RPT log file that the game normally creates in Windows. But I don't know if Mac OS does that too. Linux doesn't either.. It sends the messages to Stdour/Stderr stream which you need to pipe to a file manually.

[mental river]

As the rpt says your GPU is too weak

VRAM is too small (415707956), we need at least 536870912

you can try increasing the VRAM in BIOS settings (if it's supported by your system)
But that only allows you to use the higher settings. Your GPU is still too weak for A3

[civic badge]

Thank you for the thoughtful response. I had also thought (as I have little experience) that having that many mods (I got excited lol) might cause some conflict. I made sure to subscribe to all dependencies for any mod that required them.

To your point, I think thats a good starting point as far as loading specific groups i.e cba or niarms.

The reason they are all listed (@)___ is because of a tutorial I watched that said to rename them in the hard drive workshop file, and load them in the steam launcher.

So if I am reading you correctly, load CBA mods and try that by itself, or load NIarms mods and try those by themselves, or just a single mod to start.

I will most likely list the mods in groups (copy paste on a note pad) so I can quickly load groups as necesary.

Thank you again, Ill update when I can

[civic badge]

What exactly is the RPT file?

this is what a single SCAR mod in CBA looks like for me

for context, you can see here how there are a bunch of folers I renamed that correspond to the mods listed in launcher... and below those are the original file numbers. many of which are blank for some reason... (see second photo)

[dim zinc]

SOMEONE HELP, WHAT THE FUCK DID ACE REMOVE THAT RUINED ALL MY MISSION FILES

[uncut trellis]

you may need to explain a bit more what you have trouble with?

[uncut trellis]

its the games log file it starts writing at startup and it can often contain clues of why things dont work

[dim zinc]

16:41:55 Missing addons detected:
16:41:55 ace_cargo
16:41:55 ace_medical_treatment
16:41:55 Warning Message: You cannot play/edit this mission; it is dependent on downloadable content that has been deleted.
ace_cargo, ace_medical_treatment

I loaded the server on hosthavoc everything is up to date

but i get this error

[uncut trellis]

perhaps the mission needs updating if it is made with older version of ace

[dim zinc]

I literally copied the assets to a new mission file

and remade the whole thing basically

[uncut trellis]

ACE updated very recently I think

[dim zinc]

I KNOW, but no ACE update ever did this

OK fixed, problem was on server host part with their shitty mod updating

[uncut trellis]

👍 Excellent

[pine kite]

Look up the message 10 hours before yours (as an example): #arma3_troubleshooting message

[mint needle]

Anyone know which mod does hand gestures when talking through TFAR?

[civic badge]

Im so sorry, but wha tshould I do with that link?

[modern echo]

try the tfar animations mod i think?

[mint needle]

Its all good I found it 🙂

ty for your help

[pine kite]

That is how a RPT log file looks.

[terse vine]

hey guys I was wondering if I could get some help with a couple of bugs i'm experiencing.
First is that when I play arma 3 multiplayer on my Mac M1, every time at some point within the first 30 minute my whole Mac will shutdown and reboot. Then I'll get a report message saying there was CPU panic.

Second is that I have a Logitech Extreme 3d Joystick, and it isn't getting detected.

Do you guys or any of the devs know any solution to those 2 problems?

[modern echo]

not really, also #linux_mac_branch
maybe send the crash report to apple when it offers you to send it when it starts back up
you might have better luck playing in a pc/windows, is that joystick mac compatible at all?

[quaint jewel]

Question is, why are you manually installing and renaming modfolders? I have never seen anyone and I don't see any sense in doing it.
There shouldn't be any need at all to do that.

You subscribe to a mod in the workshop, and then simply check the checkbox in the launcher. Thats it.
Messing with the workshop content folder like you did will just mess everything up

[civic badge]

Mac does not have the same launcher as PC. when clicking play on steam, it takes you straight to the in game menu. The mods need to be added to the launch options in team. Renaming the folders is just an easier way to keep track

[modern echo]

the better suggestion is to symlink the workshop items named as the mods, in the game folder or in a !workshop folder, the game will detect this just fine, you then manage mods in-game

[bronze river]

try the #linux_mac_branch if you play Arma 3 on Mac

[civic badge]

ok

[modern echo]

the legacy manual method has to be done since mac has no launchers provided

[civic badge]

will do thank you

[quaint jewel]

ouh the pain

Why did noone make a 3rd party launcher on mac yet 😄

Didn't someone make a linux launcher that also worked on mac?

Yeah there it is https://github.com/muttleyxd/arma3-unix-launcher
I don't know, does that not handle mods?

[modern echo]

people are simply not aware of that unfortunately and people forget

[modern echo]

it does handle workshop mods, i think?
i dont think it does the same method as the official launcher does.
could the porting team be asked to port the official launcher? may increase costs but its worth it because users are not very tech-savvy

[umbral narwhal]

Official launcher is buggy enough on one platform tbh.

[quaint jewel]

They already have. But it doesn't have the highest priority afaik

[fresh oracle]

Whenever I ALT-TAB in game my game goes black and won't load is there a fix to this?>

Fixed it by changing to Fullscreen windowed rather than normal fullscreen.

[weak aurora]

On a Linux Server, I've disabled Battleeye, but examining the rpt, its filled with BattleEye RCON Disconnecting... BattleEye Rcon Disconnected Successfully

is this a problem?

[modern echo]

dont think so? do you have rcon enabled or something?

[dreamy turret]

Yo guys, one quick question, is it safe to verify game files when i have 30 plus mods, including ai mods, or will it break mods and cause mods to become abnormal?????

[modern echo]

it will take longer depending on how big the mods are because after the game verification it will verify workshop subscriptions. i doubt something would break from that

[dreamy turret]

thx for answering. Nah, I just overthink that ai mods will break, or certain mods won't work like before

I actually did 2 hours ago and the game seems ok

but still I think some things changed, but then again maybe i was not paying much attention before

[dreamy turret]

And it did not take long, 6 min

[modern echo]

sometimes mods dont update and you have to run a repair in the launcher to force it to update

[modern echo]

thats just the nature, stuff evolves

you might/could be remembering stuff differently

[dreamy turret]

yeah that's what it is i believe, i downloaded a mod and then i deleted it and thought it might have interfered with my other mods so thats why i tried to do verify game files but still the game works fine so most likely its fine

Thanks again

[modern echo]

oh yeah about that, iirc steam doesnt always clear workshop subscriptions data but for arma 3 in the launcher it does get cleared. and mods are only active when you enable them in the launcher

its all separated

thats the point of the mods system in first place

[dreamy turret]

got it, thanks for the clarification, i will try not to worry that i broke my game in some way, but even if i did, will full reinstall work????

[modern echo]

usually reinstalls are a waste of time for most issues

[dreamy turret]

oh ok, alright then, so verifying does not cause issues in arma thats good to know. The reason i was asking is because skyrim and other games tend to break when you are messing with their files

[modern echo]

you'll be fine, dont overthink it

[dreamy turret]

thanks

[modern echo]

yeah, because in that case you're modifying the game files directly instead of having a separate mount folders system where you load standalone stuff

it really depends on each game

some allow you to do modding via user folders instead of the game folder and things like that

[dreamy turret]

yeah it does, thanks again, oh one more thing, do you happen to know where the workshop mods go to? the folder

[modern echo]

Most games are not officially moddable

[modern echo]

for arma 3: steamapps\workshop\107410\content
do not modify the files there as per the launcher warnings, each mod folder name will be numbers that signify the file id (as seen in the url when you visit the respective workshop item) in !workshop, the junctions (which is the windows ntfs way of doing posix/unix symlinks) folder names are the mod names just like you would see when you manually install a mod without using the workshop (legacy method)
its stored in the same library where you installed the game in and it will be shared and therefore bloated if you use different steam logins in the same installation and they have different workshop items. the launcher could get weird especially if you mess with the workshop folder
as far as arma 3 is concerned it'll be fine because the launcher correctly manages the !workshop folder and mods are not automatically loaded by default anyways, its user controllable

[dreamy turret]

damn, thanks for the detailed explanation, appreciate it.

good night and again thanks for the information

[modern echo]

(mixture of general steam workshop information but mainly arma 3 specific info)

[dreamy turret]

well still, thanks

[modern echo]

like it will similarly apply to other games that use workshop but each developer handles that differently

[hollow pelican]

Does anyone know what causes the problem of passengers getting ejected out of a vehicle mid journey?

I see this occasionally. During a previous game night it happened quite a lot though.
It was always the same team that had people ejected from their vic.

In general I have never seen this happen to the driver. This is why I somewhat suspect the drivers Internet connection to blame here.

But I don't understand the mechanism of passengers getting ejected. And I also would like to have your take on these observations (e.g. if they are common among other communities as well).

[quaint jewel]

Usually it is AI
You being a member in a AI group, that is lead by a AI.
And that leader AI tells you to get out of the vehicle, which forces you out.
Usually you would hear their radio messages, but you are probably playing with ACE NoVoice, which hides that stuff

[hollow pelican]

It happened a lot in a human players only TvT mode.
So I can say for sure it wasn't related to AI.

People on ACE Discord #976224730422063214 message said it is also quite common when using the Change Seat function of the vanilla menu.

This appears to be the cause in my case.

[tame latch]

^^ can second this, happens a lot in PvP only event. Always when changing position in the vehicle

[tame latch]

What about make it so player controlled entities don't respond to AI commands?

[quaint jewel]

Booooo

[hollow pelican]

@quaint jewel are you in touch with 3CB guys? They might have some data for you that could be of interest.
Or is perf build of no use here?

[ocean cosmos]

perf build is useless for that

its usually just frame skips that i find causes it

as you get out and back in the vic so just bad timing

[bronze river]

or desync

[slim ridge]

Are there any proven and effective ways to increase the number of fps in the arma 3? anyone?

[bronze river]

lower view range to 500

or less

[pine kite]

This video helped with increasing FPS a bit. But yeah. view ranges at sensible distances helps alot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GktBSZcglFk&t=402s

[golden nova]

this video made my game run significantly worse. Had to undo most of the changes and left only Process Lasso running, although the performance increase is minimal. If you want something effectivfe and proven then get a better CPU and faster RAM

[pine kite]

And the ingame video/graphics did the most. Not the launch parameters in the launcher.

Also, only judge FPS when in singleplayer scenarios. On servers your FPS might depend on the server connection so not anything you can do about.

[worldly mantle]

Anyone know if RHS have a discord? Wondering how i solve the issue around BMP's and infantry dismounting and remounting

[umbral narwhal]

Is that when some of them are riding on the back?

[worldly mantle]

yeah, can't get them to ride into combat without constantly dismounting and then remounting

[umbral narwhal]

I think that's actually a stock Arma AI issue. Usually masked by the cargo group not being able to see the enemy, but you see it quite often with trucks.

[tacit prairie]

Anybody have the ACE discord because I can’t seem to get the mod to work for me

[uncut trellis]

should be at the #channel_invites_list

[oblique egret]

Does anyone know how to change these to lowest graphic?

With like this

My pc would crash if I change graphic setting ingame

[modern echo]

sounds like you have a bigger issue than changing graphics settings, check drivers and hardware and other possible software drivers interfering
try setting it in a different computer where you know it works fine and copy that? or search around maybe you could find like a bis wiki article about the options values

[mental river]

I think it's because their computer doesn't have enough VRAM to do the switching (or the driver is messed up)

[mental river]

Like I said before not all options exist in that file

The rest are in your arma3profile

You can change these for lower quality:

winWidth=1600;
winHeight=900;
winDefWidth=1600;
winDefHeight=903;
fullScreenWidth=1600;
fullScreenHeight=900;
refresh=60;
renderWidth=1600;
renderHeight=900;
multiSampleCount=1;
multiSampleQuality=0;
particlesQuality=1;
GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000;
GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=2;
HDRPrecision=16;
vsync=1;
AToC=0;
cloudsQuality=1;
waterSSReflectionsQuality=0;
pipQuality=0;
dynamicLightsQuality=1;
PPAA=0;
ppSSAO=0;
ppCaustics=0;
tripleBuffering=0;
ppHaze=2;
ppBloom=0;
ppRotBlur=0;
ppRadialBlur=0;
ppDOF=0;
ppSharpen=0;

You also need to change these values in your Arma3Profile:

textureQuality=1;
shadowQuality=2;
anisoFilter=1;
terrainGrid=25;

Also change view distances:

viewDistance=1600;
preferredObjectViewDistance=1000;
pipViewDistance=500;

You can also use shadowQuality=0 instead of 2 to disable shadows

If you still have bad performance, lower the resolution width (all 1600s in the cfg) to 1366 and height (all 900s in the cfg) to 768

[oblique egret]

Thank you, didn't expect you to show up after few months

[oblique egret]

I don't know where is my Arma3Profile

in file?

[mental river]

It's right next to arma3.cfg
ProfileName.Arma3Profile (where ProfileName is your in-game profile name)

[green copper]

So for context, for the past 6-8 months I've been dealing with Arma having this bug with all sniper scopes, every other sights and stuff work perfectly. I've check for possible mod issues, mod clashes, verified files, deleted full and reinstalled EVERYTHING, nothing seems to fix it. This sucks for me because sniping is my love and joy and this is killing my joy.

Any ideas?

[uncut trellis]

then the rpt logs

[bronze river]

just in case create a new ingame profile as yor cuurent profile setting may changed some stuff

[green copper]

love your active game btw lmao

[bronze river]

and if you want to reinstall Arma 3 dont forget to delete the folder first just in case some unwanted leftover files are in it

[umbral narwhal]

Try renaming both the Arma 3 and Arma 3 - other profiles folders in Documents, to force it to reset settings.

[mental river]

It seems to me that you're running the game at very low/low settings?

If that's because you have a weak gpu, particularly Intel ones, having graphics bugs is not that unexpected

[errant torrent]

What do I do

[uncut trellis]

first make sure you have most up to date ace

if that does not fix it then you have some mod that is broken and you need to disable it

[modern echo]

the only profile in the arma 3 folder in my documents where arma3.cfg is located is the computer username profile, different named profiles go to arma 3 - other profiles folder in my documents @oblique egret

[errant torrent]

okay i got it fixed

also how do i make it where a vehicle doesn't take any damage when being paradrop from a cargo plane

[thin warren]

I need some help, i am trying to found what is conflicting S&S RHS and even Spearhead textures that causes this look for example:

How do i found out the conflicting textures?

[steady beacon]

Hello, I want to create my own asset setting (for example Gryphon with gray paint and its own pylons) and add it to an Arma 3 Warlords asset list (where you can then buy the vehicle in paint and pylon) but I can't find ANYTHING! Find out how to do it somewhere on the internet.

Who on this server knows WARLORDS scripting and creation best? Please ping once. need this for my Zombie Warlords.

[steady beacon]

i need a cfg code from the Gryphon in Grey Camo and (its possible custom pylon setting)

[civic badge]

this is basically keeping me from doing anything in editor or virtual arsenal... can someone help? I have every ace item and compat I need... I think

[bronze river]

update your ACE mod

by clicking repair on the launcher

[civic badge]

Im on Mac, using the unix launcher, unfortunately doesnt have that function

[bronze river]

you cant try unsub and resub it will download the latest update

[civic badge]

remove and reinstall?

yea

[bronze river]

that

[civic badge]

https://tenor.com/view/tommy-boy-chris-farley-bridge-abutment-crazy-hair-hair-sticking-up-gif-26568529

me

[thin warren]

I'm guessing this is not a known issue.

[uncut trellis]

Ulikely but you got lots of mods there

things can happen

[thin warren]

Right, i wonder if there is a way to find out which mods conflict each other.

Do you know any good methods?

[uncut trellis]

test one by one

[thin warren]

Gonna have a long time, 335 mods XD

[steady hawk]

Or half by half

[pine kite]

Well, that is still going to take 9 tries to narrow it down to 1. But there is no other way.

[karmic kestrel]

i dont know why but when i play arma with my friends my FPS drops bad. like 30 or 20. i used to have no less than 90 fps. the more friends join the lower it goes. out of the 5 friends im playing with only 1 has a better PC than me. someone please help. it is getting unplayable. im also the host

[umbral narwhal]

If it's a PvE mission then the host suffers.

Best to run a dedicated server, even if it's on the same PC.

[worldly mantle]

i dont have the issues with CUP vehicles

[umbral narwhal]

Maybe they can't see out with CUP, even though they appear to be sitting in the open.

[mental river]

Either it's because of what John said, or you're playing a badly made mission that duplicates stuff per client join

[karmic kestrel]

so im playing antistasi ultimate. all my friends are fine on fps. the frames lower everytime someone joins

[spring imp]

Maybe im stupid but how do I fix outdated PBO's for ACE

[pine kite]

In the launcher go to the mods page and click on the mod to unfold to the information about it. Then click on the 3 dots on the right side, and choose repair.

But make sure it is the actual ACE mod you are having issues with, and not some re-upload of the mod.

Otherwise an unsubscribe with turned off game and launcher should work to remove it, and then a resubscribe in Steam and starting the launcher to re-download it.

[spring imp]

Well thats the issue.

How the hell do i know which mod is causing the issue

[pine kite]

What have you got enabled in the launcher?

[spring imp]

How do I find that out-

[pine kite]

Or which mods does the server you want to try to join require?

[spring imp]

not joining a server, Making photos for a group

[pine kite]

Open the launcher and check the mods tab list.

[spring imp]

PC's being slow give me a sec

[pine kite]

If the Ace mod is not uploaded by the acemod team then it is probably outdated.

[umbral narwhal]

Those are mostly obsolete compat mods.

[pine kite]

And if you use mods that secretly have other mods inside it that are reuploaded, then that is another reason.

[umbral narwhal]

ACE used to need additional compatibility mods for RHS/CUP/whatever. Now it doesn't and you shouldn't load those mods.

[pine kite]

Oh right, I'm blind looking at that screenshot. Shows compat all over the place.

[spring imp]

I'd have no clue, Im just using the mod pack they gave me, but the ace mods are whats causing the issue so I removed everything else

[umbral narwhal]

Is it actually a mod list or a mod pack?

[pine kite]

Well, then send that back to your friends. Let them make a working mod list first.

[spring imp]

Uh i'd say list than mod pack

[umbral narwhal]

Then go through it in the launcher and untick everything that says "ACE compat".

[spring imp]

I did that, still got the issue

so Idk what it is

[umbral narwhal]

You probably have an old mod pack in there as well then.

Maybe start from scratch.

Add ACE and CBA. Then add whatever map mod you need & dependencies. Then whatever faction mods.

[spring imp]

Thats gonna be a pain but atp I probably have to

[pine kite]

Make sure they don't want you to use modpacks. Meaning mods wich are really a collection of re-uploaded other mods. With the misserable excuse that it is contained and simplifies downloading. ... Well, until this happens and mods get updated and the ones that are inside such modpacks get outdated.

[spring imp]

I'm just guessing somthing got updated, Cause it worked fine like 2 months ago when they had me make pictures for them the first time, now shit broken 🤣

not even 2 months ago now that Im looking, only 24 days

[pine kite]

Yes, ACE on the 15th of this month

Well, let your friends sort out this mess first then.

[spring imp]

👌

[mental river]

Maybe your ping is too high? (I'm not 100% sure if it directly affects FPS but I once had something similar happen to me and I had a terrible ping, like 300+)
Or maybe your PC is too weak?
Hard to say what it is exactly

[tawny plinth]

Hi guys. Tried to use the search option to find answers with not much results.
I have a SteamDeck OLED with Windows installed on it and i want to play Arma SP but when i start it it crashes with 0xC0000005. Tried different malloc and all i can think about it wont start. Is there a way to make it work? (installing SteamOS back is not an option now because i need the Windows op)

[steady hawk]

Firstly have you tried in vanilla?

[golden nova]

Steamdeck probably does not have sufficient power to run a Windows-version game. SteamOS is Linux and in there it works. If you cannot change from WIn to SteamOS then you won't play Arma 3 on the console.

might be a GPU issue. Seen this back in 2022. Arma 3 does not support Steam Deck and the fact it works on SteamOS is only because it "somehow" runs.

[tawny plinth]

insert Todd Howard it just works meme

Well kinda sad because it runs good on SteamOS and i wanted to play some while im away from my main PC but then no arma for me for 4 more months😅😭

[golden nova]

why not just stay on SteamOS then?

it should support mods, or you can install Linux with Proton to have almost all the stuff Windows version has.

[frail vine]

Arma is swapping the throttle of my game (throttle up is being detected as throttle down, and vice versa.) Any fixes?

[open marlin]

Help please, I can run arma via .exe and everything is fine, but there are no mods. The problem is that the launcher does not start.

[uncut trellis]

Try verify your game files on steam

[noble valley]

Anyone know how to fix this error with arma 3 atlas (mod) during launch?

It appears and when you press OK, it crashes.

[modern echo]

try repairing the mod in the launcher, otherwise seek the mod support channels such as workshop item's comments/discussions/forums

[noble valley]

I did that but it didnt work

same goes for reinstalling the mod

[golden nova]

are you loading with just that mod? Do you have it's dependencies loaded too?

Atlas requires Aegis and CBA, and Western Sahara CDLC (owned or compat data loaded).

[noble valley]

yup i do

[golden nova]

then repair said mods or the game itself

and make sure you don't have any custom launcher parameters enabled just for sanity sake

[fringe salmon]

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[modern echo]

try lowering the texture quality setting and restarting? how's your vram usage?

[placid cipher]

More Battleye issues...... Server doesint allow players in, error "Battleye initialization failed"

[fringe salmon]

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[fringe salmon]

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[modern echo]

how many gb of vram

also amd or nvidia?

[fringe salmon]

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[modern echo]

which gpu? maybe a drivers issue? try setting texture quality to max in nvcp

[uncut trellis]

Does it happen without mods?

[fringe salmon]

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[golden nova]

if you have any custom launcher parameters then get rid of them.

[fringe salmon]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[ember shale]

I installed the game and it idn't working

[steady hawk]

Okay, check the pinned

You're here to troubleshoot and if you want to solve, you need to tell us more info

[ember shale]

When I enter the game and hit play, It gives me an error message that says, "The code execution cannot proceed because was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this program."

[steady hawk]

Reinstall Direct X 11 and Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013

[ember shale]

how do i do that

[steady hawk]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17431
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

[modern echo]

after validating arma 3 it should trigger the installation on next launch too. installing steamworks common redistributables is good and also people can find the redists needed in a folder called _redist or similar in the game folder if steamworks common redistributables is not installed

[modern echo]

the first one is wrong, its a paper not the directx web installer. directx 9 optional components is the only thing that is missing from windows, the rest is all included

[steady hawk]

Ah you're true

[modern echo]

right*

[steady hawk]

I'm left then

[modern echo]

very funny

[steady hawk]

Even though, the one who needs help is no longer here

[modern echo]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

well there you go for next time

[steady hawk]

...Still, Arma 3 tells a program that is named “” is missing, is kinda lame

It's simply confusing

[quaint jewel]

Arma 3 doesn't.
Windows does.
It worked with windows 7/8, microsoft just broke it

[steady hawk]

Then fix it

[bronze river]

where is that Dedmen Fix! sticker

[pine kite]

Lefties are always right. 😉

[modern echo]

apparently the "hidden password" mod causes arma 3 to hang when you click in server browser

[steady hawk]

Report back if you have confirmed repro step including minimum amount Mods you use, otherwise I won't know what I can do

[ocean cosmos]

for some reason i never realised that was a polpox mod

[golden nova]

the grey eminence

[modern echo]

try, i dont know, your usual set of mods, cba, ace, rhs, thing is, i dont have any other mod that modifies the server browser like hidden password does

[steady hawk]

I will "try" but I won't perform my patience if I can't repro on vanilla + Hidden Password, then

[steady hawk]

I did try, and I couldn't, so I won't make any change

[modern echo]

:|

[pine kite]

Can't say that happened to me much. I often have that mod enabled. But I use Fullscreen Windowed instead of the default Fullscreen display option.

Oops, sorry. Thought Juesto met a normal webbrowser. (#needmorecoffee)

[steady hawk]

Seriously your report tells me nothing and why do you think I can do anything with it

[sour jay]

Is there a way to hide hints like these?

[steady hawk]

It is called Action Menu and there is a script command for it: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/showHUD

[sour jay]

So would "menu" be the one im looking for?

I already have my mission difficulty saved for most of those, purely looking for a middle screen hints like open & close door etc.

[modern echo]

okay, i guess ill look at rpt when it hangs :/
it doesn't produce any dump either
something related to a script activating and might just be my computer and modset combination

[pine kite]

No, those would be the high command unit selection part of the user interface (at least that is how I interpret that, never scripted myself) I think you need to set the first boolean parameter scriptedHUD.

[forest cosmos]

Is the error code 15 caused by the arma tools or workshop itself?

[polar mason]

Recently within the past week I have been having constant crashing. I was able to play up til recently.

So I start up the game, Running administrator for both Reforger and Battle-eye service, priorities in task manager are set to High. No changes to affinity. Game hit the main screen no problem, going thru the menus no problem, loading servers all in good time. The problem comes when I load into my groups server, I get into the map screen no problem, select my group and what you need to spawn in. Once the game starts to load the world, I get complete hang-up, sometimes to the point the game is stuck not responding. I load a few frames and textures…freeze..and repeats. When I do load in boom GPU Hang error after everything loads in. I wondered if it was the driver so I rolled back one version because the timeline seems possibly coincidental. I noticed GPU hang hasn’t shown up but I get Stalling or Flooded replication errors. It is at a point now where it is unplayable. I cannot even play more than 5 minutes.

For arma reforger btw

[pine kite]

Then you should post that in #reforger_troubleshooting. This place is for Arma 3

@polar mason

[gentle acorn]

G'day, for the past month or so I've been randomly dying or flashbanged whilst in zeus, i can be on the server for 1-2 hours or just 5-10 minutes before i start randomly dying or getting flashbanged. Reading my RPT log there are no events that happen at the same time as i die/get flashbanged. Im running mods but my zeus team who run the exact same mods do not have this issue either. Im at a loss and its really frustrating. Can send clips from stream of it happening to me if need be

[pine kite]

Are you getting flashbanged? Or is Zeus striking you with lightning bolts?

also, when you are in Zeus mode, your player character is still there out in the open vulnerable to enemy (or friendly fire) action.

[bronze river]

if you can provide a vide or pic when you get flashed it will narrows down what kind of issue we are facing

[gentle acorn]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2161711970
Genuine audio warning as it is VERY loud

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2161714560
randomly dying, you can see my corpse and the only damage to it is cyanosis to my arms
addtionally someone has seen me in zeus at spawn just randomly explode then respawn with the same injuries to my corpse

[bronze river]

is this on public server or private?

[gentle acorn]

Private server for my milsim community

[plush harness]

hello everyone

I could use some help with setting up arma port forwarding on my spectrum router

if anyone knows how to help please contace me

contact*

[uncut trellis]

Router manuals typically have guides on have to do that

portforward.com also has good resources, sometimes even direct guide on specific routers

[plush harness]

that could be helpful

thank you

[uncut trellis]

they do advertise their own utility quite a lot but you can ignore that

spectrum seems to be listed

!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”

[uncut trellis]

heres also info on what ports are needed

[brave dome]

Hello, up until just now our server was running fine, but since following the linked video to allow drones to work beyond 800m all we're met with is this screen, followed by a disconnect, does anyone know what's going on? The first time booting the server like this it also spat this out several times in a row, if that helps
"1:03:35 User Phteven98 [NYEH] (76561198074168767) tried to remoteExec a disabled function"
and looking through it also pinged that on my friend/other server admin when they joined
It's an arma Exile server if that helps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhO_eKdKBVw

[steep wraith]

Sorry yall i'm not sure where to put this but i'm having issues with the bot on not letting me post a /community i did post yesterday and i deleted as i needed to work on it a little more so is there anyway to fix this or do i have to wait?

[fleet fjord]

Hey! With Random Infantry Skirmish why are certain vehicles left out from the shop? Like is this intentional or a bug as with the USAF mod for example the F-35 is implemented fine but the F-22 is no where to be seen. Also with the GCAM mod how do I make it follow munition dropped from my own aircraft I can't figure this out.

[golden nova]

if you deleted the post then you need to wait 14 days as everyone else

[supple sigil]

my friend and I are trying antistasi plus on chernarus 2020, but when we open the arsenal we cannot get any weapons, vests or really anything for that matter. my friend (who organized the modset) says he didn't put any mods that are not recommended, we're only using RHS mods. any tips on how to possibly fix this?

he says we're also using arsenal extended from polpox

[amber night]

(I'm the friend)

[uncut trellis]

did you check antistasi documentation if arsenal is restricted by mission progress/resources/rank or something else like that

[amber night]

yes and I doubt that the beginner kit is limited

here's the preset btw

fixed it, antistasi plus is broken

just use ultimate

[umbral narwhal]

That arsenal extended mod is incompatible with the arsenal though. You should remove it.

I forget what issues that causes. Something like when you leave the arsenal you don't actually get the weapons.

[amber night]

precisely

[modern echo]

basically, don't use arsenal mods that are incompatible with jeroen not so simple arsenal

[modern echo]

ok weird, now hidden passwords works fine @steady hawk i guess its just my specific hardware situation

[topaz bone]

In the last few days, I play arma for between 5 and 30 minutes, then the game crashes. This can be Prairie Fire or any other DLC. Nothing has changed recently on my end. I am using the exact same small set of mods I've been using for months. I repaired all the mods just for grins, and still have the problem. Any suggestions? Do I need to re-install ARMA?

[umbral narwhal]

More likely hardware reliability issues.

Well, that's usually what causes data corruption anyway, so the two points are not mutually exclusive.

[topaz bone]

I verified installed files via steam option, that came out clean. Does that rule out reinstalling arma?

[fringe salmon]

eh help maybe. arma 3 steam version. all loadout saves dissapear and I cant create new one. how to fix

[pine kite]

Sounds like a corrupted profile. Shut down the game. Rename your profile files to something else. (in 'Documents\Arma 3' or 'Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\aFolderNamedLikeTheProfile') Then restart the game and it should create a brand new one. Loadout saves are inside the .vars.arma3profile fil. Consider those lost.

[brisk perch]

Does anyone know if there has been any kind of update today? Seems something was updating when I opened Arma, and certain mods cause conflicts like ACRE

I can't remember what was updated, but some dependencies .dll

something about Steamworks

[pine kite]

Public branch of Arma 3 hasn't been changed since May 29th. So It was probably a mod update. Or perhaps you use the profiling branch that got an update yesterday. https://steamdb.info/app/107410/history/

[brisk perch]

nop, it was in the public branch

simply not announced apparently

[pine kite]

That says it is NOT-public. The development branches probably.

[brisk perch]

well, it updated something haha

and I'm in the public one

[pine kite]

Definitely development branches according to the time stamps.

Sure, but mods are more likely.

[brisk perch]

what was odd it was that it showed the Steamworks logo

and I can't recall it ever showing that before

or for a long while

[pine kite]

Whatever you think it is, the build IDs match with what is shown in the link I posted. So unless you are on the development branch it wasn't the game itself.

[brisk perch]

yeah, I'm trying to research what could it have been 😄

none of my mods has been updated

and I recall clearly the steamworks logo (I did not pay attention to what it said during the update besides that, as it feel weird)

[pine kite]

I have never seen anything other than steamworks logo when arma 3 content updates.

[brisk perch]

It usually has a download bar

like a download progress bar

but this time it did not, simply a big logo of Steamworks

Now I'm curious

A mate of mine just had the same update and took this screen

so it seems it has to be something about Steamworks Common Redistributables

[nova elm]

https://steamdb.info/app/228980/history/
It's indeed the Common Redistributables

[pine kite]

So, it's steam that updated itself. Not Arma.

[brisk perch]

Seems like that.

[modern echo]

its recommended to have steamworks common redistributables always installed especially if you have a lot of games because otherwise you have duplicate of the redists that each game require, which are pretty common, scattered through all your games via the redist folder

not having that installed triggers those mysterious game updates whenever it gets updates

[brisk perch]

Good tip. Much appreciated

[midnight seal]

I'm playing the tank campaign mission 'Salient Force'. My AI gunner shoots at infantry with the minigun when i tell him to, but he never uses his canon against vehicles. Any idea how to make him use his canon?

[bronze river]

LCtrl + Left click to force fire (make sure main cannon is selected)

[next creek]

guys i need help i don't know whats going on with my arma 3 this past 2 weeks i beign rubber banding players and ai and vics are jumping around its really hard to play in my groups ops it happend before 2 months ago now its back again i dont nkow why

[hollow swan]

why cant i open reshade? It used to work fine a couple months ago but then when i reinstalled the game it stopped opening. I even reinstalled it again but it still isnt working, could someone help me out?

[hollow swan]

reshade only works when i run the game as administrator (manually) but then i dont have any mods can anyone please help me out

[bronze river]

high latency to the server, high ping, basically if you have ping over 300ms you will have a bad time with desync

[errant cargo]

Any help pls?

17:41:30 Initializing stats manager.
17:41:30 sessionID: a0edf530eb919f996b11e9733165f00c6f25beb0
17:41:54 File read error: addons\ui_f.pbo,1b1: Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.

17:41:54   File read recovery from error 1b1 has failed with error 1b1: Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.

17:41:54 Error 1b1 reading file 'addons\ui_f.pbo'
17:41:54 File read error: addons\structures_f_epb.pbo,1b1: Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.

17:41:54 ErrorMessage: (0x000001B1) Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.
17:41:54 Application terminated intentionally
17:41:54   File read recovery from error 1b1 has failed with error 1b1: Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.

ErrorMessage: (0x000001B1) Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.
17:41:54 File read error: addons\structures_f_wrecks.pbo,1b1: Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.

17:41:54   File read recovery from error 1b1 has failed with error 1b1: Se ha especificado un dispositivo que no existe.