#arma3_troubleshooting

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quartz berry
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This?

rustic eagleBOT
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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”

heavy kettle
# quartz berry This?

i have changed all the settings to match the requirements and yet it always says port forwarding failed

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its either im dumb and not realize something or is it just not possible

pine kite
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Don't use the UPnP checkmark in the game and portforwarding settings in the router at the same time.

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If your wifi router shuts down I suspect you are setting something incorrectly. Please show screenshots of what you have done.

glass marten
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Hello, wanted to buy Arma 3 Ultimate Edition for a friend of mine but the option is greyed out?

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Not so sure where to post this

pine kite
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I think you should address this to Steam support. I guess you can't buy and gift a bundle to someone else.

pine kite
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Anyway, I don't think any of Bohemia Interactive have any influence on that.

glass marten
granite grotto
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Any idea with mod could case / or what circles on vehicles?

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umbral narwhal
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That's the noob mode visibility difficulty setting.

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Called "Vision Aid" in the UI.

granite grotto
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Thanks - was messing with the settings while ago, thought it was a mod though.

vivid lion
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Hi i have the same error, what is the solution of it ?

waxen sail
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which error?

uncut trellis
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please pay attention to the right channels in the future

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also if you post in wrong place you can delete the message

raw crane
waxen sail
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That's Reforger, this is Arma 3 troubleshooting
Also you need to either restart your game or fix battleye if you already have

raw crane
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ok thanks

vivid lion
# waxen sail which error?

It's about a crash for all client when trying to connect to the server

Rpt server side : nothing
Rpt client side : error which some pbo

But all client has the same error

It's says :
File read error: C\Programmes Files (x86)\\steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\expansion\addons\vegetation_f_exp.pbo.a3.bisign,ERROR_NOACCESS,File read error: addons\signs_f.pbo,ERROR_NOACCESSstate RESERVE, protect, type

It's not the same pbo for all

heavy kettle
heavy kettle
pine kite
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It is one or the other. Not both. If you set the port forwarding in the router correctly, then you don't need to set the UPnP checkmark in the game.

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But since UPnP is often disabled in routers you might as well set up portforwarding manually to begin with.

heavy kettle
pine kite
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You can have both setup/enabled in the router. But if the last screenshot is set up, you should not use the UPnP checkmark in game.

I do not recommend allowing UPnP in the router. Since UPnP is considered unsafe, you risk unfriendly applications from creating backdoors through your router. Manual portforwarding gives you a stop at which application may receive unrequested datapackets.

heavy kettle
pine kite
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I think I have said the same twice now.

heavy kettle
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alright2 thanks

full jay
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as far as I remember, it was a hacker

vivid lion
amber night
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I am trying to use unitcapture, however whenever I attempt to use any of the keybinds associated to it (F1 to copy or ESC to terminate recording, for example) it does not take my input. Any clue why?

amber night
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I am stuck on this screen

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and if I press F1 the command menu pops up

solemn cedar
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Hello i summon an old ticket made in the past by an other player but there is an small issue with ZEUS killfeed

  • When a player is killed by an AI controled by Zeus it show the name of the Zeus

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T126731

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i remember in past when you do the exact same thing it was show as player was killed by AI GEORGE for example

patent summit
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Is there a way to navigate discord like you would the forums? To me Its like chaos on here.

steady hawk
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Ctrl+F is a thing

patent summit
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nice thanks.

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Still prefer forums. lol I'm getting old new things are not so easy anymore. lol

solemn cedar
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2 missions with the same zeus but one of them is showing as allied frag

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glacial ermine
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Guys, does anyone know how to fix this issue? I am unable to launch Arma. It states "Failed to install BattlEye Service (4, 50000570)

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uncut trellis
analog trail
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Would anyone happen to know why on my dedicated server, I can heal people/rearm vehicles in Zeus using Zeus Enhanced (I think?) but my friend also using Zeus cannot? I'm typically logged in as admin but he can't do it even with admin

shut lynx
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anyone experienced this error ? Server error: Player without identity

quartz berry
shut lynx
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@quartz berry hosted a server locally and happends for me and my friends so nothing works because of thay error

quartz berry
fervent sparrow
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Hey fellas, i'm having issues on our groups dedicated server with vehicles exploding once we get between 5-6 people in the vehicle, and we attempt to move. We are on the Altis map, and it seems to occur with essentially any vehicles we use at random. The vehicles are parked on the apron outside of the main airport on Altis, and are not anywhere near any type of hidden terrain object etc. We had fixed the issue once by disabling Advanced Vehicle Damage through ACE, but the issue seems to have resurfaced, even though that setting is disabled. Anyone ever had these issues before, and if so, how did you solve it? Thanks guys.

quartz berry
fervent sparrow
quartz berry
fervent sparrow
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We have Advanced Vehicle Damage turned off, if Advanced Car Damage is a separate setting, do you know where its located off hand?

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Aight, standby, ill DM it to you

quartz berry
fervent sparrow
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I'm fairly certain we have Car Damage disabled then, I believe I turned both options off in that section of ACE. Ill verify that here in a few, working on a Campaign mission for the boys ATM. I can disable Towing/Sling Loading and see if it persists. Not sure why that would effect it, but who knows with A3.

tiny storm
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yo, keybind question, havent played in forever, setting up my stuff again and runing into the issue that while pressing "shift" which is my temp walk and hold breath bind and the same time pressing "num -"(standard just on mw left) it does not out zoom out and character stops moving until it gets any new input like lean for example but everything works fine on zoom in (num +), been testing and had every other shift and num- bind deleted. any ideas ? maybe some hard bind ? ty

quartz berry
tiny storm
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yea nope, that much i know, like i said i did deleted every single other bind for shift and num- just to test, just rechecked with only temp walk on shift, just weird that it works on num+ but nvm, gonna blind something else to zoom out

bright tusk
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Hello. Im currently having my first problem with arma 3 after 2K hours and its a quite weird one. I reinstalled arma 3 when this problem occured and it has not been resolved at all and stays. When i start modded arma 3 my CPU immedietly skyrockets to 100% and im stuck on "Arma 3" loading screen for about 30 minutes before the game closes and not even report shows.

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Also for me is very late at night so when you reply i may not be online at the time.

pseudo island
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!rpt

rustic eagleBOT
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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://pastebin.com/ (Set expiry time to 1 week or less) 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.

quartz berry
bright tusk
high salmon
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In all 3 rpts included, it fails at creating action map cache
The modlist is pretty large, which definitely causes slow loading

bright tusk
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yea it usually loads in like 5 minutes

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i never had any problem prior to today

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idk if this is what joe send before

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just to be sure

high salmon
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Three earlier ones were included in the zip
The basic.rpt , which I assume to be one of the crashes had STATUS_APPLICATION_HANG as cause
Usually from it hanging, don't remember if that also happens when you kill arma with task manager

I don't know if the animDataCache could cause issues when starting

Does Arma start without mods?

bright tusk
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yea it does

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should i send you datacache ?

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animdatacache too ?

high salmon
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It probably won't help
Best guess is one of the caches is corrupted, or that modlist doesn't work together or includes a broken mod

You could try deleting the cache files, and Arma should regenerate them afterwards

bright tusk
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i reinstalled the whole game like hour ago

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do i still need to do it ?

high salmon
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I don't know if reinstalling would have cleared the caches in appdata and/or documents

bright tusk
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alright. Just give me like 20 minutes and ill try it

high salmon
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%localappdata%\Arma 3\ contains all the caches, as far as I can tell

bright tusk
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thanks you

high salmon
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You might want to move them, rather than just delete, just in case it causes other issues
I know animDataCache is fine to delete, not entirely certain about the others

bright tusk
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CPU skyrockets to 100% and im stuck in loading screen

high salmon
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Hmm, sounds almost like this #dev_rc_branch message
You could try reducing the number of cores, and changing some of the launch settings

bright tusk
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so when i have 12 cores should i put it on 6 ?

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or something like that

high salmon
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You could do that, but setting it to 11 should be enough if it's that bug

bright tusk
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alr trying it rn

bright tusk
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thank you so much

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love you

high salmon
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It looks a lot like the bug people were dealing with earlier today on perf-prof
I wouldn't have ever encountered it, since I have mine core limited to allow Opentrack to run nicely

bright tusk
shut lynx
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When i pick role and after i load in i get a black screen, but cant figure out whats wrong, ill leave log files here https://logpaste.com/Tg0oLHmC

waxen sail
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That RPT is about half full of just script errors, you should fix those and see if you get past whatever script is causing the black screen

regal acorn
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Can someone plz help, me and my friend used to play arma 3 a couple years ago and now I cant the in game server hosting to work at all. UPNP doesn't work, I've set up port forwarding and everything. I'm really tech savvy when it come to networking and pc's. I just need a solution lol

umbral narwhal
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Are you sure you're not on CGNAT?

quaint jewel
# bright tusk Hello. Im currently having my first problem with arma 3 after 2K hours and its a...

I see you are setting quite some command line parameters
-skipIntro -noSplash -cpuCount=12 -exThreads=7 -enableHT -malloc=system -nosplash -skipIntro -enableHT -noPause
-enableHT combined with -cpuCount doesn't make sense, its either one or the other, not both.
You are setting several parameters multiple times.
Your setting exThreads does nothing.

Does your CPU actually have 12 cores? If yes, then you don't need cpuCount to tell the game that. If it has less than 12, that could be your problem

quaint jewel
bright tusk
quaint jewel
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When the game is frozen, you can go to task manager's details panel, right click the game and create a memory/process dump. If you send me that, I can see what it was doing when it was frozen, with that I could probably fix it.

bright tusk
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It got fixed, it was the count of cpu cores for some reason even though it worked perfectly before but thanks for your take on this.

quaint jewel
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Many (well a handful) others have issues with this and would like to get a fix too.
And I cannot reproduce that issue myself to see what the problem is

bright tusk
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Ooh got it. I just woke up so I'm still not thinking properly BocchiBwaa

quaint jewel
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Also wondering if its really frozen, or just ultra slow.
You generally can see on the memory usage in task manager, if a process is really frozen.
If memory usage keeps slowly rising, then its still doing something

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I tested telling the game I have 31 cpu cores, but only giving it 8.
It loads alot slower, and at the anim cache loading, it's pinned to full cpu usage and frozen (memory usage doesn't move)

So again the question, how many cpu cores do you actually have?

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Did the game somehow get less than 12, despite you telling it that it had 12 to use?

bright tusk
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I have 6 cores but in some YouTube tutorial years ago he said to put twice as much BocchiTrash so it worked till today. The loading was probably just very slow

quaint jewel
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💀

bright tusk
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It is really stupid but I mean it worked till today KEKW but I guess it worked on prayers and miracles

quaint jewel
spare urchin
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Hi, anyone can help me with this kind of „bug” on AFM? If heli landing on some object, it just pulls him underground? I cant explain, i will throw link with video

https://youtu.be/sNZDHL2ICC4?si=Vqr8uVcdKFBJXrNu

Is there any mod or script that fixes this?

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cygan25
Touchdown MELB mod bug report

This video shows diffrienses between Basic Flight Model and Advanced Flight Model when you we try touchdown on some objects (defult used )in Arma3.
Bug is when we use AFM. After touching Down - even most gentle make it crash. Same things not happen when switch to BFM .
For those who use Advanced FM this bug is very uncomfortable becouse make...

▶ Play video
pine kite
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I think the answer is "Why are you trying to land there?" Clearly those are not proper landing supports.

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Even if the basic allows you to.

spare urchin
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These are just examples. You ever heard of one point helicopter landing? if i do this in Arma on AFM, there is a high probability that I will explode xd

pine kite
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In that video are you hovering? Or doing collective down to actually land?

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In that photo I am pretty sure they are hovering.

pseudo island
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~~It seems it has more to do with those objects having simulation enabled and being moved/knocked over by the helicopter and you then phasing into them while they move. ~~
nvm without simulation you still "fall" into the object and go kaboom

spare urchin
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Regsrdless the problem with hover is the same

pine kite
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Seems like if you hover above the place you want to put your troops down you don't crash into it. They would jump ontop of it when they get out.

spare urchin
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If*

chrome current
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Depends where/how many afm hull/gear contact points are. If there are only 2 per skid at the ends then you can't use the only middle part.

rustic bear
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Any updates?
Battleye kicks it out, from launcher
(Have you updated mimalloc?)

shut lynx
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i made myself admin on my server in the database but i cant figure out where i can get the admin menu any idea?

pseudo island
shut lynx
pseudo island
shut lynx
wind dock
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Trying to figure out why text chat on dedicated server isn't working consistently. I can't seem to figure out an exact pattern. Most of the time it seems like it works after launching the game, then after playing a mission and going back to the lobby (or just quitting back to the lobby) the text chat stops working.

quaint jewel
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There is some hackery in engine.
Chat used to be off in the connecting loading screen , but we needed to turn it on.
I think since then its a bit messy

wind dock
quaint jewel
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So we can show chat messages to players during that

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players may be "stuck" in connecting screen, if the server tells them to wait. We want to inform the player that that's happening, so they don't think they're stuck

wind dock
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I see. That makes sense. Will there be chat fixes in the 2.20 update? And on that note, where can I find the current potential changes for that?

sick frost
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Hello guys, I need help, anyone knows how to fix Zeus missing some modded factions like RHS or Cup ones? I've been searching for like a week and I can't seem to find an answer. I appreciate the help guys.

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I'm using SSPCM to use Zeus btw, I'm trying to use it on existing scenarios like Hunter Six for roleplaying purposes

quaint jewel
vestal sundial
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I recently started getting serious visual artefacts (?) in game: stuttering, flickering and the such. I can't really describe it but I could screen share my game. Could anyone help me? CPU and GPU are both from AMD

steady hawk
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Post screenshots

vestal sundial
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due to the nature of these artifacts, a screenshot wouldn't be able to capture them

steady hawk
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You still need to

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If you can't, video

vestal sundial
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can I share a video here?

steady hawk
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Yes

vestal sundial
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No idea how to use OBS properly. Every capture looks like sh*t

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totally unusable

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looks like snow

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ok amd's own screen capture worked

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had to keep it short because of the file size limit

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should be 30fps but playes like 10

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turning the camera makes me feel nauseated

steady hawk
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What am I looking at? Everything seems so really fine

vestal sundial
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well it's not fine. it's not my first time playing the game. I know what it should feel like

steady hawk
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I am saying what do you really see

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The MP4 does not capture anything weird

pine kite
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Also, panning around so fast doesn't really help to show the details in the view.

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Do you see it yourself in the MP4?

steady hawk
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Or you can even take a photo using your phone

pine kite
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Also show a screenshot of your Arma 3 graphics and video settings.

steady hawk
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Anyways, if it is not captured in MP4, it is likely either the GPU is borked or your screen is

vestal sundial
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i just watched it on my laptop to make sure it's not my monitor playing tricks. I think the problem is visual tearing and stuttering

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i can really tell from watching the mp4

pine kite
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Can or can't? (some people make that critical typo)

vestal sundial
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can

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but it isn't as noticiple on my laptop I guess idk

pine kite
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Vsync should solve tearing an stuttering issues.

vestal sundial
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can't use frame gen with vsync tho

pine kite
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Don't know what frame gen is. But it seems vsync is more important. (if without makes you sick)

vestal sundial
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also I couldn't capture this on video but sometimes it seems like it skippes some frames (like lagging?)

steady hawk
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Then use your phone to shoot the video

pseudo island
vestal sundial
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frame gen is off

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i don't get the frame skips anymore

pseudo island
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Then the issue is likely with your frame gen solution

vestal sundial
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as is said frame gen has been off the whole time

pine kite
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And AMD/Nvidia control pannel if you set that other than default

pine kite
vestal sundial
vestal sundial
pine kite
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When you are panning the entire view around more pixels need to be processed. And your resolution is like 4-5K at extreme settings. Looks like that is too much of a good thing.

quartz berry
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Yeah, seems just like low framerate to me.

vestal sundial
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frame rate is in the top left corner 30fps-ish

pine kite
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the vehicle moving is super smooth. So either you have a slow update rate of your mouse, or whatever you are pointing with. Or the GPU and/or CPU are bottlenecked by the settings you want to render.

vestal sundial
quartz berry
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Actually that reminds me. I used to have certain issues just like that with the Zeus cam.

vestal sundial
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it's the same outside of zeus

vestal sundial
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i would notice it outside of the game too if that was the cause of it

pine kite
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I suppose, but that is what is directing the view. I suggest you lower your rendering settings demands until the FPS rate is more acceptable.

pseudo island
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You are only reaching 50fps with a still frame (from the menu where u showed your settings), panning around will drop your frames to 30ish or lower like u said. at those frame rates it will start looking like a slide show

vestal sundial
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fps is fine though. I'm good with 30fps. the studder is the problem

pine kite
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Though you did good at starting at the top. Setting lowest rendering settings usually shifts the load to CPU and bottlenecks one core/thread.

vestal sundial
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nvm i get it

pseudo island
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I also see u have freesync enabled but your monitors lowest support freesync refresh rate is 48hz, so at 30fps you are definitely getting repeated frames. perhaps that is what you are seeing?

vestal sundial
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idk, i have been playing with lower fps many times and no stutter. the stutter is new. never had this happen before

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do you want me to disable it?

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also, with 60+fps with frame gen the stutter is still there

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so even with more than 48fps

delicate nebula
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So like, sometimes my collective just goes away while flying (hotas)...

pine kite
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Related to being inside a menu/map?

quartz berry
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Or maybe it's set to collective instead of collective analogue or something.

delicate nebula
delicate nebula
quartz berry
delicate nebula
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was the way earlier, had no problem with like 200 hours of flying 2 years ago or so

quartz berry
delicate nebula
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Idk, playing on 420th delta I&A rn, but I've had it on other I&A, was flying hummingbird

hearty wigeon
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is it normal that arma 3 has this many processes when launched in Linux? My ram usage is also considerable but im running modded.

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Under Proton 9.0 with the recommended wine prefix by 9lr

umbral narwhal
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How many cores do you have?

waxen sail
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I think those are threads, not processes. Otherwise the memory usage would be off the charts

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If you enable the TGID column you'll probably see it matches

hearty wigeon
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seems about right

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delicate nebula
# quartz berry Mod or install issue?

The mods I'm using are, CBA_A3, Pylon Manager, A3 Thermal Improvement, Females-TCGM_Girls, JSRS SOUNDMOD, Blastcore Edited (standalone version), Zeus Enhanced, Enhanced Movement + Visuals, CUP Weapons, Better inventory, BHC Map Contour

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I'm also using the T.16000m hotas package from thrustmaster

fading flame
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"System.ServiceModel.dll "i have this error when open the launcher steam

pseudo island
kindred shard
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Hey everyone, i've been making a compilation of mods for my unit, and i've been able to update it many times in the past
this time for some reason i keep getting the error 8, i've tried deleting all the changes but nothing seems to work, anyone has had this problem before? if so how did you solve it, please help i've been trying to fix this for an hour now and since the forums are down i'm trying my luck here, good night everyone too.

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quartz berry
kindred shard
quartz berry
kindred shard
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A 20 mod preset is easier to digest than a 120 mod preset with some private mods in the middle.

kindred shard
lavish frost
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yo can someone maybe help with my situation: i play with mods and all and i dont know if its ace conflicting it or whatever but 75% of the time when i call in for air support to take me or evac me somewhere it flies straight up in the air and glitches out

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sometimes it will work but most times it just flies straight up and i don’t know what to do

umbral narwhal
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Heli evac isn't a vanilla feature. You'd need to figure out which mod or mission is providing that feature to start with.

kindred shard
analog trail
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Anyone know which addon it is that has this Zeus context menu? And perhaps why on my dedicated server (separate machine) I'm able to properly heal units with it (without admin login) but if my friend uses heal it doesn't do anything regardless of him being logged in as admin or not?

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quartz berry
analog trail
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If that's vanilla, then why the hell can't my friend use it too :/ His doesn't do anything if he tries to heal or rearm a unit/vehicle

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Is there a special way you should setup Zeus slots in your mission? I've just made a Game Master and Zeus player slot and synced them to each other

quartz berry
analog trail
quartz berry
analog trail
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Fairly sure we're both using the default settings but I'll check with him next time just to be safe

grim ocean
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idk if this is where i ask but

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idk if im doing somthing wrong but the ai in my squad really likes to jump out of the tank mid fire fight

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even when i force them back in with Zeus

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and nothings wrong with the tank

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they just kinda hop out

pine kite
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What mods are you using? AI mods in particular.

quartz berry
slate egret
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anyone know how to fix 'Files are not signed by a key accepted by this server'

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loading html mod files

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and they are the only things not working

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this is also popping up on the server browser

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umbral narwhal
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Probably steam protocol packet size related, but that's not the usual error, so maybe your router doesn't support UDP fragmentation.

slate egret
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[S_API FAIL] Tried to access Steam interface SteamUtils010 before SteamAPI_Init succeeded.

Also getting this in my server console

umbral narwhal
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"Files are not signed by a key accepted by this server" is a separate issue and means that you're either loading addons that the server doesn't have the key for, or addons which are incorrectly built.

slate egret
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well hell

umbral narwhal
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It's Tuesday. Steam probably broke something.

slate egret
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fair nuff

slate egret
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i checked and the keys are all there and i even deleted all of my addons and reinstalled them by joining the server and still the same so im gonna just reinstall the server and hope it helps

slate egret
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my server will now not turn on idk why

bleak obsidian
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Any suggestions on improving CPU utilization? I ran YAAB for the first time with my typical settings and scored 52FPS, but looking at task manager, none of my CPU cores were maxed out with the highest being under 70%, and GPU was at around ~75%.

quartz berry
slate egret
quartz berry
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Well, I'm having a bit of my own problem: my graphics are resetting to some really cursed settings ever since that time when I played Fortnite then rebooted my computer.

high salmon
bleak obsidian
high salmon
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Not much else that can be done then
And in some ways, not having your CPU at max is preferable
Means you can have other stuff running at the same time, like headtracking or recording software

bleak obsidian
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of course, i just want my arma to make it to 60 FPS and have it capped there

quartz berry
bleak obsidian
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objects i found was quite substantial too, so i set that to very low

steady hawk
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Try high texture

high salmon
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And high shadow
Turning down particles can sometimes help

The final resort, and first step, is reducing view distance and object distance

mental river
bleak obsidian
bleak obsidian
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and OPFOR is typically packed densely for the two missions i play, quiksilver I&A and my own framework (both running on DS), so i'd have to really crank down the view distance to see the benefits

quaint jewel
quaint jewel
quaint jewel
grim ocean
grim ocean
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can i turn that off

pine kite
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Well, you can try to avoid getting damaged. If you enter into hostile territory, expect to be shot at. And in some cases, severe.

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I don't know what scenario you were playing, but approach more carefully. Scan for enemy better. Be the first one that shoots.

fading flame
#

Error -103 launcher steam, any solution please

quartz berry
hollow fable
#

i get this when i load scenerio

quartz berry
shell marsh
#

Are certain RHS vehicles (uparmored humvee, M-ATV, etc) incompatible with ACE advanced vehicle damage? Seems like you can disable them with 1-5 rifle rounds into the hull with both the engine and gun getting destroyed.

pine kite
#

Are they from official RHS team? Or 3rd party mod developers basing it on RHS? If so, it may not have compatibility mods with ACE builtin.

high salmon
#

ACE advanced vehicle damage has some issues with consistency
Also, which rifle and which ammunition?

shy seal
#

Good evening can anyone help me with an issue, soo i just got a new pc i assembled, i installed everything right and all, but when i started arma 3 launcher it showed less servers than usual, then i went to the in game list wich shows me all the servers, i tried everything, re installing, resting my router, re installing the internet receiver on my pc, using an internet cable and disabling ip6 none of it worked

pseudo island
shy seal
quartz berry
modern echo
shy seal
# modern echo try ingame browser

in game shows all of the servers, but for mods that is an issue i cant join antistasi official server for example unless i do the auto config of it, becuse when i use the mods listed by the presets the server just refuses it on the key being rejected

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and all the mods have been uptaded

modern echo
shy seal
modern echo
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

shell marsh
shell marsh
high salmon
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Hmm
Probably RHS damage balancing and ACE advanced damage don't play nice together

quartz berry
shell marsh
#

It's probably best to just disable it then

pine kite
shy seal
pine kite
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Spamming refresh restarts it actually. You have to wait until it stops counting up in the 4-5 thousands. Do clear your server browser filter settings if it doesn't go into that number.

shy seal
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it just stops refreshing

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my server filter is empty there is nothing on it

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i thought it was my intnert net but i get very decent speed specially with the cable

pine kite
#

I'm seeing more than 2k servers right now in the launcher server browser. And hasn't stopped counting up yet. (seems to stall at 4129 now)

I don't know of any Windows settings that could stop this. Maybe a kind of DDOS or flood protection in 3rd party firewall could be blocking them? But maybe even the launcher doesn't rely on actual ICMP pings.

shy seal
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does not work either

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i checked the steam servers thing and all the servers show up there too

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just arma 3 launcher

pine kite
#

The serverbrowser or Arma 3 game for that matter doesn't care about IPv6. So there is no point in disabling it.

shy seal
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idk then

pine kite
#

Which country are you from?

shy seal
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brazil

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far as ik there is no ban

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or lock on anything

spring trout
#

I'm having this issue where I can't place explosives using the scroll menu. If I do it from my inventory menu, I can, but otherwise, I can't. I know it's likely from a mod, but unfortunately, I don't know which one because I have 261 running.

#

I've tried the take half out method, but that problem doesn't arise at all if I'm using either half.

#

Any chance it's because a combination of my mods that's causing it?

quartz berry
spring trout
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I'm trying thirds first

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Also, is there any way to reorder loaded mods in a certain order without having to manually drag them around?

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It's going to make my life a lot easier if I can sort by alphabetical order

quartz berry
vital marsh
#

the voice from npc are only coming out of the left ear of the headphones. other sounds are coming out of both ears like your charters voice. How do i fix this?

pine kite
pine kite
# spring trout I'm trying thirds first

Start with halve of it. Smaller parts only makes it take longer. Binary search is the quickest. But do group the mods that belong together/are dependant on another. Or you get other errors that confuse the matter.

pine kite
quartz berry
slate egret
#

How do yall get EZM & Save and Load scripts to work trying to load editor files and it’s the only way I’d be able to do it on my Zeus server

sick knot
#

Hey there guys, anyone know if Gruppe Trenches and Gruppe ACE Compat are broken?

delicate saffron
uncut trellis
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so make it smaller

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or from smaller parts

delicate saffron
# uncut trellis its too big

I have reduced.This is a nuclear bomb crater, so it is a 416416 meter plane. In order to reduce the loading time (5-10 seconds), I divided this p3d model into 1024 13m13m plane p3d models. The bomb is caused by this optimization. The original 416*416 meter plane will not have this problem.

uncut trellis
#

thats around where collision stops working between terrain cells

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basically

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the game is not really designed for stuff like that

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theres also decal draw distance that can be a problem

delicate saffron
#

“decal draw distance”，I solved this by configuring the texture as a Terrain object.

delicate saffron
delicate saffron
uncut trellis
#

yours is specifically difficult since its on the ground

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decals dont really have viewgeometry either

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dont think that would help in this

#

Im fairly sure you are just dealing with engine limitation here

delicate saffron
uncut trellis
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it dont work

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it "works"

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and for that there is no fix

delicate saffron
#

Do you know anything about the Frustum Culling accuracy/bounding box issues? I think this is the key to the problem, because the texture does not disappear completely, but only disappears when the camera moves away.lling accuracy/bounding box issues

uncut trellis
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even if the bounds of the thing are massive

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the object still exist in single point

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and if that single point is too far away from view, no draw

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its not a bug

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but wrong made object

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this is expected behavior

delicate saffron
#

Do you mean that the engine detects the center of the model, not the boundary of the model?

uncut trellis
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and the terrain is divided into tile grid

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and the collision detection I mentioned earlier extends only to neighboring tiles for example

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and a tile is maybe 40x40 meter but it can vary a bit depending on terrains specs

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theres also ground view mesh occlusion that can cull out objects

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I dont think there is any viewmode to see that though.

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and it also varies between terrains and how strong shapes they have

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all in all

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its too big

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and I dont think I should need to say it so many times

delicate saffron
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OK, thank you anyway.

frozen karma
#

looking for someone who can help me with an issue im having,
i take part in two different modded communities and in one community i can join their server through the server browser no issue, when i attempt to join the other community i just kicked back to the server browser, i do not get a pbo error or wrong password given etc.
so far i have attempted to reinstall all mods but that didnt solve anything. and ihave verified files
all this happened after i got blue screened and full crash after loading in one day to the server im having issues with

umbral narwhal
#

Have you tried using a new profile?

frozen karma
#

going for a full game reinstal but wish i tried that first haha

high salmon
severe atlas
#

anyone know why when i host multiplayer on internet i have no selectable slots, but when i host lan i do?

sick knot
#

The moment i click to dig them they dissapear and the animation to dig doesnt start

high salmon
#

That could be just terrain stuff
You can't dig on some surfaces, and some maps are really bad for the mixed terrain types
You should be able to dig the trenches anywhere that isn't rocky

covert ember
#

Hi, there is a problem with the arma interface. It happens when I log in to any server. I don't have a side/slot selection menu for the game. I was checking the A3 files in steam and was told that everything was fine.

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quaint jewel
#

I have seen that stuck camera bug after loading into the server, but not before the role selection 🤔

pine kite
#

Post the RPT log file. Who knows what mods that server needs and aren't working.

#

!rpt

rustic eagleBOT
#
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://pastebin.com/ (Set expiry time to 1 week or less) 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.

bright tusk
#

Hello, my friend has a long term problem where he gets each 5-15 seconds 5 second lag its basicly in intervals like that and i have no idea how to help him, he tried drivers, upgrading his pc, trying different settings, deleting caches and more and still nothing.

Anybody who has any idea about what it could be ?

quartz berry
bright tusk
#

but me and other players have no problems what so ever and his setup is decent for arma 3

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only he experiences problems like these

uncut trellis
#

if he got lot of compositions subscribed those can cause issues

quartz berry
uncut trellis
#

and if the game is installed on slow/external drive that can cause issues

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👆 very good to test performance without mods too

bright tusk
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We have a lot of mods so deleting them one by one would be really time consuming also he doesnt have the 5 seconds long lags when playing without mods

quartz berry
umbral narwhal
#

If it's literally 5 seconds then that sounds more like a GPU reset.

bright tusk
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he has better GPU then me and pretty much brand new

umbral narwhal
#

Although hitting a GPU reset with Arma 3 would be pretty wacky.

#

Yeah that's probably it then :P

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50x0?

bright tusk
#

well he said he uses old SSD from his old pc but he doesnt have arma 3 on that ssd

#

could that be the issue

#

?

umbral narwhal
#

Could what be the issue?

bright tusk
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the old SSD

umbral narwhal
#

Not unless it's fucked, no.

bright tusk
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is there a way to test it ?

waxen sail
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SMART test

bright tusk
#

whats that

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is it like app or something ?

umbral narwhal
#

Probably more useful to benchmark the thing.

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CrystalDiskMark or whatever.

bright tusk
#

alright he is gonna try it

umbral narwhal
#

I don't buy it though. If the SSD was malfunctioning you'd almost certainly see that outside A3.

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I guess if it sat in a garage for six months and the cells started bleeding.

waxen sail
#

From my experience, the periodic lag can be related to network

umbral narwhal
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Not seen that. Server can drop off entirely and you can still run around uselessly.

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Well, I suppose that might be what was meant, but it's clearly distinct from an actual five second freeze.

waxen sail
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5 seconds is probably too extreme for that, but before we changed around some server network settings, there was quite a bit of that periodic lag, every few seconds but more like a minor hitch than a full freeze

bright tusk
#

but what he didnt told me is that he apperently has second SSD but its just not showing up in his pc for some unknown reason

waxen sail
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it's either not plugged in or isn't partitioned but that shouldn't matter to anything

bright tusk
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ok

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so what now ?

waxen sail
#

monitor hardware. Is the CPU/GPU hitting max usage? Are they hitting max temps and thermal throttling? Are you hitting max RAM usage and running into a GC pause?

bright tusk
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im gonna download him afterburner + Rivatuner and check his temps

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and usage

frank cypress
#

hey there, so interesting issue we've run into on the server

we run into not being able to lock on to any target when in air vehicles and using launchers.

We're able to do it, however, when controlling AI through zeus.

Any help is appreciated

frank cypress
frank cypress
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or maybe not, apparently the issue doesn't persist into sp

steady hawk
#

I heard some issue with latest profile/dev branch. Try stable if you don't

quartz berry
#

I had that issue a long time ago on profiling, but reported it and it got fixed.

frank cypress
steady hawk
#

Players can do it, but Remote Controlled ones can't, regardless Mods you load, or even vanilla?

frank cypress
#

seems to be a server-specific issue but we're unsure as to what the issue is

plain sapphire
#

it works on vanilla, and when we try, it works with remote controlled ai but not when you do it from player side

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(we're working on the same issue)

steady hawk
#

In SP it works?

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That's bizzare

frank cypress
#

trying a hail marry to set our diffculty settings to Regular from Custom

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nope

umbral narwhal
#

Have you checked fogParams?

frank cypress
#

where is that

#

and what do I need to check

umbral narwhal
#

It's a script command, just tells you the fog values. If they're set really weirdly then locking doesn't work.

frank cypress
#

alright

umbral narwhal
#

Kinda outside chance because I don't know why it'd work with remote controlled AI.

frank cypress
#

the weird thing is, it works regardless of the mission file

umbral narwhal
#

That part doesn't seem weird to me.

frank cypress
#

*doesn't work

quartz berry
#

Are the server and client all using the correct mods?

frank cypress
#

yes

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we've had some issues in the past with the server not signing mods so we have things turned off to prevent it, but we for sure have the same mods loaded

umbral narwhal
#

lol

quartz berry
#

Sure sure? I had issues like that from DLCs unloading themselves over and over again.

frank cypress
#

yeah, sure sure

umbral narwhal
#

Verification system should really have an option that just warns you.

frank cypress
#

it's a mission file issue

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diagnosing now

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works in a vanilla mission

frank cypress
umbral narwhal
#

yeah not that then

frank cypress
#

damn 😔

plain sapphire
frank cypress
#

so far

#

copying all the entities from the old file and pasting them in a new file has fixed it

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ran into another interesting issue where the custom respawns don't work (which is really annoying because it dumps you in the water) but so far that's a non-issue

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okay

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I'm officially lost

#

the custom respawn positions just puts the player in the corner of the map but doesn't load the respawn map

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even with the select respawn position part on there

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everything else (seems) to work normally

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ope okay just user error lmao, forgot to set a respawn timer

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I FIGURED IT OUT

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WHAT THE FUCK?

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okay excuse my language

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apparently setting a respawn timer is bricking the mission file to keep it from being able to use lock-on missiles

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@umbral narwhal where can I go to submit a bug report?

steady hawk
#

If you are sure it is a vanilla issue, check #arma3_feedback_tracker 's description and submit report in the website

frank cypress
#

just tried repro

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nevermind, in my sleepiness I messed up and failed to realise that it indeed is a mod issue

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not sure what it is

#

updated the feedback tracker to match, I genuinely apologize to the mods

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don't know if it'll help but I'll put my RPTs in here just in case

viral cosmos
#

My Arma 3 is not working the editor is frozen and my saves aren't showing up. Help?

frank cypress
#

did you ever manage to find a fix for this?

brisk dew
#

see:

frank cypress
#

wow

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I'll see if that fixes it

frank cypress
#

nope, didn't fix it Noo

umbral narwhal
#

Remove things until it starts working tbh.

wheat surge
#

can soemone help me with arma 3 serveri can't play i just stuck on this thing

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umbral narwhal
#

Open the appid.txt. Write 107410 in there.

shadow anvil
#

Anyone recognize a cause for this?

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waxen sail
#

The key for that mod is not accepted by the server.
Either the server isn't running that mod or the player has the wrong version/corrupted files

pine kite
#

Or the server admin did not put the .bisign file for that mod (usually found in a "keys" folder inside the mod folder) inside the "keys" folder of the server. This is not done automatically. Though some server hosting companies have that automated by script.

Or the mod in question isn't even signed but the server by default does use signature verification to ensure only the correct mods are used by server and clients.

noble vault
#

Hello, i try to run an ArmA 3 Server on Windows Server 2025. When i try to run the "arma3server_x64.exe" the following error occures:
arma3server_x64.exe - System Error

The code execution cannot proceed because XAPOFX1_5.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.
How can i fix this issue?

#

My A3serverBRANCH=233780

high salmon
wind lance
#

Hey, having a issue with installing arma3. I removed all my subscriptions from the arma 3 workshop but it still insists on downloading it as if I had mods. I was wondering if there's a way to make it refresh it so it only downloads the base game itself and nothing more?

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nvm it fixed itself, im just stupid and had all the cdlc enabled.

noble vault
high salmon
#

You could try reinstalling with steam
The installation should do all the directX stuff
I haven't had any issue with the dlls before, so I'm not completely certain.

leaden warren
#

I am trying to use upnp to host a coop game with my buddy but it keeps failing, how do i fix this? port fowarding isnt an option for me

waxen sail
#

tailscale or some sort of VPN might work in that case

quartz berry
#

There are a few factors you have to take into consideration, found within the followin links. Arma bot says:

rustic eagleBOT
#

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”

umbral narwhal
ember lintel
#

Had an error pop up when trying to launch the game. “Include file AAF_UI\Cfg\CfgControls.hpp not found” not sure what it is or how that happened. Trying to reinstall the game right now but was curious if anyone has had this happen or knows what caused it?

jagged pasture
#

I don't know if anyone can help, but I'm trying to run an antistasi campaign with some friends. They can't connect, but they have before. After some troubleshooting of my own I found that it's being switched over to LAN even tho I pick internet. Any ideas?

quartz berry
ember lintel
#

I loaded up the launcher for the 1st time in who knows how long, tried to launch the game and it auto updated some mods, tried to launch and it gave me the error multiple times

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I’ve already started the reinstall process tho so we’ll see

umbral narwhal
jagged pasture
umbral narwhal
#

No, you have to pick one. They fight.

#

Your ISP might just have switched to CGNAT anyway.

quartz berry
ember lintel
quartz berry
ember lintel
ember lintel
quartz berry
ember lintel
#

Sigh question is which one

quartz berry
ember lintel
ember lintel
#

So I’m not sure why a mod that hadn’t been updated since last time I played would break it now

jagged nebula
#

Hi does any one know how to resolve this problem I have uninstalled and re-installed as well as verified my game integrity. Not sure what else to do. It only happens when I try to look at back pack and uniforms in the arsenal both vr and ace.

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steady hawk
#

Repair Edaly Mod

old tapir
#

still having problems even after using the pinned thing

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umbral narwhal
#

Make sure you're not actually running another copy of Arma in the background. Restart windows to make sure.

old tapir
umbral narwhal
#

So did you uninstall onedrive or did you need it for something?

old tapir
#

i do need it for something

#

but ill try and unisntall it later

umbral narwhal
#

The last resort method is to use -profiles ("Profile folder") in the Arma launcher and specify a folder that onedrive definitely won't mess with, like C:\Armaprofiles

#

You will lose all your current settings unless you copy the old profile data over.

noble vault
spare herald
#

I cannot figure out whats causing this? Only works when I specifically save the paa as a PNG-24. Never had this happen before so I cannot figure out the reasoning

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umbral narwhal
uncut trellis
#

how do you convert it to PAA?

spare herald
#

had the same issue

#

Only fixed after saving explicitly as a PNG-24 and converting via TexView

uncut trellis
#

whats the bit depth you use?

#

as you probably have wrong bit depth

#

should be 8bit per channel

spare herald
#

8 bit

uncut trellis
#

looks alright

#

just could be photoshop doing something funky. am not familiar with its exports

spare herald
#

Probs, yeah

wheat surge
#

can someone help me with arma 3 server please

#

9:41:22 Dedicated host created.
9:41:26 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.220, Arma 3 2.18.152405)
9:41:26 Game Port: 2302, Steam Query Port: 2303
9:41:26 Warning: Current Steam AppId: 233780 doesn't match expected value: 107410
9:41:26 Host identity created.

uncut trellis
wheat surge
#

it stuck on that text

steady hawk
#

What do you expect

bronze river
umbral narwhal
#

They said they did.

#

As far as I can tell, Microsoft keep changing shit to block fixes :P

bronze river
#

ah

#

pardon the profanity

pine kite
# wheat surge 9:41:22 Dedicated host created. 9:41:26 BattlEye Server: Initialized (v1.220, A...

9:41:26 Warning: Current Steam AppId: 233780 doesn't match expected value: 107410

For some reason the appID.txt file got filled with the wrong number? Check that. Though it complains about the correct number that should be for the server that you are running there: 233780
107410 is for the game client.

But you are running the 32-bit server version. Run the 64-bit server instead, it is kept more up to date/tested.

restive sequoia
#

Freshly downloaded server files (perf branch) and steam_appid.txt contains 107410.

#

I had the same problem a couple of times, had to remove 233780 and paste 107410.
Otherwise it didn't work (Local test server) .

quaint jewel
pine kite
#

Oh well, check it anyway with notepad(++) then.

quaint jewel
#

If you ++ it, it would be 107411 which is also wrong

pine kite
#

Me thinks Dedmen is already overworked with coding on Tuesday.

quaint jewel
#

I'm not coding, I'm localizing 💀

pine kite
#

++ your lunch break then.

humble wigeon
#

Been having a problem where ive been trying to host an antistasi. Not a dedicated server or anything like that but from my pc. We’re playing with western sahara but for some reason whenever my friends try to join me, their game forces western sahara to unload, causing this awkward bug where they cant see the things i can

#

Even beyond that, sometimes they just outright cant join me. Whenever they try it just kicks them out

pine kite
#

I suppose the right way to start is by comparing both your and their RPT log file of that session where this happens.

#

!rpt

rustic eagleBOT
#
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://pastebin.com/ (Set expiry time to 1 week or less) 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.

ember stag
#

I'm having low gpu usage and the game keeps stuttering

#

What should I do?

restive sequoia
#

First would be adding more details, which hardware do you have.
What did you try so far etc.

ember stag
restive sequoia
ember stag
restive sequoia
ember stag
umbral narwhal
#

If you have enough memory it should improve over time, but I don't think Arma will load a LOD or texture until it's used. And then it waits to read it off the disk, hence the hitches.

#

Oddly enough this doesn't seem to be true for map icons

fallow dagger
#

maybe the black background is the issue?

quartz berry
fallow dagger
#

yes it activated

humble wigeon
pine kite
#

Unless you all use the -noLogs parameter it should be stored in your drives at the mentioned location in the bot response.

novel lotus
#

how do i do this on windows 11

novel lotus
bronze river
#

basically the same but with one more step, 'show more option button' then it should show up if Onedrive is on

novel lotus
novel lotus
bronze river
#

left click the folder then right click until it show this, click that

how_to_remove_show_more_options_from_the_windows_11_context_menu_1.jpg
#

i dont have Onedrive in this device so can't show the rest

novel lotus
bronze river
#

is your onedrive on yet?

novel lotus
novel lotus
bronze river
#

then the option to keep folder offline will not show up

quaint jewel
fallow dagger
#

In the menu on profil yes it is in there then in the launcher but not on vehicles

fallow dagger
fallow dagger
quaint jewel
#

Important thing is actually in-game, on the server, on the map screen

#

not in main menu while not on server

frank cypress
uncut trellis
#

youll have to test by disabling some -> test -> disable others -> test

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repeat until you narrow it down

frank cypress
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ahhhhh

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sucks on a server box

pine kite
#

Divide that mod list down and conquer it.

humble wigeon
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9:32:25 Warning: Steam Query data overflow, Mods/Signatures will not be correctly received by clients. Remove unused mods or change your server configuration to allow for more data to be sent.
9:32:26 Unable to retrieve steam ugc detail
this in particular thing stands out. from my end

umbral narwhal
#

ugc detail one is probably harmless. Steam changed something and it's spamming lately.

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Steam query data overflow means that you're using too many mods to fit into the default packet size.

humble wigeon
#

you gotta be kidding me

umbral narwhal
#

You can try overriding that with steamProtocolMaxPacketSize in server.cfg. Usually works.

humble wigeon
#

where do i change that?

umbral narwhal
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In server.cfg :/

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I didn't read up, so I don't know how you're running your server.

humble wigeon
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sorry this is my first time doing any of this

humble wigeon
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yknnow how you can host from the game

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with upnp and all that

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thats how i do it

umbral narwhal
#

Oh, you can't do that then.

humble wigeon
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the weird thing is sometimes it works

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sometimes my friends can join?

umbral narwhal
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You just have to make absolutely sure that anyone who connects is running exactly the same mods you are. No more, no less.

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This is typically impossible.

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It's why people use verifySignatures on PvE dedicated servers. It's not for the security. It's just impossible to get everyone to load the right mods otherwise.

humble wigeon
#

so what am i suppose to do?
and also, they can sometimes join, idk how and idk why, they just do. and we've played with way more mods than this

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we were in the middle of an antistasi campaign. am i going to have to completely scrap the thing?

umbral narwhal
#

I dunno. What's your actual problem?

humble wigeon
#

people cant join. they get kicked when they try to join. sometimes they just randomly luck out and join

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and we also have this issue where vehicles in our antistasi campaign are invisible to some players

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however ive chalked that up to the general connectivity issues

umbral narwhal
#

Latter one is almost certainly mismatched mods. Former is likely to be mismatched mods.

humble wigeon
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where by joining, for some assbackwards reason, western sahara is unloaded for my friends

humble wigeon
umbral narwhal
#

CDLCs don't work with that, IIRC?

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you have to manually select which CDLC to load.

humble wigeon
#

the thing is i get them to load it too

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but we come around to the previous issue where they just cant join for some reason

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now that i think about it. they have a better chance joining when western sahara isnt loaded on their end
but again we come across the problem of invisible vehicles

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so im just boned then?

umbral narwhal
#

Ah, one of you has WS and the other is loading the compat data mod?

humble wigeon
#

no thats just something im trying now
my reasoning being that even if the game forces my friends to unload, the compatibility data still keeps the assets loaded into the game

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but i havent been able to test that because they cant join lol

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they try to join and it immediately kicks them

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no message no nothing

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just straight back to the server browser

umbral narwhal
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Connecting to localhosts was always flaky IME

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For what it's worth your mods actually match perfectly :P

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Try connecting from within A3 rather than from the launcher.

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That's the sort of issue that goes away if you use a dedicated server instead, even on the same PC.

humble wigeon
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yeah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
i dont have a static ip to host a dedicated server and even if i did i know next to nothing on how to actually host a dedi
closest i came to was purchasing one and by god that was expensive

umbral narwhal
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All it requires is making a batch file with a command line that runs the server. However that's a bit tricky in your case because the startup command line is so long that it clips in the RPT.

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Arma steam client actually has the server exes with it, so you don't have to download anything extra.

humble wigeon
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Imma pretend to understand what a batch file and command line is lmao

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Besides i thought dedis dont work without static ip’s?

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Its what stopped me from hosting a teamspeak server for tfar

umbral narwhal
#

No, that's just easier for people who are trying to connect to you.

humble wigeon
#

Man i feel like eating lead

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Those youtube guides fail me once again

umbral narwhal
#

Well, it's an easy way to cut off all the difficulty parts of the guide.

humble wigeon
#

Any guides that you personally recommend for dedis for both arma 3 and teamspeak for tfar?

umbral narwhal
#

No, I've never seen a good one.

humble wigeon
#

Well thats reassuring

umbral narwhal
#

You could try just using FASTER. It sometimes works. You'll need to enable upnp as that's not default for a DS.

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But do try connecting from A3 instead of the launcher.

humble wigeon
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didnt work unfortunately

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is there a place where someone can walk me through step by step on how to host a dedicated server?

umbral narwhal
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And if you run into trouble then they have a discord.

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I could talk you through the batch file method but it's probably not a good idea if you don't know what a command line is :P

humble wigeon
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idk what faster and a batch file even is lol
what is more intuitive for a noob who knows next to nothing

frigid timber
#

Anyone know why my game randomly just has a transparent grid of the apex logo pop up for a bit and then go away?

IMG_0059.jpg
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I have about 86 mods

umbral narwhal
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"OPCOM" is the relevant part for you.

frigid timber
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Ooh I didn’t see that

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Thanks m8

humble wigeon
umbral narwhal
frank cypress
stray tendon
#

I got a problem in running Arma 3, it's lagging or freezing a lot lately

pine kite
#

See if it improves with less mods. Also see if your fans and cooling ribs in your computer needs cleaning. And shut down Google Chrome/whatever in the background

stray tendon
pine kite
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Basically, you are giving not enough information about how or with what the lagging or freezing happens. It might actually be unrelated to Arma 3 and just your hardware acting up.

stray tendon
umbral narwhal
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That is the general point of mods.

stray tendon
#

Not in that sense, I've already unloaded the mod and deleted it

umbral narwhal
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Hmm. IIRC that one has some reshade stuff in it, which might persist after removing the mod.

bronze river
formal isle
#

hi so i used to use upnp to host arma server for me and my friedn it worked flowlessly until like a moth ago, since then it stopped working completly and gives me the cant setup port forwording error in arma, i tried updating router firmware, port forwarding directly, reinstaling arma, changing firewall rule but nothing seems to fix it any ideas? thx in advance

umbral narwhal
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If the UPNP throws an error then that either means UPNP is disabled in your router settings, or in Windows.

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Windows will quietly disable UPNP if your network type is set to public rather than private. The default firewall rules will also block in public.

cobalt rune
#

Hello anyone know where to find the RPT files? I have no logs unchecked, had script errors, can't find any RPt file in: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Arma 3

umbral narwhal
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If you used -profiles then they might go there instead.

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Not sure for client.

cobalt rune
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I found them in straight up documents 😄

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Thanks!

open sandal
umbral narwhal
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Yeah, client isn't getting any guaranteed data through from the server.

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Are either of you using a VPN?

open sandal
#

no but we have goodbyedpi

umbral narwhal
#

which is what

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Ah, that might be an issue.

open sandal
#

So it has nothing to do with mods or syncing, right?

umbral narwhal
#

Nope.

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It's just a network transmission issue.

open sandal
#
  • i made him close his firewall
umbral narwhal
#

Try radmin instead. It seems to be relatively good at getting all the packets through.

open sandal
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Thank you for your help now I will close goodbyedpi and test again If I have any problems again, can I contact you?

umbral narwhal
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Yeah but I can't really help :P

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I think what happens is that Arma tries to send UDP packets that are nearly maximum size and various VPNs or VPN-like software just throw them away because they can't be bothered to deal with UDP fragmentation.

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It might be possible to reduce Arma's max packet size but that's only documented for dedicated servers.

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Arma's networking doesn't figure that the large packets are getting thrown away, so it just keeps trying and failing.

open sandal
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Thank you very much for helping me and taking your time you are the king ❤️

stray tendon
umbral narwhal
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Dunno, never used reshade.

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Close launcher and run steam verify on Arma might work?

fluid arrow
#

Is this happening for anyone else. I keep getting redirected to the maintance page if i go to the the bi forum. Why could this be? I have tested different browsers and each time the same result. I think it has something to do with cloudflare caching but i'm just guessing.

pseudo island
fluid arrow
pseudo island
#

No idea specifically, but its been a while (weeks)

fluid arrow
#

Any official response from Bohemia about this?

restive sequoia
#

months at this point meowsweats

fluid arrow
#

That doesn't seem right. Is there a way to escalate this?

steady hawk
#

What Crumble showed is the official response

uncut trellis
forest spindle
uncut trellis
#

!steamverify

rustic eagleBOT
#

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.

forest spindle
#

thanks

vestal sundial
#

Hi, I've been experiencing image stuttering in ArmA 3 for about a month now. I tried many things: reinstalling the game, using different builds (base, prof, def), testing and resetting launcher parameters, lowering view range, lowering texture quality, rolling back AMD GPU drivers, updating bios, yadda yadda yadda. The issues started happening randomly as far as I know. I am using a new machine but the game used to run properly until now. Today, I disabled shadows and it helped MASSIVELY. It's the first time that I've noticed any difference since the stuttering started. With frame gen the game is now downright playable again, however, without shadows. Since I now know that shadows seem to be the problem, I wonder if someone here might know how to fix the stuttering.

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Also, around the same time I've noticed some mouse cursor lag in chrome and other places with varying degrees of intensity. I don't know if this has anything to do with each other but I thought I should mention it.

umbral narwhal
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What's your GPU?

vestal sundial
#

FYI: AMD Ryzen 7800X3D, AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX, 32GB RAM 6000MT/S

umbral narwhal
#

Multi-monitor or not?

vestal sundial
#

single monitor 144Hz, HDR400, 3440 by 1440

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with AMD FreeSync enabled

umbral narwhal
#

Maybe drivers struggling to decide whether Arma 3 is actually a game

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But then if shadows + framegen is same stutter as shadows without framegen then I'm not sure that makes much sense.

vestal sundial
umbral narwhal
#

It's kinda light on the GPU by modern standards :P

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I don't think I've ever seen a confirmation of that sort of issue. Just a lot of suspected cases.

#

GPU drivers don't like to tell you what they're doing.

vestal sundial
umbral narwhal
#

Hmm. Check shadows + framegen then.

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Also other dumb things, like enabling some FSAA

vestal sundial
#

I think the frame gen struggles with the stuttering because then some objects like mountains will just flicker around in like a wobbly way

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Or high contrast textures like cross walks will wobble too

umbral narwhal
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Yeah ok. Try shadows + FSAA.

vestal sundial
umbral narwhal
#

what about fullscreen vs fullscreen windowed?

vestal sundial
#

Did that and no difference

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Also, sometimes in some applications the left part of my screen flickers in brightness. For example in the steam overlay. This has stopped in most applications but I've seen it in the steam overlay a few minutes ago

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It must be a driver issue or something. Because none of this was going on a month ago. The cursor lag and rare flickering is bearable and all other games run smoothly but ArmA has been hit the hardest

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I haven't been able to play ArmA for a month now. It's that bad. Feels like 12fps even at 60+fps

umbral narwhal
#

And if you turn off shadows it runs fine?

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No variance with shadow distance or quality?

vestal sundial
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No, not fine at all but better. I tested quality levels but didn't notice much of a difference except for turning it off entirely. As far as distance goes, I only ever played with 200m max

umbral narwhal
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Yeah but for testing purposes.

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I don't know why shadows would be generally different. It's just a bit of stencil buffer work.

vestal sundial
#

Yeah, I don't think that the shadows are causing the issues. I think that whatever causes the issue gets amplified when rendering shadows. As I said it's probably a driver issue or something but then again rerolling those didn't work either so idk

forest spindle
#

its still not working

uncut trellis
#

Don't know that error so unfortunately don't have more ideas.

umbral narwhal
#

Probably a dying drive but that one's more ambiguous than the similar one in the RPT.

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Surprised verify got through without complaining, although maybe it gives up silently.

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Make sure you close the Arma launcher before running verify.

forest spindle
#

it seems to work good on any other games on the drive

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but then again i dont know a lot about this stuff

serene grove
#

hello guys, I have a problem with Arma 3 Profiling, I can't keep the graphics settings at "ultra" (which I did until last month) and when I load the set ups from the virtual arsenal the game freezes not loading the model and the Texture.

what could it be?

umbral narwhal
#

That's been half-reported a couple of times. If you can replicate it, go into task manager once Arma is frozen, use the "create dump file" option on Arma and then send it to Dedmen.

bronze osprey
#

In a squad's composition init:

_x enableAIFeature ["CombatFormationSoft",false];
_x enableAIFeature ["AwareFormationSoft",false];
} forEach units this;```
Wiki does not indicate this command is broken. This is on profiling. Just was messing around with it though to see if this did anything, I'm not torn on this not working personally
image.png
umbral narwhal
#

unit to test AI feature for

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Implies that syntax might have been temporary?

#

I don't know if the other syntax does anything.

fringe salmon
#

same issue

#

i always have to turn on/off an extra difficulty setting whenever i want to set a difficulty setting

#

any fix for this other than that weird workaround?

#

stable branch, onedrive completely deleted and the documents folder is not inside of onedrive, reinstalled the game and created multiple profiles and it's also still happening on every new profile created

#

also no mods running

fringe salmon
#

the profiles are not read-only and i double checked

#

i also didnt set any parameter in launcher settings, it was the default

fringe salmon
fringe salmon
#

the last one enabled always get disabled

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so i think this is the same happening for if you turn on 1 settings

fringe salmon
#

this isnt my video but this is a person having the same problem as me demonstrating it (i have also discovered that many other people have this same issue too)

serene grove
sand delta
#

Oh wise wizards of the arma troubleshooting channel, I have come to bargain!

So, I have been trying to play Antistasi and Vindicta on a server. Problem is that I can't save any loadouts in the arsenal.

I have tried the fix of deleting the vars profile, uninstalling both mods and everything, and still no luck

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Wierdly enough, it has no problems in the menu

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/ when not in a server

fringe salmon
sand delta
fringe salmon
#

either way running ace arsenal extended in antistasi doesnt have any benefits because antistasi doesnt use ace arsenal in the first place

sand delta
umbral narwhal
#

What do you mean by "can't save any loadouts" exactly?

sand delta
umbral narwhal
#

You have loadouts listed in load, but loading them doesn't do anything?

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Or you have nothing listed in load?

sand delta
#

Negative

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The whole page where loadouts would be

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doesn't open

umbral narwhal
#

Ah, ok.

#

Definitely remove any arsenal mods.

uncut trellis
#

uninstall/diable onedrive in case its on and locks your profile

umbral narwhal
#

Note that loadouts are saved locally and the saving code is entirely local. You can test with Antistasi locally without using a dedicated server.

sand delta
sand delta
umbral narwhal
#

IIRC it still opens the loadout controls even if it can't access your profile, but I might be wrong.

uncut trellis
#

mod bug is also likely

fringe salmon
sand delta
#

Does also not work in local host

umbral narwhal
#

Check if loadouts work in the vanilla arsenal. Usually has the same issue.

sand delta
#

They do

umbral narwhal
#

Huh. Paste the RPT.

sand delta
#

RPT?

umbral narwhal
#

It's an Arma log file. Users\username\AppData\Local\Arma 3, look for the most recent RPT for the correct Arma exe.

sand delta
umbral narwhal
#

I don't know how that's possible.

sand delta
#

I may be stupid. Give me 5 mikes

sand delta
uncut trellis
umbral narwhal
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AppData is usually the hidden one.

sand delta
#

AppData wasn't, but local in app data was xD

#

I have the rpt, what am I looking for exactly, or should I just start reading and look for anything arsenal related?

umbral narwhal
#

Just paste it here.

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RPTs are not really readable unless you're used to them.

sand delta
#

just copy past the wall of text here?

umbral narwhal
#

Discord usually handles it correctly if you just drop the file in.

fringe salmon
sand delta
#

It's not letting me drag and drop it here

umbral narwhal
#

Ok, paste it to a pastebin and link it instead.

#

This server has arcane permissions rules and I can't be bothered with them.

fringe salmon
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not actually dragging it in with the mouse

fringe salmon
sand delta
sand delta
fringe salmon
sand delta
#

I'll just take the bullet and not deal with this, to not continue wasting your time

#

Apologies

umbral narwhal
#

uh, how large is the RPT...

sand delta
waxen sail
#

I can't remember, you either need the user or the acknowledged-rules role to post files, have you ticked the tick in #rules ?

umbral narwhal
#

Ok, that's not very vanilla. Remove all your mods except Antistasi and try again.

sand delta
fringe salmon
sand delta
#

trying it with no mods except for stasi now

umbral narwhal
#

Ah yeah, pastebin max is 512k.

fringe salmon
#

CTRL C and CTRL V

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not the entire text inside but the rpt file itself

sand delta
#

will try

sand delta
umbral narwhal
#

This usually does the same thing. Discord creates a fake "message.txt" file for the paste.

sand delta
#

This is just a boot with CBA and Stasi Ultimate

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(The arsenal was still broken)

fringe salmon
sand delta
#

even tried unsubscribing

fringe salmon
#

also try verifying integrity of arma 3 on steam

umbral narwhal
#

Nah, it's profile data damage.

#

Creating a new profile should work.

fringe salmon
#

oh

sand delta
#

or only the vars?

#

ah

fringe salmon
umbral narwhal
#

Don't faff around with the current one, just create an entirely new profile from Arma.

sand delta
#

Aight

umbral narwhal
#

Plenty of ways you can screw up otherwise.

sand delta
#

Well, I did see a reddit post that said "delete the vars" and then I lost 5 years worth of kits

#

so yeah

#

but I am trying the new profile now

umbral narwhal
#

Might be you had a mod that's adding bad arsenal entries, so it broke the new one too.

#

btw it's possible to reset the inventory data without creating a new profile, if you wanted other info from the old profile:
profilenamespace setVariable ["bis_fnc_saveInventory_data",[]];

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Might be an issue that another mod that creates inventory loadouts considers nils to be valid (because they are in setUnitLoadout these days). That will break the JNA arsenal.

sand delta
#

Ok that "fixed" it. IS there any way for me to carry over my settings in an easy way?

umbral narwhal
#

Well, that line of code I pasted will reset the loadouts without changing anything else.

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So you could go back to your other profile and run that. It's also possible to fix broken loadouts, but fiddly if you're not used to SQF.

sand delta
#

ah, ok as stated 15 times above: I am stupid and apparently I can't read

#

I am sorry

sand delta
umbral narwhal
#

Easiest way is probably to open the editor in Arma, then go tools -> debug console. Paste it in there and run it.

sand delta
#

copy

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Thank you kindly!

umbral narwhal
#

If you can figure how you're getting the bad loadouts (it's probably a mod), let me know and I might deal with it for the next Antistasi Community version.

sand delta
#

Willco!

fringe salmon
lone whale
#

Hello, I have a community member who cannot load the game with mods. It just gets stuck on saying "Initializing Mods Management..." and never actually loads. He has verified files, repaired files, uninstalled and reinstalled the game and repaired his harddrive. But it still says the same message and will not load. It's not specific to any one mod, it does it with any mod that's loaded. Any suggestions?

umbral narwhal
#

Are you sure that's A3? Don't recognise that message.

lone whale
#

I haven't seen it before either, but it pops up over the launcher when loading.

umbral narwhal
#

Launcher message rather than game message?

lone whale
#

I believe so, it doesn't minimize the launcher and give him the normal loading title card.

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It also gives him an "Arma 3 Launcher Exception Log"

lone whale
#

When he hits play it actually launches the game vanilla, with no mods at all. Then when he closes the game the launcher crashes.

fluid sage
pine kite
#

It could be that whoever that made that repackaged the PBO and broken the signing process. Find proof that others can use it properly with servers using signature verification.

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Report the issue to Drunken on it's workshop page. It was updated a few weeks ago.

harsh meteor
#

why do ppl in apcs not leave the vehicle when it is attacked
on sog

pine kite
#

The presence of armor and bullets flying.

quartz berry
pine kite
#

Maybe, but they don't know it. As they can't see that.

quartz berry
pine kite
#

Wel,, unless they can look outside a window, (not very common in APCs) they can't see what is attacking them. The gunner or commander that is turned out should direct them to exit and return fire.

quartz berry
#

Yeah. (For AI) I think the S&D and guard waypoints actually let the commander/squad leader decide that.

pine kite
#

And if the question is about AI, well their only do as they are told.

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but I guess we don't call AI ppl.

quartz berry
#

I do. And AI guard AI kind of have autonomy (okayish at best though).

minor creek
#

New issue whenever I tab out or click onto another monitor, my game freeze-frames. I can still move, hear the game, and others can see me moving, but on my end, the screen is stuck on the last frame before I tabbed out. Anyone know what this might be?

quaint jewel
rocky musk
#

Hey so i just do random stuff in editor and i need help with two things.

1.How do i remove this weird glow from aerial objects.
2. Please let me know if some of the mods in my modlist are unnecessary/obsolete/can cause issues.

image.png image.png image.png 📎 ALOT_OF_RANDOM_MODS.html
umbral narwhal
#

Bloodlust was a performance disaster last time I looked and it's probably still a performance disaster.

waxen sail
#

Bloodlust also had security issues if you're running public servers

quartz berry
quartz berry
pine kite
sacred abyss
#

Okay so i found out the voice vbo is useless because not everyone has it and ive done everything that i found on the internet and still nothing to fix my mic in game

#

arma 3

#

any suggestions?

#

fresh install fresh profile

#

privacy is good firewall is good audio settings are good

fading pulsar
#

But what os the issue?

sacred abyss
#

No one can hear me

#

if i press caps it appears that im actually pressing it but no name under chat and no one can hear me

waxen sail
#

What do you mean by appears that you're pressing it?

sacred abyss
#

but normaly it should show your name under the chat but for me it doesnt

#

and yeah

fading pulsar
#

Screenshot when you are "talking"

sacred abyss
fading pulsar
# sacred abyss

Yeah it show that you are talking allright.
IF you go under Options -> Audio
can you screenshot that please?

sacred abyss
fading pulsar
#

Pull Microphone slider all the way right