arma3_troubleshooting

[sacred abyss]

if i click on auto adjust it closes instantly without fully opening

i did now and still nothing

Wanna join voice?

to show you on stream ?

[fading pulsar]

no, but

Check following:
close game,
Right click speaker icon, bottom right on task bar.
select Sounds/audio
select recording tab,
Right click your mic,
check Set default
and Set default for communication

then restart game,

[sacred abyss]

i dont need to do that

its already done

and only my mic is active the rest i disable

same at the headset

only the one i use the rest are off

in privacy i checked and last time the game accessed the mic was in 2023

and its allowed to activate it

arma 3 has full access into firewall just in case

[fading pulsar]

Firewall has nothing to do with mic, also its best pratice to disable incoming traffic to it, unless you host server for friends.

Maybe battleye is blocking driver.
Start game, but keep launcher open,
in the battleye tab, see if it gives any messages

[sacred abyss]

none

[fading pulsar]

and thats all?

[sacred abyss]

yeah no?

[fading pulsar]

yeah or no?

[sacred abyss]

i took the pic before i close the game

[fading pulsar]

okay its good

and final question, are you sure they cant hear your... or do they just ignore you or have you muted?

[sacred abyss]

i mean i havent played in 1 year or so soooo no way im muted and stuff like that

and even if they would have me on mute there would still be my name under the chat if i was talking

and there is not

and i tried different servers and still nothing

(playing koth)

[fading pulsar]

try this, for a fun little experiment. Go into editor, spawn a single dude, on top bar press "Play", select "Play in multiplayer (MP)", press OK, select role and press OK again, then try to talk

[sacred abyss]

Ok and how i would know if im hearble or not?

[fading pulsar]

does it show your name?

[sacred abyss]

no ?

it just opens like on the other servers but no name under chat

1 sec i wanna check something on koth if you re dead and talking on the minimap it shows a mic i will go see if i see it or not 1 sec

[fading pulsar]

Okay, last idea that i have, Head back to windows recording devices, properties, then last tab, additional or whatever it is, check what recording quality you have selected

[sacred abyss]

dvd 48k hz 2cha

and the other one was 16k hz tape recorder

[fading pulsar]

16bit 48000 Hz?

[sacred abyss]

ye

[fading pulsar]

and you only have 16k as another option?

[sacred abyss]

yes

[fading pulsar]

try that, for a test

[sacred abyss]

it doesnt show

i need to restart arma right?

[fading pulsar]

ye

[sacred abyss]

or nvm i already did soo yeah

:))

joining the sv rn 1 sec

still no

:/

[waxen sail]

Do you have another headset to try? or a standalone microphone?

[fading pulsar]

dang. Well, im out of ideas.
Do set the recording quality back to DVD, otherwise you might sound like rhino giving birth.

[sacred abyss]

:)))))))))))))))))))))))))

[sacred abyss]

sadly no or maybe 1 sec

[waxen sail]

I've heard of issues with USB headsets cropping up but not an actual hard cause or fix

[sacred abyss]

well guess what this headset is still usb but has wireless too soo idk

The only diff is that this is still usb but bluetooth and its 1 channel 16bit 48000hz dvd not 2 channel

[waxen sail]

what headset is it? might be that wireless is only mono but that would be kinda weird

[sacred abyss]

no name from sweden idk

its like a swedish brand trying to survive

[waxen sail]

it's not razer?

[sacred abyss]

this one no

my headset yes

[waxen sail]

oh I see

well it's just for a test anyway so shouldn't matter

[sacred abyss]

still not working

i would try something else but i dont think i have the adaptor for it

like my headset from razer is jack to a dongle that is usb

maybe just remove the dongle and get a adaptor from 1 jack to 2 jacks

[waxen sail]

I'm actually wondering if it's a networking thing since you seem to be sending the audio but it's not received at the other end.
VoN uses a separate connection to the main game iirc, do you have any firewall or antivirus settings that might be blocking it?

[sacred abyss]

and connect it that way

game has total access to firewall and antivirus shounln`t

its the windows one

its not that smart

[sacred abyss]

i get audio but not send audio

i hear them talk

they cant hear me talk

[waxen sail]

yeah I mean its entirely possible for it to only be blocked/dropped outgoing

[sacred abyss]

found oneeeeeeee

1 sec

i will try to remove the usb dongle and do jack to 2 jacks

to see if i still have audio and mic

ok i have audio lets try mic 1 sec

nope...

fuck

the adaptor its not good for this headset

maybe i can do something sketchy

my mic is jack that goes into the headset

maybe i connect it to the pc

directly

Lmao it sees the mic

lets check on arma now if it works im gonna lose it

Emmm

choose one

[waxen sail]

I think 48000Hz usually to stop re-encoding

[sacred abyss]

the cd quality is not working i just checked

still no ....

why the fuck tho

its not usb anymore

[waxen sail]

yeah at this point I'd say network, hard to say what exactly though

[sacred abyss]

wdym by network ? my internet? no way its that the prob

[waxen sail]

why not

[sacred abyss]

because it would be the strangest thing i ever saw

[fair kestrel]

Check if the game has access to the micro.

[waxen sail]

actually no, try other servers first

[fading pulsar]

it didnt work even on his local host, so its not network

as if game has no access to mic

[peak sluice]

So im trying to play a mod which has two different types SP and MP when i start this scenario in Singleplayer i get kicked out when i start it on multiplayer there are no Roles to select? i have all mods i need for this mod on and i even Talked with the Autor, so there is no problem with this mod i yust cant spawn?

[sacred abyss]

it has but it doesnt ask for it

from my understanding

last time it used it it was in 2023

i checked that in privacy settings

[fair kestrel]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-microphone-problems-5f230348-106d-bfa4-1db5-336f35576011

Maybe you need to change connectors configuration in Realtek settings...

[sacred abyss]

useless all of them already did

realtek is not even for win 11

last update was in 08/2024

[fair kestrel]

But it works on Win11.

[sacred abyss]

ok i will download it

but i dont think it will help

if its gonna download today maybe

[sacred abyss]

yeah no

[peak sluice]

: (

[sacred abyss]

well

guess what

i did windows update that took 30m

i connected everything back as it should like with dongle usb and mic to the headset

and now it works

watafak..

[peak sluice]

so does anybody encounterd that bug that i did or can help me with it?

[sacred abyss]

what bug

[bronze river]

what mod are talking about? i assume it's a mission, if you please post the mod link here to be checked

[peak sluice]

its a few mods from a creator i mean.
yust wait a sec

[peak sluice]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3350238705

[pine kite]

Not the first time a Windows Update blocks the functionality that it tries to update before a restart.

[analog trail]

Anyone else getting this suddenly?

[waxen sail]

Yes, you may need to disable battleye for a bit until they fix the signatures

[analog trail]

Aww man

They're only a small indie company, I hope they fix it soon

[analog trail]

And yeah that fixed it, thank you

[peak sluice]

So im trying to play a mod which has two different types SP and MP when i start this scenario in Singleplayer i get kicked out when i start it on multiplayer there are no Roles to select? i have all mods i need for this mod on and i even Talked with the Autor, so there is no problem with this mod i yust cant spawn? This one ; /

so i also Foud that it dont Loads so its like nothing is in this mod? 0KB?

[tough tulip]

Tobii eye tracker 5's open track for arma 3 not working
in arma_3->options->controls->controllers->OPEN_TRACK(<---Tobii_eye_tracker_5)
because of below error "07-06-2025 14:48:00 - Blocked loading of file 'C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\TobiiGameHubData\FreeTrackClient\FreeTrackClient64.dll'"

[steady hawk]

BattlEye is down for now

[tough tulip]

its a software like a anti cheat addon how can it be down?

[steady hawk]

Because it can be down?

[tough tulip]

u mean to say its battleeye's fault not Bohemia?

[steady hawk]

Yes

[tough tulip]

so it will take like a month or so to fix or rever to older version?

[steady hawk]

We don't know

Just wait

[tough tulip]

reforger player are salso facing the same issue check #reforger_troubleshooting lol

[fading pulsar]

Yes, it uses same anticheat

[restive sequoia]

Lets hope they ditch that useless 💩 for Arma 4.

[peak sluice]

so can we Talk about my bug again?

[pine kite]

Well, since you are talking about a specific mod or scenario, why not mention which one that is? So others can try to reproduce it.

And no link to it was ever shown in your earlier messages, unless it was removed (it was edited)

[peak sluice]

?what?

lol

[pine kite]

What what? You want help with a mod/scenario. Mention what it is.

[quartz berry]

Give the link to the scenario.

[peak sluice]

ok il try again because it didnt show to you

[pine kite]

If you put a url from the workshop here, it should show.

[peak sluice]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3350241035

so do you see it?

[quartz berry]

Yes

[pine kite]

Now I do. But geez, 10 Gigabytes for just a scenario?

[peak sluice]

megabite

[pine kite]

No 10 thousand and 564 Mega bytes.

[peak sluice]

lol?

[quartz berry]

By that logic RHS USAF is 8 terabytes!

[peak sluice]

so i think that should be a ,

but my problem is here, i cant select a role and it dont loads rely, its like the mission is empty

[pine kite]

I can't even select this scenario in a multiplayer server. What terrain is it for? Screenshot looks like Altis.

[peak sluice]

its on Altis?

so it also didnt show up one time for me

[waxen sail]

Have you checked your server and client RPTs?

[pine kite]

Oh ok, Stupid A3_CBA "show all misisons" issue.

[peak sluice]

sorry what are RPTs?

[pine kite]

With EricJ Helicopter Pack and CBA_A3 mods enabled I get this missing dependancy:

[peak sluice]

it didnt show up for me but that could it be

[pine kite]

And I also didn't get any roles in the selection screen. So busted scenario I think.

Unless those missing mods cause that.

[peak sluice]

so the creator said its all fine

[pine kite]

Well, then he is leaving out steps. Or he hase a non-standard install of Arma 3. Poluted addons folder or something.

[peak sluice]

so we could ask him right?

[pine kite]

I posted my finding in the workshop page comments.

[peak sluice]

yeah im mean we could also write him here if thats better?

[pine kite]

Feel free to tell him someone else confirms something is lacking in the installation process.

Meanwhile, find some other scenario to play.

[peak sluice]

@mental minnow so it looks like That some more People heve problems with your mods (im sorry to tell you)

[pine kite]

Ok, it is only 10 Megabytes on disk.

Everything else is in Euro format on that screen in my browser and Steam app. So this shouldn't be read as a decimal point.

[peak sluice]

same

[pine kite]

EricJ responded in Steam workshop comments. He is working on a fix/correction of needed mods.

[analog trail]

Anyone know what could be causing issues looting dead AI? Say I kill an enemy and he has a M4 magazine, I can't loot it unless I equip/drop the vest that the M4 magazine is in

[pine kite]

It should be possible. Maybe your inventory is full?

[analog trail]

Nah, I think a mod is messing up maybe because of mod load order or something

I can grab ACE meds or guns for example

[pine kite]

Ofcourse, always check without mods first.

[analog trail]

But primarily magazines and grenades can't be looted

[pine kite]

FYI, a bunch of Lambs AI mods do not play well with Antistasi Ultimate (or Community Mod for that matter) Probably not related, but you might reconsider/test it.

[analog trail]

Fairs, I'll try swapping ACE as #2 and CUP Weapons #3 and remove LAMBS

[pine kite]

Check the FAQ on the Antistasi Ultimate Github. It has a link to a file with all the mods that cause warnings when used. https://github.com/SilenceIsFatto/A3-Antistasi-Ultimate/blob/unstable/A3A/addons/ultimate/Stringtable.xml

[mental minnow]

Yeah thanks, somebody posted on the file, it's fixed, just have to wait for Steam to update the mission.

[delicate cipher]

when i get to the antistasi menu with saves, this error shows up and after pressing OK i throws me back to the role selection screen, here are the mods i got on

tried deleting arsenal extended and interaction menu expansion but that didnt work

[waxen sail]

Likely the ACE DLL is still blocked by battleye, you'll have to disable BE for now until they fix whatever the problem is

[umbral narwhal]

Yeah battleye is busted at the moment.

[delicate cipher]

thx a lot that fixed it, didnt think it was that cause i turned it off a long time ago

[analog trail]

Would really appreciate some help, got about 20 people impatiently waiting for me to fix it so they can play :/

Everything is working fine except you can't loot dead AI properly, mostly magazines and grenades can't be looted for some reason, they're only lootable if you equip the container it was in or drop it on the floor, then you can loot the magazines/grenades like normal.

I bet it's the mod load order or one of the mods is fucking with it but I can't tell what and it seems to be basically the same mod load order for all the other Antistasi servers I've hosted in the past..

Short clip of the issue

[waxen sail]

I'm not quite sure what the clip is supposed to show, it honestly doesn't look like you have any room for the ammo in your uniform

[analog trail]

Plenty of room in the backpack

I'm spamming rightclick on the magazine and it doesn't transfer to my inventory, can't drag it either

Only works if I drop the vest on the ground or equip it

[waxen sail]

If you do the same thing with the backpack selected does it work?

[analog trail]

No, but I've never had to do that before

It only happens on my dedicated server, but it has the exact same mods/load order

In the .rpt file I get these kinds of errors:

20:11:19 Ref to nonnetwork object 1b18d8b6f00# 1918217: o_soldier_01.p3d O_Soldier_AR_F
20:11:19 Ref to nonnetwork object 1b1919ca100# 1918224: b_soldier_02.p3d B_medic_F
20:11:19 Ref to nonnetwork object 1b18d823340# 1918229: b_soldier_01.p3d B_Soldier_F
20:11:19 soldier[O_Soldier_AT_F]:Some of magazines weren't stored in soldier Vest or Uniform?
20:11:19 soldier[O_Soldier_AT_F]:Some of magazines weren't stored in soldier Vest or Uniform?

[deft gull]

Howdy guys,
Lately (since yeasterday) my game randomly crashes and it gives me a message in battle eye about blocking TFAR =
6/7/2025 9:03:31 PM - Blocked loading of file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\107410\894678801\task_force_radio_pipe_x64.dll'
Found the file but unsure if i delete it if it brakes TFAR.
Any tips?

Found the file but unsure if i delelte it if it brakes TFAR - it does brake TFRA - Its BattleEye being fucked up
Dissabaled BattleEyeE all works fune

[gritty mural]

Having a few issues if anyone can help

Using Host Havoc or Nitrado and TFAR doesn't work its been set up in TS3 server and moves us into the TFAR channel when entering the server but we cant hear anything in game even though the TS3 overlay shows it trying to transmit any ideas

[umbral narwhal]

Is that 100% replicable or just an occasional thing?

[analog trail]

100% :/

I've noticed it only happens for AI spawned in via Antistasi I think?

Spawned one through Zeus and there was no issues there

[umbral narwhal]

Can't be sure with ultimate, but normally Antistasi is just a local setUnitLoadout.

Actually ultimate must be somewhat different because we don't use those O/B units anymore. Like every east/west unit is created with the same empty base unit and then filled with setUnitLoadout.

[quartz berry]

That always happens to me with certain units in the campaigns with no mods loaded. The weird part is it always and only happens with AI that were killed by a script and not a bullet. It might have to do with some sort of simulation being off. PhysX awake and related stuff being turned off for bodies maybe, but I have no idea.

[vast verge]

why is it like this for my friend?

when he tries to connect lan

[pine kite]

Not loading the same mods I guess.

[snow egret]

why is arma 3 crashing when i click "play" on the launcher? yesterday i was playing with no issues..

[quartz berry]

Are you using mods?

[snow egret]

i also tried disabling mods but the game is still crashing

[quartz berry]

Verify files with Steam

[green magnet]

Loaded arma 3 up today, was having issues with the game hard freezing when loading up a world, so I removed some mods and now the game cooks my GPU on every launch, removed all mods, verified files, still does this. The game is unplayable everything else works on my computer so it's not my computer having the issue

2 days ago the game was running perfect, nothing has changed

[green magnet]

nevermind, just found a second game that has the same issue

[waxen sail]

yeah that's.... reinstall your drivers (maybe try DDU)

[green magnet]

Already taking the bitch apart

Thing needed cleaned too

Although I can't figure out how to get the front fans out

[umbral narwhal]

That looks more like the monitor's getting a signal it can't quite handle.

Frame rate too high maybe.

[green magnet]

80fps on a $2000 1440p 240hz monitor is definitely not too high lol

it was the gpu artifacting, and i took my pc apart, cleaned it all out, put it together and its all working fine for now

[green magnet]

didnt mean to flex

[green magnet]

taking it apart and putting it back together solved the issue for now, thanks for the info though, if it does it again I will do this first

[umbral narwhal]

might have just needed the cable to get a wiggle.

[green magnet]

DP cables lock in so idk

and it only happened with certain games, but yeah still that could be true

still odd how it happened with two specific games though, i tried BeamNG and it ran fine somehow, but arma and sea power had the issue, idk

either way a new gpu and cpu would go a long way for me, this just kinda sped my priorities up

[waxen sail]

Certain things will just push the GPU in the right area to cause the fault (if it is a hardware problem)

[waxen badge]

Okay so i bought a server with mods right but theres nothing

anyone know

[quartz berry]

Did you set up the Zeus in the mission to be able to use modded assets?

[waxen badge]

wdym?

I just logged in as admin became a zeus and then did master stratis zeus

[quartz berry]

You need to make your own Zeus mission I think. IIRC you can't use mods in that one. When you make a Zeus mission, you choose if the Zeus can use stuff from mods or only the base game.

[waxen badge]

how do i make my own zeus mission

[waxen badge]

.

[waxen sail]

place the zeus module down, and edit it's properties, there's a section which dictates what modules you are allowed to load

[quartz berry]

You make a mission and then add a Zeus module to it. I don't feel like explaining the basics of making a mission right now (or ever) because plenty of resources exist.

[waxen badge]

oh

[remote elbow]

i have a wierd issue where ive repackaged some opensource assets that are no longer being maintained and was part of a larger total conversion mod (with permission ofcourse) as we just needed some of the custom buildings, i put the pbos in the mod and resigned them with my bikey however on the server with verify signatures on it says that they are not signed by a key recognised by the server even though the bisigns are there and the key is there, is this because they were allready prebuilt pbos?

[high salmon]

I'd guess you didn't give the server the right key

[remote elbow]

no i looked it has the right key, my build process creates a new private key with the current git tag version names so the bisigns are all V5 and the key is also V5

[high salmon]

Are you certain that you are giving the public key to the server?
And are you certain that the public key from the public/private key pair is in the accepted keys folder for the server?

[remote elbow]

yes, i double checked everything and its only the prebuilt pbos that i resigned that are throwing the error my own pbos that were built and signed rather than just copied and signed arent giving errors for the key

[high salmon]

Do you have access to the source files for the prebuilts?
If you do, then just build and sign from source files might be easier

[remote elbow]

no they released them under open source licensing but havent released the 3d model source files

[uncut trellis]

not much can be done there

[remote elbow]

is it not possible to just resign the prebuilt PBOs?

[high salmon]

I can't help much then, since I'm not certain what would cause the mods to not sign right
You could try unpacking and repacking the pbos, not certain if that would work, but it might
Also, depending on how the dependencies in the original mod is setup, you could just include the required pbos for your mod

[fading pulsar]

It can be done via arma3 tools Dsign tool

[remote elbow]

i resigned the pbos during the build but they dont seem to work when verify signatures is enabled on server

[fading pulsar]

Is mod from workshop? Also you and server need to have same signatures

[remote elbow]

yes we have the same signatures

[fading pulsar]

And older ones deleted?

[remote elbow]

yes

[fading pulsar]

Then it should work

[high salmon]

Is it by any chance stuff from Libertad?
They released the unbinarized sources for most of it on github if it is

[remote elbow]

theres some other stuff aswell but i may just pull the other stuff from the map as they were just small cool looking assets and use the libertad stuff

[high salmon]

Here's the github for Libertad: https://github.com/Projets-Edaly/Libertad-AIO
It's a bit of a mess, but everything should be there

[remote elbow]

thank you

[waxen badge]

hey okay so how do i make a mission ... is there a mod i can downlaod that makes that

[waxen sail]

You'll need to be a little more specific on what you mean by make a mission

[waxen badge]

okay

so

my factions or anymod isnt showing up even though its

in the server

[quartz berry]

There are some mods that make autogenerated missions. Take a look at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arma+3+eden+editor+tutorial

[waxen badge]

but its not showing

no but i bought a server

I want to do a zeus server with mods

[quartz berry]

I told you why that's happening. Try to remember or look back.

[waxen badge]

I did but how?

[quartz berry]

Did what and how how what?

[waxen badge]

okay how Do i set up the zeus in the mission

do i go back to singleplayer and make a mission

[quartz berry]

Yes, like I said.

[waxen badge]

okay

I did

Do i go to the zeus tab

[quartz berry]

There is no Zeus tab.

[waxen badge]

this

[quartz berry]

You need a lot more than just that. Here are the steps. I will not tell you how to do them because you can find out that on your own.

1. Go to the terrain you want
2. Place down the characters you want
3. Set them as playable
4. Set the correct respawn type
5. Place the Zeus game logic
6. Place the Game Master module
7. Set up the Game Master settings
8. Set up the composition level in the description.ext to allow scripts

[waxen badge]

wait so including every single faction

like I want all of this too show up

[waxen sail]

There's a catch-all option which is "Official and non-official addons" or something similar

[quartz berry]

Ok

[fringe salmon]

Can anyone help me with this? Running on MAC OS. Prairie fire was working great until it just wasn't

[pseudo island]

did you try to edit your profile file to change FoV or anything?

the file is broken

[fringe salmon]

i did not

[pseudo island]

Try opening that file in a text editor and posting the few lines around line 152 here
not sure where to find that file on mac

[fringe salmon]

ok - what file is it exactly

I don't see one called profile

[high salmon]

Wrong path
The path is in the error message you posted

[pseudo island]

Wrong folder, those are the game files. the profile files are in a different folder

[fringe salmon]

ah yeah. the crazy thing is I cannot find that path for some reason! I'll try again

[pseudo island]

The path is in the error message you posted
path doesn't actually exist, its emulated

[fringe salmon]

hmmm

[high salmon]

There should still be a way to get to the emulated storage files

[fringe salmon]

Man. hmmmm

[pseudo island]

found it,
$HOME/Library/Application Support/com.vpltd.Arma3/GameDocuments/Arma 3/

[fringe salmon]

hmmmm

not seeing the com.vpltd.arma3

man, mac are so annoying haha

[pseudo island]

hidden folder perhaps?

[fringe salmon]

very well hidden.

[umbral narwhal]

Shouldn't $HOME map to somewhere in users?

This is user data, not system data

(I don't know macs at all)

[fringe salmon]

found it

had to command shift period and then there was ANOTHER path under users

MAN

lol

ok i'm there

[umbral narwhal]

Open that profile file in a text editor.

[pseudo island]

preferably a text editor with line numbers 😂

[umbral narwhal]

Gonna bet there's a couple of lines of RPT mis-written into it.

[fringe salmon]

ok arma3profile?

or 3den.arma3profile

[pseudo island]

F Y.arma3profile

[umbral narwhal]

On windows it's username.arma3profile

[fringe salmon]

ok yeah got it open unfortunately not with a line number lol

[umbral narwhal]

Copy into pastebin or something

[pseudo island]

View > Text Display >show/hide line numbers
in textedit, or yeah copy into pastebin

[fringe salmon]

https://pastebin.com/kHjajSXi

[pseudo island]

delete 1; on the last line

basically just delete line 152

no idea how tf that even got there

[fringe salmon]

dude

i have no idea either

literally just been rockin some prairie fire

ok then save and thats it?

[pseudo island]

[fringe salmon]

BOOM!

you guys f'n rock

ty

[umbral narwhal]

Hmm. Maybe it incorrectly handles the case where the file gets smaller. That's probably unusual.

[granite trout]

I have been carrying on this too long and i cant for sake of me figure this out. I'm trying to pack my shit in a pbo file but addon builder doesn't like that and gives me the result code 1 all the dam time. I have check this this text up and down and around the town to have nothing pop up as a error, i need help before i go to sleep.

[high salmon]

Post your code block in #arma3_config
And use pboProject (from mikeros tools) or hemtt to pack pbos
Both give warnings and more useful errors than Addon Builder

[granite trout]

ight one min

but

[high salmon]

cpp just after the three backticks gives code highlighting

[granite trout]

im kinda new and i dont know what a code block is

[high salmon]

Three backticks, top left of keyboard () before and after formats as a code block in discord One backtick gives inline code`
Looks like this
Language code right after the first 3 backticks give automatic highlighting
cpp for c++ and config
sqf for sqf files

[granite trout]

does the code have to have the three black ticks in the code?

and plus the thing is like 2500 lines

[pseudo island]

use pastebin in that case

[hardy shell]

hey there, was wondering if anyone could help me out, im getting a circular addon dependency error in arma 3 and have no clue what to do. ive reinstalled the game, tried disabling each mod to see what if one was causing it, verified files, reinstalled mods, all that stuff. i have the zip with the lastest crash report if need be. thanks in advance :)

[umbral narwhal]

You can't get rid of a circular dependency problem unless you remove all of the mods in the dependency chain. And Arma won't tell you what they are, so good luck with that.

Either reduce to a known-good set and add stuff gradually, or use binary search methods to isolate the bad group.

[fervent stream]

I'm experiencing a really weird bug with ace loaded. When I have ace loaded specifically, I cannot enter nor exit vehicles. Both the scroll wheel menu and ace menu do not have a get in option, and when i start in a vehicle, the same is true and i also cannot eject. all keys are binded, the vehicle is not locked, basically everything i can think of is working and this only happens when ace is loaded

[quartz berry]

If you can't find an answer here ask in the Ace Discord listed in #channel_invites_list message

[hardy shell]

Figured out it was ace, and all the ace dependent mods I had installed. Still dont really understand why its throwing that error though or how to fix it :(

[umbral narwhal]

Well, ACE alone won't do that. Add mods until it breaks.

[hardy shell]

Fair enough, could it be something with the files attached to ace? Maybe its config or smth? Im not too savy when it comes to arma modding so I don't know the terminology lol. This pack ran for over 100hours with zero issue, thats whats making this confusing

[kind nimbus]

https://medal.tv/pl/games/arma-3/clips/ktW110jRGUDcITkgO?invite=cr-MSxJZk4sMjQ5ODg2OTY5

can someone help me

i have locked camera

[quartz berry]

Double click alt

[kind nimbus]

it doesnt work

my character just doesn't turn

[pine kite]

Then you may have changed that keybind that was originally Alt.

Or you've got some weird mod setup that messes it up.

[deep arch]

None of the ones in wikipedia support thing worked 😭

money down the drain

🥀

[steady hawk]

Of course Wikipedia won't help you with Arma 3 troubleshooting...

Tell more info than that. Like pinned post

[steady hawk]

This is not Wikipedia

[deep arch]

all I wanted is just to play 😭

[steady hawk]

And sure you can ignore my second post

[deep arch]

Well, what I did is just install the game, verify the integrity of files and thats it, No mods installed, clicked the "play" button then there

it just popped up

[steady hawk]

Which Windows, which bit, which Visual C++ reinstalled

You sure you have NEVER installed a Mod, especially manual install (aka moving a PBO file A to B)

You sure you have no ReShade

[deep arch]

windows 10, 64 bits, I installed the 64bits x64 version visual C++

[deep arch]

yeah, I don't have any mods on rn

[steady hawk]

What about my last

[deep arch]

uh I did have mods after I installed Arma 3, did the same, verifying the files and thought it'll work properly, all I got is just ACE i think. then that popped up, I got bored and thought if I reinstall arma 3 it'll work just fine now, I uh unsubcribe the mods I have in
then did the same again, and yeah the same thing popped up

[steady hawk]

I am so confused with your answer because I can't understand which part is the fact which is the current status

And doesn't answer if ReShade is there or not

[pine kite]

Which year of Visual C++ Redistributable? Though Steam should install it automatically.

Maybe it just needs a system restart. Not the first time that works.

[deep arch]

i have no idea what is ReShade even is

🤷

[steady hawk]

Then try:
remove all files in Arma 3 folder but not folders
remove dta folder
remove dll folder
Verify
and see if it works

[deep arch]

wdym by the first one? remove all files in arma 3 but not folders..?

[steady hawk]

Remove = delete

[deep arch]

all of this?

[steady hawk]

Yes, but not folders

[deep arch]

including the exes?

[steady hawk]

Yes

[deep arch]

uh-

same problem

[steady hawk]

Same as in this?

[deep arch]

yeah

[steady hawk]

If you have any Launch parameter in Arma 3 Launcher remove all of them

[warped flax]

Hi, could anyone help me with my port forwarding by trying to connect to my local host server?

[pseudo island]

!localhost

[rustic eagle]

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

[warped flax]

Many thanks, will take a look at those links, but the main issue I am having is players not being able to see my hosted game for some reason (for all I know a fix for that might be mentioned on those sites, but it cant hurt to be a bit more specific)

[pseudo island]

the solution is exactly whats listed there

[warped flax]

thank you, I narrowed it down, seems to be an issue with my ISP, since it says that PW failed

[viral flame]

how do i fix circular addon dependecy detected

it says check rpt for details

idk how

[bleak obsidian]

do you happen to be using the A3RO mod?

[viral flame]

yes

im assuming your gonna say to remove it?

[bleak obsidian]

i think @ember summit is working on a patch for this, but for now you'll have to wait until its updated, unload it, or unload any mods that it needs compatibility for, like ACE
(last part might be wrong, i'm not sure exactly how it's broken)

[viral flame]

Thanks

👍

Ill try it

It worked

Thanks alot man

[bleak obsidian]

i'm using it on my server without issue, cause luckily i don't use the mods that it's conflicting with

[viral flame]

What mods conflict with it?

how do i see that

[waxen sail]

Not without looking into the mod files, I don't think there's a way to see which mods cause circular dependencies

[bleak obsidian]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341786920

Soft Dependency System
As of Version 1.1, native compatibility has been achieved with ACE3, ACEAX, ACE_Tracers, Western Sahara CDLC and Real Engine.
presumably its one of these, but i've not actually seen this kind of error message before

[bleak obsidian]

as for this, .rpt refers to arma's log files and they're usually quite handy for figuring out certain issues, so you might need to find them later

!rpt

[rustic eagle]

Arma RPT

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

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

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

To share an rpt log here, please use a website like https://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.

[viral flame]

Thanks

[cloud elk]

Does anyone experience massive input lag when their FPS drops? Mine takes seconds to take anything in when mine drops

No VSync, proton 9.27 GE, High settings

[quartz berry]

At least for official servers, why do half of them disappear in game server browser after you join and leave a game and the other half dissapear after you join and leave another server?

[spiral smelt]

Hey i have a Probblem , my Launcher is stuck in "Starting Steam Service" , i cant add Local Mods / Local Mods cant get loaded , i reinstalled Steam , Arma 3 and deleted the "Arma 3 Launcher" Folder. Still the Same Problem , any idea to fix that ?

[ionic fern]

ASnyone know how to fix the problem where when I try to open my guys arsenal through ace or BI arsenal, it changes my guys uniform and vest and everything as soon as it opens?

[umbral narwhal]

That suggests you are running very weird mods.

[ionic fern]

im using a mix of 2 Ukrainian gear mods

but

i was using them yesterday too with no issue

loaded it up today

and boom

issue

but i also downloaded a couple more mods today

so maybe thats causing a wierd conflict

[spiral smelt]

John do you mean me ?

[umbral narwhal]

No.

[ionic fern]

it also killed the uniform when spawning

lemme try a diff map maybe

[umbral narwhal]

I'm not sure what your issue is. If you're running steam then the steam service should already be running. Maybe very strict user permissions.

[spiral smelt]

The Last 3 Years it worked , and from last week to now its broken ?

[umbral narwhal]

Well, Arma didn't change.

Windows did. Antivirus software did.

Message might be incorrect and the launcher is breaking on something else, but I haven't seen that particular message before.

[ionic fern]

one of these may be my problem, its the 2 i just installed maybe not even an hour ago, and the uniforms were working fine yesterday

[remote elbow]

how can i get the .tga from a3\characters_f i unpacked the game data using arma 3 tools but i get Failed to find file \a3\characters_f\heads\data\hl_white_bald_co.tga. while trying to build

[ionic fern]

it was the CWEUA mod

unloaded it and now the uniforms work fine

yippee

nvm

its the 3rd seperate i think

okay so the 3rd seperate assualt brigade gear works fine

if you use a 3rd seperate assualt faction character

and open them up in arsenal

they break

so if i just use a diff faction and use the 3rd sab gear its fine

[high salmon]

The file from unpacking would be a .paa, not a .tga
You need to convert it with TexView2 beforehand

If you are trying to build a mod, your paths to a3 might be mucked up
Using either mikero's tools for P drive setup, or using hemtt configured is recommended

[remote elbow]

the paths are fine as the rvmats all load fine i just didnt realise i had to convert the paa into a tga

[high salmon]

Just be aware, if you want it to use vanilla as a dependency, it should be using a paa, since all of the vanilla pbos use paa for all (or nearly all) texture and image files
I think all that's required in that case is to change the path to point to the .paa instead of pointing to a .tga that you have to create

[uncut trellis]

Properly set up pbo has paths to paa

How do you pack it

[remote elbow]

The paths were fine, the only thing it couldn't fine was the tgas because they didn't exist in the folders

[uncut trellis]

Tgas should not exist. The game internally uses. Paa.
And any tga you might have should get converted to PAA when you pack the pbo (assuming right tools/workflow) ((pbo manager is not the right tool))

[remote elbow]

I don't use pbomanager, I use armake and armake2 with a power shell acript, it was looking for tgas as they were hard linked in some of the P3Ds

[uncut trellis]

Right then sure it verifies path/file you give is valid.

[remote elbow]

Yeah it all seems to be working now that I've added the tgas to the include folder, I had never experienced tga's before so was a little confused on if something had gone wrong when unpacking the game data

[uncut trellis]

Unpacked data normally gets referenced as .paa in all vanilla files as like I said, the original tga should not get packed into the pbo.

One reason to reference tga can be the automated conversion that happens on binarization and that one can skip the manual conversion if the tga still gets re exported from original texturing project.

Also Object Builder viewport can draw tga and png if they are assigned on a model.

[deep arch]

there's nothing set, slr

[fiery pond]

game stuck on connecting state
chat shows MOTD, "NFogmann is connecting" and thats it.

Ive played on that server yesterday, no problem

server with battleye off

[granite grotto]

I do not see any of my Missions saved in here, but they are saved in-game, i can click and open the scenarios i created, but i do not see them in the files?

Only this .txt

[quartz berry]

Saved in editor, downloaded with workshop, or exported?

[granite grotto]

Saved in editor

[quartz berry]

You need to export them. Saved in editor you find by going into the editor and clicking the open in explorer button.

[granite grotto]

Thanks, worked.

[sweet jackal]

For some reason locking on when in helicopters is wildly inconsistent for me. Sometimes it works and sometimes it just doesn't. Does anyone know what might be causing that?

[odd lava]

I have an Issue where my game defaults to very low textures. I can fix it temporarily by changing sampling but it reverts back in a few min and even then im stuck to standard. I had access to higher textures before just don't know why it doesn't work now. The textures also don't load in til my very close to them for some reason.

[odd lava]

My chat also doesnt work for some reason

[quartz berry]

Do the issues happen without mods?

[uncut trellis]

star wars things are forbidden se we cant help with that

[odd lava]

yes im just on a server which is why the star wars stuff

[odd lava]

reference the above, im just on a server however these issues also happen on vanilla arma

last time i checked atleast which was a week ago

[quartz berry]

Prove it.

[odd lava]

give me a bit im currently on the server and cant really leave

[umbral narwhal]

Probably means that the game thinks it doesn't have enough VRAM.

Paste a vanilla RPT and it'll have a bit more info about that.

[odd lava]

will do

[odd lava]

do i post the rpt file here?

vanilla this time

[umbral narwhal]

yeah.

[umbral narwhal]

VRAM is too small (429496730), we need at least 536870912.

GPU drivers only report a half gig of dedicated memory and Arma doesn't like that.

It doesn't actually matter with an IGP but Arma is pretty daft.

[odd lava]

I see, it would fix itself if i got a GPU then?

[umbral narwhal]

If that's physically possible, yes.

[odd lava]

i see thank you, it should work i just didnt have the money to buy a decent one at that time so i had to skip out on it

[umbral narwhal]

A3 doesn't need much of a GPU so you can use any old crap. A 1060 is fine.

[odd lava]

thank you for your help, really appreciate it

[pseudo island]

You are likely also able to increase the max vram available in your BIOS to use more ram(you'll have to look it up in your motherboard manual), but performance will still be pretty bad

[wicked mulch]

So ive used the default "User" profile to make missions and after realizing I cant rename it, I made a new profile, which now uses a different default mission location.

Ive tried changing the profile location parameter to the default my documents/arma 3 directory but it didnt seem to do anything

only temporary solution I can think of is just copying all of the old missions to the new user

[pine kite]

The main profile is in Documents\Arma 3. The secondary profiles are in Documents\Arma 3 - Other profiles\PROFILENAME. You are better off moving the files that are important to you, to the other folder and rename them to the new profilename (like thise files ending in .arma3profile) Or whichever are saved in the other folders.

The main profile is simply based off of your Windows/Operating system username. Can't change that.

[wicked mulch]

Thanks

[grim nebula]

I have had this problem for a long, time sometimes Arma works and sometimes this comes up.

Any tips?

[high salmon]

That error basically means something broke
I get it semi-randomly when closing the game, very occasionally other times
All you can really do is check rpt, check modlist (broken mods can cause it far more often), and send report as the last resort.

!rpt

[rustic eagle]

Arma RPT

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

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

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

To share an rpt log here, please use a website like https://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.

[high salmon]

You can read it as a text file, sometimes there's something really obvious in the rpt

[pine kite]

Check this list: https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/Arma_3:_Unusual_Process_Exit Unfortunately it is a quite generic exit code. Could easily be due to causes external to Arma 3.

[grim nebula]

It only crash when i load the game with 64 bit, 32 works fine

[high salmon]

How much ram does your computer have?

[grim nebula]

8

[high salmon]

That should work for Arma
Not certain why you'd have issues with the 64bit version, but not the 32bit version
All I can think of is running out of ram, and Arma crashing.
You could try a different malloc, if ram is the issue, any of the default ones or mimalloc might work better. Not certain at all though

[pine kite]

You can upload the report/crash files, as mentioned in that bot response and the screenshot you posted, to the bohemia Interactive Feedback tracker site. Then the devs perhaps can tell you (the next working day at the soonest) what in particular caused the crash. Only they are able to decode those crash dumps.

Though I do remember someone having a similar experience of the game crashing only on 64bit and not on 32-bit.

[fathom sable]

been dealing with this since lastnight

@fair kestrel

[fair kestrel]

There is a link to the article about unusual exit codes a few messages above.

[fathom sable]

i tried these

idk how to update the battleye

[fair kestrel]

Start Steam as admin, then start the game, or, as written,

contact BattlEye support.

[fathom sable]

okay im gonna delete the game and install it again

[fair kestrel]

I don't think you need to do so.

[fathom sable]

too late lol i already did

[fair kestrel]

Did it help?

[fathom sable]

im downloading it rn

i know battleye works cause i have gta

this is annoying bro i really wnated to play it since it was 8 dollars

[fair kestrel]

AFAIR, for me everything was installed during the first launch of the game. If not, then usually launching as admin should help.

[fathom sable]

how do i do that

[fair kestrel]

Context menu of Steam shortcut -> "Run as administrator".

[fathom sable]

ohhh ok im still new to pc

[fathom sable]

that didnt work

its okay

ill figure something out

[umbral narwhal]

@fathom sable What file is battleye blocking in that screenshot btw? It's hidden behind the error dialog.

[willow niche]

Does anyone know how to turn this radar off?
It seems to be something related to sound, since it pings in the rough direction of any noise like a gunshot or explosion.

[quartz berry]

Disable mods until it goes away.

[late sky]

Can someone help me please? I am new to this pc stuff and I can’t play arma until I enable battle ye but I’m having issues

[quartz berry]

If it's giving you an error message, screenshot it and send it here.

[quartz berry]

Don't decline the BattlEye EULA licence. If you can't find the button to accept it, drag the window up.

[late sky]

When I say I’m new. I mean new new. Barely know what I’m doing.

[quartz berry]

Ok. If you don't understand something I said, then tell me the specific thing.

[late sky]

Ah I got it!

[willow niche]

I already tried this but even without any mods in still there

[quartz berry]

It might be a scripting thing in a certain mission. Try another mission and see if it happens there (with no mods, of course).

[willow niche]

Well I would say it isn't a scripting thing in a mission since it already appears in the loading screen and I have it in the editor

[quartz berry]

100% a mod thing. Send a screenshot of the main menu.

[quartz berry]

That's wild. Now I'm thinking it's third party software or something.

[quartz berry]

Does it happen in any other games?

[willow niche]

no not at all

[umbral narwhal]

Are you sure you're not running any cheat software? :P

[willow niche]

no not that I know

no I don't use any cheats..

[umbral narwhal]

It sounds like a deafness aid but I've not heard of anything like that in A3.

In theory third party software could add that with an overlay.

[willow niche]

I just opened the game after like 6 months...

but I wouldn't know about one I have installed

[quartz berry]

I dunnno, maybe check Task Manager?

[umbral narwhal]

Ok, what about that monitor overlay in the top right? Do you know where that's from?

[willow niche]

currently doing this

[willow niche]

thats geforce

[umbral narwhal]

Same one?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/bia7no/weird_sound_radar_how_to_remove_it/

Apparently Asus ROG sound drivers.

Actually three different answers there, I guess it's a popular thing.

[willow niche]

well I don't have asus rog drivers...

but I gonna read it one sec

And I never saw that in arma before today

[umbral narwhal]

Apparently Nvidia has one toggled by lalt+1.

[willow niche]

thats the answer

thanks

[quaint jewel]

The important thing is the thing right behind that message box.
The yellow icon in the BattlEye log, BattlEye is blocking something important. What is it blocking?

[quaint jewel]

Sorry for that bug, I've seen it once before but couldn't get it again to fix it.
You need to drag the EULA window up, then you get an accept button at the bottom. Its behind your task bar

[hybrid mango]

any idea how to flix the flickering?

[uncut trellis]

you can play with view distance and quality settings

but thats about it

[hybrid mango]

pretty much cranked up

[bronze river]

increase the shadow, but expect fps hit

[hybrid mango]

fps hit shouldnt be an issue with my cpu

ill try it once servers are updated

but they dont need to be at the distance of the flicker?

that would be 1.8km

[bronze river]

just do it, you'll see the difference

[hybrid mango]

not fully gone, but makes it way better

but 200m shadow 90 fps, 1800m 55fps inside AO, guess ill crank it up when im sniping only

[celest cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-waiting-patiently-still-waiting-impatient-cant-wait-gif-12475307509954025313

Will the 2.20 update be available on Mac?

[pine kite]

Eventually, not now though. (mentioned in the changelog)

[iron crow]

Hello there! I can't download a Contact DLC from Game Launcher. It shows "Downloading 0% 0.0 / 0.0 MB" and then nothing...

Any solutions?

[waxen sail]

Are you launching the game from Steam?

[iron crow]

Yes, I am.

Verifying game file, cache clearing - nothing works.

[pseudo island]

#linux_mac_branch message

[waxen sail]

Steam might not allow downloading of content while you have a game running (the launcher), you could try either closing the launcher and trying, try to force start it from the downloads page of Steam, or enable the setting that allows you to download while in game

[iron crow]

Oh,,,, I see =)

I'm kinda blind

[waxen sail]

xP

[iron crow]

xD

[vivid bough]

I'm updating the server - an error appears, what does it mean?

[pine kite]

It wrote the update didn't get to 100%, so it has not actually finished. Do the update again, and again as needed. Make sure you use the -verify command too.

[fathom sable]

Windows

[hasty fern]

why cant i switch to third person even if i use the right keybinds

[pseudo island]

It is a difficulty setting, so it could be disabled (either in your own difficulty settings or the difficulty settings of the server you're playing on)

[hasty fern]

Im playing solo antistasi what difficulty should i use to switch

[pseudo island]

or an antistasi specific setting for third person if it has it

[hasty fern]

Oh aight thx

nvm

[pseudo island]

You have to change it while not hosting your game (which it says in the message)

[solid finch]

got a strange problem. With last update on dev-branch all maps in eden editor are blocked and need to buy a DLC (free maps like Altis and VR also need it). All files were checked by Steam and game started without mods

moreover clicking on mods button in main menu send an error

[uncut trellis]

probably best to change to stable now

[pseudo island]

last update on dev-branch
last dev branch update was weeks ago, can you double check what branch you are on?

and try restarting your game + steam to see if that fixes it

[solid finch]

2.20.152939

[pseudo island]

so not dev branch, but stable/default

[solid finch]

and game says steam beta)

[pseudo island]

what does steam itself say?
and

try restarting your game + steam to see if that fixes it

[solid finch]

ok, I do it and check the result... if it doesnt help, then I`ll move to fully stable version, so on other dont have this problem

thanks for help

[pseudo island]

You are on the stable version, that version has never been on dev branch.

[solid finch]

changing version, restarting steam, game and computer dont work

[uncut trellis]

run steam game install verification

[solid finch]

already did it

[remote heron]

And i got after 2.20 Upgrade no Entry 'bin\config.bin/RscDisplayMultiplayerSetup/controls/CA_B_EnableAll.text' errors.

[quaint jewel]

Probably some mod breaking things?

Send rpt

[remote heron]

Yes i found it its it Camofaces mod from Sk3y

[quaint jewel]

Well yeah thats completely broken, its also in steam comments.
But I have not seen that specific control that you posted

I heard about message box buttons being broken, RscButton and such

[remote heron]

hmm okay i got this on Menü after gamestart and the 2. if i join on server with this mod on. but yeah...i not know its sad for this mod^^

[fathom sable]

why does it always say this

have been trying to play this for 3 days now

i think i completely ruined this pc trying to download new system32

[high salmon]

Don't do that
Your system32 is fine
Battleye is blocking random stuff most likely

[fathom sable]

No it’s because I deleted my system32 a few days ago trying to install a new one from a video I saw

And I bricked my pc

[high salmon]

Well, that's the issue
You need to reinstall Windows or restore from backup

If you can still get a terminal open, then you might be able to recover it without reinstalling

[fathom sable]

I have no clue what your saying

Please dumb it down

[high salmon]

How bricked is it?

[fathom sable]

I can’t play gta or arma

And most people are telling me to fresh install windows

How do I reinstall windows

[high salmon]

That won't necessarily fix battleye issues

[high salmon]

You are better off starting with system file checker before just resetting it

Open command prompt as an administrator
Run in the command prompt:
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Then run
sfc /scannow
Do not close the command prompt while either is running

Microsoft page for the same stuff: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

[high salmon]

@fathom sable Start here
If you have no errors, then your Windows installation most likely not the issue

You might need to reinstall Battleye however, since you said GTA also had issues
Or it could just be the random battleye issues, and it will be fine in a few hours to a few days, without changing anything

[fathom sable]

how do i reinstall battle eye

[high salmon]

Battleye is part of the game files, so verify files in Steam

[high salmon]

Also, that's NOT bricked
Bricked means your computer is non-functional, not that 2 games won't start with Battleye turned on

[fathom sable]

idk nothing

[high salmon]

You start someplace.
You don't start knowing everything.

[high salmon]

Your windows is fine
Most likely it's Battleye servers not working properly. They don't work consistently for everyone all the time

[fathom sable]

so just go to steam and verify the files for arma 3

[high salmon]

Yeah, start there.
If it's Arma 3, then that will find any corrupted files

[fathom sable]

it says 42 corrupted files

[high salmon]

That should fix it then

[high salmon]

Try starting it again, see if it works, or if battleye is still not working

[fathom sable]

time to brain rot on diablo 4

since i cant play arma rn

[high salmon]

[fathom sable]

gta is probably cause i have fiveM

[high salmon]

Try it again tomorrow
Sometimes Battleye just craps out for no reason, and then starts working a day or 2 later

With both GTA and Arma, if you don't need battleye for the server, just turn it off

I ususally have battleye disabled in Arma, since I usually play with private groups that don't need it

[fathom sable]

@high salmon

im gonna just say fuck this pc and go to bed

tired of messing with it

[fathom sable]

I’m being told I completely fucked my pc messing with the system32 file

[waxen sail]

maybe, what specifically did you do?

[fathom sable]

Deleted it and downloaded a different one from what I seen in a YouTube video telling me to do

[waxen sail]

you deleted the entire system32 folder?

[fathom sable]

This is what I did and installed another one

[modern echo]

please do a in place upgrade of your system asap or push button reset

please dont listen to the internet when it comes to deleting system32 really

your windows install is the least of your problems with battleye

just disable it

[waxen sail]

Yeah I'm surprised that system kept on running, you can try to do an in-place repair with the media creation tool, or just start with a fresh windows install

[fathom sable]

What do you mean

[modern echo]

reinstall your system properly and do not touch system files without knowledge

[fathom sable]

How

I deadass have no clue about this shit

Speak dumb

[modern echo]

i dont work with dumbs, sorry

[fathom sable]

Tell me what to do and I’ll do it

[modern echo]

i told you what you need to do, google how to do a in place repair

download windows iso of your architecture and language and open it then follow the setup instructions

its offtopic for this channel anyway

you shot your own foot by following nonsense

[modern echo]

it didnt allow him to delete the super essentials because its protected, only managed to delete any user stuff such as dx redist

[fathom sable]

If I reset my whole pc will it make it worse?

[modern echo]

not there, you have to download a windows iso

[modern echo]

you will have to reconfigure everything if you do that, you will have to redownload steam

[fathom sable]

But it will fix all the issues yes?

[modern echo]

it will just make your life harder because you are going to start over with your computer

it might fix issues but you will need to reinstall everything anyway

[fathom sable]

That’s fine I have time

As long as it fixes it

[modern echo]

good luck

it may or may not fix things, you simply need to reinstall and not mess with your os because people online said so

d3dcompiler dlls are from directx runtime

[fathom sable]

I just looked it up at the Microsoft website it says you can completely wipe the pc or use a usb both are clean wipes

[umbral narwhal]

DISM & SFC may be too dumb to check those D3D DLLs. Not sure if there's another repair method.

In this case battleye is probably telling the truth.

[modern echo]

????

[modern echo]

those dlls are part of directx runtime, not os files, the fix is rerun the dx redist installer

[umbral narwhal]

Yeah, except that DirectX is effectively part of the OS these days.

It'll just tell you that the installer isn't for this version of windows.

[modern echo]

those arent, they're from the older directx 9 runtime

[umbral narwhal]

Even so.

[modern echo]

the directx runtime installer works on newer windows without problems

they install optional things that are always missing out of the box in windows

[umbral narwhal]

IME it just tells you to sod off on win10+. You can extract the cabs and run those though.

[modern echo]

it just runs fine

it also goes through a process of registering them

[umbral narwhal]

Ok, give me a link to one that runs on win10.

[modern echo]

the dx redist included in steam will do

[umbral narwhal]

huh, ok, that one does. The identical-looking ones from the website do not.

Fine, just run that one then. steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010\DXSetup.exe

[fathom sable]

I’m just gonna completely reset my pc download local or cloud for windows reinstall

I can’t truly be bothered anymore if it doesn’t fix

[modern echo]

you might be getting non-official microsoft ones, because last i tested it works fine

[umbral narwhal]

Maybe I'm thinking of it not working on Windows Server.

[modern echo]

not everyone have that steamworks redists installed, instead it can be found in the game directory under _commonredist

[modern echo]

pretty sure even on windows server it works

since vista/2008 windows is a unified codebase platform

[umbral narwhal]

Yeah it works but the installer rejects.

[modern echo]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[umbral narwhal]

So you have to dismantle the thing and run stuff manually.

[modern echo]

or just run the offline redist

[umbral narwhal]

Last time this came up:
#arma3_troubleshooting message

[modern echo]

ok

[modern echo]

thats server 2025 which is windows 11 based

[idle burrow]

I cant get my Config Viewer to open , its a mod thing for sure but i cant figure out which one , is there any mod thats known to give this bug ?

[uncut trellis]

some disable it on purpose. no data on which ones though

youll have to test by disabling some and running the game

[pine kite]

Then don't start breaking things inside Windows folders based upon some video someone made. Leave it like it is. Depending on where you got that System32 folder content from, you might have infected your system if you downloaded that somewhere suspicious from the web. A complete reinstall of Windows would be the safest thing to do. Or tell a computer repairshop to do that for you.

[idle burrow]

Goddamn 😩 i have some 90 mods loaded

All i want to do is change the particles at launch and rocket sound launch of POOK’s luna launcher to particles and sound of the Scud that project racs uses

But cant get the names
The pbo of the racs is unextractable for some reason and the cfgviewer doesnt open

[fathom sable]

How to do I do the usb reinstall I only have one pc

[bronze river]

hmm the unclickable boxes return after 2.20 update, got this issue back in perf_profiling a while back then, but i'm currently using stable

[pine kite]

I would ask someone else with a working system to use the Microsoft website to download the installation media to USB.

But since you are very new at this tech stuff, I do suggest you leave that reinstalling of Windows to professionals like a repair shop. They can probably also save your personal documents before doing a full system wipe.

[bronze river]

let's see if profiling now fixes this

nope still same, welp i gues doing 50:50 now

[remote heron]

its a mod like Camofaces

[bronze river]

solved

[remote heron]

what was it for u?

[bronze river]

Camofaces

solved in #perf_prof_branch

[remote heron]

Ah the same thing like with me.

[glossy zephyr]

i think i witness two bugs all at once: glitched chat and temp.zoom stuck zoomed

as i recall the latter had some workaround outside of obvious fiddle with free head/weapon swap/sight mode change, can anyone please remind of any?

[quaint jewel]

fpr stuck toom i usually press numpad plus/minus until it resolves itself

[glossy zephyr]

for some reason it doesn't, but i remember that it wasn't a terminal state of it, apparently recent updates (not necessarily the game itself) made it unresolvable

[kindred nimbus]

I'm unable to click anything in the main menu (after the game has loaded)

any idea what it might be?

[umbral narwhal]

Trying alt-tabbing in and out again.

[kindred nimbus]

did, including ALT+Enter to go into windowed which allows me to pass the main menu problem but it reappears in the editor where again I can't click anything

this time around the above doesn't work anymore just sits in the screen that looks like it's loading the selected Editor map

also it's actually doing somthing in the background since my CPU is putting in the work

[umbral narwhal]

Perf or stable branch?

[kindred nimbus]

same on both unfortunately

[umbral narwhal]

No mods loaded?

[grave egret]

Don't know if I'll have any luck but worth a shot, currently trying to host a server for a small group of friends. When I try to do a server through arma 3 direct they can't find it and when I try to do a nitrado server I can't get any missions that I set up to work, I'm running out of ideas and curious to see if anyone can help

[umbral narwhal]

Former is normal unless you're experienced in port forwarding. Latter is normal for Nitrado.

[grave egret]

I've thrown my hands up with nitrado, id sooner put my mentality to figuring out the old way. Cause I can get a friend who lives with me on the server but anyone outside the house is not possible

It seems

[umbral narwhal]

It's complicated. Do you have access to your router config?

[grave egret]

Yes I do

[grave egret]

just a matter of what i do with it, cause as far as i know i have port forwarding on

[fading pulsar]

Does your isp allow hosting? Are you behind CGNAT?

Did you forward enough ports, game port +5?

When fowarding, did you enter correct local ip?

[grave egret]

I've hosted before, as for enough ports only things it allows is port number, range, and udp/tcp protocol

They seem to be able to semi find it regularly now it just never loads for them, doesn't give an error or anything just stays on the loading screen or at most gives them a password error even if they put it in right

[fading pulsar]

Did you try hosting complete vanila w/o mods and vanilla mission?

[grave egret]

I do believe so yes, I can try again. But so far the person who lives with me can join just fine on an online but the two other friends can't seem to no matter what I have tried

I used to do servers like this with other friends and didn't have any issues but now a days when I try nothing works

[pine kite]

Make sure to port forward the entire UDP port range 2302-2306 to your hosting computer.

And make sure Arma 3 (client for localhosting and Arma 3 server if you use a dedicated server) can receive traffic from the internet through your firewall. (Windows Defender firewall: allow public network access)

[fading pulsar]

That means you didnt forward correctly. Since you two are behind same router, you can join each other without the need for forwarding

[fading pulsar]

Firewall seems okay, if lan works

[grave egret]

Thankfully i may have figured it out, will be testing with friends later today

[stuck depot]

I'm getting a lot of laucher crashes since last update.

Running profiling branch.

[pine kite]

Then report to #perf_prof_branch

[quaint jewel]

no we don't touch launcher 🫂

[quaint jewel]

that doesn't look like a crash, it looks like the launcher just doesn't open?

did the launcher put down a log file on your desktop?

Ah I see, there was an exception. But how do we get what the exception was

Ah probably..

[quaint jewel]

Press Windows+R and enter this
%localappdata%/Arma 3 Launcher/Logs
That will open the log folder, I need the files in there, you can send them to me via DM

[north pawn]

can some one help me out i have some kind of bug when after 30-40 min of playing and having about 50 fps then my game starts having glitchy graphics and textures and the fps drops to 3-10 and no i didn't use mods. I got the bug when i were using a lots of graphics mods and now the problem is still present in vanilla game. here is a video of someone having the same problem. https://youtu.be/mdrW8Q5GdDs?si=0LXrP9lRAZXJSH5L

[quaint jewel]

Bornholm? Yeah not new :€
That's the 3fps bug

Google "Arma 3 Cheat Codes"
The super flush miiiight help

[north pawn]

thanks bro!

[bold cloud]

hello, any1 know whats the issue here? my friend is hosting and it seems sometimes it says this?

its random but it happens.. if any other questions are needed lmk

[umbral narwhal]

Localhost or dedicated server?

[bold cloud]

locahost.. and it seems if we cross over 34 mods thats when it happens

[high salmon]

There's an issue that the modlist can't fit in the space available to transmit it if the modlist is too large
If it's possible, sharing a mod preset is the most reliable workaround, though optional mods aren't shown without extra effort

[bold cloud]

ah shit.. so theres nothing that can be done naturally when having a large modlist then eh

[umbral narwhal]

On a dedicated server you can increase steamProtocolMaxDataSize to work around it.

But it's not clear whether that's possible on localhost.

[bold cloud]

ty john and raven ya guess we gotta figure it out

[warm parrot]

Hey, don't know how many people ask a similar question, but I'm coming back to play this game after maybe 10 years, my pc is not that powerful (i5 12gen + 3050 4gb VRAM), but I heard that the game received a performance update

Is there any recent performance guide? Do I need to do anything? Or just open the game and don't think about it? Cuz the fps is still bad for me (around 20 on cities and 50 on open fields)

[uncut trellis]

there are no magic boosts so only thing you can do is fiddle with the graphics settings

[pulsar stratus]

Anyone else having an issue where the mpmissions folder just doesnt exist in your other profiles folder with the new update?

[warm parrot]

What about the preferences in the launcher?

[pulsar stratus]

I use the multithreading performance branch under steam betas to limit bottlenecking

[warm parrot]

Anything else?

[umbral narwhal]

That's broken-bad. If it was working as expected then you'd get more than that even with 10k view distance.

[pulsar stratus]

Idk if they've fixed the issue but i generally dont put things on low graphics settings because that also bottlenecks performance in my experience

[umbral narwhal]

Since the update I get 50fps in an Antistasi Kavala localhost firefight on a 4790. With shadows enabled.

[warm parrot]

Intel CPU?

[umbral narwhal]

4790 is a haswell i7, yes.

[warm parrot]

How did you set up your game? Preferences in the laucnher and such

[umbral narwhal]

It probably doesn't matter. You would struggle to make it run that badly intentionally.

We get a regular trickle of people with extremely low A3 frame rates in #hardware_vs_arma and never found a reason. Windows reinstall probably works.

[warm parrot]

Can you send a screenshot of the preferences? Maybe I fucked up something here

And if it is working for you I might as well copy it

[umbral narwhal]

In Arma? Just set overall quality to Standard if in doubt.

Don't use any launcher parameters.

[warm parrot]

I mean, parameters, sorry

Thought it was preferences

So you leave everything default on parameters?

[umbral narwhal]

Personally I enable filepatching, show script errors, debug mode and 4GB memory limit, but you shouldn't do that.

The defaults are good. Just untick everything.

[warm parrot]

Do you enable hyper treading?

[umbral narwhal]

Absolutely not.

[pine kite]

Read the section at 1/4th of this page about command-line parameters. And maybe the entire story if you are interested in what the improvements bring: https://dev.arma3.com/post/oprep-performance-optimizations-in-220

[glass grove]

since this performance update I have issues, never had them before that - low FPS, stuttering - before things run fine, what did they do to the game?! (did not chance any of the settings I have been using for years now and did not update anything else or install anything new)

[waxen sail]

Were you using command line parameters before?

[glass grove]

nope

[brave hawk]

Do you have cpuCount or exThreads in the launcher?

[glass grove]

no nothing of the sort, did not make any changes to the settings either

noticed it yesterday but more so today, up to the point of checking on here if there is anything I am missing or have to do

[brave hawk]

try a brand new game profile, and/or autodetect settings?

[glass grove]

do not have such a powerful computer but things ran pretty well

ah no have not tried that, wanted to see if there are any new guides on best settings that follow the new update thingy

[brave oyster]

Hi guys, our clan concluded two events today, one with 50+ people and second with 20 people, both sessions had problems with disappearing assets (a tank disappeared and could not be spawned via Zeus - vanished from the listings as well), invisible trees and assets. On top of that, one of the scenarios was set up in a jungle and it seems like grass cutters caused massive desync and/or FPS drops for more than two thirds of the people

[glass grove]

will give the autodetect a spin and see if it helps, otherwise play around with the settings (but from what I can tell those settings did not really change, i.e. there are no new options in there, at least as far as I can tell)

[brave oyster]

Both scenarios were simple Zeus setups with basic respawns. Running light modpack used before, the second was heavy modded and had more performance issues (jungle one)

We have played both scenarios in the past without issues, they were only slightly modified (scenery evolution, some assets were moved and locations populated by AIs)

[umbral narwhal]

@glass grove There are some cases (no HT, <16 cores) where it may help a lot to reduce cpuCount slightly.

[glass grove]

thanks john, is there a guideon how to do that?

[umbral narwhal]

It's trivial but it doesn't matter unless you have a CPU that matches that description.

Unless you know what your CPU is you won't know what to set it to.

[glass grove]

rgr thanks mate think it best to leave it as is then

it is weird though had to lower some of the settings I had before, so on my end it was no performance update lol but a downgrade

[grave egret]

Still unable to have people find my server no matter what I do, I'm losing my mind. I have port forwarding on and nothing

I've done both manual port forwarding and upnp as well

Neither seems to work, no matter what I have tried to do no one I play with can find the server. I'm out of ideas

[umbral narwhal]

Do you know if you're on CGNAT?

[lament shard]

has anyone had any issues connecting to servers since the latest update? i can connect to the server from direct connect, i get to a loading screen where i see "$my_user connecting" (and can see other people joining/leaving), but it never actually puts me in the lobby

other people are able to join just fine, though. it's a modded server, but i've connected to this specific server with this specific version of the modpack just fine as recently as monday. no network changes on either side since. validated game files

trying to connect to a vanilla server now

server browser is empty...

wondering if maybe it's a network issue, but i can still direct connect to my desired server/it shows up in the direct connect browser after putting the IP in/i can get to the load screen and there's clearly traffic passing since i see people joining/leaving

not running any software firewall on my pc, and no changes to my router firewall

also, neither the server nor i are running battleye

this is all i get

i haven't let it time out to an error message or anything yet but it's been trying to connect for several minutes and i get nowhere

[lament shard]

fixed, had to go from proton 8 to proton 9

[chrome bluff]

help me please i cant edit cars or anything when pressing alt and double click and can change side realitions and more

how do i fix that

[fair kestrel]

Install dependency.

[uncut trellis]

in this case Western Sahara DLC

or compatibility data for it

[bronze river]

always read the required DLC(s) on the workshop page

[fair kestrel]

Aren't they installed automatically?

[bronze river]

the apex yes, may need to tick it manually for CDLC

[open breach]

Okay

What dlc i need to run this

[fair kestrel]

All of them, as written on the picture.

[high salmon]

Apex isn't actually required, just some gear will need it
WS is absoulutely required

[open breach]

How can i add more mods in one to have all mods in server like one folder but with lots of mods?

[high salmon]

You don't
Repacking is not worth your time, and is usually against the license

[bronze river]

you may want to rephrase the question

[placid star]

anyone know how to get the thrustmaster t-16000 to work on reforger

[bronze river]

try asking in #reforger_questions, this is Arma 3 chat

[placid star]

ok for the link i was looking

ty

[livid nacelle]

Hello, i am having an issue where the only way I can join my friend's server is through the launcher, and we are using the cold war mobilization DLC, but when I join his server, it automatically disables the DLC in the DLC tab, the game mode we are running is Antistasi and we really want to play. Anyone know how to fix this?

[steady hawk]

It automatically disables the DLC, what is "it"? Launcher? Do you press "unload please" button or something?

[livid nacelle]

Yeah sorry for missing clarification, it is through the launcher

No, I am just pressing the "setup DLC's and join" button

The other button, "keep current DLC's" does the same thing aswell

[steady hawk]

You really sure Keep current DLCs does unload it as well? You sure your game unloads it?

[waxen sail]

Is the server definitely using the DLC and not the compat patch?

[steady hawk]

That doesn't (shouldn't) really matter because it is 1:1 file

[waxen sail]

Yeah but I can imagine the client disabling the DLC if it's not advertised on the mod list

More likely whatever weirdness stops you from joining through the server browser and not the launcher

[vernal gale]

Hello i am having issues with the radar where i cant lock any targets using r, it only work while looking at the target and pressing r and it doesnt matter if im on a ground vehicle or helo/ jet

[median valve]

Downloaded ACE3 along with a bunch of other mods and i keep getting this error which ultimately makes the game close. I looked it up and saw lots of people with the same issue but couldn't find any specific fix

[fluid arrow]

So i use AZERTY keyboard but the game does not care about this and just shows whatever QWERTY button matches that layout. Is there a technical reason as to why this can't be fixed?

[uncut trellis]

you may need to manually rebind the keys

[vernal gale]

i did that and it changed nothing

[bronze river]

create a new profile, and rebind it in that new profile

[vernal gale]

did that and tried it with the kajman, and it seems i can only lock targets with r if i have a gunner, and this also works on my main profile

[umbral narwhal]

Remove the other mods. Add them one by one.

[median valve]

💀

Alr, gonna take me a while

[umbral narwhal]

Oh, in that case you have too many mods.

You can add in related batches or do the proper binary search instead.

[median valve]

That seems to typically be what causes it, everyone else that has the issue says they have "a shit ton of addons"

And I also have "a shit ton of addons"

[umbral narwhal]

Well, it's usually a combination of two specific mods that's the problem, but good luck finding that needle in the haystack.

[median valve]

💀 well I sat and made the whole pack so I've got the patience to tear it apart

[vivid bough]

does not let me into any server - the game freezes when I enter

Client Dimon UA - client's ticket has become invalid. Code: 6
21:44:30 NetServer: cannot find channel #1281771706, users.card=12
21:44:30 In last 1000 miliseconds was lost another 4 these messages.
21:44:30 Message not sent - error 0, message ID = ffffffff, to 1281771706 (Dimon UA)
21:44:30 In last 1000 miliseconds was lost another 3 these messages.

[livid nacelle]

Yes, i have launched the game with both buttons, and it isn’t showing up. When i am about to enter the password to join my friends server, the “Play with mods & DLC’s” switched to “Play with mods” And I can’t join from the in-game server browser as it immediately disconnects me when I join.

[median valve]

oh my god i go so lucky, the first 10 i removed was one of the conflicting mods

🙏

[glossy zephyr]

how comes, that on the client side without any mods, going to multiplayer results into 151494 into .rpt file after 30 min of playing in there which didn't happen before, there are no mods on the client side

and the second question is why bohemia forums shows me a stub about spam (this one https://data.bistudio.com/misc/forums-maintenance.html ), while battleye connection just dropped?

[steady hawk]

That honestly doesn't look like a (C)DLC issue but something on the server's end. Can you join an official GM server?

[steady hawk]

BI Forums and BE are unrelated

[vivid bough]

https://youtu.be/88AxbANfYvQ?t=66
my game is broken, I tried everything, I don't understand what happened. I deleted the game and reinstalled it - it didn't help.
I can't log into any server - there's not even a chat

[quaint jewel]

client's ticket has become invalid.
Steam refused to authenticate you. You should be kicked when that happens

[vivid bough]

and how to fix this?

[quaint jewel]

restart steam/PC usually

[vivid bough]

restarting the pc didn't help 😕

[quaint jewel]

Client Dimon UA - client's ticket has become invalid. Code: 6
Do you see that on every server (who'se logs you can read) ?

Its definitely some issue with steam, I don't know how to solve it

[vivid bough]

ok, thanks - I'll solve the problem with steam

[quaint jewel]

Your crash is because a sound failed to load, probably because generally something went wrong with loading. I've fixed it for future

[waxen sail]

Have been seeing something similar since a profiling update, now running 2.20
Players join, cannot press the OK button, and eventually are kicked for Battleye: Query Timeout if they do not disconnect by themselves
The same players have no faults reported with their battleye, cannot solve it by reinstalling battleye/changing port/restarting/any usual solutions
This happens inconsistently between multiple servers, pointing to it not being a client-sided battleye fault, but the culprit is pretty much always a much higher traffic server

What can I do to gather information to solve this?

[quaint jewel]

Their BattlEye is not connecting.. They could try reinstalling their local BattlEye client

Ah already tried that..
I have no advice

[waxen sail]

rip

[fluid arrow]

How and in what order are the mods loaded? Do all players have the mods in the same order?

[lean lantern]

Can't say much on the order of clients as figuring out what 100s of people have is difficult, but the server is keyed so all mods are the same and it's the same list we have been using for about 6 months with no changes.