arma3_troubleshooting

[waxen sail]

The server I refer to is vanilla, optional clientside mods

[burnt star]

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

My game is crashing when using this. Anyone else have similar issues?

When clicking kick member from group my game freezes.

[umbral narwhal]

Perf or stable branch?

[worldly knoll]

Having a player on 2.20.152939 (stable) crash with a DX11 out of memory error with just rpt output and no MDMP. Anything I can do to get more debug info for an issue? Rpt exert below and full available on request (some weird available sizes).

19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 CreateTexture failed : w = 2048, h = 2048, format = BC3_UNORM, err = E_OUTOFMEMORY.
19:14:29 DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 Virtual memory total 131072 GiB (140737488224256 B)
19:14:29 Virtual memory free 131016 GiB (140677545283584 B)
19:14:29 Physical memory free 275 MiB (288657408 B)
19:14:29 Page file free 10 MiB (10534912 B)
19:14:29 Process working set 7.3 GiB (7838597120 B)
19:14:29 Process page file used 14 GiB (15099121664 B)
19:14:29 Longest free VM region: 2937874640 B
19:14:29 VM busy 56 GiB (reserved 41 GiB, committed 15 GiB, mapped 370 MiB), free 131016 GiB
19:14:29 Small mapped regions: 39, size 172032 B
19:14:29 VID: dedicated: 12 GiB, shared 8.0 GiB, system: 0 B, max: 12 GiB, used: 5.8 GiB
19:14:29 ErrorMessage: DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY
19:14:29 Application terminated intentionally
ErrorMessage: DX11 error : CreateTexture failed : E_OUTOFMEMORY```

[umbral narwhal]

@worldly knoll Check their GPU info in the RPT.

It's just under the mod table.

Other questions would be how long they were playing for, and whether it's repeatable or a one-off.

That's an awful lot of general memory usage though.

[worldly knoll]

twice in a 90 minute period, first time shortly after launch based on their RPT

19:00:29 DX11 - Initializing DX11 engine.
19:00:30 DX11 - Using DXGI adapter 0 (detected in config).
19:00:30 DX11 - Using DXGI adapter 0.
19:00:30     - adapter description : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
19:00:30     - adapter vendor ID : 4318
19:00:30     - adapter device ID : 9476
19:00:30     - adapter subsys ID : 964498530
19:00:30     - adapter revision  : 161
19:00:30     - dedicated video memory : 4113563648
19:00:30     - dedicated system memory : 0
19:00:30     - shared system memory : 4256219136
19:00:30     - driver version : 57602/r575_92
19:00:30 InitSound ...
19:00:30 Selected Audio Output: Headphones (High Definition Audio Device) - Channels: 2, Freq: 48000
19:00:30 InitSound - complete
19:00:35 PhysX3 SDK Init started ...
19:00:35 PhysX3 SDK Init ended.```

[worldly knoll]

That's what I thought too

Same session and I did not have that kind of memory usage in my logs (oftware)

[umbral narwhal]

Oh yeah:

Page file free 10 MiB

[worldly knoll]

Ope

[umbral narwhal]

Gonna guess they have everything set at Extreme and not a ton of RAM.

[verbal lion]

I switched Arma 3 from the profiling build to the normal build and now the game won't launch:

[umbral narwhal]

Is that battleye blocking things in the background?

[verbal lion]

Yeah, appears it was. The game launches now with Battleeye off

[blazing wind]

Ok so ive been comepltly scammed i thought this game had some sort of playerbase mods dont work in campeign not sure why i just bought it but evry server is 0/0 and if i try to play the one thats 30/50 it dosnt let me join with mods

this is horrid

dont even help me im requesting a refund

[fair kestrel]

That's sad that people buy something without reading the description, reviews, etc, and then cry that they were scammed.

[uncut trellis]

you have not been scammed, you just thought it works pretty much the opposite than it does work

1. campaigns/missions are usually not designed to be played with mods.
2. joining an MP server expects you to have same mods as the server runs. how else would the mods work? like if you have mod with megablasterAK9000 and the server and other players dont have that, it cant work together can it.
3. Arma3 playerbase is spread around in different game modes and not all the thousands of servers have people all the time. There are multiple ways to play MP in public servers on public casual gamemodes or in more organized way by joining units/gaming groups in their scheduled operations.
4. This is not 24/7 live help chat. People answer if they know and when they can. Dont be a dick about it.

[quaint jewel]

Send me the crash report

[quaint jewel]

19:14:29 Page file free 10 MiB (10534912 B)
Increase the size of your page file.
That is the thing that is failing the texture creations.

Though the game using almost 8gb of memory is also worrying

[bronze river]

i always wonder how big can you set the page file, and how it affects performance

[pine kite]

Don't set it bigger than the remaining space on your harddrive/SSD.

[bronze river]

say, 256GB SSD, and the page file is 20GB

(so 230GB leftover)

[pine kite]

I wouldn't know, try it.

[worldly knoll]

Thanks I'll ask them to do that

[odd token]

So i found a potential bug for the A3 launcher where in rare cases (usually post-update), launching the ARMA 3 launcher while using Retrobar (a software modifying the taskbar to looks like an older windows' taskbar) crashes the launcher immediately, and only disabling retrobar would allow launching. However, enabling retrobar post-launch gives no error and subsequent launches will no longer give an error after that. OS is Windows 11. And attached is the desktop crash log of the launcher.

[pseudo island]

https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar/issues/895
seems this isn't only an A3 Launcher issue

[odd token]

Oh well, native RetroBar issue then, thanks for the help though, really appreciate it 👍

[hearty igloo]

Hello everyone, I've been trying to play arma 3 for two weeks now, but every time I run into problems, I'm sorry, I started the game with Battleye, but now the problem is that when I log in to any server, I have nothing but this screen, the game does not freeze, because the interface sounds are audible, but I can't keep running, please help me.

Sorry for my english

[quaint jewel]

On Windows?

[hearty igloo]

Yes

[quaint jewel]

I've heard of that happening on linux in proton. But not on windows.
It was a BattlEye issue then

[heavy kettle]

yo is anyone crashing everytime your entering a server or a map? mine is, with either 2 possible errors (using perf branch so idk if this is the right place to ask)
-Status access violation (Suspected its ram yet i only have ArmA running and nothing else)
-status page guard page violation ( dont know what that is nor even google showed anyone having the issue)

[pseudo island]

#perf_prof_branch and if you have any crash dumps DM them to @ dedmen.
they should be in %localappdata%\Arma 3

[heavy kettle]

whats the name for the crashdumps? or is it a folder? i only see a shit ton of folders and file

[pseudo island]

Arma3_x64_YEAR-MONTH-DAY_HOUR-MINUTE-SECOND.mdmp

[heavy kettle]

all of the crash dump seems to be like a week or 2 old, should i still send it or should i just ask in the perf channel?

[pseudo island]

-Status access violation (Suspected its ram yet i only have ArmA running and nothing else)
-status page guard page violation ( dont know what that is nor even google showed anyone having the issue)
and these happened more recent?

[heavy kettle]

these happend not so long ago, like 2 days

and they are not consistent

sometimes it'd work sometimes it will be an error like that

my main suspicion would be my own arma profile since i just moved it like a week ago but im still not so sure

[hearty igloo]

And then how did you solve this problem?

[quaint jewel]

We told BattlEye to fix it, and they did. They didn't implement a feature on Proton

[hearty igloo]

The problems started after formatting the disk, I cleared the files on my system, after that battleye just stopped running, but somehow it worked with the vpn, later the problems started again, and I just changed the battleye Arma to battleye Unturned, the game started, but stopped logging into the servers (the problem is in the picture), I reinstalled the anti-cheat and game, but the problem remains

[hearty igloo]

The game is working.. On a 32-bit platform

[mossy dirge]

Hello! Can anyone help me fix my mods conflict in Arma 3. I have a Mod Pack of around 243 Mods. The Problem is that when I load it the RHS waypoints are breaking. The Tochka U will not fire after deploying because a black smoke starts coming from the back of it while it is in the process of deploying and then it never actually fires. I have tested without the other mods but with RHS, 3cb, all POOK mods and AI mods that I run loaded and it works fine so I don't even know what else would break it? There is also some weird flickering in the background but it fixes after I turn off the automatic viewdistance mod. If someone can help me It would be great, thank you!

This is my mod list

Oh and i am running performance profiling build

[tiny imp]

i would suggest to try use #perf_prof_branch profiling branch

[high salmon]

Z-fighting is unavoidable, some models just have it, and it's more noticeable at long view distance. Increasing model quality can help

I looked at your modlist, down to mods starting with F, didn't see anything immediate, other than it's a huge modlist

If you tested it with the core mods that you want, and it worked, then the next step is to do a binary test until you find the mod that mucks up the RHS vehicles
The black smoke makes me think that something is mucking up the vehicle to the point where it breaks the engine when you try to deploy.
I haven't used many of the mods on your list, binary search is probably the best method (disable half and test, no issues -> mod is in other half, repeat until you've found the broken mod)

[mossy dirge]

Damn that will take a long time

Anyway thanks for the answer

[mossy dirge]

Thank you for your time, if you have a few more minutes can you see if something Below the mods starting with F could cause it? There is a V2 flying bomb mod and etc. However I am testing with 100 mods loaded now and will see if it works.

i am also running spearhead CDLC

[high salmon]

I don't have the time right now, and I likely wouldn't see anything
I've mostly used a Western Sahara + Aegis modpack, and wouldn't know if most of the mods cause issues

[mossy dirge]

oh ok, thank you

[hearty igloo]

not working

I don't know why, but in the 32-bit version, you can go to the servers and play, but not on 64 anymore

[tiny imp]

what OS ?

[hearty igloo]

Windows 11 home

[dim narwhal]

Whats the root cause of this error? path\to\Model.p3d: house, config class missing

Been getting it a lot when packing a terrain, not sure how to fix

vanilla class has it too a3\structures_f_exp\industrial\sugarcanefactory_01\scf_01_condenser_f.p3d: house, config class missing

[quaint jewel]

Every "House" needs to have a config class named, in this example
Land_scf_01_condenser_f in CfgVehicles.
Though that vanilla class throwing that is very weird. Because the class is there

Ah you're getting it when packing the terrain.
That means the config that binarize uses when packing, is probably outdated and doesn't contain that land class

#arma3_terrain people would know better.
I'd think you need to update the configb binarize uses (tbh we should be doing that, but we.. didn't)

[tiny imp]

just to make sure, your client is 2.20.152991 ?

[hearty igloo]

yes

[dim narwhal]

So is the solution then to declare any object im using in the config of the map?

[uncut trellis]

Terrain objects need to be made right to work on terrain properly.

For A3 stuff you should not need to do anything.

Don't go declaring them. That's not at all normal workflow. And likely ends up breaking things

[dim narwhal]

Can these specific instructions be found anywhere? Again, happens with native a3 objects so more curious whats causing it

[uncut trellis]

Are those objects normally used on terrain?

What do you pack the pbo with?

[proven vale]

Lean and stance not working for me. I'm playing with some mods, but there are no keybind conflicts. Anyone can help? Maybe help identify the issue?

These are the mods I'm running:

Turning off Enhanced Movement, and Enhanced Movement Rework didn't help

[uncut trellis]

Remove all mods, test.

If works add some mods back to, test

Repeat

[proven vale]

Fair enough

Apparently leaning and combat stances don't work when you are not armed

[dim narwhal]

structures_F_exp so ya. Using pboproject

[hearty igloo]

So is there anything you can do to help me with this? for some reason, the 64-bit platform does not want to run servers

[tame forge]

Something like this is poping up evertime

[waxen sail]

#reforger_troubleshooting

[tame forge]

Ma bad

[rough vortex]

Hi everyone, I’m reaching out regarding a persistent VOIP issue in Arma 3 that I’ve exhausted all known fixes for and that i encountered a few years back and now.
Summary:
My mic works in all other apps (Discord, Steam test, etc.), but in Arma 3, voice does not transmit.
The VOIP icon appears when I press PTT (Caps Lock), but others cannot hear me.
voip_win64.dll is completely missing from the install (Arma 3\Dll\x64), even after multiple clean reinstalls.
.rpt logs show no mention of VOIP or DirectPlay initialization.
Tried so far:
Verified Steam files (multiple times, including after deleting the Dll folder).
Switched from profiling branch to stable (and back).
Fully uninstalled Arma 3, including:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3
Documents\Arma 3 + Arma 3 - Other Profiles
%localappdata%\Arma 3
Reinstalled on stable branch with zero mods and clean profile.
Set correct mic input/output in Windows and disabled all others.
Steam mic test works perfectly.
Manually ran arma3_x64.exe as admin.
Attempted to extract the missing voip_win64.dll from SteamCMD:
Logged in via steamcmd
Ran:

  login <username>
  app_update 107410 validate

Install completed successfully, but Dll\x64\voip_win64.dll is still not included in the extracted files.

Also confirmed DirectPlay is enabled via Windows Features.
Mic exclusive mode is disabled in Windows.
Debug Test Results:
Ran this debug command in-game:
hint str (player getVariable ["BIS_fnc_feedback_voice", "no data"]);
Always returns "no data", even on LAN tests or public servers.
No .rpt logs mention VOIP initialization, DirectPlay, or any mic errors.
I'd really appreciate any help or insight into this. Is this a known issue? Is there a new requirement or Steam depot change that excludes voip_win64.dll?
Thanks for your time and all the work you continue to do on Arma 3 🙂

[warm sleet]

if i fly blackfoot as gunner and take controls i still cant fire counter measures... this lets me use the weapons and optics better but if I lose counter measures and cant switch to pilot when its useless? why is it like this

[sharp goblet]

I think no one can hear me when I talk in ARMA 3. Is this a known issue?
I don't know how to fix that

[chrome current]

It's a two-seat aircraft.
You can try a few different approaches. One is using team switch you can switch between the pilot and the Gunner.

Another is using a mod that allows you to use countermeasures from the gunner seat.
Or a different mod that lets you control the gunner better from the pilot seat.

[pine kite]

It could be that you switched to a different channel by accident. use the comma and period keys to select the channel the others are on (like side or global).

Or you are not pressing the Capslock key for push-to-talk.

[glacial pier]

So I have an issue with Arma online services for one I can't log into my Bitly acc and the mods I download always give me errors while the other person with the same mods can run it without issues

Always giving me an internet connection error

[pine kite]

Your Bitly account has nothing to do with Arma 3 or any other game Bohemia made. I don't see how this issue belongs here.

[glacial pier]

Wdym how else can I acess my arma profile?

I want to be able to cross play with a console user and use mods without running into issues

[bronze river]

i think you are asking in the wrong place, Arma 3 has no Console version

and what is Bitly?

[wide heath]

Hello,
Is there a mod that generally increase weapon accuracy? I feel that most ARs or even DMRs are very inaccurate. With ACE editor its like 2-4.5moa which is a lot.

[bronze river]

just turn off ACE setting for that

[wide heath]

you mean advanced ballistic?

[pine kite]

Well, that is not going to happen with Arma 3. As there are no console users for that. You are probably looking for help in the wrong channel.

But Bitly is a URL shortening service. I see no way how that account you might have with them could help with playing Reforger or downloading mods.

[umbral narwhal]

I think there's a specific ACE mod for that, but bear in mind that it's not balanced for AIs.

If you reduce the dispersion of a weapon (well, fire mode) then it directly increases AI accuracy with that weapon.

Can be compensated with other config parameters but apparently no gear modder knows or cares about that.

[rough vortex]

ive seen this popo up quite a bit, im facing hte same issue right now

[rough vortex]

@tiny imp i see that there is a thread open for this issue already, if it is possible whenever you have the time could you take a read at what im facing please and thank you - all and any assistance will be appreaciated!

[tiny imp]

i'm confused what're those files

[rough vortex]

the dlls were something i found online and someone saying that they should be there im not actually 100% sure what they do

ive just connected to a official server and it says "VON is disabled (voice over net) for safety reasons"

[winter moon]

alright so im having some trouble with this but 2 weeks ago noticed that on my server people were dying in 1 or 2 shots (not how it was setup before) and outright dying and not going uncon. I have played around with some of the ACE medical settings but not sure what could be causing this. We do use KAT as well but only airways are enabled at this time

Before it would take about 2-5 times the amount of damage to knock them uncon. does anyone have any ideas?

[rough vortex]

any other med mods? maybe ones affecting AI?

[winter moon]

KAT is the only other medical mod and I am currently on my server testing it with others and player to player is dropping us in 1-2 shots which is the same for what happens with AI shooting us

one of them dropped from a single 5.56 shot to the leg

the more major settings for the medical side oface

[rough vortex]

mayeb fatal damage?

[winter moon]

these haven't changed for years now and I think it was 2 or maybe 3 weeks ago this started happening where we would just drop

[rough vortex]

ill get my server settings and send them to you tommorrow

[winter moon]

nope still the same thing played with the pass thru, thresholds and everything

[winter moon]

alright someone suggested to reinsall the mods possibly

[rough vortex]

what other equipment mods are you using?

[winter moon]

there is like 88 total mods but nothing that would change medical stuff. around that time all that was changed in the mod list was removing some maps and adding different ones

[steady hawk]

Even though I have no experience with these medical thingy, "I have 88 but nothing would conflict" literally does nothing to do with the issue. Just because it is a speculation and not the fact, removing all (optional) Mods is still one of the early goto to find the issue

[winter moon]

I would agree if something changed modpack wise that would change medical settings or something like that but this is a problem that came up like I said 2-3 weeks ago and mod pack changes were prior to that and everything was fine. I assume there is something going on with ace and kat not liking each other rn for some reason

[steady hawk]

Everything was fine does also nothing to do with it, any Mod can change anything anytime. You got the issue right now is the only fact you can consider

[clever oak]

hello guys, i am having problem with dynamic recon ops for ace, lately, i am being always immortal, and i am the only one, all my friends we have the same mods and they are fine, on the beginning of the mission, i am immortal, i don't get damage from anything but grenades and objects, u thought it was bc all my loadouts were made on virtual arsenal, but even without changing loadout it happens, to fix this i need to respawn when the mission starts and i dont become immortal anymore, until we start another mission again, anyone have a hint of what this is?

[sacred lodge]

doubtful, are you able to repro with just ACE and KAT?

[gleaming plaza]

My game keeps crashing / freezing my screen for i dont know what reason , i checked the data and found 2 corrupted files , steam fixed it and still crashes / freezes

[tiny imp]

those are definitely not DLLs from default Arma 3 and definitely not to be considered as safe ....

[sharp goblet]

Ok now I think they are ignoring me lol ty

[rough vortex]

yeah i thought so, i didnt download anything anyways only another pull from steam

do you know hwat that message i got in the chat was about?

"VON is disabled (voice over net) for safety reasons"

[dawn canyon]

can someone help me please? when I launch arma 3, I get an error with the following content:
windows cannot access the specified
device, path, or file. You may not have the necessary
permissions to access this object
the file is arma3_x64.exe and i can open it if I manually find it in the files and open it. it is issued when I launch it in the launcher. the launcher itself opens

[pine kite]

You may need to temporarily start Steam as Admin to let it do some update tasks. But I recommend to not play anything as admin, or click on discussion links in the app. Just allow it to update/start the game . Then close the game and Steam, restart as normal.

[rapid fractal]

Here are the screenshots

[pine kite]

Ok, on the second screenshot, after you started a multiplayer server ingame through:multiplayer menu\server browser\host a new game\server details page set to internet
(might need to continue to choose a terrain and builtin scenario first.)
Do refresh and see if the UPnP Client list is updated with an entry.

[dawn canyon]

I started steam as admin, but nothing helped. I also reinstalled the game many times, deleted the file, and ran an integrity check.

[viral moat]

I need some help on this.
Me and a group of my friends hosted a Mike Force server (Wasn't hosted by me), When I try joining said Mike Force server I get the error** "Connecting Failed"**.

Troubleshooting that I did:
-The IP is correct
-The port is correct
-Mod pack is correct
-Internet is good (Ran the IP through CMD with the command "Ping" and it gave me 4 pings 0% losses so I can connect)
-No one else on the server is having this problem
-Changed DNS
-Re-installed mod's and game

Can anyone help me with my problem? Thank you in advance.

[pine kite]

Are you on a VPN?

[viral moat]

Tested with and without

[pine kite]

Check this message and try the URL in it in your browser, corrected for the server IP of your friend: #server_admins message

What kind of reply does it give? That basically tells you if Steam knows about the server and can talk to it.

[rapid fractal]

This pops up when i try hosting

[viral moat]

{"response":{"success":true,"servers":[{"addr":"45.92.36.172:2303","gmsindex":-1,"steamid":"90269901376175113","appid":107410,"gamedir":"Arma3","region":-1,"secure":false,"lan":false,"gameport":2302,"specport":0},

I'm guessing all this means I can connect?

[pine kite]

I guess UPnP doesn't work then. Don't know why. Then try the other screenshot page and create a new port forward entry. Please show a screenshot of that.

[pine kite]

Yes, that indicated Steam succesfully found a Arma 3 server on that IP.

[viral moat]

So than why can't I join the server?

[pine kite]

Don't know yet

[viral moat]

I love Arma

[pine kite]

I tried to direct connect to the IP addres via the launcher. Obviously couldn't because of lacking a password. See if you can do that.

[viral moat]

Ima test that now

[pine kite]

Having the right mods loaded is not a requirement for trying to connect and get a response. Only to succesfully get in that scenario world.

[viral moat]

Noted

[pine kite]

But my launcher scanned through all known servers on the internet (4174 of them) but didn't recognise IP

What is it's name?

[viral moat]

[A3S-DCoy] SOG:PF Mike Force

[viral moat]

Same error even connecting through the launcher

[pine kite]

Found it.

See if your network adapter in Windows is set to a public profile? Should work (better at all) if it is in a private mode.

[viral moat]

How can I check that? Sorry I don't know much about windows and all that

[pine kite]

I only know for sure for Windows 10. Don't know how it looks in Windows 11. Windows Settins (gear icon)\Network & Internet\page should show your internet connected devices, click the properties button\next page should show two radio buttons Public or Private selected.

[viral moat]

It's private

[pine kite]

Ok

Are you using an ethernet cable connection to your router, or wifi?

[viral moat]

Wifi

[pine kite]

Try an ethernet cable, wifi is perhaps too unstable.

[pine kite]

That should make it work. Al that is left to do is the Windows or 3rd party firewall to allow public access to Arma 3 game executable.

[viral moat]

Tried it. Didn't work I think I'm just cursed

[pine kite]

Yeah, sorry. I'm out of options then.

Check your computer is not waiting for updates/network drivers to process. Reboot your computer. Never hurt to work.

[viral moat]

No problem. But one last thing, Do you think Un-installing it again could help?

[viral moat]

Alright

[pine kite]

Could work. Then again, might be pointless. Doesn't hurt to try.

If during installing again and starting it, Windows asks if Arma 3 is allowed to access the internet, allow it for the private network. Public is only needed if you want to host. (Like Julius)

[clever oak]

any help?

[pine kite]

Widen the collumn for the executable path. It shows multiple Arma 3's. But it could be the launcher executable too.

[umbral narwhal]

If it's that specific combination (ACE + dyn recon ops) then it's probably a bug in recon ops. You should test the two mods separately though.

[past dome]

Game keeps crashing freezing when I open the map in East Wind. I haven't been able to fix it beyond performing a hard shutdown

[umbral narwhal]

What have you tried?

[past dome]

Alt+F4ing and trying to get to the Task Manager. But I'm not able to navigate out of the Arma window

[clever rivet]

I'm trying to get the SEARA vehicles to work like in this video, where they fire rapid salvos nonstop. But for me, it's impossible – I have no idea how they're firing that many rounds. I've tried in the Eden Editor and in Game Master mode, but no luck. I've spent half the day in the debug console trying different scripts with no result. Can anyone help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4YaO3lkJIU

[quartz berry]

For each one add a fired event handler that sets the ammo in the mag to max.

[rough vortex]

does anyone know what:
"VON is disabled (voice over net) for safety reasons"
means - i get it in chat everytime i join any server and my voice doesnt transmit on any server (official or otherwise)

[tiny imp]

it's server message (from MOTD) and you definitely don't get it on every server you join ... just ignore it

[ashen pecan]

when i try to launch arma 3 with launcher i have a problem
windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file.
I already tried starting steam as admin and that not helped

[bronze river]

check if the arma 3 folder is not read only

or install it on disk D instead of C

[rough vortex]

i get it on modded and unmodded servers, official servers (checked with most the zeus, warlords, combat patrols and escape), locally hosted non-dedicated server, fresh dedicated server thta my friend had made. and no one can hear me on any one of those servers.

in the microphone settings and privacy arma does not appear nor does the little microphone in the notification tab describing what programs are using my mic - only when im on teams, discord and other steam games but not arma

[tiny imp]

pretty sure you don't such see message on local server nor official servers (that's long gone)

on official servers you need to know that many servers have disabled global channel for VON ...

[rough vortex]

ive just joined an escape and zeus officeial server just now both time the message has displayed

[rough vortex]

i know though for example on the zeus servers global is enabled and all players can talk on it unless scripts are involved but i cant transmit on any channel

[tiny imp]

which server, that makes no sense. ip, port

[tiny imp]

it's disabled on pvp servers because of abuse vs the other team

ideal case i would disable it on side too so people need talk in squad/vehicle/direct only 😁

[pine kite]

That is a good way to corrupt your profile. And it will crash again when you start the game. See if you have any unintelligable text in your Documents\Arma 3\username.arma3profile

[past dome]

Oh I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the warning. If it happens again, should I just wait for something to happen?

[pine kite]

Look into your profile file like I named it. See if there is any strange line. Or upload the file here so others can check it.

[rough vortex]

85.190.158.74:2402 Zeus USA 04
37.10.126.70:2402 Zeus USA 02
85.190.158.15:2402 Zeus USA 02e
85.190.155.171:2402 Zeus EU 04
85.190.155.60:2402 Zeus EU 02
85.190.155.159: 2502 CP EU 03 (escape malden)
theres a warlods redux that usually pretty popular though i cant find its IP - i think its Warlords EU 11a

i never play PvP i usually always play PvE anyways

[rough vortex]

yeha i can imagine T_T

[rough vortex]

i agree

side should be for zeus to players or ground command to players then group for squad only - command for intersquad comms

it would be really usefull for comms to be cleared and declutterred esp at night T_T

[lyric hare]

Im having server issues

i cant see nor join any sever at all on my serverlist

i can see servers on the startup application but i cant join via that either

im literally desperate here

i really want to properly jump into this game but atm this bug is pissing me off

if anyone has answers id really appreciate a response

[waxen sail]

First thing that jumps to mind is firewall,
Can you check your firewall settings for the arma 3 application being blocked?
Can you use ping/traceroute to reach any servers?
Can you direct connect with an IP?

[clever rivet]

How I do that ?

[quartz berry]

this addEventHandler ["Fired", {
    params ["_unit", "_weapon", "_muzzle", "_mode", "_ammo", "_magazine", "_projectile", "_gunner"];
    _unit setMagazineTurretAmmo [_magazine, 1, [0];
}];

[clever rivet]

ok thank you it worked. last question :

How can I hide the mouse cursor in spectator mode when I am the game master?

[quartz berry]

Spectator mode or Zeus? Backspace is generally hide UI.

[static monolith]

i have a problem with random crashes, does someone know what's causing it from the rpt?

[quartz berry]

Turn off -noLogs so the RPT actually shows errors. There really shouldn't be an option for not logging because it has like no benefits.

[static monolith]

i saw this at the end however:
Fault time: 2025/06/29 09:24:10 Fault address: 5DCEEC56 01:0003DC56ll C:\WINDOWS\system32\XAudio2_7.dll

but i will turn on logging and see if i have it again

[quartz berry]

Since that has to do with audio, does it happen without JSRS? If you didn't know there's a JSRS 2 now.

[static monolith]

i didnt see it happen with jsrs 2, but i had crashes even without jsrs ( not sure if from the same .dll), i dont know which rpt to check, and warlords doesnt allow for jsrs 2

[umbral narwhal]

XAudio crashes are usually an audio device doing something weird, like a USB device disconnecting or changing bit rate mid-game.

[zealous ember]

friends and i are all using a version of jsrs 1 with some different sounds. When we play on my port forwarded server, they all can hear my gunshots fine and i can hear my own but i cannot hear theirs, any ideas?

[umbral narwhal]

The general problem with localhost servers is that it's hard to prove that everyone's running the same mods.

[lyric hare]

I’m at school atm I’ll see about it tonight

Th for the response

[celest pumice]

Hello. I have the same problem as the person on that screenshot. Since BI forums are down (for how long?!), I'm using Web Archive. Does anyone know how to fix drivers?

[uncut trellis]

Mission making questions might best be asked in #arma3_scenario .make sure you test the behavior without any mods firs t to make sure it'd not some mod breaking it.

[celest pumice]

Thank you.

[clever rivet]

No not working for the mouse courser. Everything is hidding but not the cursor. Anyone else can help ?

[fading pulsar]

With waypoints ussualy less is better. Since ai will calculate path between two waypoints, and that takes time.

Unless you need them to follow some very convoluted path. Place just keypoints, as in where you want them to defo be.

[celest pumice]

I figured that out and did it, but sometimes I need to tell AI how to avoid crashing into a fence/tree and that slow down feels annoying.

[quartz berry]

Just put the cursor in the bottom right where it goes into the screen I think.

[turbid sparrow]

Hello guys i have a problem with the game,when the mods load into the game i get a black screen and then my game crashes

Whitout mods it doesn t crash

[quartz berry]

Unload mods until it doesn't crash.

[turbid sparrow]

i have 200 mods...

[waxen sail]

Well we can't tell anything either because you're running with -nologs, the RPTs are empty

[quartz berry]

Why does everyone do that? Why? Why? Why?

[waxen sail]

It went around as one of those performance things a while ago

[quartz berry]

They should hide the option IMO.

[turbid sparrow]

do i need to enable it?

[quartz berry]

Do you have a Steam parameter options or the command line parameter in the launcher?

[waxen sail]

no, do you have it added to steam parameters or the exe parameters? is it in the command line parameter?
Also you should disable the exThreads parameter (and probably the cpuCount one too unless you're doing something special)

[turbid sparrow]

no

[quartz berry]

Unload half and then if it persists remove another half until the crash goes away. Then, do the same until you find the specific mod.
I highly recommend having <50 mods loaded at a time because the amount of issues exponentially increases and you end up not even noticing the difference or being able to remember what the mods are.

[turbid sparrow]

yes,but yesterday i didn t have the problem

my friend which has the same preset doesnt have any problem

[quartz berry]

Then verify files with Steam and click repair on each and every one of the mods.

[turbid sparrow]

like veryfing the game?

[quartz berry]

In Steam, right click on Arma 3, click Properties, click Installed Files, click Verify integrity of game files.
In the launcher for every mod, click on Mods, click on the mod, click on ... click on Repair.

[turbid sparrow]

ok

[turbid sparrow]

it still doesnt work

[quartz berry]

Then start removing them.

[turbid sparrow]

ok

[primal summit]

Does any legend know how to fix the no audio bug?

[gleaming cove]

Another issue, Arma seems to think I have a controller plugged in, but I don't.

[waxen sail]

what controller?

[gleaming cove]

Xbox, but I don't have one.

[pine kite]

Start dividing that number then. Test 100 of them, if that wasn't it do the other 100. Then halve the set what did have the problem. And again and again until 1 mod is left. 200, 100,50, 25, 12, 6, 3, 2, 1. With about 10 tries you should have the culprit identified.

[humble wigeon]

Been running into problems recently, regardless of what mods i run. Things like “DX11 error in creating textures” show up and “out of memory” and it crashes me to desktop

I dont think theres a fix to this is there? I just dont have enough ram

This recent crash made my entire screen go black and i had to restart my pc

[umbral narwhal]

How much RAM do you have?

[humble wigeon]

16

Seems to coincide with the 2.20 hotfix because i never had any issues at all beforehand

[umbral narwhal]

Do you get anything in the RPT? Usually when it's running out of memory you get some info.

[humble wigeon]

Well thats a lie i have but none of this magnitude

[humble wigeon]

Standby

think this is it

Whenever i check taskmanager after it crashes it says im almost completely out of ram

Hence my conclusion

[umbral narwhal]

Ok not sure what it's even trying to do here:

11:25:44 Physical memory free 5.1 GiB (5485301760 B)
11:25:44 Page file free 7.0 MiB (7299072 B)
11:25:44 Process working set 4.3 GiB (4581797888 B)
11:25:44 Process page file used 17 GiB (17807622144 B)

I guess it's allocating system-memory backed textures on the GPU, but it's strictly only using virtual memory for them?

If D3D is doing that then you really need a bigger pagefile anyway.

[humble wigeon]

D3D?

Sorry im stupid

And uh whats a pagefile and how do i get a bigger one

[umbral narwhal]

Pretty hard to get to that UI in Win10/11

settings -> about, advanced system settings link, advanced tab, performance -> settings, advanced tab, virtual memory -> change.

[humble wigeon]

What should i change it to?

[pine kite]

Show a screenshot how it is set now. As it also depends on how many and what sort of disks you have available. I would say it should work fine on automatically. I have 16GB on board, not had a problem running out of memory myself. (This heat though, is another thing for my laptop)

[quaint jewel]

voip_win64.dll does not exist.
Ingame script commands cannot tell you about VOIP.

Did you ask an AI for this and believe its bullshit halucinations?
I googled for voip_win64.dll and found zero results, I doubt you found that "on the internet".

Try running 32bit Arma, does your mic work in there?

[quaint jewel]

often helps to set your audio output bitrate to 44.1khz instead of 48khz.
its a microsoft bug that they wanted to fix, but never did fix in XAudio 2.7

[quaint jewel]

It is waiting for mod data to be loaded from your hard drive.
It seems some mod, is mass-loading models. I'd suspect its ACE mod and you just clicked a button in ACE Arsenal.
I'm 99.9% sure its this line of code
https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/7adb188b854316defa076d4ecd9d8f1287ebb2d8/addons/arsenal/functions/fnc_addListBoxItem.sqf#L52
When you click on a tab in ACE arsenal, it loads ALL the assets models from your disk, in order to find out which DLC they are from, so it can display the logo of it.

For some reason, that reading is so extremely slow that the game thinks its frozen.

[humble wigeon]

Gonna have to wait for tomorrow.

[tardy zealot]

Hi friends,

Is anyone aware if any debug information is provided in logs regarding parsing a squad.xml?
I've been trying to sort this issue tonight

so far have tried

• recreating and reuploading squad.xml to my webhost (figured maybe some inbuilt cpanel editor issue or something was corrupting it?)
• used known-working .paa from other's squads as a sanity check
• recreating my .paa following the BI community forums
• recreating squad.xsl, squad.dtd, and squad.css
• (unrelated) but i have reinstalled my OS lately (win11 latest), however this has occurred both before and after
• downgraded URL to HTTP, no difference to SSL

behaviour
I had it working - briefly - without any image. I changed the squad nick from "dogy" to "dog" and it stopped working entirely. Changing it back has had no effect in restoring functionality. I can confirm I'm not using any special characters, the page is publicly accessible, and that I've followed all advice on the BI squad.xml page

squad.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE squad SYSTEM "squad.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet href="squad.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

<squad nick="dog">
    <name>Sanyas gay little squad</name>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <web>www.sanya.gay</web>
    <picture>grtMetlGBc.paa</picture>
    <title>dog</title>
    
    <member id="redacted" nick="Sanya">
        <name>Sanya</name>
        <email>[e-mail]</email>
        <icq>@.sanya</icq>
        <remark>who gave this dog a gun AND a rank?!?</remark>
    </member>
    
</squad>

this is honestly making me tear my hair out and any help would be much appreciated
you can check the raw for yourself at sanya.gay/squad.xml

I've also confirmed the currently used .paa is under 300kb as I saw reference to it in other instances of non-working logos when i went backlog diving (it would've been nice if that requirement were listed on the wiki page...)

[sturdy sequoia]

hi I dont know if this a common problem but my steam worshop don't show real all time most popular show thing like this

like it was before

[pseudo island]

You cut of the important parts... this could be literally any page on the workshop

[sturdy sequoia]

for example take a look at jsrs 2025 only 806 average rating

after it was the best of the best

i mean for example ace3 with 11.169 rating average

is steam problem?

[pseudo island]

I don't believe "Most Popular" just means most/highest rated
likely some mix of metrics. but yes steam issue if it isn't accurate

[sturdy sequoia]

so i must use most Most Subscribed

[pseudo island]

I don't know what you're trying to do, there is also most subscribed and other filters ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sturdy sequoia]

steam worked like that after showed me the "true" most popular

what can it be

[steady hawk]

Ask people around you

[rough vortex]

how can i launch the x32?
im not seeing it in the Arma 3 directory

ive seen people try something like this and they say thier game crashes after 5min or so
ill try it reguardless

[brave hawk]

this can be added ✏️🗒️

[brave hawk]

are you trying after a game restart? otherwise the game most likely has cached the xml file. try clearing your appdata cache too

[tardy zealot]

Is that a full game restart including restarting the launcher? Or just the game exe itself

Either way, will test in the morning. Cheers mate

[gleaming cove]

A lot of people who're trying to join my antistasi server get a CUP error message, and the other half can join with the exact same modset.

[brave hawk]

just the game should be enough
please ping me and let me know when you do so 🙂

[umbral narwhal]

In the launcher, parameters -> platform.

32-bit likely can't handle running with many mods.

[past dome]

How do I open this file? I'm trying to check if anything is corrupted

[umbral narwhal]

It's text. Notepad or whatever.

Looks like you have Onedrive active there. You need to stop that.

[rough vortex]

htank you, testing now

[rough vortex]

ok so VOIP works in 32 bit though the second i get into an AO my frames immediately dip to 2-5fps and i crash within seconds

i relaunched in 64 again and though i can play perfectly fine the voip issue is back

[pine kite]

@past dome There is a pinned message about disabling Onedrive for your Documents\Arma 3 folders.

[past dome]

Thanks!

[umbral narwhal]

your space available there is concerning.

maybe it was lower back when it crashed.

I'm not sure if Arma is saying how much page file is left or how much page file is left out of what it's decided to limit itself to though.

[humble wigeon]

so what do i do? what do i set it to?

[umbral narwhal]

You should probably free up some disk space for a start.

And then maybe close your web browsers when you run Arma. Those things burn page file these days.

[humble wigeon]

cant do much for my os drive, ive skimmed as much of the fat as possible

[humble wigeon]

whenever i run arma i always make sure to only run it and teamspeak/discord

as for my hdd it has 130 gigs free right now

[umbral narwhal]

Oh, you have the page file on D though?

[humble wigeon]

im not sure. im a complete novice when it comes to this pc stuff. but arma is on D yeah

[umbral narwhal]

Which volume has 130GB free? C or D?

[humble wigeon]

D

C has only 8 gigs. thats as much i could free up. ive tried deleting as many apps as possible on my C drive

but it being my os drive theres not much i can do

[umbral narwhal]

hmm, dunno then. It does appear to be using D at the moment.

[humble wigeon]

so arma just hates me

[umbral narwhal]

Possibly windows was doing something different at the time.

[humble wigeon]

would something change if i used a different memory allocator in parameters

[umbral narwhal]

Not really, no.

[humble wigeon]

balls

[umbral narwhal]

They don't use any less memory. More usually.

I think what eats the page file is VRAM allocation, but I'm not sure if there's currently a way to limit how much VRAM Arma uses.

[humble wigeon]

vram? really?

i have 12

well that just blows

[umbral narwhal]

shrugs

28GB should be enough. Is it still crashing?

[humble wigeon]

havent tried since because i wanted to try to find a solution first

but i guess theres only one way to find out

[humble wigeon]

So far so good?

[pine kite]

What kind of drive is that D: drive?

[humble wigeon]

Hdd

[humble wigeon]

Well miraculously, after a whole week of non stop crashing it just works

????????????

[bronze river]

switch to SSD for smoother experience

[pine kite]

Yeah, you might have the space on that HDD. But you really want the paging file on SSD for it´s speed.

Consider replacing the HDD with a larger SSD. But backup it´s content first.

[quaint jewel]

If you still have issues in a few weeks you can DM me about it and I might find time to test it for you

[quaint jewel]

The max size is 1MiB

[quaint jewel]

So its the same issue as https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1331375608495607881
You can join that thread.

If you want to know the status on it, scroll up in it

[brave hawk]

noice! was the 300KB limit a thing for previous versions or was it, like, never ever changed?

[brave hawk]

you have not tested in the morning omg 👀 😄

[humble wigeon]

I literally cant
Not like i can get one right about now but the only other storage solution is my os drive

And thats already full

[quaint jewel]

I don't want to look. Maybe I'll look next month

[vagrant bough]

How do I fix this

[waxen sail]

what is it?

[vagrant bough]

Screen turns like this when I load into menu

[rough vortex]

ok thank you - ill join that asap, how do i message in it?

[hearty igloo]

when I log into any server, I have an empty role selection window. And in general push notifications I see who came to the server, who killed and so on. But I can't select anything, just a splash screen like in the main menu and that's it. Has anyone encountered? I press esc or space and I'm thrown back to the main menu.

[hearty igloo]

But for some reason I can play on a 32-bit platform, what could be the problem?

[quaint jewel]

Its something with BattlEye.
Seems your 32bit battleye works but the 64bit doesn't?
Last user said after days of it not working battleye did an update and it suddenly worked

Go to %localappdata%/Arma 3/BattlEye and delete the files in there, maybe that does something

[hearty igloo]

God, it's working, I'm going to kiss you right now.

The best, I love you

[quaint jewel]

Very weird that that's happening, but good to finally know how to fix it

[fringe salmon]

Anyone know why when im port forwarding and hosting a server on upnp why freind cant see it?

[uncut trellis]

!localhost

[rustic eagle]

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

[uncut trellis]

perhaps some of the requirements like IPV4 type connection are not met

[keen beacon]

Was there a setting to change amount of Audio channels in Arma 3?

like in Arma 2

[neon ravine]

Help! FWA_CBA_COMPAT_762 requires sp_fwa_sig510 is the error I am getting when attempting to run this mod. It seems i am only having this issue!https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371583892&searchtext=cba+free+world+armory

[trail niche]

Try to repair the mod

Basically, the mod can't find a file he's supposed to find

Are you running the free world armoury mod ?

[neon ravine]

Yeah

It has happened to two other friends running the same pack as me

We originally intended to do mp

But it closed on startup

Here's the pack of you want to see for yourself: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3514951637

@trail niche

[pine kite]

Because you should NOT do manual port forwarding in your router and rely on UPNP at the same time

[buoyant flame]

Why is it when My friend or I try to host a game we cant see eachother servers on the server browser.

[tardy zealot]

yeah, work ended up being a pretty big dumpster fire yesterday and one can only really tolerate so much debugging in a day sorry

Anywho, I've been clearing the cache (appdata/local/arma3) and doing full reboots of the launcher - no dice

I figured maybe it was an issue with DNS resolution, since my home DNS servers can sometimes be funny like that (idk why? it's weird. DNS is weird. Its always DNS, but maybe not in this instance) so I forced 9.9.9.9 and 8.8.8.8 as the nameservers for my pc, no dice either

I've also disabled all mods, no effect

I also tried recreating the player profiles, didn't work either

I need to go run and do some end of week errands, but once Im done I might boot up wireshark and see if I can determine if the arma 3 server is actually making calls to my domain. I get the sneaking suspicion this might be network related? also fwiw I'm hosting local servers (multiplayer -> host with UPnP), so idk if that's having any impact - though my understanding is it shouldn't. I don't think UPnP being on or off should affect it either, given I've got a firewall built in the last 20 years so it's stateful, but it could be an arma3 thing that I'm getting completely wrong

I also updated my squad.xml to strip out any potential special characters that might've caused an issue, and replaced all strings with shortened testing strings (I was guessing it could've been some form of language filter?)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE squad SYSTEM "squad.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet href="squad.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

<squad nick="foo">
    <name>bar</name>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <web>fakesite.xyz</web>
    <picture>N/A</picture>
    <title>test</title>
    
    <member id="redacted" nick="Sanya">
        <name>Laika</name>
        <email>[e-mail]</email>
        <icq>N/A</icq>
        <remark>who gave this dog a gun AND a rank?!?</remark>
    </member>
    
</squad>

[tardy zealot]

tried my old squads squad.xml, it worked - lifting and shifting the files from their site to mine however, doesn't.

Does bohemia blacklist or rate limit domain names or something?

I've double checked permissions, 644 on both sides

it seems the engine is hitting squad.xml on my site

ahhh, but its getting a 403 back - this seems like it might be the culprit. Only question is why??? it's a standard cpanel with no modifications made, and it's fine when I pull from CURL or WGET in terminal

[tardy zealot]

tried creating a robots.txt with a rule to explicitly allow, but no dice it would seem. Maybe needs time to propogate? will check later

Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[quaint jewel]

If I remember right that was not a setting of how many channels, but rather how many audio sources.
That's not the same.
Arma 3 by default has a much higher limit that doesn't need user configuring

[quaint jewel]

Robots.txt doesn't apply.
It's a thing that web crawlers check voluntarily. Arma is not a crawler and doesn't check it

403 is a server side error. It's a problem with your web server config.
Maybe it refuses the custom User Agent?

[brave hawk]

Thanks for the investigation - hope it works for you in the end!

[tardy zealot]

I hadn't made any config changes, so I'm not entirely sure what might've changed. And because it's a VPS the apache2 logs aren't where they should be ( ) so ill need to do some more poking around

Good to know that robots.txt is ignored by arma, but I figured it worth the shot - I know very little of how A3 works under the hood so I'm just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks refusing the custom user agent is the conclusion I came to too, hence why i tried robots.txt.

I'm well aware that a 403 is serverside, but that doesn't quite explain the fact that it worked intermittently. Must be some form of rate limiting or something

the fact that it did work intermittently is my major sticking point, especially given that the same endpoint of my workstation can curl the file fine - the only other thing I can even imagine it to be is that my webhost disabled TLS 1.1 support on me? but that seems a lil far fetched, especially for the lack of comms about that...

though I've seen whackier shit, like with how RHEL 9 no longer supports TLS 1.1 ootb

either way, it's clearly not an issue with A3 itself so I'll take my leave. Thankyou much for the help @brave hawk

[faint holly]

Hi, people! I need a help
Not long time ago I bought DLC "Contact", after I tried to open game, it gives me fault for more time, even after I delete and install game from Steam...
I almost have all DLC's, and the Contact was my last buy

After I resolve a problem after watching video, where was telling about change BattleEye folder to another from game named Unturned. So I did it, the game was successfully open, campaign, everything opened nicely, but when I enter on any other server the game shows me only background, I attach screenshot with the problem:

P.S. After buying Contact, music in menu changes as a background picture, I've never had that one

[pseudo island]

Copying BE from Unturned is definitely the wrong solution.
You can try deleting the BattlEye folder in your game files and in %localappdata%/Arma 3
then verify your game files in steam and try again

[faint holly]

Maaan, let me hug u, infinite thanks for you😘

[pseudo island]

It actually worked? 😂

[pine kite]

Your router blocks internet traffic by default. YOu need to hope it listens to the UPnP instructions the game sends it (it may be set to ignore such, disabled because it can be a security issue) or you need to manually set port forwarding in your router settings. (UDP protocol portrange 2302-2306 to your server computer LAN address). Never do both at the same time, it conflicts.

[copper notch]

Behold
a mission file that doubles in filesize every time I save

Starts in
class Mission >
class Intel >
class CustomAttributes >
Attribute0 >
property="RainParamsWork";

Then it has values that are hundreds of millions of lines long

[pseudo island]

[copper notch]

takes a solid few minutes to open anything in 3den editor now 😭

[steady hawk]

• Any mission?
• Any Mods you load?

[copper notch]

yes, running some mods right now, particularly 3den Enhanced

it's my own mission that I've been working on, it's just that every time I save, the filesize doubles itself

I thought it was to do with the rain in editor, so I tried turning them off but it still doubled in filesize.. until well yeah

I started a fresh mission on the same map, tweaked the rain values, doesn't seem to double in filesize everytime I save (for the new mission folder)

it's just that one in particular for now

if I can't fix the problem I'm gonna see if the "Merge" feature works, old mission into the new one

or saving everything as a composition (pain) and then putting it into a new mission folder

[copper notch]

even if I make zero changes to the mission it doubles itself in filesize upon saving

[keen beacon]

Alright, yeah, makes sense. Just that a player on our new server had some audio issues with JSRS and this usually solved it in Arma 2 with this setting. Glad to hear that the default sources amount is higher on Arma 3 and thus maybe not needed to be configured at all. I think that he fixed it later with some windows setting related to surround sound or something, so it was a system configuration issue 🤔

By the way, great job with the performance improvements! One of the reasons we decided to give A3 another shot for our very demanding game mode.

[lethal pasture]

Hello, whenever i try to start the game, the game and my pc completely freezes and I can't do anything and have to restart my pc, does anybody know a solution?

[quaint jewel]

you can probably fix it by just removing all these extra spam quotes manually.

Does this also happen when you create a new mission from scratch, and save that a couple times?

[copper notch]

yeah thats what I ended up doing

👍

nah it doesn't fortunately

[quaint jewel]

Like put that there, just value=""

very weird indeed

[copper notch]

yeh that worked great

never seen this issue tbh

turned my game into a zip bomb hahahah

[quaint jewel]

Same. I shall assume its a one time fluke

[faint holly]

I can't believe it, but yep

[flint crag]

hi

i need some help with the launcher

can anyone help ??

[steady hawk]

"Don't ask to ask just ask"

[flint crag]

this happen everytime i launch the launcher

doesnt effect the game , just annoying in general

also it kept asking me about the battleye stuff everytime i click play

this happen after the recent update

[bronze river]

have you verify your game on steam?

[flint crag]

yes

i've verify the game same thing happen , reinstall the game still same

it just annoying because idk what this "corrupted setting " all about .

[umbral narwhal]

Verify doesn't touch settings.

The launcher config file that usually gets corrupted is arma3launcher.exe.config in the Arma folder, but I think that's a different message.

There's also stuff in AppData\Local\Arma 3 Launcher but that mostly looks like static data.

[uncut trellis]

you probably want #reforger_troubleshooting

[buoyant flame]

Stuck in splendid camera mode after i click go singleplayer in eden editor

[quartz berry]

Do you have a character set as the player?

[buoyant flame]

No, I forgot 😭. Sorry im kinda new

[quartz berry]

It does it automatically 😭

[gray prairie]

I have a problem trying to create a Dedicated Server, when i don't add the Zeus feature on the mission, it starts well, but when i add one, it pops out a little error that starts with No Entry, how can i make to the server ignores this message and starts the mission? Since we host normally withour Arma3 Server and it starts well every mission

[visual crag]

@quartz berry

[quartz berry]

Dev branch doesn't work on Mac AFAIK. And if it's loading 2.21 then that's a problem because Mac is only up to 2.18 last I heard.

[visual crag]

When I load it with the regular launcher it won't launch it

[quartz berry]

Launcher? Mac shouldn't have launcher.

[visual crag]

It just says Play Arma 3

I use that to launch Arma

[quartz berry]

Does it launch the launcher?

[visual crag]

yeah but not when I have the Expeditionary force DLC downloaded and enabled

I bought the DLC too

[quartz berry]

Don't use the dev build, use the normal one and see if it works.

[visual crag]

How do I flip it to the normal one?

[quartz berry]

Right click on Arma 3 -> Properties -> Betas

[visual crag]

ok

Ok Thanksssss

[quartz berry]

It works?

[visual crag]

It's updating

[visual crag]

I'll let you know

[quartz berry]

Still?

[visual crag]

It's almost done

[visual crag]

It's on 70%

IT WORKS!

THANK YOU STICKY @quartz berry

[quartz berry]

Make sure you remember to do all of the right command line parameters for mods and DLC 🙂

[visual crag]

My Game keeps crashing again

@quartz berry

[buoyant flame]

Happy 4th of jully yall. I'm at a party but this came to mind.

Last night I was on my friends server (modded) and I only had around 20 guns and like the bare minimum of what he had, I also bought apex thinking it would fix it but it still is not showing me the hundreds of guns. It may be a mod issue but just let me know of any ideas on how to fix it. Feal free to ask questions and I will try to answer it

[quartz berry]

Verify files and see if that fixes it. What are your parameters?

[quartz berry]

What do you mean "had"?

[high salmon]

For this, I'd guess scripts causing a limited arsenal, either from a mission or a mod (Unlikely, but possible)
OR
Mod mismatch

Check in the Virtual Arsenal with the same mods loaded as when you were playing on your friend's server.
Check both the vanilla and the ACE arsenal if you are using ACE
If you don't see enough guns, it's most likely a mod issue

Buying Apex should have absolutely no impact on the stuff seen in arsenal, since you see the apex content whether you own Apex or not

[buoyant flame]

Well I needed apex for earplugs and other shit. But thanks I will check this out later

[gray prairie]

Can anyone help me with this? this is an example of the message i'm getting and the mission doesn't starts No entry 'bin\config.bin/CfgPatches.acwp_core' but when i delete the zeus it's working fine, i have a lot of days trying

[quartz berry]

Try with no mods and give the full error.

[gray prairie]

No mods is working fine, i can share the RPT

[quartz berry]

Then remove mods until there's no error.

[visual crag]

beats me how do I find that

?

[quartz berry]

Right click on Arma 3 -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Verify Installation

[visual crag]

I hope it works

[umbral narwhal]

(close launcher first, otherwise it silently ignores most of the files)

[quartz berry]

No launcher on Mac

[umbral narwhal]

Mac version is probably just busted anyway :P

[quartz berry]

No, I just used it a week or so ago while I was on vacation with WS + RF + EF to develope my ultimate mod coming to you in 2028 Q3.

[visual crag]

It crashed again

[quartz berry]

What are your parameters?

[visual crag]

Where do I find that at?

[quartz berry]

Right click on Arma 3 -> Properties -> General
It's the only way you can properly launch DLC without the command line. If you're doing it some other way, it won't work. (AFAIK)

[visual crag]

lemme see

@quartz berry

[quartz berry]

Show me what happens when you launch.

[visual crag]

ok

[visual crag]

Well thats a problem when I select editor it freezes my whole laptop

[quartz berry]

What happens when you launch, not when you start clicking things after launching?

[visual crag]

nothing it runs smoothly

[visual crag]

It crashes more now that I bought the EF DLC

[quartz berry]

That shouldn't be happening because it shouldn't be loaded. Show me a screenshot of the main menu.

[visual crag]

ok

@quartz berry

[quartz berry]

Yay, someone smarter than me is here!

[late thistle]

hmm are you using a legit copy of the game?

[visual crag]

no straight from steam

[late thistle]

im guessing maybe mac is one version behind

[umbral narwhal]

Yeah mac doesn't have 2.20 yet.

[quartz berry]

Yeah, 2.18

[late thistle]

normal a3 is on 2.20 now, but it shouldnt make a difference since EF was made on 2.18

[visual crag]

So I gotta wait ?

[late thistle]

i'd try verifying the game files

maybe some data is corrupted

[quartz berry]

No, EF was working for me a week ago (on Mac).
Verify didn't help him.

[visual crag]

I did it kept saying everything is fine

[late thistle]

😐

[visual crag]

Arma stopped working when I enabled EF

[quartz berry]

But it really shouldn't be loading without the parameter right?

[late thistle]

that error you're getting in the main menu is related to missing base game content

what happens if you do not load EF?

[visual crag]

It works perfectly

[quartz berry]

With no error?

[late thistle]

🤔

[visual crag]

I been playing for 2 whole days with no problems

Then once I enabled EF and bought it thats when the problems started

[late thistle]

hmmm ok i'd try two things

well no, i still dont understand why its flagging base game data as missing

ok try with this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348605126

[visual crag]

ok

[late thistle]

instead of using the DLC from the launcher you could try with the compat data, they are the same files

[quartz berry]

No launcher

[visual crag]

I'll try it

[late thistle]

?

mac doesnt have the launcher?

[quartz berry]

Mac has no launcher

[late thistle]

ok well whatever it is that you use to load game files, just try with the compat data instead of the official package

im still convinced some of your game files are corrupted, but its strange that they wouldnt get flagged with a manual verification

you went into the library > rmb on arma 3 > properties > betas > verify integrity of game files yes?

[visual crag]

I'm very confused by it too because It was working fine till EF DLC was bought and Enabled.

yep

[late thistle]

could just be that EF is accessing game files somewhere else that are normally not checked/used perhaps

[visual crag]

would the thing I'm subscribing too work?

[late thistle]

idk 😄 its why we're trying

[visual crag]

I hope it works

[quartz berry]

This and my experience show that you need to use parameters to load DLC. Why is EF loading itself?
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Play_on_Mac

[late thistle]

hmmm wait so it loads itself every time even if you have unselected it?

[visual crag]

It just crashed fully

[quartz berry]

You're clicking play to launch right?

[visual crag]

yep

[late thistle]

did you move any file inside the a3 install yourself?

[quartz berry]

I'd just start doing random stuff like reinstalling and hoping for the best.

[late thistle]

yea 😐 im starting to run out of ideas really

if you did everything right the crash wasnt caused by the EF game files downloaded from steam regularly either so the problem would be somewhere else

[visual crag]

no

[late thistle]

could try and delete the data_f_warlords PBO since it was saying it had missing files in there

then trigger another verification

[visual crag]

I never did anything to the files

[late thistle]

this will redownload the game file

[visual crag]

where do I find it at?

[quartz berry]

Right click on Arma 3 -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Browse
Under the addons folder

[visual crag]

ok

[late thistle]

going from memory since i cant check right now, in the a3 installation folder there's a folder called "data", inside there should be a file called data_f_warlords.pbo

[quartz berry]

On Mac or in general? For the normal PBOs and stuff I thought they were the same.

[visual crag]

ok

[late thistle]

ah right its in addons folder

[visual crag]

apparently it needs the warlord loader to load the game

[quartz berry]

What?

[late thistle]

what error are you getting

make a screenshot

[visual crag]

TBH I wish I can tell you

[late thistle]

after deleting the file you need to verify the game files again so it gets redownloaded

[visual crag]

The game runs perfectly

I select editor

I select a map

It works for like 4 seconds

It freezes the laptop

[late thistle]

it will take a while

[visual crag]

oh ok

It loaded lemme test it

[late thistle]

did it tell you the file was missing and was being redownloaded?

in steam UI

[visual crag]

yep

and it froze my laptop

[quartz berry]

What did?

[visual crag]

loading the map in general through editor

[quartz berry]

But did it give you that same error?

[visual crag]

mhm

[quartz berry]

Unless Chair has a better idea, I would just reinstall because why not.

[visual crag]

I reinstalled and the problem stayed

[quartz berry]

The whole game or just EF?

[visual crag]

the whole game

[late thistle]

hmmm im running out of ideas tbh

could be something with mac

[quartz berry]

Try to locate the settings files and destroy them so they get regenerated maybe? Would that help if it was corrupted?

[late thistle]

you're the first one to have these issues so far tho

then again there's not a whole lot of people playing on mac

[quartz berry]

I don't think it has to do with Mac itself because it worked for me a few days ago fine. Maybe some kind of other system problem?

[visual crag]

it all started because of the EF DLC

[late thistle]

EF doesnt do anything strange, it's just game data

[quartz berry]

Yeah

[late thistle]

there are no weird DLLs or anything like that

[visual crag]

idk its stressing me out

[quartz berry]

If you uninstall EF does it work fine?

[late thistle]

he says that if he doesnt load EF it works

[visual crag]

yeah

it works when EF is not loaded

[late thistle]

so in my mind the explanation is that either the EF game files are corrupted, or something in the base game that is used/called by EF is corrupted

but a manual verification of the game files should've caught that

[visual crag]

Manual verifications never catches anything

for me at least

[late thistle]

they usually do on PC

if you have a fast internet i'd just nuke the game, make sure all the files are deleted, then redownload, if that still fails im out of ideas

maybe someone from BI has other suggestions

[quartz berry]

My possible Xplaination is that Steam or some kind of profile thing is messed up and it's trying to do things it only can on Windows (what though?).
Yeah, including profile options and stuff.

[visual crag]

I hope they do Cause I wanna play the game so bad

[late thistle]

i have no experience with macs unfortunately, so if there's some quirk in it i dont know about it

you're on an older version of the game too

so there's that problem as well

[quartz berry]

It's all quirk.

[late thistle]

are you loading anything else besides EF?

like mods?

[visual crag]

nope

[visual crag]

no mods

[late thistle]

😐

then its not that one either

idk, i'd go with a reinstall making sure all files have been correctly deleted before redownloading, other than that i have no other option at this point

[quartz berry]

I might just refund and buy Western Sahara 🤣

[late thistle]

😦

ban!

@quaint jewel @tiny imp any ideas? this mac user's game crashes every time he loads EF

tried manual repair multiple times

[bronze river]

isnt mac still on 2.18?

[late thistle]

it is

but EF should run on 2.18

#1236374524430254211 message

was ported in january

[quartz berry]

I got to go, but it's not like I have any more ideas.
I'll be really interested if someone finds a solution.

[visual crag]

I'm finna rage quit man I'm stressed

[late thistle]

understandable

[visual crag]

should I get a refund?

[late thistle]

i'd say wait for someone from BI to drop by first

[visual crag]

ok

[upbeat spire]

IDK where to post this so i will post here does anybody else have a this issue when you search for Arma 3 on workshop page ?

The search on arma 3 is in another language.

[heady pewter]

Greets lads, I hope this is the right channel for this.

I've had constant server issues. I've contacted support yet recieved nothing cause of their policy of some sort not being able to sort Custom Missions.

It's as simple as this clip below, or for those who cant watch it.

I hit continue, it loads, it puts me onto stratis, back onto the selection menu.

The support team reports nothing odd about my RPT at all

Descript error nearer to the top was fixed, yet same issue contine.

all other one shoot ideas I am so lost

[uncut trellis]

Is this mission you made?
Do official missions/campaign work?

[heady pewter]

Official missions and campaign always work. However only MY custom ones just "collapse". Antistasi does work with it as well, and has worked with the modset I am currently using

[steady hawk]

Post your entire RPT

[uncut trellis]

It's probably some mod breaking. Or missing mod/dependency.

Try make mission without mods to confirm it's issue with mods

[heady pewter]

No mod is breaking at all, again these mods all work together perfectly with antistasi added. It's just my mission file

[steady hawk]

HG is saying make your own "mission" without Mods to see which is wrong, mission or loaded Mods

[heady pewter]

It works, no issue. Yet I cant see how missions with no mods works, but mine only works if its antistasi as a prime example??

[steady hawk]

Then Mod mismatch issue

I have no real idea what the reply supposed to mean though

[fickle cedar]

Hey there. I'm trying to play a DRO mission and everything was fine yesterday when I played one. Now today when I try game crashes. Any ideas?

[steady hawk]

• Unload all Mods
• Post RPT

!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.

[steady hawk]

It does not tell anything about crash, then try verify

!steamverify

[rustic eagle]

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

[fickle cedar]

I saved a crash report if that might help. It didnt crash this time cause I disabled all the mods. I can enable them again and get the game to crash and upload the new one.

[steady hawk]

It is supposed to mean post an RPT with crash in this context

[fickle cedar]

Standby

[uncut trellis]

Try make mission and add few mods at a time to see what works and what does not

There is no way to single out what might break

[fickle cedar]

Issue seems to be resolved after unloading everything and loading again.

[heady pewter]

I'll try it and come back if it has worked/failed

[pine kite]

You still haven't uploaded your entire RPT log file. Also, that background of Stratis showing doesn't mean a thing iirc. The role selection screen says it is that modded terrain. However, that video ends just at the moment you press the button to start with the chosen role. It doesn't show what is wrong with it.

[heady pewter]

"I hit continue, it loads, it puts me onto stratis, back onto the selection menu."

That is the problem I am having. It never actually lets me play the mission just loops be in between the role selection menu, modded map, stratis then back into role selection.

I stated that the RPT log "appears" clean but I'll grab it rq

[pine kite]

No offense, but taking people's word for it that it "appears clean" often doesn't hold up in court.

[heady pewter]

Well I assume that the support team know what their talking about.

I cannot find it at all in my folders on my server

[umbral narwhal]

Which host is that?

[heady pewter]

HostHavoc

[umbral narwhal]

There's a log files tab.

[heady pewter]

?

[umbral narwhal]

No, in the higher UI.

[heady pewter]

The most latest RPT

[umbral narwhal]

You can find the log files in the file browser but I'm not sure what folder havoc put the profiles in.

[fickle cedar]

Wondering why I can only play a very select few Dynamic Recon Ops / Combat Ops scenarios? Most of them I click play and nothing happens.

[umbral narwhal]

@heady pewter Yeah no issues in there. Get the client RPT as well.

[neon ravine]

Help! FWA_CBA_COMPAT_762 requires sp_fwa_sig510 is the error I am getting when attempting to run this mod. It seems i am only having this issue!https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371583892&searchtext=cba+free+world+armory

It's me and my friend group experiencing this issue, but it hasn't been reported.

I am currently away from my computer so a list of fixed would be preferred

[heady pewter]

Its one of these ad I had joined another server within these time frames

[umbral narwhal]

uh, client having some epic hangs in the first one.

Yeah I dunno. Trouble is that Arma doesn't log anything about why a mission shuts down.

[heady pewter]

Welp

what can I do???

[waxen sail]

repair the base mod (Free World Armoury) or re-download it, this loads fine for me

[umbral narwhal]

Make simpler mission that works, then add stuff to it.

[heady pewter]

This is all that I got

[waxen sail]

What about the No more slot to add connection at 043249 (4364.6,24948.8) spam?

[umbral narwhal]

If it's a simple mission then paste it and maybe someone wants to investigate it.

[heady pewter]

Paste it?

[heady pewter]

I think thats me whenever I am pressing escape cause I already know the problem aint fixed

[neon ravine]

Wait so is it broke for all my friends like this too?

[waxen sail]

No I think it's just corrupted on your system

[neon ravine]

But all my friends experience the same issue starting up

[waxen sail]

I thought you said it was just you getting it

[neon ravine]

I said me and my friend group

But no reported issues

[waxen sail]

It seems i am only having this issue

Someone else in the comments mentioned it, but I'm guessing it's one of your group

Can you run just that mod & it's dependencies, does that work?

[neon ravine]

I'll try that once home

[visual crag]

I still need help

[waxen sail]

If you need someone from BI they probably won't be reading here until Monday

[visual crag]

It works but I don't have all the US Marines Assets

[quartz berry]

First, do you have the DLC installed? Second, do you have the parameter -mod="EF"?

[waxen sail]

You don't have all the assets where?

[heady pewter]

Any issues someone can see with this RPT? I tried chaning mission file to a random custom mission file

[visual crag]

yeah

yeah

[visual crag]

I have the tanks and stuff but not the actual marines assets

[waxen sail]

Where? In the editor?

[visual crag]

yeah

[visual crag]

lemme see

I don't see it

[quartz berry]

Add it.

[visual crag]

how do I do it?

[quartz berry]

Type it.

[visual crag]

type it where?

[quartz berry]

In parameters

[visual crag]

ok

is it the launch tab?

[visual crag]

where do I find Parameters again?

I'm sorry if I'm annoying you. I'm new to this

[quartz berry]

Right click on Arma 3 -> Properties -> General

[visual crag]

It's still crashing

[quartz berry]

Wait for BI to respond I guess.

[visual crag]

ok

cause its stressing me out

[uncut trellis]

you do have ton of mods running in there

so first thing to test is turn off all mods

then test.

if that works, then add mods in small batches to see where it breaks

and if it does not work come back with server and local rpt

you most definitely have bad made mods in there since you got over ten thousand lines of config errors

[heady pewter]

Hm, aight I'll do that in a second

well start it thanks

[visual crag]

I'm still having my problem

[static monolith]

getting crashes on warlords redux only when turning on thermals on vehicles (fine anywhere else), there seems to be nothing in the .rpt about it and id appreciate if someone could take a 2nd look,
for the 21-40-14.rpt file the crash was at 22:28, which isnt even listed in the log

[uncut trellis]

I do not know what your problem is.

[static monolith]

1 mod (JSRS which shouldnt even affect this, and i cant replicate this in editor / self hosted)

[visual crag]

It keeps crashing After I bought the Expeditionary Force DLC

[uncut trellis]

Ok well youll have to provide the basics info like do you use mods, what system you play with, what version your game is. when does the game crash

[uncut trellis]

I assume you mean you play on some server and it crashes then?

is that mod actually allowed/run on the server as well?

[static monolith]

yeah, it is an allowed mod, and i was able to just replicate it in editor actually

the server is an official one

[uncut trellis]

official BI servers dont allow any mods afaik

[static monolith]

im going to record a video of it to show what i mean

[static monolith]

its in the official tab, and the only mods it allows are jsrs and some effects mod

[uncut trellis]

which server is that?

[visual crag]

no I use the DLC itself

[static monolith]

[Official] Warlords #Eu11

[visual crag]

I play on Macbook pro

[static monolith]

� [ OFFICIAL ] Arma 3 Warlords by Bohemia Interactive (EU) #11

[visual crag]

It crashes when I load a map

[static monolith]

but i was able to replicate in editor so it doesnt matter

[uncut trellis]

it is probably some sort of mac issue. Contact the BI tech support email

[uncut trellis]

it is most likely some sort of mod bug

[visual crag]

I will

[static monolith]

could you take a look at the rpt for me? i find it weird that there seems to be nothing about it (and i have no logs turned off)

and now i cant replicate it in editor either even though i changed nothing

[uncut trellis]

rpt dont always show crash since the issue shuts the game before log can be written

[bronze river]

it has special permission from Dwarden and it's optional to load

the EU11

[uncut trellis]

youll have to file a bug tracker ticket with the minidump file so BI techs can see what crashes

[static monolith]

okay thank you, if it persists ill try that

[heady pewter]

I have only added Cup Terrain - Core, Garmanda, And all 4 Rhs's

I get this in my game.

I'll post te server RPT and Client RPT now

Client

[uncut trellis]

one of those must be broken then

or incompatible with the others

[heady pewter]

I wouldn't see how the mods are incompatible??, I'll try with just the map, and then without map

[uncut trellis]

Any mod can break the game or other mod if done wrong way

[gray prairie]

Its basically the same issue i'm having with the server i'm trying to make it run

Idk what to do at this moment

[heady pewter]

No it was a fault on my part 🥲

[visual crag]

How do I delete the DLC or at least get a refund?

I can't play the game anymore at all even when it's not downloaded

[steady hawk]

You cannot uninstall a DLC. You can uninstall a CDLC on the other hand

[visual crag]

how may I do that?

[steady hawk]

Steam > Arma 3 > Properties > DLC > Untick the CDLC you want to uninstall

[visual crag]

ok

[heady pewter]

So I've found this. This has only NOW came up after master debugging. yet No clue what file is causing this so I'll keep digging

[static monolith]

i still have this issue, see my messages in #perf_prof_branch message , im not getting mdmp files after crashes either

[uncut trellis]

You probably need to email bi tech support.

[sonic burrow]

I am experiencing game crashes while using thermal mode on the laser designator and Nightstalker scope at the same time. I am getting error 0xC0000005 - status_access_violation and a friend is getting error 0xC0000374 - status_heap_corruption.

Has anyone encountered anything like this? I'm currently studying .rpt files and trying to figure out what the problem might be.

[umbral narwhal]

Do either of you get mdmp files?

[sonic burrow]

Sure. There's link for it.
[redacted]

Well, im not really aware how to open these and what info it can contain

[umbral narwhal]

Yeah no-one can do anything with it except BI.

Probably best to DM that link to Dedmen.

[sonic burrow]

well ill study this case and probably dm it

thank you

[umbral narwhal]

The other guy with thermal crashes wasn't getting mdmps though, which makes yours valuable.

[neon ravine]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2595680138&searchtext=niarms
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371583892&searchtext=cba+rails

any idea why these two mods are incompatible?

[pine kite]

What makes you think they are incompatible? Not saying they aren't.

[neon ravine]

it says FWA_CBA_COMPAT_762 requires sp_fwa_sig510 whenever I load my game

with both enabled

[pine kite]

That means the mod you installed needs another. Whatever contains the sp_fwa_sig510. Clearly it isn't the second mod that has it.

[neon ravine]

I have FWA and its dependencies

its when I load NIarms AND FWA with the CBA rails mod it says nope

[pine kite]

"Free World Armoury - CBA Rails" page clearly states what mod it is dependant on.

[neon ravine]

I have everything there enabled

im telling you its fine on its won but crashes with NIarms

maybe load order?

[waxen sail]

That mod combination works fine out of the box, something in NIArms is breaking the dependency

[pine kite]

No, load order isn't really a thing in Arma 3. Mods declare what they are dependant on, and the game loads that first.

[neon ravine]

try run just this

you will get the same error as me

[pine kite]

Fair enough, if you load the FWA and it's dependancy isolated and that works, but not any longer when you load the NiArms mod then you know which one is the culprit. You will have to ask it's creator why it breaks the other.

[neon ravine]

what control allows you to change scope zoom

[tidal ivy]

Hello! Every time I put on thermals in game my game crashes. Any fixes?

[steady hawk]

First unload ALL Mods and try

[waxen sail]

Possibly known issue, which branch are you running?

[tidal ivy]

Profiling/Performance

[tidal ivy]

Will do, for the record it is base game thermals.

[waxen sail]

You might be able to revert to a previous version, I'm not sure which one introduced the issue

You can also send .mdmps/.rpts to dedmen for investigating #perf_prof_branch

[tidal ivy]

Its not happening in single player no mods. But yesterday when I tried in single player with mods I couldn't recreate the issue. It's happening when playing Antistasi.

[waxen sail]

Doesn't mean much to me, you can try either reverting to a previous perf version or revert fully to stable branch

[tidal ivy]

Sounds good, I appreciate the help.

[odd token]

So for some reason, my character's shadow is headless while in First Person, but the head reappears on third person, what caused this?

[steady hawk]

Wrongly made model can cause it

[odd token]

Oh well, the mod is Webknight's "Half Life: Our Benefactors", which depends on Echoes of the Resonance Cascade (hasn't been updated since 2019), that probably explains it

[uncut trellis]

From the shadow bug on the hands likely indeed has multiple bugs

Or mistakes

[odd token]

Well thanks for the help, looks like i need to file a bug report on the mod's steam page

[visual crag]

Hey can anyone from BI help me with my EF Problem?

[steady hawk]

You did not waited enough time. Especially it's early Monday

[pine kite]

Well, past noon, but yeah. Barely had their coffee.

[delicate lagoon]

hello guys, i just wanted to ask why cant i set PIP? like if i set it to 800 it just jumps back to 13k and its killing my fps as you can see (i have an RX 7800 XT)

[quartz berry]

Make sure you're hitting OK and not escape. Also, PIP shouldn't affect you FPS during most gameplay.

[delicate lagoon]

made sure, doesnt change anything

[high salmon]

Doesn't affect FPS, unless PiP scopes or displays (mostly vehicle mirrors and displays) are in use
Or even worse, multiples of PiP map boards

[delicate lagoon]

and if it doesnt affect fps that much then why is it so bad when my friend has much more fps with much worse components?

[quartz berry]

The billion other settings, like shadows. Shadows should be set lower and shorter if you want better FPS.
If you want to test, disable PiP.

[delicate lagoon]

i guess youre right but i still dont get why am i getting such low fps like its not that i have a budget build, maybe not enough CPU cores dedicated?

[quartz berry]

What are your parameters? Also most of the changes are on stable by now, but I think the performance/profiling build is still better.

[delicate lagoon]

RX 7800 XT, Ryzen 9 5900X, 48GB RAM

[umbral narwhal]

If you think your hardware might be underperforming then you need to set overall quality to the Standard preset and then run the YAAB benchmark scenario.

Otherwise we have nothing to go on.

[quartz berry]

Game launch parameters set in the launcher, not your computer parts.

[delicate lagoon]

my fault

[delicate lagoon]

i dont have anything checked in the parameters tab and the platform is 64bit

[pine kite]

Try setting the PIP Quality pull down to less than "very high". Then reduce PIP visual distance. As I do remember the PIP settings to have negative performance effects. I don't know if this old experience advise still holds up in 2.20 with the new multithreading enhancements. But 13km for the PIP range does seem absurd. I don't know why that keeps getting stuck.

[sleek nebula]

Can anyone help me with something I keep trying to join online and I get the message data editor preview pbo not found what do I do?

[steady hawk]

Verfiy your game

!steamverify

[rustic eagle]

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

[sleek nebula]

thank you thank you Im gonna do that now

[vast verge]

I am playing TKE with 86: The World of Asato Asato mod and only the listed dependencies (cup and tke, basically) and the mod cant open this file from tke

Mod creator said its not happening to him

And othee TKE submods dont display this issue

[quartz berry]

Repair mod and maybe verify files.

[delicate lagoon]

it got unstuck once i was in single player, maybe its because KOTH requires it or it was just bugged i guess

[pine kite]

I do believe servers can force such rendering distances, but not on the low side afaik. Local settings should be able to be set lower than maximum. Strange.

[heavy kettle]

does anyone else having this issue with ace? keeps crashing with this reason

[bronze river]

repair the ACE mod

[heavy kettle]

already repaired, re installed ACE and check intergrity files, still the same issue :/

[bronze river]

try loading just ACE without any other mods

[heavy kettle]

still error with ace

[bronze river]

hmm interesting, you can ask directly in ACE discord, link is in #channel_invites_list

[heavy kettle]

Alright! thankss

[dire breach]

Make sure the file exists firstly. Secondly go to the battle eye tab on the launcher and make sure BE didn't block the file from loading

[quaint jewel]

Mac update will release soon, then we can forward the log files in #linux_mac_branch

[late thistle]

alright thanks

[crystal grotto]

hey so im tryna play the expeditionary force cdlc campaign and it keeps crashing after the opening credits ends it transitions to a loading screen and whole game crashes no mods no other cdlcs only EF

[quartz berry]

What platform are you on?

[crystal grotto]

pc

tried reinstalling dlc didn't work

also tried restarting pc

its impossible to skip the opening without it just entirely crashing

tried waiting through the opening and skipping

[uncut trellis]

did you try verify game files on steam?

!steamverify

[rustic eagle]

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

[crystal grotto]

nope I did not try veryifying a3 itself

[crystal grotto]

verifying worked thank u

[golden orbit]

What should I do if, when logging into ANY server, after the map loading screen, I get a background from the main menu and a chat in the corner, and nothing more. I've been waiting for a very long time, you can see in the chat how the game is going and the players are killing each other, but I don't have a team selection screen. What to do?

I created a new Windows user, reinstalled the game, and fiddled with the profile files. What else can I do?

[bronze river]

Try joining via Launcer server browser and not ingame server browser

[golden orbit]

It doesn't work. Are there any other ways?

[pine kite]

!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.

[pine kite]

Assuming you don't have the -noLogs parameter enabled, post the RPT log file of the session you experienced that in. (should have time and date in the file name) You seem to have strange mods applied, or your game install is corrupted. Which a Steam verification should fix but maybe something else is going on. The log should give hints if things are not working correctly.

I just hope it doesn't write everything in cyrilic.

[golden orbit]

@pine kite
https://pastebin.com/QEiAnB6f

I've checked the files many times and reinstalled the game, I don't know what the problem is anymore. I don't know much about game logs. I hope you can help me

[quaint jewel]

Search this channel for battleye

About deleting files from appdata folder

[golden orbit]

I didn't get it a bit. What should I do?

[golden orbit]

THANK!!!!!

[tropic siren]

i connect to the server and then cant pick a slot

has never happened to me

what do i do

[quartz berry]

Are you running any mods?

[tropic siren]

nope

joined an official server w no problems

Trying a different community one rn

I took a break from arma for a year so idk

[quartz berry]

It might just be an issue with the server. Does that server require mods?

[tropic siren]

No none at all

Joined a koth server rn w no problems

[pine kite]

Post the IP or name of the server, so we can test it.

[quaint jewel]

Why can you not pick a slot

[tropic siren]

Exactly my question

[tropic siren]

Idk the ip its invade and annex

420 delta

[quaint jewel]

Well if you don't know why you can't, how would we know how to fix it

[pine kite]

There are likely many invade and annex servers.

[quaint jewel]

Explain why you can't?
Is it because your mouse isn't plugged in? Probably not.
Why do you think it's not working

[tropic siren]

I have no idea as ive never played on there and havent played arma for over a year and the setup im using is brand new so not something related to performance

[quaint jewel]

Explain what happens please

[tropic siren]

I click the server in the launcher

Hit the set up mods and join

Load in

Have to select a role ( slot )

I try to click to select one and it wont let me

It highlights the box but wont let me actually pick it

[pine kite]

You do click on a "nobody" slot right?

[tropic siren]

yes. I do

[quaint jewel]

Sounds like a BattlEye issue

[tropic siren]

The slots arent whitelist slots rither

[quaint jewel]

If you stay on there for long enough it'll probably kick you for battleye timeout

[tropic siren]

I do get a battleeye pop on that specific server only

[quaint jewel]

Try this too, though it was for a different problem

#arma3_troubleshooting message

[tropic siren]

Ill check it out, thanks.

[pine kite]

The server might require Battleye being active. I did manage to pick a slot and join the 420 delta. So it is not the server having an issue.

[tropic siren]

should I delete the entire BE folder in localappdata ?

or just dll

[quaint jewel]

Yes

[tropic siren]

ok

[quaint jewel]

The game will recreate it

[tropic siren]

tried. didnt work.

[waxen sail]

I've mentioned this a couple of times and I'm probably going to raise a ticket, this happens randomly on high traffic servers

[quaint jewel]

The symptom is generally caused by BattlEye not talking to the server.
Why it doesn't do it I don't know

[tropic siren]

strange, ill try it on another BE enabled server

yeah no problem on other BE enabled servers so it must be this specific case

thanks for your time though, appreciate it.

[burnt star]

Happens to me every once in a while too where you join a server and it doesnt let you click a player slot, but after about a minute it will suddenly put you into the slot after a delay

[thin zephyr]

@bronze river Turns out your solution was incorrect. It only makes sure there is an offline copy even if onedrive goes offline. What you need to do is go to onedrive settings, then account and then choose folders. There you can uncheck the arma reforger folder.

[bronze river]

it's for Arma 3, not sure if works for reforger stuff

[thin zephyr]

It doesn't work for reforger stuff as it downloads mods into the documents folder. Which is not what you want to do with a basic onedrive account (only 5 GB)

[bronze river]

then now you know, that fix is only for Arma 3 profile / other profile issue with cloud, not Reforger mod folder

[thin zephyr]

Yup. It would probably be wise if some bohemia staff added that to some troubleshooting guide

[bronze river]

the fix is for Arma 3 anyway, that's why it's in #arma3_troubleshooting, but if you find the solution for Reforger stuff feel free to post it in #reforger_troubleshooting

[thin zephyr]

Found another solution btw. Just tell onedrive to ignore ".pak" files under advanced settings

That excludes most of the data

Sorry about the offtopic. Just found the channels and roles form. Didn't know there were hidden channels

[static tundra]

Im still having problems with VoIP in Altis life severs

Occasionally when I press caps lock no one can hear me talk

[pine kite]

That is because Capslock is the push-to-talk. So you probably muted yourself somehow.

[modern echo]

you can tell onedrive to keep the documents folder local always, it'll respect that, or you could just disable the backup documents, the way you did introduces overhead in the app imo

[formal lynx]

Why my arma 3 says that the router is down or something like that

are the servers down?

[steady hawk]

What server?

And what error, when it says the error?

[formal lynx]

I tried to host server with my friend and when the server loaded then it said that the router is down or something like that

something port forwarding setup failed

and then it says please check upnp or something like that

[steady hawk]

"something like that" is not how you describe error anyways

!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”