Direct comms malfunct 1+ month! Please help for love of god!

[TwoBeans 1]

Im going mad here. Direct communication (both text and voice) still isnt working after one month of playing ArmA 2 / DayZ. I am not the only one. ***

This concerns Dayz mod and the servers i play on it takes away 80% of the fun in the mod if comms dont work

So, the problem:

You never hear anyone talk using voice, nor see anyone typing. They can see what you type, but you cant see them typing anything. (Yes, using direct communications group.)

It seems the majority with this problem are using Steam version of ArmA 2

What have been done and tested ***so far:

* Obvious things as checking microphone, making sure its set to default device for recording.***

* Checking settings both in windows and ingame

* Setting up Talk on direct communication button

* Reinstallation of DayZ

* Reinstallation or ArmA 2

* Reinstallation of beta patch

* Complete format of C: and reinstalling ArmA2 and Dayz

* Checking firewall settings, both for software in windows and settings for router

* Tried turning off all firewalls completely and putting the computer in DMZ in router (open all ports)

* Used "Verify integrity of game cache files" in Steam on boh Arma2 and Arma2 operation arrowhead

* Startin the game as administrator

* Connecting to a dayz server from within arma and not just dayz commander or six launcher

* Tried several different servers using same and not same beta patch version

* Using exact same betapatch version as the server i always play on has

I beg you if you have the solution or know of something we didnt try yet then please let us know !!!

[TwoBeans 1]

Today I repeated these steps, and the comms were working (atleast voice, never tried text)

* Turned off windows firewall completely

* Reinstalled betapatch (twice, first time gave error message)

* Verified integrity of game cache files on steam

* Rebooted router after setting up ports 2302-2306 in port forwarding

One of this step has got to have made it work. I have a D-Link DIR 655 by the way

[Gunter Severloh 4056]

Hello TwoBeans,

Sorry to hear about your trouble, do you know of someone else that has the same issue but with a disc version of Arma2 and the Dayz mod?

Also from what I understand about the steam version of Arma2, it has the same files as the disc version and so I have to only assume that the issue

has to do with the Dayz mod as I myself have the Disc version and PC, and I have no problems with voice or text when directly communicating ingame

of course this is without Dayz mod, so basically have you ran Arma2 without Dayz to make sure its not the Dayz mod?

Also connect to the Dayz server without six launcher?

[G0lden 10]

So direct communication worked for a long time for me until i had to get rid of my mic. Since then I cannot see or hear direct chat and I do not even see people's mouths' moving when they talk in direct (confirming they are talking in direct with third party VOIN software over a period of many days of attempting to fix the problem). What I have found through my digging is a few solutions.

1) Make sure that arma 2 and arma 2 OA are allowed through your firewall (probably already are but make sure).

2) Verifying steam cache files, for some reason this fixes a whole range of problems, especially after a clean install. (for me it has fixed server connection issues after a clean install)

3) Your beta version should match the server's beta version or you need to run vanilla arma 2 OA(no beta patches). Doing a clean install of arma 2, verifying the cache files, launching arma 2, then clean install of arma 2 OA, verifying the cache files, launching arma 2 OA will get you back to vanilla which should work regardless of the server's beta version.

4) Having a mic plugged in and activated through your operating system (windows sound options). I believe that this will be the ideal solution as I have played arma 2 OA since it came out and up until I had to order a new mic I never had any problems with direct communication.

I will be able to confirm this in a few days but hopefully these solutions will work for anyone still struggling with direct communication issues and maybe even other issues.

Edited February 20, 2013 by G0lden