Help with an issue, trying to host.

[Th4d 10]

Hi, i tried asking about my problem on throubleshooting but since it´s server related i might have a better shot at getting help here, since noone replied there.

So my issue is, my server only shows my ping to whoever runs steam with admin priviledges, even for myself, tried it out with friends, they can only see my ping when they run steam as admin or once they are inside the server.

If you run steam normally without admin priviledges it shows ? or 2500.

Obviously having 2500 ping doesn´t help in getting people to join it.

Another question, how the hell do i turn off crosshair on first person whilst also not having third person allowed? Even mercenary mode has it god knows why, crosshair is too precise for scope aiming to be of any use at cqb. (up to 100m)

Thanks in advance i hope here someone can help me.

[terox 316]

2500ms ping is caused by the server firewall not accepting incoming ICMP packets

easily solveable, on server firewall set enabled for any ICMP V4 incoming

(or specifically ""Destination Unreachable" , ""Echo request"", ""Time Exceeded"", ""Source Quench"", ""Redirect"")

also make sure you allow NAT traversal for this rule in the firewall

crosshairs are turned off in the difficulty settings in the arma3.profile in the server's user folder

WeaponCursor=0;

3rdPersonView=0;

[Th4d 10]

2500ms ping is caused by the server firewall not accepting incoming ICMP packets

crosshairs are turned off in the difficulty settings in the arma3.profile in the server's user folder

WeaponCursor=0;

3rdPersonView=0;

Thanks for replying.

Problem is, initially if you find my server on the browser, it will show as 2500, but if you start your steam with admin priviledges and do it again, it will then show my correct ping, without me doing anything here. That means the ping is being sent/received, but for some reason only people that run steam with admin priviledges on their client side can see the correct value. That hints to me that it´s something client related.

I´ve tested this with a couple of friends over the internet and it works like that every time, if they run steam with adm priviledges, they see my servers ping fine.

I´ll leave it running for a while (few hours) if you or anyone else cares to put what i said to the test, maybe to people overseas it behaves differently and will give me another clue.

Server is found here along with it´s ip http://arma3serverlist.com/server/187.21.255.154-2302/

On the windows firewall i have tcp/udp and icmpv4 incoming all open, and an outbound rule aswell. And on my router i have all the known ports for arma and steam forwarded to the server.

It works perfectly as long as the client for whoever is looking at the serverbrowser is running steam with admin priviledges.

Edited March 26, 2014 by Th4d

[Th4d 10]

So no more ideas then?

[SavageCDN 231]

http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=9374

[Th4d 10]

http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=9374

Yeap, same issue.

Turning off firewall makes no difference, only clients running as admin see those servers correct ping, and apparently @Dwarden on that feedback tracker didn´t understand the issue.

[SavageCDN 231]

Well the good news I guess is that you're not the only one :p But as to fixing it I have no idea it's a weird one....

[Th4d 10]

Well the good news I guess is that you're not the only one :p But as to fixing it I have no idea it's a weird one....

I guess theres a chance the problem will solve itself once they stop using gamespy, unless it´s a game client issue.