Invisible weapons, help!...

[ejanvi 0]

I replayed the Scrap mission, only to make sure that this time, I would gather all the weapons around.

And all of a sudden, while playing Scrap, my Dragunov disappears from my hands: I can drop it, reload it, fire, put it in a vehicule, take it back, give it to a soldier, take it back again: always invisible (even when it is on the ground). I even see my hands carrying a weapon but they are empty! And I don't have any weapon view (i.e. pressing Keypad Zero does nothing), nor the weapon reticles when in normal view (makes it difficult to use the Dragunov!.

And exactly the same happens with the Bizons. When I take the RPG, an AK, a PK, my Pistol... everything is OK.

So I completed the mission & went to the next one, but there again, invisible weapons. I quit OFPR, reloaded, still the same.

This is serious & quite a problem for the rest of the Campaign!

Anyone saw that? HELP...

I play in 1600x1200, with visibility of 900, textures to max except for Special Effects, Auto Drop Down to 4x or 2x (tried both), average/high image quality, high required frame rates, terrain detail of "high". The game is very fluid, so it does not seem to be a memory problem.

HW: Athlon 1800+, GeForce 4400, Win98SE, 512 Meg of memory, 30 Gigas of free disk space, Windows Swap file on automatic (fails manually set).

[Baztard1984 0]

Back up your "user" directory and reinstall?

Thats all I can think of as this seems a bit trivial.

[ejanvi 0]

Trivial? Playing OFP without being able to use your weapons?

[Enigmus 0]

Don't Exaggerate, you can still use it. You just can't see it. Have you looked through the scope, can you still see the crosshair (assuming you have it on)? Then you can still use it, just not see it.

[ejanvi 0]

Nope. When I say you don't see the weapon, I mean that you also don't see the scope nor the cross hair in weapon view. Nor, by the way, the "optional" crosshair when you are in normal view. It is exactly like if you were walking without ANY weapon.

So the weapons (especially the dragunov) are effectively not usable...

[Baztard1984 0]

Trivial, meaning that this problem is not a common occurance and therefore would probably be fixed by a simple reinstall.

[JJonth Cheeky Monkey 1]

This happened to me once, but it was with a LAW on Hold Malden, i took 3 launchers up behind a sandbag wall, 1 RPG and 2 LAWs, so i could kill th tanks so i had 1 in my hand and 2 on the floor next to me, the good thing was, when you fire one and pick up another launcher and then pick up the one you had fired before it auto reloads it so you dont have to stay on your knees reloading, but anyway i picked up a LAW and it had disapeared out of my hand, i couldn't fire it look through the sights, so i picked up the RPG which i could see and then the law again still not there, but after that it has never happened again.

[Jester983 0]

Probably some bug or maybe a corrupted pbo file. Have u tried contacting BIS? See what they say.

[Miles 0]

this has just happened to me for no reason-it just happened so im gonna try fix it and see what happens

[Miles 0]

Enigmus restarting does the job for me, I hope it does for u too

[Rageman 0]

I had this problem and it turned out to be an addon, cant remember which one.

[ejanvi 0]

Yes: very strange. Restarting the PC did the job. Must be some sort of vicious memory corruption, because I had restarted OPF without rebooting the PC and it had not worked.

Thanks!