I cant play online

[Holtmart 0]

Ok here's the problem.. when i try to join a multiplayer game it CTD...

it just crashes and it doesnt say anything..

sometimes i can join a game and play there until they change map and then it CTD.

just a while ago everything worked just fine..

i really need help with this

[Holtmart 0]

am i just being ignored here or what?

[Infam0us 10]

System Specs?

[baddo 0]

You should probably have a look at arma.RPT file. I have it here:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA\arma.RPT

Replace <username> with the username you are logged into when you play ArmA.

On my computer it is a hidden folder so you probably need to enable "show hidden folders" from file explorer to be able to find it.

From that file you could get some clues as to why ArmA crashes.

ArmA.RPT file has date & time written every now and then, so you can check if you see any correlation to any log entries in that log file compared to when your problems started.

[jasono 0]

Last time this issue was mentioned, I remember a firewall/router was blocking access to the game and ArmA crashed.

I suggest trying to open port 2302 on your Router and in your firewall add Armed Assault to your allow list.

[eihort 0]

I just had this hit me out of the blue and the issue seemed to be solved by going into ARMA and then starting a single player game, exiting it nicely, and then all of a sudden it liked playing multiplayer again. Go figure.

[eihort 0]

Hmm... now all of a sudden that doesn't seem to work. I've also completely deactivated my firewall and set up the router so it doesn't block any ports (was never set up that way in the first place)

This is bizzare. And again, this all of a sudden just started happening.

Dual Core Pent 805 D 3.2ghz

2 gig ram

WinXP

Dx 9.0c

SoundBlaster ZS2

and other things of which I can't remember that might need to be included

[jasono 0]

You should probably have a look at arma.RPT file. I have it here:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA\arma.RPT

Replace <username> with the username you are logged into when you play ArmA.

On my computer it is a hidden folder so you probably need to enable "show hidden folders" from file explorer to be able to find it.

From that file you could get some clues as to why ArmA crashes.

ArmA.RPT file has date & time written every now and then, so you can check if you see any correlation to any log entries in that log file compared to when your problems started.

Did you try what Baddo said. That would tell you the problem.

It's a good idea to delete arma.rpt, then doing the crash then opening it up so you know the exact error. If you are unsure then copy the error into a quote box or something and we can try and help you better.

[eihort 0]

Here you go. The error in question.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">=======================================================

Date: 10/23/07  Time: 14:57:04

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Exception code: C06D007F  at 7C812A5B

graphics:  D3D9, Device: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT , Driver:nv4_disp.dll 6.14.11.6371

resolution:  1024x768x32

Addons:

 Desert in ca\desert\, CAIntroAnims in ca\introanims\, CASounds in ca\sounds\

 CAMiscUS in ca\miscUS\, CA_Missions_Armory1 in ca\missions\armory1.intro\

 CAweapons3_m107 in CA\weapons3\m107\

 CAweapons3_m16a4_acg in CA\weapons3\m16a4_acg\, CAWheeled in ca\wheeled\

 CA_Missions in ca\missions\, CARoads in ca\roads\

 CAWheeled3_TT650 in CA\wheeled3\tt650\, CAAir in ca\air\, CA_Anims in ca\anims\

 CAAnimals in CA\animals\, CAUI in ca\ui\, CAWeapons in ca\weapons\

 CAweapons3_m16a4 in CA\weapons3\m16a4\

 CAWeapons3_ammocrates in CA\weapons3\ammocrates\, CAAir3_Su34 in CA\air3\su34\

 CACharacters in ca\characters\, CASigns in CA\signs\, CAFonts in ca\UIFonts\

 CAweapons3_m16a4_gl in CA\weapons3\m16a4_gl\, CAWeapons3 in CA\weapons3\

 CAWheeled3_M1030 in CA\wheeled3\m1030\, CAAir3 in CA\air3\, CAMisc in ca\misc\

 CAPlants in CA\plants\, CAVoice in ca\voice\, CAData in ca\

 CALanguage in ca\language\, CAWater in CA\water\

 CAweapons3_aks74pso in CA\weapons3\aks74pso\

 CA_Anims_Char in ca\anims\characters\, CATracked in ca\tracked\

 CAweapons3_ksvk in CA\weapons3\ksvk\, CAA10 in ca\a10\, Sara in ca\sara\

 CAWheeled3 in CA\wheeled3\, CABuildings in ca\buildings\, CARocks in Ca\Rocks\

 CAweapons3_m16a4_acg_gl in CA\weapons3\m16a4_acg_gl\

Mods: CA

Distribution: 1293

Version 1.08.5163

Fault address:  7C812A5B 01:00011A5B C:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll

file:     intro

world:    sara

Prev. code bytes: 8D 7D C4 F3 A5 5F 8D 45 B0 50 FF 15 08 15 80 7C

Fault code bytes: 5E C9 C2 10 00 85 FF 0F 8E 36 93 FF FF 8B 55 FC

Registers:

EAX:01C5E5E8 EBX:00000000

ECX:00000000 EDX:005C2BBE

ESI:01C5E6AC EDI:05F10000

CS:EIP:001B:7C812A5B

SS:ESP:0023:01C5E5E4  EBP:01C5E638

DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000

Flags:00000202

=======================================================

[sickboy 13]

Maybe gamespy unreachable from your location/internet connection?

[jasono 0]

Not a bad idea Sick boy.

Press Windows Key + R

Type cmd.exe

type ping.exe armedass.master.gamespy.com

Do you get a reply? (Should get 5).

[eihort 0]

Sent four packets, got four packets with an average of 20ms.

Hulk mad! Grrrr!

[eihort 0]

Any other ideas?

[eihort 0]

Okay. I got it to work. Once.

The only correlation I have right now with how I got it to work the first time is that I loaded a single player game, *saved it*, and then went into the multiplayer area.

I loaded one multiplayer server of Evo Blue, fooled around, worked fine, and then quit the server. I tried to join another server and it crashed to desktop.

I speculate that it might have something to do with the scene being rendered in the background because after I saved the game, I got another scene besides the small island fly over, and it worked.

Anyone else have any thoughts?