charliemilk

My steam updated the ARMA III Alpha yesterday played a full 50min long co-op game with no issues and then lots of servers to choose from and play. Now today i see about 95% of all the multiplayer servers have a red cross and only about 5 have a green circle. So is the issue the OP mentioned the problem I have? Do I need to 'roll back' to the previous version. If so, how do I do it on steam please. Thank you.

HI, I specifically installed ARMA III on my SSD so it loads faster, saves faster, and can grab textures faster if it needs to. Am I to understand it will only effect load time of games and levels? ---------- Post added at 01:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:06 PM ---------- This is very good info!! Thank you. As I only play games, I've never needed more then 4GB of ram, although I did buy 6GB on my last build a couple of years ago I've never seen any game use more then about 3GB. From what you have said I will try and get about 24GB of RAM on my next build so I can use RAMDISK. So yet another reason to push me into an upgrade later this year!! ---------- Post added at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:09 PM ---------- Thank you both for replies. So it appears that a faster GPU is more important then amount of video memory. I can save money by getting a GTX670 with only 2GB of memory instead of 4GB and then use the saved money for a faster CPU. Although..... I want to triple screen by the end of the year. SO I guess I'll just keep saving and wait for prices of everything to come down and get everything in one go rather then just buying bits separately throughout the year.

Glad they are keeping Straits into the full version. Nice little map to do smaller missions to introduce people new to ARMA games. Full size maps could be a bit daunting to some people and put them off.

What happens when you play a single player 'showcase' mission or use the map editor and then preview? Do you have any other games that crash when going online. Have you made an exception in your virus checker/firewall in case it is a problem connection to a server because of that. Also as some others have said, it seems to be a localized fault at your end rather then a general ARMA III fault as most people including myself can play mulitplayer games without any problems. Make sure you have all latest drivers for your motherboard, graphics card, keyboard, mouse and sound card etc. Then let us know how it goes. Also, whats are your system specs? For all we know you could be trying to play it on a below spec lap top or something.

Hi, I currently have an i7 9210 @ 3.6Ghz 6GB of RAM ASUS Extreme Rampage II Mother Board. 2 x HD5870 (in corssfire) The graphics cards only have 1GB of memory on them each. But with crossfire it does not double up so I still only have 1GB of video memory to use in crossfire. They are still fast cards and the game looks great until the action starts.. .Once I have a few dozen units moving about and interacting, especially with effects like smoke and fire etc, then i drop a few frames per second. It is still playable but is not ideal. I was wondering if upgrading to a single GTX 670 (with 4GB of video memory) would make much of a difference and if so, what differences would it make? i.e further draw distance or allow me to choose highest settings and play smooth etc. From what I understand the speed of the GPU would be similar or less then the speed of the crossfire set up I have.. BUT the amount of video memory might make enough difference to make the game a much smoother experience. Any suggestions? If there would only be less then 10 frames per second difference then I would not upgrade right now.

I just spent 5 hours and £19.99 downloading ARMA2 so that Combined ops works, (all i wanna do is play online..) it downloaded i clicked play and it would not play, so i closed steam and reloaded as admin, and tried again, it started downloading from scratch, but seems faster? I have no idea whats going on now. I hate Steam, and I HATE BIStudio. I've now spent over £50. If i knew where the studios was based I'd come to see the Boss to explain my frustrations (in a civil way, I'm in no way an aggressive person)). I hope he and his family had a great xmas with my money... If yr looking Mr CEO.... Pull yr thumb out yr arse and talk to steam and fix something. OR MAKE YOUR OWN VERSION OF STEAM!"!!!!! THE COMUNNITY DOES NOT LIKE/WANT STEAM. If we get all content direct from u, then more $$$ to you, no disk, no box, no shipping, distributer, no middle men.. etc. Its about time yr company grew up and stopped living in the middle ages! (sorry for being angry, but when i spend money on a game I expect it to work when i click 'play'...... if only with this car wreck of a game. ---------- Post added at 11:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:13 PM ---------- It took about 10mins to download again so i guess all the content was already there? and it worked apart from the music that was too load and distorted on my X-Fi. Anyway, gonna try multi player now. but i have such a bitter taste in my mouth that i dont even know if i'll enjoy this lump of **** anymore. Still angry, out of pocket, wasted several hours. confusing addons/stand alones/ lite?/ have to spend £9.99 to buy textures in BAF?!?!? The whole buisness model must have been fuelled on a one night coke induced evening in Vegas. Not being funny but whoever makes the top end decisions has been trying to live a real life 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' BOSS MAN, you have a hard core dedicated community here, so why play stupid 'corporate games with us all. Get the whole thing back in-house and distribute disk and/or download from yr own site. If You do, I'll support you all the way mate! TYPE a 1 after me if you agree?!?

I think thats where the confusion is then. Thank you. I dont need RUM now. You saved me from a slippery path :bounce3: I'll get ARMA 2 now (I thought it came with Combined Ops) DOH!

Thanks for replying, But theres no option to download ARMA2 anywhere? I pretty sure, they've only given me Operation Arrowhead, but I still see the option for Combined Operations if I right click on Arrowhead. (Although Combined Ops does nothing) I emailed Steam support but they just fobbed me off with 'verify game cache'. And then said contact the publisher, and thats it. The level of frustration I'm at right now is through the roof, I gave up booze for the new year, but I'm about to go out and buy a litre of Rum in a few minutes to try and calm the fuck down.

Hi, Please Please help me, I bought Combined Operations and BAF from Steam at Xmas, in Steam Library there is only the option for Arrowhead and BAF, this works fine, but multiplayer games dont work cos they are missing ARAM II data. I verify the GCF Cache for 'ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead', and 'ArmA 2 British Armed Forces' entries in Library list" (this is after i load steam as admin) . but there is no 'ARMA2' file to choose to verify. Looking at my steam library, its just not there. I right clicked on Arrowhead and chose combined operations, then what looks like a DOS box appears for a split second then disappears and nothing else happens. On multi player games the steam version does not acknowledge the fact that I have ARMA 2 (Which comes with Combined Operations, here is Steam link for what i purchased:- http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4639/) therefore it thinks the ARMA2 content is missing and that only the Operation Arrowhead content is available, so single player, and more importantly for me, multiplayer games that require content from ARMA2 are not an option. I'm not sure what all of it means, but to me it looks like its trying to load ARMA2 files as well as ARMA2:Operation Arrowhead, but failing to find the ARMA II Content. Have I actually got the ARMA2 content? It was supposed to come as part of the Combined Operations (Which is just ARAM2+ARMA2:Operation Arrowhead). If you check the forums it seems a lot of Steam Customers who have purchased via Steam are having the same problem. I've spent over 8 hours trawling through forums and there is a lot of unhappy Steam customers and a huge amount of confusion, I think most steam Customers assume they have ARMA2, but infact they may not have it iether.. One solution that a steam user found was to buy a boxed version of ARMA2, and install this along with his Combined Operations download from steam (which should have already contained ARMA2). BUT there is no way I'm paying for the same game twice! I'm willing to try anything that does not cost me any more money or much more time. ****UPDATE, I checked and there are only keys for ARMA2:Operation Arrowhead and ARMA2:British Combined Forces, Which again leads me to believe that ARMA2 is missing I'm really pissed off. I've spent too much time trying to sort something out, I think Steam and or Bohemia need to stop acting like a bunch of crooks, and spend some money to get it sorted out. Looking at the problems on this forum and other forums you think I'll ever buy a Bohemia game ever again, not a chance. To Bohemia Devs, if the boxed versions work fine then Steam have made you look like a bunch of fucking useless clowns. And cost you future business.