Castun66

I have the exact same issue, as I pointed out in my previous post. I didn't realize this may be related to the animated reticles though. This is running only ACE & CBA.

I have a problem which started maybe a couple months ago, apparently caused by an update, because it worked fine before. I've found that certain weapons are missing their optics reticles. For instance, the M249 with M145 scope, as well as the M16A4 RCO. The versions in vanilla Arma 2 OA/CO do not suffer from this, so I can only conclude it's something specific to the ACE 2 mod. Below I've attached some screenshots. I have tried to completely delete and reinstall all of the ACE 2 folders and it didn't get fix the problem. I'm unsure whether I should try to completely reinstall all of Arma 2. And as I've said, it's a problem that's persisted through the last few updates. Until now I just typically avoided using these weapon variants.

Seems the issue is only when I try to host a listen server (play & host on same client/box.) This issue doesn't happen on a dedicated server. I'll fill out a ticket, not sure if anything will show up in the report or not, the game doesn't crash or freeze, it just seems that the loading bar won't progress loading at the "Waiting for ARMEX to open its games" section. When you load the mission through the dedicated server, that screen does not show up.

Can anyone answer my question please? Or perhaps offer some advice as to why it won't finish loading with ACE running?

Does there happen to be an ACE compatible version of the COOP 08 Armory missions, or perhaps a better one? Seems that when running ACE, loading the missions gets stuck at the "Waiting for ARMEX to open its gates." It was a great little MP COOP mission for my buddy and I, for testing out the different weapons and stuff, as well as the option for the randomized mini-missions, and general screwing around. Now that we've discovered ACE, we've fallen in love and don't want to go back to not using it. I'm pretty new at mission editing and scripting, so even if there was some pre-made modules I could throw together that could work as well.

It doesn't seem nearly as noticeable running the game on an SSD, I'd imagine because it can read & load the textures a heck of a lot faster.

Gotcha, thanks!

If I'm using the Six Updater to download and install, what's the difference between the -e, -v, -vw, & -w? The linked readme is the same for all of them.