Settings wont save at menu or multiplayer

[Aidenwolf]

I have to reconfigure my video settings every time i load up arma 3 because the settings wont save. When i join a progressive server like king of the hill any progress i make doesnt get saved the next time i play despite waiting until the auto save kicks in. his only started happening since i came back after a month or so, how can i fix this?

[Manwith Noname]

As far as your video settings go, make sure you never write protected your Arma3.cfg and *username*.Arma3profile.

As for King of the hill, I would imagine that your save data is server side to prevent naughty boys tampering with their progress.

[Aidenwolf]

what is write protected, where does one look to see if Arma3.cfg and *username*.Arma3profile are write protected?

if my save data was server side what would that mean, how would i get back to being able to progress in the game.

[Manwith Noname]

If you are using a default profile look here...

C:\Users\*Username*\Documents\Arma 3

If you are using another profile you setup look here...

C:\Users\*Username*\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\*Profilename*

Though the Arma3.cfg is in the standard Arma3 folder. Right click on the file and see if the "Read Only" box is ticked. People do this/are told to do this if they manually change any settings within it to stop Arma from reverting those changes. You may have done this if you ever implimented the "GPU_MaxframesAhead" tweak.

I'd have to think a little about server side save data. It will reference your GUID in some way. Play it for some time and double check it is not saving for sure. It's possible that since you last played the database has been wiped. You'd need to contact server admins in most cases if a game mode isn't saving your progress.

[Aidenwolf]

ok thanks for help

[Aidenwolf]

I have another question if you are able to answer it for me. I'm having trouble getting into many servers, I join the lobby and hit ok then the files start downloading, as soon as it reaches the end it flashes back to the server list. Its wierd because one moment i can get into the server and an hour later i try to get back in and nothing.

[Manwith Noname]

This is normally associated with mods I think.

You most likely do not have a mod the mission requires, or you have mods enabled that are not allowed. Though you would normally get kicked earlier for having a mod that is not allowed.

When you are about to join a server, look in the lower right corner at the "expansions" box. This will give you an idea of what is required if any. Be aware, some mods listed here are not required by the client (you) and some servers may have packed many mods into one folder like @Aircraft.

Older Arma's used to give some indication of what was missing with an error message like "this mission requires missing or deleted content" and would then list various .pbo file names that would help you work out which mod you might be missing. Arma 3 doesn't seem to be doing this currently from my experience.

[Aidenwolf]

ok well the servers i have been trying to join just have arma 3 in the expansion, I was able to play on all of them at some point earlier, but now i cant get in. I dont use mods besides the missions you can download with steam workshop, would those cause problems?

[Manwith Noname]

No, workshop content is currently missions only and should in no way interfere with multiplayer servers.

This is most peculiar. I wonder if this is related to Battleye in some way? Do you notice any messages in the lower left corner where chat appears?

Also check the indicators in the left column on the server browser. Green circles should be good to go. Yellow means there is some mismatch though you may be able to join (expansions on server not required by you and other possibilities). Red Circles is mainly you have a mod loaded that is not allowed (At least that's the main time I notice them). Red crosses are game version mismatches.

[Aidenwolf]

here is an image of when i join a lobby, all the serves i play have green circles
http://s1166.photobucket.com/user/Edenwolf/media/arma32014-02-0619-21-33-90.jpg.html

[Manwith Noname]

So, can you actually play king of the hill?

I did a bit of looking around and found this...

http://www.hostiletakeoverclan.com/forums/22/467#p2138

This seems a strange way to impliment their saving feature and there is some suggestion to moving over to the server side saving as I would expect it to be.

http://www.hostiletakeoverclan.com/forums/22/437

[Aidenwolf]

ya ive played king of the hill a few times now

[Ypulse]

i lost my class loadout today,where the game do save those things btw?
i think it was happened when i loaded up arma 3 in buldozer mode:)

[Mirudes]

Originally posted by Edenwolf:

here is an image of when i join a lobby, all the serves i play have green circles
http://s1166.photobucket.com/user/Edenwolf/media/arma32014-02-0619-21-33-90.jpg.html

That is not true.Your picture shows the lobby of KING OF THE HILL | KAVALA at www.hostiletakeoverclan.com.

The playerlist shows up in three different colors:
BLUEFOR = Blue
OPFOR = Red
INDEPENDENT = Green

[Manwith Noname]

Originally posted by Faultron:

i lost my class loadout today,where the game do save those things btw?

It's in your *username*.vars.profile, apparently, according to this link...

http://www.hostiletakeoverclan.com/forums/22/467#p2138

The thing is, from what I have read over at those forums, the admins don't always know themselves.

[Ypulse]

hmm thx, maybe they spotted me out :D