foggy (DayZ)

Hi Guys, A bunch of people I play with started using a private whitelisted server a couple weeks ago and for some reason I was unable to join the servers although Arma 2 and DayZ work perfectly fine on other servers. It would just sit at Wait for Host when I go to connect and not even reach the lobby. So anyway I tried all the usual tricks, uninstall/reinstall, clear cache, etc all with no luck. I think however I have just figured out the problem, in my desperation to find the problem and play with my mates I fired up Wireshark and noticed that my PC was sending fragmented packets to the server. A little bit of research later and I had discovered that the MTU for my PC was set at 1300 (Apparently Windows does this some times for some reason) when it really should have been 1492 or 1500. So I changed it to 1492 and straight away when I connected to the server it started working as expected. Hopefully this might be some useful information for anyone else in my situation. Cheers Foggy

Date/Time: Approx 3:30PM GMT +9.5hrs What happened: Spawned in and was in the debug area after server restart Where you were: I was just north of Otmel What you were doing: Joining server after restart *Current installed version: 1.5.8.4 *Server(s) you were on: Dallas 4 *Your system specs: I7 3820, gtx480, 32GB Ram *Timeline of events before/after error: Just spawned from glitching on barbed wire and dieing. I started running inland, encountered a tent and investigated. Once I had, had a look the action menu "save old tent" was not disappearing and I couldnt slect other actions. So I dropped to lobby and rejoined hoping it would fix it. Loaded back in form the lobby and I was unconcious for some reason. While I was waiting to regain conciousness the server rebooted (crashed?) and I got the "your session was lost message". I waited for Dallas 4 to reappear on the server list and rejoined. I was then spawned into the debug area. Had to select respawn from the menu to get back to normal.

I had this same problem and tried many different things. What finally fixed it for me was within Steam I went to the properties for Arma 2:OA and I selected the Verify Game Files option. Once it verified it told me that it had to re-download some files, once it did that it worked first time and has been working fine since. I hope that helps someone. Foggy