Inventory Can't use stuff (Drinks/food)

[MitchellVL 0]

Hello,

When i am almost dead, and finally found some food, ofcourse i wanna eat it.

I open inventory with "G" and then use the RMB on the item i want to eat/use, then i see the green box where you have to click on to use it,

But when i just click, the green box disappears directly.. i cant click on it, because it's already gone. so i cant use stuff and i die in game..

Really hard to survive when you can't use any item.. is there a bug fix or something?

Need screenshot? i havn't it now because when i do it now, it wont make a shot of the game, but of my desktop, so i have to make one with my mobile.

Sorry for bad English ;)

[ri_pou@yahoo.com 26]

you are left clicking on the green box to eat or drink correct? if you try to right click on the green box to eat or drink.. nothing will happen.

[MitchellVL 0]

No i mean, i dont click on the green box, i click on the item, and then the green box just come 1 sec and goes disappear directly, so i have no change to click on it.

[pvtjace 37]

Your either trying to move whilst doing these actions or your so laggy your menu system isnt working.

[MitchellVL 0]

Im standing still, and i have no lag.. really weird.. ;S hm, some 1 know the lasted patch with an inventory update? may i have to install it again.

[MitchellVL 0]

This allso happend, when i copy the file map to an other pc.

[remondo 1]

I have this problem too, I have gone so far as formatting my whole PC and redownload everything to try and fix it which didn't help (it needed a format anyway). I have always suffered from this problem since I started playing a few months ago.

The game runs fine for a few minutes and then it won't let me eat food or drink, just as you described. I right click the item in my inventory and left click the green box which pops up. When I click it the box stays open and the food remains in my inventory. Some 20-30 seconds later the eating animation will happen, the food will disappear but my food icon will remain red. Related to this I am often unable to provide medical aid to other players, repair vehicles, construct tank traps/barbed wire and I'm even unable to pickup vehicle parts but other loot works fine. Other people I'm playing with do not suffer these problems. I have recently noticed that if I go to a tent or vehicle the 'save' prompt in the action menu will always be there even if I am miles away from the tent/vehicle. When I'm driving vehicles I do not see all the roadblocks in towns and can drive straight through them. The only way to fix these issues is to log out and log back in which only fixes it for another 2-3 minutes. Restarting the whole game fixes the problem for a longer period of time but it happens again within 15 minutes. EDIT: This only seems to happen on a vilayer private server that I play on. I have just played for an hour+ on a public server and everything worked fine. Which server is OP playing on?

I'm now thinking this problem is internet related but I have a reliable BT connection with 2mb/s download speed. I have tried forwarding ports but the BT homehub 3 is notoriously rubbish with port forwarding. I don't have another router to test with. I'm also thinking this could be linked to my player ID. Is there any way to get it reset?

I am launching with DayZ commander running full Steam versions of Arma 2/OA. I have tried launching with Six launcher and the problem persists. I have fresh installs with no other mods installed. I'm running an i7 930 with 12gb ram and a gtx 560ti which gives me plenty of fps so it's not an issue with my PC.

EDIT: I've now realised that when I'm no longer able to eat/drink etc. the (Esc) menu changes from saying:

Save (greyed)

Restart

Respawn (greyed)

Options

Abort

to:

Skip

Restart

Respawn

Options

Abort

Once the menu has changed all the buttons are clickable. I've tried clicking Skip but nothing happens. I daren't click Restart or Respawn because I have full kit and don't want to lose it. Anyway, it's as if the game thinks the mission has ended. Can OP check if his problem is similar?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited September 28, 2012 by remondo