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All vehicles are spawning "sunk" into the ground and are unusable
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Description

I am on the "Bingo Fuel" mission. I have recently had an issue come up where all vehicles I encounter (that are supposed to be drivable) are sunk partially into the ground. Up to half the height of the tires. Vehicles meant for environmental display are above ground as they should be.

I attempt to start the vehicle and drive it out of the ground, but the engine only starts momentarily, and none of the controls have any effect (movement). The engine's sound cuts out about five seconds after ignition (until I exit the vehicle).

This has rendered the game unplayable for me completely. I have reloaded, reverted to a different save. I completed the majority of the mission on foot, which took hours, but found this issue on the fuel truck that I HAVE to drive.

No idea what started this problem for me, but I think the game updated recentl. Seems like that makes the most sense. I've only had the game for a few days. The first couple of missions(that I played a couple days ago) worked fine. The vehicles operated as expected.

Details

Legacy ID
5170347
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Game Physics
Steps To Reproduce

Boot the game and discover vehicle.

Additional Information

I am running nVidia drivers, current, with OC, but default settings. I saw something mentioned about PhysX in a similar post (that had to do with tanks specifically). Perhaps this is the issue?

Event Timeline

BlackoutSTi edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
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BlackoutSTi set Legacy ID to 5170347.May 7 2016, 8:15 PM

Hello,
are you using any community mods?

Hi Iceman,

I am not using any mods. The game settings are all default as well.

I posted a clip of the issue here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmRtUXY3-xc

I tested this on a different computer, with different hardware (still nVidiaw/ updated drivers) and all the vehicles did the same thing to me. I used the same saved game and config files (from 'My Documents/Arma 3' - Replaced the entire directory with the one from my computer) and launched the "Bingo Fuel" mission.

Coincidentally, I reverted back to the default 'My Documents/Arma 3' directory, and restarted the campaign. The truck in the beginning worked great. With that said, it worked great on my machine as well (when I first got the game).

Uploaded a .zip of my 'My Documents/Arma 3 directory' in case it helps. Is it possible that one of my config files is messed up?

http://derekfoulk.com/Arma%203.zip

I cannot get this to behave properly... I am stuck completely because the vehicles in "Bingo Fuel" is stuck/sunk. I started the game with a new profile and did a bunch of missions. Vehicles drove okay. I ran into another bug in "Common Enemy" when regrouping with Miller. He will not move. He is also stuck. *Sigh* I love the game, but it is buggy. Please help me out with this :(

If I can get past the new issue, I will report back if the vehicles are still stuck during "Bingo Fuel". Hopefully I can get past this new problem to test this one!

Hello,
we are still unable to reproduce the problem. Could you please try to download and install the newest PhysX drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.14.0702-driver.html

same's here..

Bohemia added a subscriber: Bohemia.May 7 2016, 8:15 PM

I was watching a friend last night. While his game was paused, the wheels of the vehicle he was in sank into the ground up to axle depth. Another vehicle he approached was above ground, but sank into the ground as he approached. Two savegames that did not have the bug were bugged after he restarted Arma, probably because the bugged state was saved when he exited the mission and reloaded when he resumed.

pops added a subscriber: pops.May 7 2016, 8:15 PM
pops added a comment.Feb 20 2015, 10:16 PM

I encountered this bug many times now. I'm running no mods however a server where I've seen it many times does allow some mods (sound mods, visual mods). I haven't seen it happen on a pure vanilla server.

Iceman- I was/am using the latest PhysX at the time of the report. I ran update via nVidia Experience application to make sure. Said PhysX was already the latest version.

I reverted to an earlier point in the campaign. Played through without this issue happening again. Haven't had it happen since. I do have a bunch of addons installed now, but at the time of the original post, I did not have any installed.

This is famous physx bug, even BI says it will be fixed by game updates, so dear ICEMAn dont tell us this is drivers fault. Blackout STi, i had the same issue and its hone when i switched to Dev version (newest of course)