Merging ARMA II and A2OA into Combined Ops without steam

[Fellden]

Hi! I believe this has been answered before but most of the post where regarding people that bought the game from steam.

I first bought arma 2 OA in a store and then a couple of months later, bought arma II from direct2drive. I then managed to merge them together somehow and got the OA.exe and everything. The thing is that i bought a new computer about a week ago and i cant remember how i did to merge them before.

Can someone please give me a simple step to step guide on how to successfully do this? It's really bugging me out..

Thanks! :)

[Leon86]

install arma 2 first, install OA in the same directory, might want to patch to latest version and then defrag the harddrive while you're at it.

[Fellden]

I did that. The OA installer found the bohemia interactive folder and i installed the game directly into it. Still, no CO exe.

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[.kju [PvPscene]]

Use the arma2oa.exe. It will launch the game in CO mode, if arma2 files are in the same folder.

[Fellden]

shouldn't "ARMAII" show up in the "expansions" section in the game then?

The thing is: it seems that the OA automatically installed into a subfolder of some sort. it made another bohemia interactive folder in my root armaII folder.
Will this prevent me from running it in CO?

---------- Post added at 11:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 AM ----------

one mor thing:

Is it enough to only reinstall OA if i want to retry installing it to the same folder as the retail version or do i have to reinstall both of the games?

---------- Post added at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:20 AM ----------

No matter guys

i fixed it. Thanks for the help!

[David Schofield]

So this means Operation: Arrowhead changes will apply in Arma 2 as well? :)