ARMA 2: CO (how to combine ARMA 2 into ARMA 2:OA and use together)

[Blank0]

Can somebody explain to me in English what this means, please?

Place content of this file into same directory where is ARMA2OA.EXE

note: this is only for these who have A2 and OA directories standalone
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(includes STEAM users, games needs to be combined for A2:CO package)

Which file is he talking about? All of them.... the .exe...the cmd ?

I have the steam version and I tried the command file and combined ops won't launch at all. Then I tried the .exe and that didn't seem to work either.

[Honeycutt]

Blanko: this "file" is probably a batch file to do the following automatically : Basically move >everything< in your operation arrowhead folder into your ARMA2 folder (where all the arma2 files/folders are) and then use OA exe to run CO/OA

install from DVD suggests this automatically if your have ARMA2 installed already.

Anybody know if I'm supposed to use the original ARMA2 exe for ARMA2 or now use OA exe for both OA/CO and ARMA2??

[Blank0]

Okay, should I overwrite all of the files that have the same name? I clicked no last time and it didn't copy 121 files....I figured this would cause damage

[mitra76]

Just to be sure I have understood the technical steps.

I have combo ed. from steam:

1 - install arma2 base
2 - execute arma 2 one time
3 - install arrowhead (steam read me tell, the software will installa automatically arrowhead in arma2 dir, but this didn't work)
4 - execute arrowhead one time
5 - execute batch file
6 - I can uninstall arrowhead files? The files has been copied in arma2. Or I can uninstall arma2 becaus of contrary?

Is correct?

I don't have so much space remained on the HD (espcially because steam doesn't permit other disks), so in don't want have 8+7 giga for the same game
thank.

[M1Garand]

Blanko: this "file" is probably a batch file to do the following automatically : Basically move >everything< in your operation arrowhead folder into your ARMA2 folder (where all the arma2 files/folders are) and then use OA exe to run CO/OA

install from DVD suggests this automatically if your have ARMA2 installed already.

Anybody know if I'm supposed to use the original ARMA2 exe for ARMA2 or now use OA exe for both OA/CO and ARMA2??

Im confused, move what? which folders am i supposed to move?

[cyberoverlord]

I have arma II and OA both from steam but I have to run it through the steam website its self how could I create a shortcut to avoid going to the website. Plus what is the CO exe location so I can use a 3rd party launcher?

[idiosis]

For what it's worth I uninstalled my retail version of Arma 2 when I purchased Combined Ops off Steam, and it gives me the option to either run OA or Combined Ops when I start via Steams game library.

[vilas]

stupid question, forgive me if answered already, when i have Arma 2 installed, can i use it ALL like one game ? like it was with QB and AA1 ?
i mean - to have Chernarus and US ACU soldiers/T55/BTR... there or to have Takistan and Russians with T90 there ?
i heard it is "standalone" so different than QG which (if memory not fails me) required AA1

[b0b]

Gah forget steam this is so confusing cant we filter out make a new post or w/e for non steam users?

I have the dvd of A2 and dvd of OA .... I cant join servers that my buddy can who just have OA installed... HELP! lol.

Default install puts OA in the A2 folder gives me a combined arms shortcut ( yes i patched A2 to 1.07 and OA to 1.52.

I try to join a server that my buddy plays on who just has dvd version of OA ONLY installed and i get a bad server version message (its also red dot)

what gives? Ive trawled through all 51 pages of this thread and come out the other end with a nose bleed and nothing solved.

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<not so ninja edit>
Ok so i fixed it... well i didnt i used the arma2 launcher to sort out shortcuts for me.
I might add that to get it to work i installed OA into a diff directory so the shortcut now for OA stand alone in target is this...

"D:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\arma2OA.exe" "-mod=Expansion"

and for combined ops a seperate shortcut like this:

"D:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\arma2OA.exe" "-mod=D:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\Arma 2;Expansion;ca"

I can now join servers with my buddy who has just OA stand alone installed using the OA only shortcut, messy work around but atleast its done sort of.

Im sure i read that somewhere else futhur back but my head was spinning so much trying to separate it from the steam users i mustve had a self induced temporary lobotomy.

[SS9]

btw, lots of servers still show up red, even though I can join them. I get frequent crashes in MP that seem to be mission dependent. I used the mklink command to make a shortcut to the Arma2 folder, and can run other mods that way. I typically launch with Kegetys's Arma2 launcher and my running target looks like this:
"c:\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\ArmA2OA.exe" -nosplash -world="empty" -mod=@arma2;expansion;ca;@arma2\@HiFi_SFX "-name=SickSidewinder9"
Crashes occur with or without HiFi, but may have stopped with a different slot + running steam combined ops with no params.