ARMA 2 Patching FAQ

[ifestos]

hello all. what patch need ?? cant play on line!! tnx.

[j69302]

I'm so confused with the way the expansions are being patched differently..

This is how I bought and installed..

(1) ARMA2, Installed and patches to 1.08
(2) Op Arrow head, Installed and patched to 1.58
(After the 1.58 patch, I saw I had the BAF/PMC Lite.)
(3) BAF and PMC separately (not Reinforcements), and patched those respectively.

Now, when I load the Armory, I have Duplicate weapons and vehicles in the lists for the BAF and PMC units.

Is this normal? Sometimes (even during the full campaigns for BAF/PMC) It will choose a low res model, and sometimes a high res model.

is there a way to remove the LITE version?

Or is it a matter of installation and patching order?

[Beagle]

I have bought both Arma2 and Arma2:Reinforcements and have been enjoying the game a lot, but whenever I try to install a patch a box comes up saying that either the game isn't installed or the installation is corrupted. I have tried the patches for both A2 and Reinforcements as well as the beta patches and none of them work. Reinstalling the game does not work either. The game is quite buggy so patches are a bit of a must have

I have to confirm this. After a total system chrash i trie to install it all again startimng with ArmA II...but i cant patch it...every patch, and i tried threm all from 1.00-1.01 up to 1.00-1.09 on a fresh install...dis three fresh intalls on formated frives so far ...not a single patch works...they al terminate with a failure message be it anims.pbo, dubbing.pbo or air.pbo.

Basically im out of the game now since i cant get it to work after 2,5 years anymore. Im beginnign too feel a bit desparate as i try to get it to work the second day now, did even a ful IOS reibnstall...no joy...other games like LockOn or DCS work fine on my PC.


Failure message while patching looks like this:

Bitte haben Sie Geduld. Dieses Update kann sehr lange brauchen, da es sehr viele grosse Dateien verändert oder installiert.
ARMA II DVD
ArmA 2: Aktualisierung der Version 1.01 auf Version 1.06...
Update 1.01-1.02\ADDONS\ANIMS.PBO.UPD cannot be applied, error xdelta3 returned error code: 1
Update 1.01-1.02\ADDONS\DUBBING.PBO.UPD cannot be applied, error xdelta3 returned error code: 1
Update 1.02-1.03\ADDONS\ANIMS.PBO.UPD cannot be applied, error xdelta3 returned error code: 1
Update 1.02-1.03\ADDONS\DUBBING.PBO.UPD cannot be applied, error xdelta3 returned error code: 1

[ProfTournesol]

I have to confirm this. After a total system chrash i trie to install it all again startimng with ArmA II...but i cant patch it...every patch, and i tried threm all from 1.00-1.01 up to 1.00-1.09 on a fresh install...dis three fresh intalls on formated frives so far ...not a single patch works...they al terminate with a failure message be it anims.pbo, dubbing.pbo or air.pbo.

Basically im out of the game now since i cant get it to work after 2,5 years anymore. Im beginnign too feel a bit desparate as i try to get it to work the second day now, did even a ful IOS reibnstall...no joy...other games like LockOn or DCS work fine on my PC.


Failure message while patching looks like this:

Did you try to patch after starting windows on safe mod / debug mod ?

[Beagle]

Did you try to patch after starting windows on safe mod / debug mod ?

No, normal operation mode, made a full reinstall of OS including newest GFX drivers and updates to XP SP3, dx 9.29 all up to date. It's just ArmA II that refuses to be patched.

I have the german DVD 1.00 version.

ArmA OA alone does not help much theses days since CO is the MP standard.

[ProfTournesol]

No, normal operation mode, made a full reinstall of OS including newest GFX drivers and updates to XP SP3, dx 9.29 all up to date. It's just ArmA II that refuses to be patched.

I have the german DVD 1.00 version.

ArmA OA alone does not help much theses days since CO is the MP standard.

I still have some similar problem with patching, and the only thing that works is patching in debug mod. I know another guy around here that succeeded this way too. Just my 2 cents.

[Beagle]

I still have some similar problem with patching, and the only thing that works is patching in debug mod. I know another guy around here that succeeded this way too. Just my 2 cents.

That's strange because it worked flawless with the successive patches 2+ years ago...I will try a friends DVD with my Keycode to be sure its not a corrupted DVD. Will try to patch in debug mode too. Another stangething is that trying to start 1.00 endes always in a BSOD so far after reinstall.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Probably your RAM or HDD is faulty.

[Beagle]

Seems like the ArmA II DVD got corrupted in the years...despite it still looks o.k. and shiny and installer says ArmA II is installed properly. The meantioned pbp. files are corrrupted obviously.

Will get me a new copy today "black edition" to spare me the update hazzle.

OA worlks fine, but as standalone user you're just that..."alone", at least online.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

If you think it is the DVD, you could try to make an image file and install it from a virtual DVD drive (daemon tools).