ARMA2 & OA's Steam Thread: All Steam Q's/discussions go here [covered by Dwarden]

[Jedra]

Not true. You can install the disk version of Operation Arrowhead into the ArmA2 directory and save some space.

I didn't think that saved you any space as the folder structure is different - unless during the install of OA over A2 it merges the common folder from OA with the addons folder from A2 - but if it did that then you wouldn't be able to play A2 standalone?

In all of my various installs (All Steam, Half Steam/half DVD, all DVD, all Sprocket, half sprocket/half Steam) I have never attempted to merge them direct from an install of OA so not sure what would really happen. If you just copied OA folders into A2 folders then you wouldn't save much (if any) space as far as I can tell.

[Dwarden]

Not true. You can install the disk version of Operation Arrowhead into the ArmA2 directory and save some space.

it's not saving any space ... you completely misunderstand how the system works

A2: CO = OA engine + OA data + A2 data

it doesn't matter if it's installed separately or within 1 folder, the amount of data is same

period

[Trekari]

I think that with a normal harddrive today having at least 1 TB of disk space, those few GB should not be a problem. Surely there are better things BIS can do with their time than save a little space for those few who have too small harddrives in their computer.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that my SSD drives were supposed to be 1TB in size.

Dwarden, thank you for the clarification. It would still be nice to get a truly merged install.

[Dwarden]

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that my SSD drives were supposed to be 1TB in size.

Dwarden, thank you for the clarification. It would still be nice to get a truly merged install.

again there never was truly merged install needed ... it was just the difference between commandline loading before vs the one folder

the way it's now in 1.60 (registry driven) means it's no different

it also fully supports to merge OA and A2 from any distrubution in separate folders

[Special_Air_Service]

it's not saving any space ... you completely misunderstand how the system works

A2: CO = OA engine + OA data + A2 data

it doesn't matter if it's installed separately or within 1 folder, the amount of data is same

period

so you mean ArmA II : Combined Operations is using OA engine completely , then it replaces Arma II engine completely as well ? So if I still wants to play ArmA II through CO , what will become my ArmA II ?
Is it will be different than before CO ?

[FedEXguy]

I'm completely new to these games, but I got the combined operations version downloaded from steam last night. I have been trying to get it to work ever since. I run steam as administrator. I started armaII and let it load and run once then exited. I tried to launch operation arrowhead and it almost worked. I got a "table shadow" missing error, then a "psspecular alpha" error. So I verified my files on both and tried again. same thing. then i tried launching as combined operations. Still errors, but it's a dos prompt error that i can't read but I've seen other people mention it up thread. I uninstalled everything and redownloaded and went through the whole process again. Same issue. I contacted Steam support and they asked me to essentially start over, run as admin, run the specific setup files in the armaII directory, and restart. I did and it still doesn't work. So they linked me to here (even though I've already been reading this thread trying to solve my problem.)

So, can anyone help me? Windows 7 64bit, i5 750, ati radeon 5770

Thanks in advance

[imonoz]

Hey, just bought ArmA 2: CO from steam along with some friends. We downloaded the Zday module, and installed it correctly. Thing is, 1: I cant "reinstall" the BattleEye thing on the steam library because it says "This game is not avaible right now, try again later". When I'm trying to start and play multiplayer on Zday mod it says "Bad CD key" and I get kicked..

What am I supposed to do?

I got my cd keys as proof if anyone wonders.

btw, I cant run as administrator since I need a password for that which I dont have.

Neeeeed help.

EDIT: I run on Windows "XP".

[Joepino]

Hello guys I hope you can help me because I have a terrible problem.

I bought Arma X aniversary edition from Steam like 4 months ago, everything worked well, I played a lot with the Latam Armed Assault community, Two days ago I came back from work specting to play like I usually do and I realise that i can't get into any server because it's says that my "CD Key is Invalid", How can my CD Key be Invalid if I bought the game?.

I've tried a lot of solutions that I read but nothing works, here is the list of things that I've tried:

1) Run Steam as administrator ( It's always been running as admin )
2) Uninstall and reinstalling everything again ( Cleaning every registry of course )
3) Give the respective permissions to the arma registry
4) Verified the integrity of the Game Cache

Well this problem it's really weird because I haven't changed anything from my computer this happened suddenly.

Hope you guys can help me in any way, I feel terrible because I bought the game precisely to avoid such problems.

Sorry for my rusty english, I'm from Chile, Regards.

[Smurf]

Not a problem, but a question regarding the Steam version:

I readed in Tripware's forum (RO updates are always Gb, even with little changes) that Steam is implementing a new tech to handle patches that would significantly reduce the size of files needed to be downloaded. Any word on that?

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General tip: As a user of retail of A2 and Steam for OA I had problems that I solved doing:
Run all games at least once throught Steam (also DLCs) as Adm.
Use Deadfast's Registry Fixer.
Using a launcher to manage mods and so. Personaly I recommend SpiritedMachine's for beign simple but SixUpdater can handle that too.

After that never had any problems.

[froggyluv]

I'm completely new to these games, but I got the combined operations version downloaded from steam last night. I have been trying to get it to work ever since. I run steam as administrator. I started armaII and let it load and run once then exited. I tried to launch operation arrowhead and it almost worked. I got a "table shadow" missing error, then a "psspecular alpha" error. So I verified my files on both and tried again. same thing. then i tried launching as combined operations. Still errors, but it's a dos prompt error that i can't read but I've seen other people mention it up thread. I uninstalled everything and redownloaded and went through the whole process again. Same issue. I contacted Steam support and they asked me to essentially start over, run as admin, run the specific setup files in the armaII directory, and restart. I did and it still doesn't work. So they linked me to here (even though I've already been reading this thread trying to solve my problem.)

So, can anyone help me? Windows 7 64bit, i5 750, ati radeon 5770

Thanks in advance

Im having same exact problem as the above except everything loads fine if I run from Beta.exe. Normal 1.60 (which I sorely miss due to DayZ) always delivers those same exact 2 errors and I have also verfied cache files via Steam AND Deleted/Reinstalled.

Actual error messages are:
#1: No entry 'bin\config.bin/CfgInGameUI/MPTable.shadow - This one come first after launch press.

#2: Error Compiling pixel shader PSSpecular/Alpha:0 - this after the checked boxes in loading screen.

Solved! Deleting the 2 previous cfg files did the trick

Also, if this doesnt work FedExguy -make sure you exit Steam and restart as Admin.