Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead from 1.50-1.54 version to 1.55

[MacBoy 10]

Quote from http://www.arma2.com/index.php?Itemid=20&option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder〈=

"This is the official update for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead from 1.50-1.54 version to 1.55. This patch will also update your original Arma 2 1.00-1.07 to 1.08 if necessary"

File Size: 254 mb

I'm not a rocket scientist but the patch for ARMA 2 from 1.00 to 1.08 is 323 mb. I downloaded the patch for OA from arma2.com, armedassault.info and armaholic.com you may have guessed by now that none of them worked. I'm shocked that three websites posted this patch and didn't actually test it.

Error:

Please be patient. This update may appear to take a long time to complete. It is updating and installing very large data.

ARMA2 OA

ArmA 2 OA: Updating version 1.54 to version 1.55...

Update 1.54-1.55\COMMON\AIR2.PBO.UPD cannot be applied, error xdelta3 returned error code: 1

Some error occurred during patch installation.

Patch file is probably dammaged. You may need to download it again.

Error in file COMMON\air2.pbo, phase 1.

Edited November 12, 2010 by MacBoy

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

I would suggest that since the forum isn't full of threads like this maybe the answer is that you have a corrupted air2.pbo file?

[Hanzu 10]

I think Arma 2 update filesize is so much smaller because it so much left behind in features compared to Arrowhead and it just needed more updating to catch up.

If someone has better theory please tell us.

[MacBoy 10]

It's not the ArmA 2 Patch that is smaller. The OA Patch to v1.55 that is also suposed to update your ArmA 2 to v1.08 is 100 mb smaller than to ArmA 2 patch to v1.08 alone.

[Dwarden 1125]

because the ARMA2: OA 1.55 patch contains ARMA 2 1.05 to 1.08 only

while the standalone ARMA 2 patch is 1.00 to 1.08

which explains the size difference ;)