Error- When joining multiplayer games

[-Locke- 10]

I recently purchased the Steam version of Vanilla Arma 2. After waiting for it to install, I opened up the game and went straight to multiplayer, however when I try to join a server I get an message.

You were kicked from the game.

You were banned.

I haven't used any custom add-ons whatsoever but when I was banned it was because I used a "Modified file - CA"

I really would like to play online with this game, someone please help!

[Gunter Severloh 2546]

You may need battleye

http://www.battleye.com/

be sure you have what a server requires to play whatever mission/s they may be running.

Also after installing anything for steam you got to shut down steam and restart it,

i dont have anything BIS games for steam but I remember having to have to do this for Red Orchestra on steam.

There is also verify the integrity of the cache, some of these u prob wont need to do but do what you can to get the performance.

Also this thread is for steam related issues:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=73554

[b00tsy 27]

Try to do a cache check on steam (verify cache). A lot of times it fixes these issues. Steam might need to download some more files.

Ohh disregard that, Gunther already mentioned this :)

[Dwarden 1103]

there seems to be problem with STEAM servers being overloaded

multiple users report the game is not completely / correctly downloaded

and that they need restart STEAM multiple times, change network download location etc.