PMC not activating on steam, as well as OA UAV training bug

[lastninja 10]

Hi, I bought retail ArmA 2 DVD from store, then other day decided to get OA & the 2x DLCs. I got OA first.

So first I tried the LITE versions of both PMC and BAF. Upon buying the DLCs, BAF unlocks, PMC still says 'lite' ending, while the BAF deleted this save in the campaign select.

So PMC still says 'lite ending'. I REVERTED back to the previous mission, hopefully that will fix it, but it IS very confusing considering you just bought the thing after trying the demo to be told you haven't got it yet. Same bug as here: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=114013 .. also maybe you should rename your forum a little ? COMBAT OPERATIONS AND COMBINED OPERATIONS all in caps look VERY similar.. I can see the guys confusion, I almost posted there too.

Finally, the UAV training #15 has been posted around for 1-2 years now it seems.. in Operation Arrowhead.. it doesn't work for me at all. Same bug as other people, start mission fine, go up to either little bird or drone and screen goes black, 'escape' brings up menu to restart etc, when you do this you can see the graphics again, but as soon as close, it goes back to black.

I heard 'flush' command in console might help, I'll try.. but I think you should fix this ASAP. I'm a new player having not had a good computer build for a long time. I was a big Rainbow 6 fan until Operation Flashpoint came out - blew me away and I bought the expansions until Resistance.. never beat Resistance!!! So hard! But I loved this.. I wanted VBS but was a bit out of price range.. I tried J-Cove lite which was fun but disappointing no dedicated larger player servers (6 player limit sucks). I played ArmA 1 on my 2004 computer a couple years after it came out when I upgraded RAM and graphics... now I finally have a new build so am catching up on OFP2, Arma 2 & Operation Arrowhead + DLCs.. so it is very disappointing to come this late in the game, go to Steam and buy OA + DLCS and find they don't work exactly.

Also I read expansions can hinder your boot camp training, for some reason I have 2x 'arma 2's coming up in the expansion list, only one has the icon/logo for the name too.. so I might try declicking the 'blank' arma 2 expansion to see what that does..

Any help greatly appreciated.

Oh one last thing.. I just bought a Logitech Precision gamepad, in the options I can assign 'move forward' to 'x axis' which is the gamepad UP button press.. and 'strafe left' to 'y axis' .. it won't let me do up/down/left/right.. so in the game, I can only move 2 of the 4 direction, forward and left, not right and back.. because you don't recognise the x/y for these... anyway you could help me set this up, or a profile that works for the Logitech software for the pad, or an update that allows such pads to work?

I just wanted to at least use the pad for driving as I find the mouse very frustrating. I'm thinking of maybe getting an F310 instead of the Precision.. any advice if this would work any better?

Thanks in advance, Ninja Gaijin

myspace.com/djninjagaijin

---------- Post added at 03:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:09 AM ----------

Oh, and one last thing.

You can press 'spacebar' to skip through loading screens in the OA training - when it has scripted parts to load or whatever, and has the popup with the loading bar, if you press space, it gets rid of it. No idea if this is a bug, feature, or if it does bad things to the mission doing this.. I assume so.. perhaps lock the use of this button, as I accidentally at first often skipped through the loading..