[RESOLVED] Frustrating error with Reinforcements.

[Sharpshooter221 1]

I originally purchased Reinforcements from EB Games before ordering Combined Operations off Ebay.

I had it installed and messed around a bit on the game before uninstalling to install them all again and merge the content, once I had done this I ran the patch to get them all up to date, I try to run Combined Operations and...

"Failed to load file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 REINFORCEMENTS\BAF\addons\air_d_baf.pbo" - decryption of headers failed."

The bloody game won't run and I have no idea what to do, I tried reinstalling Reinforcements, got the same error.

--

Please help.

Edited April 2, 2012 by Dwarden

[sgt.bargearse 10]

i have the same problem have you solved it yet...........

[David Schofield 10]

That sucks! Have you tried doing a whole new clean install of Combined operations, and then installing reinforcements?

All I can think of is either downloading the air_d_baf.pbo file separately, or "faking it out" by copy/pasting a generic PBO file and renaming it to the air_d_baf.pbo, and then going into the disc with "explore" to copy and paste the real missing air_d_baf.pbo file from there straight back into the addon folder (overwriting the falsey).

More simply:

Copy and paste any PBO file in the addons folder.

Re-name said PBO file to "air_d_baf.pbo"

install Reinforcements.

go into the disc, locae REAL air_d_baf.pbo

Copy & Paste said important file into addons folder, replacing the fake one.

[echonyne 1]

hey..does any of you guys found out the solution to this weird problem?

Guess I'll be joining you fellas :(

[.kju 3244]

did you try this yet?

http://www.arma2.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&Itemid=20&id=748%3Aarma-2-reinforcements-dlcs-setup-utility〈=en

See: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=118725

[cjph 0]

Thanks m8 - just tried the latest beta and did not get a full lockup/crash (you need to play for a while) but still get the 1 second freezes.

cj

[echonyne 1]

did you try this yet?

http://www.arma2.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&Itemid=20&id=748%3Aarma-2-reinforcements-dlcs-setup-utility〈=en

See: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=118725

Roger tht..I'll be checking this out today in the evening.

But still the vanilla conversion method and updation method does not work for me :confused:

Thanks..will revert back after my experiments.. (still plz suggest for any workarounds are welcome :))

[Dwarden 1125]

for original poster that would mean the BAF was incorrectly installed/updated

try reinstall / update with 1.60 final

about 1s freeze ? tried defrag your HDD? or is the game on SSD?

[VGD 10]

I installed ArmA2, ArmA2 OA and ArmA2 RFT in different directories:

1. C: \ Program Files \ Bohemia Interactive \ ArmA 2 \

2. C: \ Program Files \ Bohemia Interactive \ ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead \

3. C: \ Program Files \ Bohemia Interactive \ ArmA 2 REINFORCEMENTS \

All ArmA 2 to version 1.11, ArmA 2 OA and ArmA 2 RFT to version 1.59 updated and run successfully.

Then ArmA 2 OA and ArmA 2 RFT successfully updated to version 1.60.

After this update ArmA 2 RFT run successfully. But when run ArmA 2 OA (!) then get a message "Failed to load file" C: \ Program Files \ Bohemia Interactive \ ArmA 2 REINFORCEMENTS \ BAF \ addons \ air_d_baf.pbo "- decryption of headers failed."

I reinstalled and updated both ArmA 2 OA and ArmA 2 RFT to version 1.60 but lead to the same effect.

I completely removed all the games. At the time I wanted to combine the ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA together into ArmA 2 CO. While I updated them in another way. I installed ArmA 2 then ArmA 2 OA into the single directory by default, and created ArmA 2 CO. Further I add ARMA 2: RFT DLCs with Setup Utility from site http://www.arma2.com (this function does not run on the original CD) and immediately updated this via the patches v1.60 then v1.62. Thus I have solved this problem!

Thanks Dwarden for the lightning-fast support !

PS: Since the problem exists, then decrypt the files it needs to be solved in the next update release.

Edited March 16, 2013 by VGD
The successful solution of the problem.

[Dwarden 1125]

you dont need to install the RFT if you already have OA, just install PMC/BAF and update the DLCs (via1.60 patch)

[Sharpshooter221 1]

Apologies for not replying for a really long time. Had some other issues that made trying to fix my problem impossible at the time.

I popped in the disc and clicked the option to only install BAF and PMC, then ran the patch and whatnot. Everything works great. Thank you for the assistance.

- Sharpshooter.