zodd 14 Posted March 28, 2013 Gday all, Arma 2 has stopped working for me... I play from my laptop and it had been working fine... I had been running A2 then had a break; several hours later (laptop not turned off) I tried running again and got the errors... It is alternating between the two error messages below: The semaphore timeout period has expired. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Any ideas?? (Apart from full reinstall...?) Version 1.62.95248 File read error: E:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\expansion\addons\language.pbo,79 File read recovery from error 79 has failed with error 79 Error 79 reading file 'E:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\expansion\addons\language.pbo' ErrorMessage: The semaphore timeout period has expired. Version 1.62.95248 File read error: E:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\expansion\addons\language.pbo,79 File read recovery from error 79 has failed with error 45d Error 45d reading file 'E:\Games\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\expansion\addons\language.pbo' ErrorMessage: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zodd 14 Posted March 29, 2013 Interesting update: I tried to copy the language.pbo but got the same error (semaphore timeout) from windows... Simple (although costly) solution for anyone in the same situation 1. Delete langauge.pbo in the existing folder 2. Buy copy of A3 supporters edition (which I wanted to do originally but settled for the standard one through steam when BI store was down) 3. Download the A3 supporters edition (on another computer) 4. Email the languages.pbo file from the new copy of A2:OA to myself (slack way of getting it to the other laptop...) 5. Save the languages.pbo to the original location on laptop1 6. Play! (Which I can now do with myself...!) A better (cheaper!) solution is just get someone that owns A2:OA to email you the languages.pbo file... Lucky I want BI to have my money!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
