DarkMellie

EDIT: the fix in the first linked thread worked for me, was able to play OA. Had nothing to do with switching between retail and steam. Thank you! --------------------------- Sorry to add to this thread, but I'm a little cautious when it comes to messing with registry entry and my problem is a little different to what I've read so far. After getting my PC into shape for Arma 2 and all the mods my new group required, my SSD crashed. Then I reinstalled ArmA 2 + OA + RFT from disc onto my laptop. Then, not really understanding the file-setup (after using Steam for so long) I uninstalled all of them and then installed through Steam instead. Now I get the Bad Serial error and, before I follow the solution in the first linked thread, I'd like to know if my laptop could still be trying to reference my retail disc keys instead of my steam key?

Hiya, I love BI and ArmA 2 so much that i have it on retail disc and on Steam, however there are two small issues (that popped up as I tried to get DayZ to recognise PMC so I could have the normal textures on my clothing). I bought ACR from Sprocket, and have lost the PMC disc. What I want to do is install ArmA 2 on Steam (as I can get PMC for sure that way), but can I then install ACR on top of that? Thanks in advance :)

That's brilliant news, thanks Dwarden!

Oh dear god. I was reading all the Spoilers expecting them to be about EW and instead you blow open the ending to Harvest Red for me (which I never reached due to bugs). Still, that sounds amazing, might even leave my (bugged) Czech playthrough and revisit Harvest.

I cannot find Kasun at all! No red car, no dude on foot, no nothing. As per the picture below, the red crosses and jeep location show where I've waited for him... I wasn't far away when the call came through to intercept him either (I was in the NE about 1.2km away). Any help?

I came here to find out if there was a way around this, sad to see there isn't! Also, I thought there was a point when you left an island and would warp to the next one? I've just started an SP game and it's a long slow haul all the way across. Kinda kills off the action and momentum that the fun FPS-opening created.

I thought the same thing!

Retried this mission (rather than revert I went from the start where you fly towards the airshow). Same thing again... although this time, the autosave kicks in so I can't reload as it instant fails. Will be skipping this mission which makes me sad :(

Just a lazy Sunday flight. I make one of my passengers wee herself at around the 3 minute mark. E9DEVRl_3RQ This is the flashback mission involving the run to the extraction point, as well as the pinnacle landing when taking Mr Heyward to the airport. M2BUwlmp6eI

I'll add the other part of that quote;

This thread needs 'spoiler' in its title :( I knew something was up with Vrana Corp, ever since that Ms Carmichael stopped us from reading the contracts.. but now I know that you get to do something about it.

EDIT: nm, I hadn't patched, will report back if it starts working properly!

I had a similar issue where they took ages.. after landing I broke right and avoided pretty much everybody and just bolted... Battlemage didn't hop on the radio until well into my run and then gave me the extraction point... whereas on other runthroughs I would engage the first group of hostiles then hike up that hill and Battlemage would almost always start talking as I crested it.

I'm a hardcore flight sim guy and I say hell yes! The story, the contracts, the choppers... this really is a special game, fwiw I highly recommend it. If MD500 above me reckons the flight physics aren't right, I'd believe him, but for groundlubbers like the rest of us, the Experienced model is hellishly tricky.

I love how it intertwines elements of ArmA 2. The dialogue and story are both extremely well-written, although the voice acting is quite poor. There really isn't any other title like ToH and as an avid-simmer, I highly recommend it :)

Just came here looking for an answer to the CAS mission. First I think I need to remap the Hydra button as my Warthog trigger aint doing it (which is odd as the rest of the button presets work fine). If anyone has any solutions, please post 'em!

While it's quite expensive, the Thrustmaster Warthog is a brilliant stick and I wouldn't use any other. The devs must have thought so because it comes with a simple preset so I didn't have to remap anything. I use Saitek pro-flight pedals as well and they're quite comfortable and easy to use.

Reposting the RipTen review because I was the interviewer! http://www.ripten.com/2011/10/28/ripten-interview-take-on-helicopters/. It can also be read from my new hub - http://railingmedia.com/ (still waiting on my graphic artist wife to deign to create a proper banner). Big thanks to Jay and Joris, your answers were superbly articulate and I look forward to sharing my upcoming review with RipTen's readers.

I put a story up about you on RipTen - http://www.ripten.com/2011/06/25/bohemia-interactives-take-on-helicopters-takes-shape/ As a hardcore simthusiast, I'd be very keen to get an interview, where can I send press enquiries?

Hiya, the last time I installed ACE mod this same error happened and ArmA 2 would slowly disintegrate until even after multiple installs it wouldn't work anymore (no idea why it worked again recently tbh). Game Version: Steam, patched separately to 1.59 Six Updater: used to install ACE mods Launch target line in steam: -mod=@CBA;@ACE;@ACEX;@ACEX_SM So, I've installed ACE mod so I can play Insurgency on our clan server and I launc the game through Combined Ops in Steam. When I tried to play Insurgency I'd keep getting kicked with an error stating that I don't have a valid key, it mentions warfare2vehicles.pbo and then boots me from the game. The guys in the server can see more detail and one of them helped me delete a few ACE files that were conflicting. Have now deleted the root ACE files 4 or 5 times seeing if something simply needed an overwrite. I was also getting a lot of conflict messages when I started the game up (just the usual 'bt_cav file' missing or similar) but these have since disappeared. Can anyone help? Like I said, last time this happened it killed ArmA2 for me for a long time and it's my favourite game ever so goddamnit I need to get this fixed! Let me know what info/screenshots you need. Thank you :)

Here you go; http://ifile.it/8qaoywc

Here you go; http://hotfile.com/dl/116528346/f5a6ac6/ArmA2OA.RPT.html And yes, very weird I'd get a warfare message when playing ACE insurgency. Thanks for offering to help.

When I double click the arma 2 icon in Steam to start the game (patched to latest) the 'now launching' small steam window appears and flickers non-stop. Anyone else have this problem? I'd bloody hate to reload it, seeing as it's a quarter of my monthly bandwidth.

Can someone please tell me how to get the chopper pilot to fly me places? I can get him to move sometimes but he goes to some weird places.

Can someone please tell me how to even use the chopper? I can get my men into it alright but I can't get the damned thing to take off!