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Yeah, hope we could have challenger 2

No matter how I play this mission, I found that hostage died Anyone know how to finish the mission with hostage alive?

I notice that in the game, after artillery strike, there is no crater. Is this normal? I suppose crater is actually a very important feature in real warfare. But now what we have is just a layer of different color with no curve.

Well,try to landed directly inside the base, and that's it

I found that whenever I want to play OA, I have to insert the DVD in. IS there a way for me to play it without inserting DVD? I do not need DVD to play original AA2 since I bought it on steam, but this OA, I got it as DVD.

Thanks! So it means so far all of us who bought DVD box need to insert DVD to play? at first I thought it was only me with this problem lol :)

what is BIS tend ? ---------- Post added at 06:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:34 PM ---------- My current OA vision is 1.52.71.816 Is there any more patch?

I purchased ArmA II Combined Operations two days ago on Steam and downloaded ArmA II original first. I can play it and it works perfectly. However, after I finished downloading OA a few hours ago, the game just cannot start at all. When I click play game, steam just pop up this "Performing first time setup... installing:(step 1 of 3)" Over and over again It just cannot stop even if I click "cancel". The only way to stop it is to exit steam all together. The original ArmA II works fine. But I just cannot play OA this way. Is there a way to fix this?

Thank you I dunno if there is anything special about my OS setup, I guess it should be normal. I am using kaspersky I have deleted and re-installed it several times, and now try to re-download the game. BTW, what are the two remaining steps? would they matter in this case? Also, can I somehow delete DirectX redist from my computer(can't find it in programs) and let steam install it when installing OA?

What do I need to do?To fix this?

.... OA is still not working ---------- Post added at 08:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:07 AM ---------- Sorry OA is still not working as of today ---------- Post added at 10:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 AM ---------- Deleted the game, redownloading now, hope it could work ---------- Post added at 10:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:01 AM ---------- Besides, is there a way for me to look into the reports or somewhere, at least to figure out what the problem is?

Dunno you're problem exactly But I got Combined Operations with ArmA 2 at 1.07. OA just could not be launched at all

I bought CO on steam a few days ago I can run ArmA2 but cannot run for OA Actually I would rather it be another way around

Sure just kinda worried, still cannot get pure OA launched successfully

I don't really think it has much to do with language, other people with the same operating system has no such problem. The Chinese characters there says something like "Error: the system couldn't find the needed registry key or value", which is the same message the other player encountered on steam forum. ie (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1335248) I did try to run only A2:OA, but got the same result. In fact, in the past few hours, it is always A2:OA that I have been trying to run, yet always unsuccessful. The steam message about performing first time setup pop up no matter I try to run OA or CO, it's always the same.

I got the screen shot, hope this tells the problem more clearly This is what happened when a double click "_runA2CO" from steam=>steamapps=>common=>arma 2 operation arrowhead This is what happened when a double click "_runA2CO" from steam=>steamapps=>common=>arma 2 operation arrowhead This is what happened when I tried to launch ArmA 2 : Operation Arrowhead from steam. The same message just shows itself repeatedly non-stop Registry entry for OA. Notice that there is a SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio. But in that DOS pop up window, there is one extra SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio This is the registry for ArmA 2

I tied both options, it's not working Still the same steam message every time I tried to launch OA "performing first time setup (step 1 of 3)" non stop So far I cannot even launch OA successfully for the first time

Furthermore , when I clicked "_runA2CO" A DOS window pop up, you can see the screen shot here(copy them to the address bar in IE) http://www.chinavme.com/attachment.php?aid=MTk5ODV8NWM4MGI0Yjl8MTI3ODcxODk1NXw0NTc2c0NUY0hiMHpERmptQVRMb0xtaEdXcUMzRUpOaEtwWWo4dlJZcVAycjVHbw%3D%3D&noupdate=yes http://www.chinavme.com/attachment.php?aid=MTk5ODZ8NzMwNTA1MWF8MTI3ODcxODk1NXw0NTc2c0NUY0hiMHpERmptQVRMb0xtaEdXcUMzRUpOaEtwWWo4dlJZcVAycjVHbw%3D%3D&noupdate=yes http://www.chinavme.com/attachment.php?aid=MTk5ODd8NzdlODEzNzV8MTI3ODcxODk1NXw0NTc2c0NUY0hiMHpERmptQVRMb0xtaEdXcUMzRUpOaEtwWWo4dlJZcVAycjVHbw%3D%3D&noupdate=yes The Chinese characters there says something like "error:system cannot find the designated registry item or value" ---------- Post added at 12:45 AM ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 11:52 PM ---------- I did what this post(http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=101214) say, but it is still not working. I checked the regedit, the registry is like HKEY_Local_Machine=>Software=>Bohemia Interactive Studio=>ArmA 2 HKEY_Local_Machine=>Software=>Bohemia Interactive Studio=>ArmA 2 OA there are three more items (default, Key, Main) after that. After "main" there is the installation folder for ArmA 2 OA. But I still cannot run the game ---------- Post added at 01:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:45 AM ---------- What should I do about it? ....

Gee! I have the opposite problem I bought Combined Operations pack, downloaded regular ArmA 2 first, then OA Now regular AA2 is working fine, but OA is not. But it does not show anything, not bad serial number or something like that It's just when I click play the game, it just says "performing first time set up, step 1 of 3", over and over again, I could not even cancel it. ---------- Post added at 11:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:09 PM ---------- I have similar problem. I bought Combined Operations, downloaded ArmA 2 first, then OA. Regular ArmA 2 works fine. But When I tried to play OA. Steam just shows "performing first time set up" over and over again. Sometimes, a DOS window also pop up for a few seconds, cannot get what it says! Besides, I did run steam on admin, re-validating game file, run ArmA 2 regular first. But it is not working. Still got that " performing first time set up", always, and it just will not stop ---------- Post added at 11:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 PM ---------- Furthermore When I clicked "_runA2CO" I got a DOS window pop up with the following message http://www.chinavme.com/attachment.php?aid=MTk5ODd8NzdlODEzNzV8MTI3ODcxODk1NXw0NTc2c0NUY0hiMHpERmptQVRMb0xtaEdXcUMzRUpOaEtwWWo4dlJZcVAycjVHbw%3D%3D&noupdate=yes