Patroclus

Hi, Sorry for late reply. I have been so busy for the past weeks I haven't had an opportunity to revisit my problem. I will try again this weekend. I also realized that when I installed A2 I used the Serial No. given to me for OA...I do not know if that would cause an issue with getting A2+OA = CO. :o I will try your method in the bold this weekend and see how it turns out. Thanks for the info about updating A2! :notworthy: since my DL is identical I hope it will work! cheers and wish me luck! :cheers:

Did you buy the DLs of ArmA2 and ArmA2OA? If so, can you please tell me in detail how you were able to get the CO to work? I followed the BI instructions but it did not work. (i am not computer-inclined so help would be appreciated) :)

thanks! I followed the BI instructions to get the combined operations to work but it does not take. I'm guessing the next stop is to try out the CMD files?

thanks. I got some PMs from people at Armaholics and they pointed me to the following fix at their website: Manual installation creating Arma 2: Combined Operations Step 1: Uninstall ArmA2 and OA. Make Backups of your Modfolders. Step 2: Install ArmA2 and run it once. Step 3: Install OA. When asked where to install to, install it into the same folder as ArmA2. Step 4: Install BAF (if applicable) Step 5: Install PMC (if applicable) Step 6: Install the latest OA Patch (patches also A2 + BAF + PMC). Sample for Step 3: If you have installed ArmA2 in c:\games\arma2, then you must install OA into c:\games\arma2 as well and not in c:\games\oa! So I went ahead and uninstalled OA and ArmA2 and then did steps 1 -3 above. I am now downloading the OA 1.59 patch and will give it a try in a few minutes. wish me luck! I need it! ---------- Post added at 11:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:34 PM ---------- OK...I am ready to start screaming my frakkin' head off! LOL I did the list above. OA upgraded to 1.59, however, ArmA did not upgrade and remains at 1.05. and how do I know if the games are linked or not? Thanks!

ok thanks! :)

D'oh! :icon_redface: I was having all sorts of problems trying to get my ArmA2 and ArmA2 OA to link together. I uninstalled both games and reinstalled them following a method from armaholic. However, I think I may have used the OA serial number for my ArmA2 install! :butbut: Is this going to be an issue? Should I contact Bohemia? :confused:

new ArmA2 gamer here. :) OK, call me Mr. Remedial! :p I looked through various pages of this thread but I could not find a specific example for myself. As many others have mentioned this thread can be very confusing so I wanted to make sure I did the correct thing in order to make my ArmA2 game and ArmA2OA game work together. I was not aware of having to do something special to make ArmA2 and ArmA2OA work together until after installing both games separately. I bought and installed ArmA2 (sprockets download) and played it a few times. I liked it so that I bought ArmA2 OperationArrowhead (sprockets download) and installed this game over the weekend (I have NOT started OA game). If I understand the first post correctly then I have to the following if I want my copies of ArmA2 and ArmA2OA work together. 1. Installed ArmA2 2. Installed ArmA2 OA 3. download the zip file and extract the cmd file - non-STEAM users: use _runA2CO_nonSteamOA.cmd from _runA2CO_nonSteamOA.zip 4. and... 'Place content of this file into same directory where is ARMA2OA.EXE' then what do I do? :confused: :confused: :confused: Do I upgrade my ArmA2 to version 1.09 before or after doing the above? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: Do I upgrade my ArmA2OA to anything? The sprockets DL said it was version 1.59. :confused::confused: Some poeple have posted about needing to run each game separately before doing anything? is that true??? :confused::confused: thanks in advance. :)