RespectShmaa

okay ill try a reinstall via steam.

I took your advice and got arma 2 launcher, the only problem is it still says im a standalone once im ingame, as well as some other errors. what do i have arma 2 launcher use for the .exe , arma2AO.exe or the arma 2 AO beta exe? also when i launch the game i get an error "Addon 'Etended_eventhandlers' requires addon 'CATracked2_AAV'

i can get the game to run AO ace with the beta shortcut, but it gives me an error ingame about missing cba_ao because im a standalone user. I have arma 2, do i need ace 2 arma 2 content, and if so how do i initialize it with the beta? By the way this is the target line in my shorcut:"\SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -mod=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion;@cba;@ace;@acex;@ace_sm -nosplash"

I'm having serious difficulties installing and playing this mod. I had a very old version of ace 2 that i played for a long time. Recently i tried to enter my name into the userconfig so i could actually get ace to work properly (like earplugs) i ended up fucking that up somehow where it wouldn't work because i overwrote some files in the userconfig. ANyways i decided to just update ace to a new version, thinking that would fix it.I deleted the old ace content and installed it using sixupdater. i then installed the beta patch from armaholic. Now when i go to play the game the ace content is not working. ive been trying to play for a week. reinstalled, and isntalled ace again multiple times with sixupdater. when i try to launch the game it says "need ace anims version 1.6" or something. very frustrating because it appears like there is fully updated ace content in my operation arrowhead folder. what the fuck am i doing wrong? Please any help would be greatly appreciated. :(