WAFFLE OF WAR

I bought the Arma pack, of Arma II, and 4 other games, all different versions of Arma, and after wards I downloaded the DayZ. I only bought the pack to play Dayz. Everything is bought off Steam, and everything should be installed in the same location. At first, I tried running just the mod shortcut, and it didn't work. So I ran Arrowhead and Arma II first, past initial set-up and got several errors like missing shaders and missing animations and stuff. If those are important, let me know and I'll be more than happy to supply the full error. Anyways, One game had "@dayz" so I enabled that. Nothing. The other game had "@dayz" and "Dayz" so I enabled both and got The Dayz mod shortcut to work, but now find any servers. I just spent like 2 hours waiting for all of this to download, so needless to say I'm a little disappointed that that Steam has let me down, but I hope the fine people of this forum can lend a hand. Thanks in advance!

If it means anything, this time when I started Dayz, Steam asked me if I wanted to run the mod or a beta patch. It still gave me the start-up error, but when I went into multiplayer, a bunch of servers showed up. I have not joined one yet, but I'll try that now and edit this post to relay the results. EDIT: Everything seems to work. ;) Thank you very much! Now to learn how to play...

Both frameworks 3.5 and 4.5 have a square in their check box. some are checked, some blank, and come a solid square. I tried to check it, but it just turned it off, and went back to the square. EDIT: Never mind, I solved it. 3.5 is now fully operational.

I have Windows 8, but it works the same way, and I added it into the firewall, along with Webroot. I still get the same error, but no additional errors. EDIT: When I go into "Expansions" I get an error, " No Entry 'bin/config.bin/CFgMods/DZ_InitWorld.action'".

on commander, it says "DAYZ COMMANDER: 0.9.1.85 (Error - if persists, reinstall vie www.dayzcommander.com). An error I get when trying to run the mod directly, on start-up, is "Addon 'dayz_anim' requires addon 'CA_CommunityConfigurationProject_E'" Then I click OK and everything ran normally this time. I rememeber that I also got an error that mentioned a Bin, but don't remember which Arma it was.

Regarding steps 4-5, There is no "install" button near them. The only button are "view change log" and Arma two has a button telling me that the servers are up and running. Dayz has, in small red text, that there is an error, and if it persists to re-install commander.