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Not sure what you mean. If you mean buying it somewhere other than steam, you can buy it on the bohemia interactive page. Im fairly certain its cheaper if you do that as well. The third party "mod" is something called "arma II launcher"

Im not sure. im using an operation arrowhead shortcut. How do i go about using combined operations? *edit* i think i got it. I opened my "arma II launcher" application, went to launch options and set it to run beta. pointed the arma 2 OA beta launch to my beta file in my expansions folder. the arma II beta was blank I hope this helps anyone else having this problem

Yes sir, copied the exe out of Expansions/beta and put it in Operation arrowhead, overwriting the original file. then i launched from the altered beta shortcut. Does my path for that shortcut look okay?

Gonna have to be a bit more specific than that friend, i appreciate the prompt response and hope your still around. or atleast word it a bit differently *edit* I did your first line and no change. Still getting the 3d error. But why did you want me to mess with my arma2.exe file?

getting a "Error creating direct 3d graphical engine" error when trying to launch using my beta shortcut. Here's the path "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion" -mod=@dayz Tried googling but im not getting any help. Not using steam. If it helps i've attached my entire file path as an image...might be a bit confusing but just read it from the top to bottom.