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My boss says this to me all the time ;) Anyway, you should be all set once you read a couple of pages. ?/thread

Something wrong with your google? Top answer is "Global ban (NOT AN APPEAL) or complaint" on this very forum.

You're up and running? Right on, commander! No worries, and you're most welcome. Glad that you got it sorted and just in time.... there's only a few days till the next patch brings fresh bugs ;)

AmberHelios is correct, you have to run Steam as an admin one time, launch each game once, then your CD keys should be validated and written to the registry correctly. Thanks for posting back that installing DirectX solved your XAudio DLL crash. Happy hunting :)

WARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on - http://www.battleye.com/ "In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one" Did you maybe download something you shouldn't have? OK, so you also bought a new copy, but you need to clean out your old keys from the windows registry before it'll register your new ones. Follow the many guides on this forum for running two different accounts or cleaning out your old CD keys.

I've been trying to help out a guy with a similar error. Try reinstalling DirectX. Right-click and run the installer as an Administrator.

Holy crap, that's some serious crashing. I'm particularly concerned that it also takes down Chrome and SixUpdater. I hate to go there straight off, but are you completely sure your computer is clear of malware and is virus free? I'm worried something might be in there and causing a conflict. Personally I like AVAST Antivirus Free and definitely recommend it over Norton or McAfee. There's also Microsoft's own free MS Security Essentials which beats having nothing at all, and in paid-for antivirus I'd probably go with NOD32 or Kaspersky. Don't pirate them, it kinda defeats the point of installing antivirus software in the first place. Did you download and run Memtest86+ when I asked you to? Memory corruption could easily take down a few programs in this way. You need to burn it to a CD or DVD and boot your PC off that disc, let it run a few passes. It'll probably take hours to do this for 8GB. If you get errors, you might have one or more faulty sticks of RAM, or a bad RAM slot, or severe overclocking/heat problems. You should probably go ahead and reinstall DirectX as per that ARMA2 fix found on the BI forums. Go ahead and reinstall the .NET framework, just in case. Update it through Windows Update. Once again, install Piriform's Speccy and publish a snapshot of your system so we can get a look at the exact hardware and software you're running. Maybe there's something wierd with your soundcard, or some process is running that causes a conflict. Also, quit bumping the topic when you didn't answer the questions the first time around ^_^

I'm thinking maybe you didn't bother trying plain old ARMA 2 without the DayZ mod loaded, since you didn't exactly answer my questions the first time. We'll point you in the right direction, but we're not doing your homework for you :) I would suggest editing your first post and change the topic title to something more specific and meaningful, something like "ARMA 2 crash xaudio2_4.dll" would probably get you some more help (if that's the exact error). I was mistaken in saying DayZ will be using the ARMA3 engine, it's been explained in an interview with Rocket that Dayz Standalone be more like an ARMA 2.5 engine, so if you want to play DayZ it's pretty vital that you check whether it's the DayZ code itself or if it's the ARMA 2 engine that's falling over. We really need to know if you have these crashes in plain old ARMA 2. There was a known xaudio problem roughly 3 years ago that should have been solved with later Arma 2 patches. A quick google search suggests re-installing DirectX as a possible fix, this was posted on the BI/Arma2 boards a few years ago: http://forums.bistud...mp-sound-issues But with no Speccy report and no specific answers to my previous questions, we can't help much more with what you told us. Details would be very good - not just "tried all that". Paste the error messages onto the forum, screenshot them, whatever you can do. It's an alpha test, by playing DayZ you're an alpha tester. Things might be broken, but getting them fixed is probably going to mean a little work for you figuring out exactly what's gone wrong. Sure it might suck, but it's the price of getting in on 2013's Game Of The Year twelve months early. Edit: Ninja'd with your new post saying plain ARMA2 is working. Don't I feel like a chump.... or maybe not since that definitely means you really didn't bother two weeks ago when I asked the first time :) Check the DirectX fix I linked up there: http://forums.bistud...mp-sound-issues

Hey there, Cool, let us know how you get on. If it's still totally wrecked and you've still got some patience, there's always the DayZ standalone in a few months :)

If DayZCommander gets hung up during an update, often the best thing to do is close it, grab the latest DayZ and ARMA2 beta patch, unzip and install them manually, then reload DayZCommander and check that your versions are up to date. There's also a DayZ Commander Forum if you want to contact the developers directly. While DayZ Commander is excellent and my preferred launcher, it's a 3rd-party tool and not directly supported by the DayZmod team. You could switch to SixUpdater, but it comes with its own unique set of complaints and grievances. Keep in mind that the huge demand for DayZ often overloads the update servers and breaks everything for everyone. It seems BIStudio, like Valve, take some great pleasure in DDOSing themselves on a semi-regular basis ;)

I made a post about setting up a RAMdisk a while back, which might help. Here it is: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/54615-help-needed-with-ramdisk-cant-find-create-disk-after-soft-reset/ If you're feeling adventurous and technical then try setting yourself up a smaller 1GB ramdisk to decrease stuttering. You'll find a list of files to populate a 1GB ramdisk here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62876152 Didn't help me too much (I've ordered an SSD instead) but a couple of forum users swear by it. Might be worth a shot. Good luck.

Indeed. I'm no medic, but we'll surely see who Alt-F4s on whom while medics are appearing in these kinds of configurations :D Good luck out there.

I've had a dig through your other forum posts and noticed you put a lot more info in some of your previous topics, specifically relating to a faulting xAudio2_4.DLL. This seems to be related to a soundcard supplied with some motherboards. Try this.... Go to your start menu, open Control Panel, and open the Sound control panel. Right click on your output device (usually marked as Speakers and Default Device) and choose Properties. Click on the Advanced tab, and check the Default Format. Is it set to 24-bit, 96000Hz? Change it to 24-bit, 48000Hz (Studio Quality) as shown in this image. Click on OK, and OK again to close these control panel windows. Now try Arma/DayZ again. If that doesn't work, go back into the Sound control panel and retry that procedure with each of these settings - one at a time, in this order: 24-bit 44000Hz, 16-bit 48000Hz, 16-bit 44000Hz. If this works then please, please, please report back that you had success, then maybe you could add this info to your previous topics so others know you found a solution. If it doesn't work I'll see you back here again later. ;) Don't forget to post a Speccy report link, if you don't mind sharing it with the world. It'll help us spot any wierd hardware or DirectX problems.

Right off the top of my head, could be a corrupted installer executable. Fetch another copy of the Six Updater installation program, and try again. .NET is required by Six Updater, so double-check you have .NET Framework installed and up-to-date (Windows Update carries the updates after you have .NET installed). The Six Updater FAQ has some more pointers: If all else fails you could try DayZ Commander instead, although it has its own set of quirks.

You should probably be using one of these two: http://cdn.armafiles.info/ http://us.armafiles.info/ Those are the two main Dayz CDN mirrors that I'm aware of. If you're trying to use the resolved IP of the content delivery network URL that's probably a bad idea, as it may change over time (as you've just discovered). Edit: Yep, us.armafiles.info no longer seems operational. Use cdn.armafiles.info, it's fine.