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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.

It's like Deja Vu all over again. Ain't that right PW? ;) But I digress..... Heaven help us if dogs are actually implemented in DayZ, as per some DayZ team interviews suggested. A doggy-dog DayZ in which a dog may actually eat another dog; the forums might just implode. Oh and hey - original poster, this should go without saying.... . Duh.

Can you tell me what you got listed under "Game Directories" in DayZ Commander options? Also, let us know if you have the Steam version, and if you have 64bit or 32bit Windows. Or, if you can tell us exactly where your Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead is installed, that would be even better. It'd probably be something like that shown in the screenshot above.

Fastest fix: Install the latest Arma2OA beta, and look in your Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead folder. Installing the beta should drop a shortcut named "Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch" in there. Copy it to your desktop, and use that to launch Arma 2 OA. Or the longer road... If there's no shortcut, you can make your own. You need to know where your Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead is installed before you start. Let's call that your "[OA Folder Path]". For Steam on 64bit Windows, the OA Folder Path is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\ Right-click your windows desktop, and choose New > Shortcut. You'll be asked to type the location of the item. Point it at your [OA folder Path]\arma2oa.exe For example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\arma2oa.exe"Click Next, give your new shortcut a name, then Finish. We're not quite done... you probably should add the Arma2 beta patch, since most servers want it and you have it installed anyway. Right-click the shortcut you made and choose Properties. Click the Shortcut tab. Select the tail end of the text in the target box. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\arma2oa.exe"Delete arma2oa.exe". Replace it with: \Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion It should look like this: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\ExpansionPay attention to the quote marks. There is one before C:\ at the start, and one after arma2oa.exe in the middle. There are no quote marks around -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion Check the "Start in" box still points to your OA Folder Path, not to the \Expansion\beta folder. Then click OK, you're done. If everything worked you can now use that shortcut to run Arma2OA. If you have any problems or get confused, first make sure you install the Arma2OA beta patch and then post your OA Folder Path below. I'll send you back the exact text you should put in the "Target" and "Start In" boxes.

Letex, send me a PM and I'll see if i can help. I feel maybe this thread is going to be closed after that hijack ;) Letex says he got it working. Sounds like that other guy might have more serious hardware problems, maybe a defective keyboard actuator. Seems to be beyond the scope of this topic.

Don't give me beans, i'm a nobody! Haven't even fixed it yet... ^_^

Help us to help you. You didn't give us a lot of information to go on. Does Arma 2 OA run all right on your machine? DayZ is buggy. Arma 2 runs like a dream for a lot of people who sometimes only see 10fps and have problems in DayZ. Check if the crashes occur in Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead, or if it's just DayZ. Have you taken any steps to increase performance? Try following these guides: http://dayzmod.com/f...ix/#entry348601 http://www.reddit.co...w_fps_try_this/ You are running SLI and/or NVidia hardware? In particular, pay attention to setting GPU_MaxFramesAhead and GPU_DetectedFramesAhead to one, as described in the reddit guide above. Also, visit your NVidia control panel and find the settings for the Render Ahead Limit or Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames. Set it to zero (or one if no zero available as option). This configuration may help with SLI setups or poor performance. Try enabling VSync. Do you regularly kick the power button or reset your PC without shutting it down? Has it crashed or BSOD and had lots of unexpected restarts? Error-check your hard disk. Right click your C: (Windows Boot Drive) in My Computer, choose Properties from the menu. Click on Tools and then Check Now. Check the box for "Automatically fix file system errors" and the box "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". This will take a long time. Do you have lots of free RAM? Are you feeling adventurous? Try running some of the DayZ files from a RAM Disk for added performance and an easier life for your hard disk. http://dayzmod.com/f...ter-soft-reset/ Have you overclocked your CPU, RAM or Graphics Card? Undo the overclock and see if the crashes go away. Check your RAM for errors:- download Memtest86+ ISO and burn it to CD. Boot your PC off the Memtest86+ CD and let it run a few passes. Report back if you get any errors, they can be the cause of random BSODs and crashes. Let us know if any of that works. Especially let us know if you get the crashes in plain ARMA2OA or only in DayZ. Good luck. Edit: you might want to try Piriform's Speccy - run it and upload your results, then post your results link here or send a PM so we can get a good look at your system.

If i recall correctly... Bandit Scarf is activated at -2500 humanity or below. When you kill a player, their humanity rating is is subtracted from your own. If you kill someone with a very high (+5000) humanity rating, you're very likely to be "awarded" the bandit scarf instantly - even if you have relatively high (+2500) humanity yourself - because it will put you below the bandit threshold in one strike. Killing a "hero" who has over 6000 humanity rating is a good way to get a winter scarf in a hurry ;) There is a five-minute cooldown timer when attacked, during which you may retaliate with deadly force without your humanity being penalized at all. One slight problem - you must be hit by at least one bullet in order to activate the timer. A near-miss or simply entering a shock state is not enough. If you don't want to wear the bandit scarf, you have to try real hard not to kill anybody unless you are certain they are already a bandit with negative humanity. The best course of action is almost always to avoid contact. From your description, he had around 2500 humanity, which was subtracted from your 4800, and leaving you with 300-400. Over time this will regenerate up to 2500, and positive actions such as healing other players will increase it beyond that.

Lingor Island is unofficial and not supported by the DayZ team. If you were banned from the unofficial server, you need to contact the server operators. Look for them on their own website, not here on DayZmod forum. If you were globally banned by Battleye, you need to contact Battleye Support. http://www.battleye.com/support.html Perhaps you were banned only from that one server. Try playing on some other server. Good luck. Досвидание!

Did a bit of homework. PatGuner14 was looking at this Cyberpower machine from eBuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/369710-cyberpower-battalion-500-gaming-pc-ecc01101 £499.98 delivered. AMD Quad-Core FX4100 3.6GHz 4GB RAM + 1TB HDD DVD±RW AMD Radeon HD7750 1GB Windows 7 Home Premium 64 I've had a skooch around and found these two on Play.com. http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/30029931/828769373/Galaxy-3-Intel-Quad-Core-I5-1tb-8gb-DDR3-ATI-Radeon-6770-1gb-Desktop-Gaming-PC/ListingDetails.html £454.99 delivered. Gigabyte H61M Motherboard Technology Intel Quad Core I5 2380P 3.1Ghz CPU 1tb Sata Hard Drive 8gb DDR3 1333 Memory ATI Radeon 6770 1gb GDDR5 with HDMI Galaxy 3 Gamers Style Case 24x Dual Layer Sata DVD Writer http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/30030733/828773576/Galaxy-3-AMD-FX-Quad-Core-3-6Ghz-Desktop-Gaming-PC-1tb-16gb-DDR3-ATI-6770-1gb/ListingDetails.html £432.99 delivered. Asus M5A78L-M USB 3.0 Motherboard Technology AMD Bulldozer FX 4100 3.6ghz 8mb Cache 1tb Sata Hard Drive 16gb DDR3 1333 Memory Galaxy 3 Gamers Style Case 24x Dual Layer Sata DVD Writer ATI Radeon 6770 1gb GDDR5 with HDMI The only thing I'm not seeing on Play.com is Windows 7 64-bit included. That's about £80 extra if needed, but can be ordered seperately - in fact it's better to have a proper disc than a recovery partition in case you need to reinstall. What you forum guys think? These are both superior machines for less, correct? The HD6770 will just about beat the HD7750 according to the Tom's Hardware chart. And in any case, the £433 AMD Galaxy 3 seems to be better specced (16GB RAM) than the eBuyer model for almost £70 less. There's your Windows licence right there.

Should be alright, the problem with conflicting Player ID was apparently resolved in beta patch 94103 or later. There have been some intermittent reports about player ID conflicts in the last two weeks but no concrete information.