How to launch from Steam?

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I'm one of those guys that just bought the games because of DayZ. It's been a bumpy road, to say the least. I spent hours trying to put everything together.

- I started by playing a bit of Arma2. Then, I tried to launch OA but it wouldn't run. I had to run Steam as admin, which is causing issues with the rest of my setup. I feel like I shouldn't have to do this but I'll have to suck it up as there doesn't seem to be a better fix.

- Then, the freeware DayZ installer was taking hours to download the mod, which I thought was odd so I tried Six Updater.

- Then, I was kicked out of games because of BattlEye. Tried to install it through the option under AO, in Steam. Nope. Missing String error. Had to do it manually.

Now, this is what I'm dealing with. If I launch the game through SU, all goes well. If I launch it through Steam, DayZ isn't loaded. I already added the line "-mod=@dayz -nosplash" on OA target, and indeed, if I go into expansions, in the game's main menu, DayZ is there. There's no mention to DayZ in the main menu though, as I see when I launch through SU, and I can't join DayZ games saying its missing DayZ files.

I'd rather use the game's server list then SU's, and although I can join a game through SU, leave and then search the game's list, it would be way easier to be able to launch it through Steam.

Any ideas?

PS: Oh, and sorry for all the extra info, that's frustration speaking :P

[piemanpm 13]

Did the same with me for BattlEye. What you have to do is " Check integrity of game cache... " under OA options. That should download the BattlEye installer again when it " Finds one missing file ". Then right click OA and click re-install BattlEye.

I take it you're wanting it so you can use the STEAM overlay? If you are, there's a option in Sixlauncher that you have to turn on. Click options in the bottom left corner, under the Twitter icon on Sixlauncher, and click the box that says " Launch through Steam ( If available ) "

It's prolly not doing it properly when you launch through STEAM because you have to right click OA and click " Launch ARMA 2: Combined Operations " Took me ages to figure that I had to launch it as that when I first got it.

Hope this helps :)