Arma 2 Outside of Steam Folder?

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Well I bought an SSD and installed my OS on it, I wanted to play DayZ on it so I took my arma 2 and arma 2 oa foldres out of my steamapps folder (which is on my hard drive NOT SSD) and put them into a folder on my SSD. It runs perfectly when I play DayZ, but when I try to play regular multiplayer or update oa to 99153 it doesn't work, it just kicks me out of the multiplayer games and the updater says "Arma 2 OA is not installed on your computer or the installation is corrupt".

So is there anyone who plays their Steam bought Arma 2/Arma 2 OA with the folders moved outside of the steamapps folder?

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Problem is if you didn't reinstall the game (even over existing folders that have your old data) then there are no registry keys that tell Windows that the game is even installed.

This isn't Windows 95 or 98 anymore where you could copy programs back and forth. Any games/programs that are installed nowadays create registry entries. That doesn't mean there aren't programs that you can't still do that to, but those are few and far between.

Also, I'm going to preface this, as it looks like you may not have a very deep knowledge of the Windows Operating System... DO NOT COPY YOUR OLD COMPUTER'S REGISTRY ONTO THE NEW ONE... very very very bad idea. If you know what registry keys apply to a certain program, then yes, you can export specific registry keys from the old one and import them on the new setup, however, you might as well just reinstall the game(s) from scratch.

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Problem is if you didn't reinstall the game (even over existing folders that have your old data) then there are no registry keys that tell Windows that the game is even installed.

This isn't Windows 95 or 98 anymore where you could copy programs back and forth. Any games/programs that are installed nowadays create registry entries. That doesn't mean there aren't programs that you can't still do that to, but those are few and far between.

Also, I'm going to preface this, as it looks like you may not have a very deep knowledge of the Windows Operating System... DO NOT COPY YOUR OLD COMPUTER'S REGISTRY ONTO THE NEW ONE... very very very bad idea. If you know what registry keys apply to a certain program, then yes, you can export specific registry keys from the old one and import them on the new setup, however, you might as well just reinstall the game(s) from scratch.

Yeah I did a fresh windows 7 install on my ssd and fresh steam instal on my hard drive, installed amra 2 and oa in the steam directory then moved the folders to my ssd.