HOW TO: Get Steam Integration Working With Six Updater

[McStabbyface 0]

Ok, this is how to get Steam overlay working if you are one of those guys who can only get the game working through Six Updater.

If you're starting from complete scratch, and don't know how to get Six Updater working, follow this guy's video until he gets to the Steam part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhM5VTvGW00

His Steam workaround is completely wrong because it doesn't run as Arma2:CO and you run into the same problems as before.

I found another workaround that does work however. Make sure your Six Updater is totally working, and running the game through Six updater is totally working.

Now in the Six updater, set your PROFILE (at the top) to be A2 OA Combined Ops (forced).

He does this in the video too.

Now, go to Steam and add Sixupdater.exe to your game list. Rename it whatever you want.

When you run Sixupdater.exe using Steam, it will autoboot A2 OA CO with DayZ mod, complete with Steam overlay!

Success! Tried and tested using 1.7.1.1 Beta 93825 servers. No problems encountered yet.

[Tweakie 199]

Instead of making a new Thread, why not just add it to mine? http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14820

The steam shortcut is completely correct, and has worked for me for about 4 weeks, and it also works for the 5+ friends I have talked through installing it and seems to be working for the majority of viewers.

It is possible you are running into some sort of bug, in which case I fully support using your suggested way. But using sixupdater.exe is just extremely slow to load, comparably.

As you can see here, only using the shortcut I show in the video: here is my expansion menu, all necessary files are hooked in correctly (screenshot).

If your Arma 2 is failing to hook in, correctly. Have you tried enabling it in the expansion menu? Same with DayZ (which will write the hook-ins to your ArmA2OA.cfg and they will now launch regardless of your method of launching the game)

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The code you want in your ArmA2OA.cfg will look something like this:

class ModLauncherList

{

class Mod1

{

dir="d:\apps\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2";

name="arma 2";

origin="GAME DIR";

fullPath="d:\apps\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2";

};

class Mod2

{

dir="@DayZ";

name="";

origin="GAME DIR";

fullPath="d:\apps\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\@DayZ";

};

};

DO NOT COPY-PASTE THIS CODE, AS THE FORUM REMOVES THE FORMATTING. I have added a text file which will retain the format.

The ArmA2OA.cfg can be found in C:\Users\******\Documents\ArmA 2

[McStabbyface 0]

Thanks, I tried your solution but I'm still encountering problems using the Steam shortcut. I still get the same errors as if I wasn't using CO. (Missing files, etc...)

However, after more twiddling around in Six Updater, my regular Steam boot works just fine, no artificial shortcut involved.

So... all's good!