CD help.

[TheIrishSpaniard 5]

Hello, I need your guys help I tried to join a breaking point server and it wouldn't let me stay trying and one server says CD key in use. I have always joined servers that were legit so I don't know how it could have been stolen.

[wooly-back-jack 294]

is it a steam version?

run steam as administrator and then verify game cache for each Arma2 game in this order

ARMA 2

ARMA 2 OA

any DLC such as private military company/british armed forces

Dayz Mod

also run each game first before running DayZ mod

[Rage VG 4033]

CD-Key in use means just that; someone is using your CD-Key. You may have downloaded a key stealer by mistake, which was disguised as something else. There's really nothing we can do.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

From Battleye website- WARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on [ 29.08.2012 • 17:00 ] As already mentioned in the previous news post, there is currently a massive ongoing effort by certain entities to steal people's cd-keys to then sell them for a profit. Private hack forums are full of posts of these fraudsters trying to sell heaps of cd-keys for a cheap price. We are talking about hundreds of cd-keys here, so this is not a small issue at all. The game developers confirmed that this is a huge problem right now.

Their process of stealing cd-keys is quite simple: They advertise a supposedly undetected hack on sites like YouTube and the moment you download and run it (it will probably report that the hack failed to load) your cd-key is already stolen. In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one, so you will automatically receive a global ban message on join (see below). This is done to prevent you from using your cd-key again, so the fraudsters can sell them claiming that they are valid and not in use. Note that this can be fixed (temporarily) by deleting the cd-key from the registry and reinstalling your game. While your original cd-key is not banned due to this, it might very well end up being soon when your cd-key is being used by a cheater that purchased it. This causes many players to think they were innocently banned when in fact their cd-key was stolen and used for cheating. At the very least you will often receive a "CD key in use" message when trying to connect to servers.

If you think this is false propaganda to cover up supposed false global bans I advise you to do some research on this yourself. You can easily verify this by searching for "free ***" on YouTube. You will see lots of results and almost all of them are scams. Most of them are actually quite popular and have thousands of views. When downloading them and opening the .exe file in e.g. Notepad (warning: do not actually run the .exe!), you can find cd-key related strings such as "SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA" (the registry location of the cd-key) inside.

In short, heed the following: DO NOT EVER RUN ANY HACKS OR OTHER SUSPICIOUS SOFTWARE! If you end up being banned due to your cd-key being stolen there is nothing we can do for you.

Go here for support-

http://www.battleye.com/support.html

Edited May 18, 2013 by Steak and Potatoes

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Did you also download DayZ Breaking Point that came in an .exe installer?

Because that's a pretty fast way to get your CD-key stolen.

[colekern 1364]

Have you downloaded anything for Arma 2 that came in the form of an .exe lately?