DayZ SA Install Stable & Experimental At Same Time | DayZ Standalone Tips

[BlueCollarhero 30]

 

Helpful guide on how to install both normal and the experimental versions of DayZ at the same time. Whats the benefit of this - well the queue to change between the two modes is quite large at the moment with vehicles just been introduced and anyone with a slow connection speed will certainly see this as a large benefit. There are two stages: 

 

Stage 1 is obtaining both normal and experimental and you will need to find the Steam directory folder. Dont panic here is a quick way to get to it. Right click your steam shortcut,right click and  go to properties then open file location. Scroll up to steamapps folder. Now go to the common folder. Go to the DayZ Folder. Make a copy and call the copy DayZ - Stable. Now download the DayZ Experimental. Once done go back to our steam directory and now have DayZ Stable and DayZ Experimental folders. Rename the DayZ folder the DayZ Experimental. Here we go so clearly we have DayZ Stable and DayZ Experimental.

 

Stage 2. Lets load one up as an example. You'l be doing this every time you want to switch between the two modes. The process is pretty much the same so for as the example lets load up the experimental. Right click DayZ in your steam games library and select delete local content. Usually this would uninstall the game but because we have renamed both folders it cannot locate where DayZ is. so nothing is uninstalled. We are going to load the experimental but for whichever one you want to load simply rename that folder back to DayZ. Then go to the steam games library, right click the game properties. Go to the beta section and tell it which one you are installing. So we are doing experimental so lets click op it the experimental. And click install game. It will say Discovering Existing Files. You will need to do this rename folder, delete local content and change the op in status for every time you do this and the only loading time is this discovering existing files. Okay we're ready to rock! 

 

Once you get the hang of it you can save yourself the 15 minutes of steam uploading and downloading the different versions for you! See you out there!

 

Credit - Euphoria, http://global-gaming.co.uk/forum/m/12740172/viewthread/17200930-guide-for-how-to-install-dayz-stable-experimental-at-same-time

 

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Edited November 27, 2014 by BlueCollarhero

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done - thx for the guide :thumbsup:

My internet is fast but your tip is faster!

[BlueCollarhero 30]

Glad to here it buddy! Hero or bandits us DayZ players should stick together!