Guide for players (Digital Copies) - might help

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I don't know about everyone but I know I had to be a little different when I installed this. If this is a repeat you guys can delete it but I think anything could help.

Context: I had bought Arma II and Arma II OA, which is the CO package off amazon and it is a digital copy.

Steps:

1. Install Arma II to the default path. Patch Arma II to 1.11 or whatever. Be sure to install BattleEye.

2. Install Arma II OA. Here is the situation with MY digital copy and I'm sure someone else might have the same.

it attempts to install this into the same folder as your Arma II original. What you do is make a new folder in the Bohemia Interactive Folder.. such that you have two folders:

MAIN FOLDER:

C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive

SUB-PATHS:

C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2

C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead

Now once this is installed MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL BATTLEEYE again for Operation Arrowhead.

3. Patch these now to 1.60. Patch is available online.

4. Now download the mod files. I simply downloaded them to my desktop.

5. Here's where things got weird, some reason when I opened the mod files and extracted them direct there were problems so this is what I had to do.

-After downloading the mod files to my desktop I extracted all the files to my desktop.

-Made a folder named "@DayZ" in

C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead

-Made a folder named "AddOns: in @DayZ.

-I took all the extracted file from my desktop and moved them into this AddOns folder.

6. Now you should be set up to play but what happened to me is I had to log in one time to click expansions and enable @DayZ.. then I had to login a second time to actually enable DayZ again.. because the first time it simply opened the @DayZ folder.

Once I did all this I finally got into a server. I hope this helps someone else. If not you mods can erase it if you find it dangerous. But I followed quite a few guides on here and combined them into this.