Stuck in loading screen fix

[GodofCombat 3]

If you are stuck at loading screen try:

1. Downloading the 2 batteye files and copying them into the battleye folder in arma 2 oa

2. Patch arma 2 oa to patch 94700

After you've done these for steps try again and it should work. It worked for me and most people but some people still cant get it to load. To make sure you have the problem that im fixing heres the video of it plus a link to the patch in description:

[mahoni (DayZ) 0]

that patch is earlier than the current one so it cant be installed.

[Waffenbruder 9]

I just solved this problem :) !

Let me show you how it works:

First of all i deleted ArmA 2 and ArmA 2 OA through steam. Then i deleted manually the two ArmA folders in the steamapps folder.

After that i FIRST downloaded Arma 2, ran it ,joined a (normal) game and so i updatet BattlEye (dont forget to install it through steam before!)

Then i downloaded Arma 2 OA (and did the same things like above, you need also to install BattlEye manually for arma 2 oa just make a folder called "BattlEye" under SteamApps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion. You need to extract the newest Battleyepatch in there : http://www.battleye.com/download.html (its in the middle of the screen! )

After that i installed the beta patch, which you can download from the green field form http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php/

You need to make a folder in steamapps\arma2 and in steamapps\arma2oa named @DayZ and there you need to make another folder called Addons! In there you just extract the following files:

http://www.armafiles.info/dayz/ (you need to choose a mirror first ;) )

Now you go to steamapps/arma2oa where you can find a "Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch.exe". You need to rightclick it and then insert the follwoing under properties "-mod=@dayz" (without "")

Now it does work for me but i need to run it through the "Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch.exe" (not with steam!)

Hope it helped :) !

PS: Another Tipp: When you have for example beta-patch pack 94997. Just make a filter in the serverbrowser where you add "94997" @ Host ;D ! When you try to join a server with another betapack you will stuck a "Wait for Host" !

Good luck, Have Fun ! ;)

[Tijg0rr 0]

I also had the problem with the black loading screen.

I installed Arma II combined operations in Steam

I started both games once (Arma II and Arma II: CO) from my steam list

I installed sixlauncher and sixlauncher installed the beta files and DayZ mod for me

Then i had the problem when i wanted to play, the black loading screen with the little grey bar in the middle and the text: Loading

I read these instructions above here and im a simple guy, i didn't want to do all that stuff and actually wanted to wait for the next patch and maybe have more luck with it.

But i read things about Battleye.

This seemed to work for me:

I went to my game-list in steam

I rightclicked on Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead

I saw the option "Reinstall BattlEye Anti-Cheat" and i thought about the solutions you guys wrote above here and thought Hey! Why won't i try to click that!

After I did that, it seemed liked it almost did nothing, no popup accept the one in windows asking if i trust the installation but ok. In my case i restarted Steam after a minute or 2, but thats maybe not necessary.

I started a online game in Combined Operations to be sure and quit immediatly (maybe this is not necessary)

Now i tried starting Day Z through Sixlauncher again and suddenly it worked, i don't know if all this was a coincedence but i already tried to connect a lot of times. Maybe this will work for others also and it is simple to do without copy pasting and complete reinstalls (accept the rightclick in the steamlist/reinstall BattlEye)

Sorry if it doesnt work, i just wanted to share my experience about it and hope to help, im no expert with programming or something.

Kind regards,

Tijg0rr

Edited July 17, 2012 by Tijg0rr