Accounts got mixed

[MonoFox (DayZ) 0]

A friend that plays Day Z with me came over to stay a few nights. He wanted to use my PC to get to Cherno to meet up with our other friend and get me out of from behind the Cherno hospital glass (he got me stuck there).

He got his player up on my PC fine and played for some hours. But now he has gone home and we both try to log on to the same server I get kicked. I log in this morning as he is at work and I am on his player but with my name. He logs in and still has his player and name find but my player is gone I don't care if I die doing this I really just would like to play.

I will be watching this thread all day so I will reply fast.

Edited July 25, 2012 by MonoFox

[LunaTiK (DayZ) 45]

This has also happened to me.

The solution is simply patience. If you sit at the body and wait for a minute or two, you will eventually be able to loot the animal. It's a weird bug, indeed.

I am having a similar problem.

Basically what has happened is that he logged into his steam on your PC. His game changed the CD key in the registry to his and now that he has left the game isn't updating the CD Key in the registry any longer.

Before the last patch I could run arma 2 vanilla and it would update the CD key in the registry then I could play the mod just fine. You might want to try this.

Other than that I don't know what to do. I don't want to reinstall the game because I'm not at home and the internet here isn't as fast. It would bottleneck anything else I wanted to do during the hours and hours of download.

AFAIK the only way to to fix this problem is to use a cd key changer that hackers usually use when they get battleye banned. I think you would be able to look up the CD key Via steam, plug it into the program and then the program would change the registry for you. Problem here is that I'm not trusting jack shit made for hackers. Other than that I think we might need to reinstall the game.

I'm going to try doing some things with running steam in admin and maybe deleting the registry key and see if it updates it or just causes problems.

Edited July 26, 2012 by LunaTiK

[ahyokata 15]

Check this link out, and see if the steps involving regedit help you out.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32775-multiple-dayz-accounts-useful-for-shared-computers/

[LunaTiK (DayZ) 45]

The steps involving regedit will only help if you can get steam to change the cd key in the registry. These steps help you switch accounts if you know the registry key for your cd key for your specific account. He doesn't know it and it's not in the registry, his friends is.

I totally left you hanging though and forgot to update thread. Running steam in Admin and then launching Arma 2 regular from steam updated my account. I also logged out of windows before I ran steam in admin mode.

Edited July 26, 2012 by LunaTiK