Black Loading Screen

[RainbowCo 3]

hey guys, I had arma 2 and Operation arrowhead, and recently re installed them. Arma2's disk was scratched and wouldnt install, but OA installed fine. I installed arma 2 free and and the dayZ mod, as well as the latest beta patch. I was able to get on one server but anything else leaves me with a black loading screen, any suggestions?

[BigFatJohnSon 16]

wait it out

[RainbowCo 3]

Alright, i've been on the screen for a little over 25 minutes now and still nothing :( any other suggestions

[zwt2135 2]

Same here I am reinstalling

[RainbowCo 3]

Yep... I've re installed too but I'm still stuck at this black loading screen.

[dromagewok@hotmail.com 164]

yup, waited 3 hours so far

[zwt2135 2]

Ok fixed this so apparently our arma 2 versions updated and the new version is non compatable with the version that the server you are trying to join has. So you have to figure out what beta version you have and find a server that is compatable. For instance I have the newest beta version 95389 the way I found this out was downloading Dayz commander and looking under the versions tab top right of that client. Once you open that tab click check now and it should say what version you have and what version is the latest. So once you know what beta version of arma 2 you have just make sure you connect to a server that is compatable. if you have beta version 95210 or higher you can only connect to those servers. Dayz commander also has a filter funtion that hides servers with wrong arma 2 versions or wrong dayz versions. I hope that helps and if you get confused PM me. Once I figured this out I was no longer stuck at the loading screen!!!

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