HOWTO: Arma 2/OA Steam Owners: Launch DayZ Without Steam

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I'm sure people don't mind going through steam to launch arma, but I found it bothersome to have to make so many clicks just to launch Arma in Combined Ops. So I made a little shortcut workaround that not only makes it a single click, but you don't even need steam to be running to play it.

Go to your Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead dir and make a shortcut to ArmA2OA.exe where ever you like, I pinned it to my taskbar.

Right-click on the new shortcut and go to Properties.

In Target add " -nosplash -nointro "-mod=C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2;EXPANSION;@dayz""

Substitute the arma 2 mod path for yours, leaving in the wrapping quotes for -mod, but take out the set that wrap the whole switch line

You should now have a working, single click shortcut, to DayZ.

I like to use BTK's icon for my shortcut.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=370

NOTE:Revised with info from TheGent, I over-complicated it for noobs(BUT I STILL LIKE THE CLEANER LOOK OF ENV. VAR. COME AT ME GENT)

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Does this work if you have the beta version?

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Or if anyone else knows how to set it up to run without steam with the beta - now required for 1.7.1 - I would greatly appreciate a walk through.

Assuming I can figure out how to fix the "dayz_code requires cabuildingparts" probem that is.