Cannot get the game to start after reinstall

[CaptainPayne 0]

Hello guys!

I started playing this mod about two weeks ago. I was able to play the game without any big problems the first few days.

Maybe I should mention that I ALWAYS got the same error (some CA file requiring some other file), but I was not able to find a solution to that on google, and after all the game worked fine after simply clickink "OK" in the error window.

Then, after two or three days, I started getting a really weird and "game-breaking" (it became one at this point) glitch:

Every time I join a new server (usually it was the next day when I wanted to play again), all my equipment was gone (or I had a completely different one) and I spawned at the beach (or somewhere in the middle of nowhere, where I did not leave the game).

Even though I should not get too attached to my gear, it is really annoying to lose it that way. I don't have a problem to lose my stuff by getting killed by a player or a zombie, but this was just getting too annoying for me to handle.

So I googled and googled and found a topic that suggested reinstalling the game.

I installed Arma 2 Black Edition first and then started the game once (and left it in the main menu).

Then I installed Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead, launched it, installed the newest patches (first 1.60 and then 1.62) and started it again.

After that I downloaded the Six Suite, downloaded DayZ, updated it and was hoping for it to finally work.

But instead, I got this when I want to join a server:

"Addon "CAMisc_fix' requires addon 'Utes'"

I thought "whatever" and just clicked "OK" in the error window (it always worked before, so I thought "why not this time?")

The game loads and instead of ending up in the game lobby (or whatever it is called), I actually find myself in the main menu with the following error:

"No entry 'bin/config.bin/cfgvehicles/citizen1.scope'"

And that's it...the game doesn't load (or rather: I cannot join the server since I end up in the main menu)....

I have no clue what to next, which is why you guys here are my last hope :/

Let me thank you in advance for reading that wall of text and for trying to help me!

Edited July 27, 2012 by CaptainPayne

[Le.Mouh 0]

Copy the folder Addons in your Arma2 folder to Arma2: OA folder.

Thats it.

[CaptainPayne 0]

I installed OA into my Arma 2 folder. I copied the addons folder to the expansion folder in my Arma 2 directory and still get the error.

Now I get a different loading screen and new errors!

Edited July 27, 2012 by CaptainPayne

[Le.Mouh 0]

hmz. to be honest, i had the same error and it helped me a lot in this case..

cba then :/

[CaptainPayne 0]

Thanks for the help, anyway :)

I reinstallied it AGAIN and now I do not get any error messages. I hope the equipment/spawn glitch is gone now, too.

If not, I will report back here.

Edit: I just joined a server and started somewhere completely different...Due to the glitch I described in the first post I spawned in Kamenka yesterday...now I spawned at the airstrip in the south-west with a hatchet and different values (blood, kills etc.)...

Edited July 27, 2012 by CaptainPayne

[CaptainPayne 0]

Sorry for the double post, but this is becoming really depressing:

It happened again! After logging out yesterday I tried to join a game today - and started with some random equipment (3 painkillers and a crossbow o.O) at Krutoy Cap instead of where I last was....

Any suggestions? This is really starting to get annoying. I know it's an alpha but it's weird that out of all my friends playing the game, I am actually the only one having this glitch.