beta patches not patching no cd key

[voltagev 1]

I once had Dayz working. This time was months ago and i mean long before the hatchet was more than a tool. when the community of players was under 200,000 and when individual problems seemed to be only happening to the individual. Now that there are near 1,000,000 players I thought i'd try to get this going again and have fun with the zombie game that i have litteraly waited 5 years+ for.

I looked at the wiki and was surprised at how much there was to install and edit and change. When i had first gotten Dayz it was download, place in OA folder, play. Now there are a lot of things i don't understand and many different methods of instalation. I settled on the Dayzcommander since it seemed the most trouble free. i uninstalled and deleted all of my Arma 2 content, seeing as how the reason i stoped playing was because i had a problem that for weeks no one could figure out, including an admin. I then took the time to download the game through steam for what i belive to be a 4th time with a 3mb/s download speed. Most of you probibly don't realize just how little you can do when practicly your entire bandwith is taken up to download something for over 10 hours. i started the download, slept, and woke up 8 hours later with the download not finished. i bring this up because it seems every time a large update for dayz comes out i have to redownload the entier combined operations to try fixing something that no one has a solution to.

After i finished that i ran the dayz comander app and went to version. i had it update both the nonexistent dayz file and the beta patch. in both feilds it read blank before i updated. it finished the beta patch first and it asked me if i was sure i wanted to install it. this beta patch is 95417, the latest as of this posting. i click yes and it works for a few seconds. a message then appears saying nothing other than "wrong cd key". this baffles me seeing as how i bought arma2CO through steam.

I look at the instalation portion of the wiki and try to manually install the beta. i recive the same error. i had ran both games before i even downloaded dayzcommander. I really hope that someone can help with this. Dayz is a harsh realilistic look at a zombified world, something that is very hard to find in any zombie game. I enjoied it when i had it working months ago and i'm sure i will have even more fun with it being updated.

[voltagev 1]

as a note, i can not launch OA to the title screen. it has an error come up about pixle shaders

[voltagev 1]

shameles bump. i really would apreciate any help anyone could give.

[robciviccrx 28]

Steam versions apply the cd key as it runs the game I believe, when I install updates manually it pops up no cd key but you just continue and it works fine.

[voltagev 1]

so you're saying that even though it says that there is wrong cd key, it should still be installed correctly?

if that is true than my problem is not with installing a patch but something with me not being able to get to OA's title screen?

if that is the problem than what should i do? delete the dayz folder and somehow uninstal the beta patch too? than run OA and CO, and then using the dayz commander app to reinstal all of this?

edit: i also just found out that every time i try to verify the game cache it downloads 1 small file. this happens every time i check, even if i just did one.

Edited July 31, 2012 by voltagev

[voltagev 1]

bump/update the beta patch was not instaled correctly, and i stil cannot run OA or CO due to some error with pixle shaders. if there is a fix for that problem i'd try it and see what happened.

[Torndeco (DayZ) 46]

U need to run steam as admin for the first launchs..........

Quit outof steam

Right click on a steam shortcut & pick run as admin

Then launch arma2 + arma2 operation arrowhead & quit out.

Now u can quit outof steam + relaunch it as a normal

Ignore the invalid file, steam keeps downloading its because of the beta patch...

[skotish 13]

Check your game has the right registry path using regedit

[voltagev 1]

what torndeco said to do worked. i really didn't think something as small as running as admin would fix this but i'm very happy that you guys found a fix for me. this is a lot different now than it was last time i played it and i think i'll really enjoy playing it again. hats off to all of you who helped.