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!!! MISSING STRING, when trying to re-install battle-eye for OA

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Hey, whenever I try to re-install Battle-eye or install newer updates ect. it says !!! MISSING STRING.

I don't know why this is happening, I did have scripts before but I only used them on my friends hived server, and I never used them on Battle-eye servers. But all of my scripts and the cheat engine thing has been deleted off my computer with the past 2weeks. I can download the DLL's and install them into my program files through the Battle-eye website, but I don't think it does the same as installing it through steam.

I tried the "Verify integrity of game cache" method, It restored about 6 files, but it still wont let me re-install Battle-eye.

This is annoying me because when I try to join a server almost every time it give me a script restriction, even though there is no scripts on my compuer, AT ALL.

If you know any way to solve this please help. thanks

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u dont need to install the dll's, just copy em over old dll's in the 2 arma dirs, dir battleye

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Remove BattleEye files and then repair install via steam

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@Bean king, I deleted battle-eye in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion and I still get the

!!! MISSING STRING problem, but now it says on steam "Register Your Game" when I right click on Arma2OA :(

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There's an option to re-install BattlEye when launching original Arma II through Steam, I find this way the most stable.

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I'm making progress, it gets to the loading of the installation, it says it installing, then it says the !!! MISSING STRING problem again, but then it makes the battle-eye folder with everything inside it (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\BattlEye).

Does this mean battle-eye is now installed? It still says "Register Your Game" for some reason, doubt this will be a problem, if this worked, Gogster, you sir, can take all my beans ^_^

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Thanks everyone for the help, I finally got it working.

Gogster, my beans are now yours :D

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Glad I could help - I guess the manual installation of BE can be complicated, hence why they stuck the option in the Steam menu.

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I had this issue too.

I reinstalled battleye via steam and got this Missing string error.

I unsinstalled battleye via the control panel, then reinstalled it, and got the missing string error

I then uninstalled battleye and deleted all traces of (eg, users/appdata/local/arma II oa/battleye etc, then reinstalled battleye, and got the missing string error.

I did the above, and reisntalled battleye manually by downloading the latest version and copying them into the correct directorys, loaded the game and it didnt work, when I then tried to reinstall battleye,I got the missing string error

I then unsinstalled battleye, deleted all trace of it, uninstalled arma II & Arma II OA via control panel. Reinstalled them all, and got the missing string error

So today, I uninstalled Steam, and everything associated, including battleye, then re-installed everything.

It it worked, and it took me about 15s from loading the game to get into a server.

So. don't muck about, uninstall steam and everything, bite the bullet and get in the game.

(Or some other positive sounding statement intended to make the hours I wasted on this worthwhile)

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  On 8/10/2012 at 10:57 AM, deftlyhandled said:

I had this issue too.

I reinstalled battleye via steam and got this Missing string error.

I unsinstalled battleye via the control panel, then reinstalled it, and got the missing string error

I then uninstalled battleye and deleted all traces of (eg, users/appdata/local/arma II oa/battleye etc, then reinstalled battleye, and got the missing string error.

I did the above, and reisntalled battleye manually by downloading the latest version and copying them into the correct directorys, loaded the game and it didnt work, when I then tried to reinstall battleye,I got the missing string error

I then unsinstalled battleye, deleted all trace of it, uninstalled arma II & Arma II OA via control panel. Reinstalled them all, and got the missing string error

So today, I uninstalled Steam, and everything associated, including battleye, then re-installed everything.

It it worked, and it took me about 15s from loading the game to get into a server.

So. don't muck about, uninstall steam and everything, bite the bullet and get in the game.

(Or some other positive sounding statement intended to make the hours I wasted on this worthwhile)

So. I get in the game for a short while this afternoon. And as we all know, the missing string issue is tied to the game hanging at the loading screen. Second time I attempt to log in, the game hangs at loading screen. I try to reinstall battleye. And get the missing string error.

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  On 8/10/2012 at 10:57 AM, deftlyhandled said:

I had this issue too.

I reinstalled battleye via steam and got this Missing string error.

I unsinstalled battleye via the control panel, then reinstalled it, and got the missing string error

I then uninstalled battleye and deleted all traces of (eg, users/appdata/local/arma II oa/battleye etc, then reinstalled battleye, and got the missing string error.

I did the above, and reisntalled battleye manually by downloading the latest version and copying them into the correct directorys, loaded the game and it didnt work, when I then tried to reinstall battleye,I got the missing string error

I then unsinstalled battleye, deleted all trace of it, uninstalled arma II & Arma II OA via control panel. Reinstalled them all, and got the missing string error

So today, I uninstalled Steam, and everything associated, including battleye, then re-installed everything.

It it worked, and it took me about 15s from loading the game to get into a server.

So. don't muck about, uninstall steam and everything, bite the bullet and get in the game.

(Or some other positive sounding statement intended to make the hours I wasted on this worthwhile)

I forgot to mention that I tried validating Arma II and Arma II OA along with uninstalling and reinstalling battleye (manually and through steam). All permeatations thereof.

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I solved my loading screen hang / missing string on battleye reinstall problem.

I had installed sixlauncher / sixupdater, then decided not to use them, but didn't uninstall them.

Now I have uninstall them, reinstalled battleye.

Its always something simple. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I hope this can help other people with this issue.

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@Deftlyhanded, you could've just installed it manually through the battle-eye website by downloading the DLL and client.

That solved the problem for me, atleast.

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Yeah, I tried that, and it didn't work.

And, actually, Im still getting the missing string error.

I'm not handling this very deftly, am I?

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well, if you go to the steam-apps folder, then go to this directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion), then look inside the expansion folder and if there is a battle-eye folder in there it has been installed, I still get missing string but just do that and if the folder is there you already have it installed! :)

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  On 8/12/2012 at 11:33 PM, DannyB said:

Simply right click on Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead -> Go Properties -> Set Launch Options -> Copy and remove everything in there. Now you can reinstall BattlEye.

Don't forget to paste everything into your launch options again.

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