Addon 'dayz_anim' requires addon 'CA_Dubbing_Counterattack'?

[Tyler_Sharp 16]

When i start using Day Z Commander it says "Addon 'dayz_anim' requires addon 'CA_Dubbing_Counterattack'".

I dont know what it means and i would like some help and one more thing when i try and enter a server it takes 2 hours to enter?!?

Problems:

1# What does Addon 'dayz_anim' requires addon 'CA_Dubbing_Counterattack' mean and how can i fix it?

2# It takes forever to enter a server?

Please post help :D

[Strawcrow 10]

I had that take place after a game crash once....in the menu screen, I clicked on expansions and the @dayZ or DayZ was not enabled..... not sure if it is your fix, but never saw it again.

[Lightvision (DayZ) 21]

i found an easy way to fix the 'dayz_anim' requires addon 'CA_Dubbing_Counterattack' by getting this error i can tell you have the steam version of the game and this comes up some times randomly, i used to get it too and got annoyed with having to do option 1 bellow so i done option 2 (figured this out to fix this issue i had for lingor island)

Option 1

Run steam as administrator

play Arma 2 close after you get to the main menu

play Arma2:OA (combined operations)

then reload and try connect to the server

this option means that you have to redo this procedure every time so to stop this perform option 2

Option 2

open Command prompt and type one of the following:-

For 32Bit systems

mklink "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\addons" "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2\AddOns" /j

For 64Bit systems

mklink "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\addons" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2\AddOns" /j

what this does is create a symbolic link of the arma 2\addons folder in the arma2:oa folder so it can access the files in the arma2 addons folder, you will never have this error again, the folder will look like short cut but its not. if you remove arma2:oa then you will have to do it again

Why is it doing this?

simply put, before doing option 2 you will not see a folder called addons in your arma2:oa folder so basically since @DayZ is in arma2:oa folder it cant see the relevant files, also dayz is run through arma2:oa. the CA.pbo and others it requires is in the arma2\addons folder, you can copy the addons folder from arma 2 to arma2:oa folder but thats like 8gb of space so by performing option 2 this saves hard drive space and eliminates the problem :)

Edited August 15, 2012 by Lightvision