Bad serial number given in setup.

[PlatinumLegend 0]

I know there are several threads like this but i have looked at a lot of them and I still cannot get the game to work. I downloaded CommanderDayZ to play DayZ and I have been having troubles playing.

Things i have tried to do

-Start Steam as Admin

-Start ArmA 2 and ArmA 2:OA before DayZ

-Restart computer

-Validate integrity of game cache

-I tried using Regedit

-Just starting up DayZ

All of these things failed.

When I tried playing both ArmA 2 and Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead before playing DayZ. ArmA 2 played just fine but ArmA 2: OA came up with the error 'bin\config.bin/CFGinGameUI/MPtable.shadow' and 'PSSpecularAlpha:0'. When I tried just starting up DayZ with CommanderDayZ it gave me an error saying Bad Serial Number given in setup. For the bad serial number I tried using ArmA 2 Key Changer and that didn't work I don't know what to do. I tried opening steam as Admin. I am already Admin of my computer. I looked up how to fix the problems but they don't work. At this point I'm not sure what to do.

Edited August 24, 2012 by PlatinumLegend

[RyanH100 20]

1, Run REGEDIT

2, Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

3, Expand Software

4, Expand Wow6432Node

5, Expand Bohemia Interactive Studio Not Bohemia Interactive

6, Click ArmA 2 OA, If you only see 1 file named "(Default)" And type REG_SZ then,

7, Right click the ArmA 2 OA file and go to Permissions

8, Left click YOUR USER, NOT! Users

9, After selecting your user click on Advanced

10, Yet Again click on your username for your pc and click on edit

11, In the drop down menu select This Key and Subkeys

12, You will see allow and deny make sure all allow boxes are ticked then click ok

13, you will be taken back one Dialogue box, Click Apply and OK and the same again on the

next dialogue box.

14, Now you should see 4 files sat in your ArmA 2 OA folder, Names, "(Default)" "Data" "Key" & "main"

15, Now play your game hassle free

[PaniniWizard 0]

My friend got to step 8 and his user that he using wasn't registering under the selection of the users of his computer help?

Edited October 20, 2012 by PaniniWizard

[rekrul 91]

Sticky: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/97180-the-complete-thread-about-serialcd-key-problems/