Stuck at Setup Completed

[memerlord420 7]

Hello, I am running Dayz through DayZ Commander and trying to run through Steam. Recently someone used this odd script on me that controlled my player, I got killed in this state and I believe this triggered the error as it wasn't happening before the event.

My main problem is that when joining a server, it brings me straight to Setup Completed, Please Wait with a black screen and HUD. I have sat through it twice and it takes 30 minutes until I am spawned in Debug Plains with no loot and then I get kicked from the server. I have pressed ESC and hit respawn so it kills me, and when I relog it gives me no gender option, just brings me straight to Setup Completed.

I have searched this problem on the forums and only found one topic of the same problem, but no fixes. I asked my friends and I found a temporary fix, apparently my game is messed up only on the CD KEY that I bought. My friend gave me a CD KEY with a program that allowed me to change CD KEYS without reinstalling the game, but I cannot play the game on steam, as steam automatically switches back to my old CD KEY.

I have attempted reinstalling my game, Dayz, Steam, Beta patches, Battleye, and DayZ Commander.

My point is, I'd like to be able to run my game through steam again, also, that CD KEY had my main character, with all my good loot. The new CD KEY, or course, makes me start over.

Any ideas anyone?

[Bakst 98]

Oh. My. God. At last someone with the same issue! When you searched for the answer on the forums you probably came across my lone post ^^

I had been playing with a rl friend of mine until 3 or 4 weeks ago when this exact same thing happened to him: a weird script (at least we think it was a script) apparently takes control of his character, next thing we know he shoots me dead in an uncontrolled rampage, then he gets a blue screen as he attempts to exit the game, an since then he has been unable to play because it won't load past the "Setup Complete" screen. Sadly, my friend is so frustrated by the experience that he isn't willing to troubleshoot the problem properly.

I hate to be that guy who goes on forums and is all like, "PLZ HELP ME"... but I gotta be that guy right now :)

[Bakst 98]

By the way, your friend's "program that allowed (you) to change CD KEYS" sounds like piracy to me. Just sayin, you wouldn't wanna end up on Battleye's ban list or anything.

Edit:

My point is, I'd like to be able to run my game through steam again, also, that CD KEY had my main character, with all my good loot.

While I feel your pain, I think you should prepare for the worst and kiss your old character goodbye. Even if you do eventually manage to play with the corrupted cd key again, your character might be dead -- or he might not be. The point is, new cd keys cost money, and this problem is caused by no fault of the player. At least I'm assuming you're no script kiddie... I know my friend isn't.

Edited October 12, 2012 by Bakst

[Bakst 98]

I did hear about something you might wanna try (my friend does't have the patience for it so I have no idea if it works):

Wait until you spawn in the debug plains, then run ca. 20km south/southeast until you reach the regular map area again.

Once you're back within the bounds of Chernarus, pick up an item and wait 5 to 10 minutes for this new gear to sync with the hive.

Now log out, wait a bit, and log back in again. According to some reports, you should be gtg.

Btw it's hard to find your bearings in the debug plains without a compass, but there are other players who have written about it so a quick search on the forums or google should help you find the map area.

Please let me know if this works! I'd really like to get my friend back in the game, it's lonely out there all by myself haha ;)

[memerlord420 7]

I did hear about something you might wanna try (my friend does't have the patience for it so I have no idea if it works):

Wait until you spawn in the debug plains, then run ca. 20km south/southeast until you reach the regular map area again.

Once you're back within the bounds of Chernarus, pick up an item and wait 5 to 10 minutes for this new gear to sync with the hive.

Now log out, wait a bit, and log back in again. According to some reports, you should be gtg.

Btw it's hard to find your bearings in the debug plains without a compass, but there are other players who have written about it so a quick search on the forums or google should help you find the map area.

Please let me know if this works! I'd really like to get my friend back in the game, it's lonely out there all by myself haha ;)

Like I said in the OP, once I try to move in the Debug Plains, it kicked me from the server. The two times I tried this, it was on two different servers.

[memerlord420 7]

Anyone with help? This is quite frustrating.

[Bakst 98]

Like I said in the OP, once I try to move in the Debug Plains, it kicked me from the server. The two times I tried this, it was on two different servers.

Damn, that's really weird. I actually submitted a support ticket to the DayZ dev team weeks ago, but they haven't responded. Guess they're pretty busy with other stuff, it's still just a free mod and not the standalone so I get it, but it sure is frustrating not being able to fix this issue.

Maybe you should contact Battleye about this, they might be in a better position to help. For me, unfortunately, it makes no sense to keep working on the problem when it's my friend who has the issue but doesn't care to deal with it (everything works fine for me, except that I lost a good hunting buddy). But I sure would like to know if you make any progress. Check the ban lists to see if your cd-key or GUID has been blacklisted, and then shoot Battleye a message asking for help with the problem. That's the only advice I can give at the moment sry =(

Edited October 13, 2012 by Bakst

[Bakst 98]

What really bothers me is that there are so many variables here. I mean, in my case it all happened so fast and I only have my own experience to go on because it happened to my friend's character while we were playing on the same server. We're pretty certain it was a script kiddie who took control of my friend's character, but how can we be sure? What the hell do we know? We have no logs, no video capture, no proof.

Assuming someone used a script on my friend and it wasn't just a glitch in the code or something else, the next best explanation I can think of is that this somehow corrupted his database entries in the Hive. That's the central DayZ server that synchronizes player info such as gear with the thousands of public servers around the world. The Hive info is linked to each player's unique GUID = Global Unique IDentifier, a string of characters that identifies your hashed cd-key through Battleye. That's why you were able to play a new character using your friend's unused cd key, because it provides you with an entirely new GUID and thus fresh Hive entries, but it doesn't fix the problem.

Now here's the other thing: instinctively, anyone with a passing familiarity of this game will think, "you probably installed some kind of malware cheating program thinking you would get an AS50 TWS, and it stole your cd key and now you're screwed!" All I can say is that this is a legitimate problem that happens to legitimate players, and I think this is confirmed by the fact that there has been no ban, only system fail. This seems to be a rare problem and frankly, I'm at a complete loss.

Edited October 13, 2012 by Bakst

[memerlord420 7]

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Thanks for the info! I want to start with that I have not installed any type of malware or anything to allow someone to get my CD KEY. Also, the program I used to change my CD KEY to the new one was a program created by a friend of mine, it is a simple line of code and I didn't get it from any sites. I checked if my CD KEY was blacklisted and it was not.

My idea is that as you said, my 'spot' in the hive for my CD KEY was corrupted.

Finally, I just want to know, is there any way I can play on my new CD KEY with Steam, say if I made a new steam account?

[Bakst 98]

Hi and sorry for the late reply. In answer to your question, I'm not sure that you can use your new cd-key through Steam because it's the retail version i.e. not purchased through Steam. What you can do, however, is "add a non-Steam game" to your library (it's under the "Games" drop-down menu), so that you can use Steam to launch any game or program installed on your PC. That way you'd still be able to use the Steam overlay and whatnot.

Otherwise, any progress fixing the original problem on your end?

[Bakst 98]

Hi, what ever happened to this issue? Have you tried playing on a private hive?

Rgs

bakst