ArmA 2: OA Claiming I have a Bad CD Key

01-19-2011, 03:32 PM

I bought Combined Operations two days ago, installed OA to play with my friends, but I can't because when I try to join a multiplayer server it just makes me sit around a bit with no options, and then boots me telling me my CD key is bad. At first we thought it was due to the fact that my friend was running CO, and I OA since the original ArmA2 had not finished downloading/installing yet, however even after both running OA, redownloading BattlEye, running Steam as administrator, and verifying my game cache several times it still refuses to allow me to play. I've searched for people who had similar problems, and the closest I found was something about a batch of unregistered Australian keys, and I'm not Australian. I'd really appreciate help with this, as the only other thing Google is turning out is annoying links to keygens.

Dwarden · 01-19-2011, 11:43 PM

exit STEAM
start STEAM via "run as administrator"
start ARMA 2 and exit it (keys in registry needed for CO mode)
run A2: Combined Operations (this runs OA engine)

p.s. the problem is always same (some issue with write to registry)
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=662748

01-20-2011, 02:54 PM

I already said that running as administrator doesn't work, and I'm trying to play OA's MP, not CO, as I still have yet to finish downloading ArmA II. I'm hoping once that finishes it will work like you said and allow me to play CO's MP, but it really doesn't help that every time I have to pause it or have to restart steam, it "forgets" about 2 GB+ of what was downloaded.

Rahab_mx · 01-21-2011, 09:22 AM

so all your download progress is lost everytime you restart steam, or pause and resume your download?... steam should'nt be doing that!

01-19-2011, 03:32 PM	#1
DragonSpawn777 Guest Posts: n/a	ArmA 2: OA Claiming I have a Bad CD Key I bought Combined Operations two days ago, installed OA to play with my friends, but I can't because when I try to join a multiplayer server it just makes me sit around a bit with no options, and then boots me telling me my CD key is bad. At first we thought it was due to the fact that my friend was running CO, and I OA since the original ArmA2 had not finished downloading/installing yet, however even after both running OA, redownloading BattlEye, running Steam as administrator, and verifying my game cache several times it still refuses to allow me to play. I've searched for people who had similar problems, and the closest I found was something about a batch of unregistered Australian keys, and I'm not Australian. I'd really appreciate help with this, as the only other thing Google is turning out is annoying links to keygens.

01-19-2011, 11:43 PM	#2
Dwarden Bohemia Interactive Join Date: Sep 2003 Reputation: 346 Posts: 3,001	exit STEAM start STEAM via "run as administrator" start ARMA 2 and exit it (keys in registry needed for CO mode) run A2: Combined Operations (this runs OA engine) p.s. the problem is always same (some issue with write to registry) http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=662748 __________________ Open Game Protocol : www.open-game-protocol.org Follow me at http://twitter.com/FoltynD Last edited by Dwarden: 01-19-2011 at 11:45 PM.

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01-20-2011, 02:54 PM	#3
DragonSpawn777 Guest Posts: n/a	I already said that running as administrator doesn't work, and I'm trying to play OA's MP, not CO, as I still have yet to finish downloading ArmA II. I'm hoping once that finishes it will work like you said and allow me to play CO's MP, but it really doesn't help that every time I have to pause it or have to restart steam, it "forgets" about 2 GB+ of what was downloaded.

01-21-2011, 09:22 AM	#4
Rahab_mx Join Date: Sep 2009 Reputation: 121 Posts: 703	so all your download progress is lost everytime you restart steam, or pause and resume your download?... steam should'nt be doing that!