Compiled dayz_server.pbo and being stuck on "Waiting for server to start authenticating"screen

[Dre__]

I've been trying to add buildings to the epoch map and I"m having some problems. I thought the server didn't start because I messed up the building additions, but I found out that the problem lies in the compiled pbo.

 

Here's what I did:

- I extracted "dayz_server.pbo" with PBO Manager.

- With out changing anything in the extracted files, I compiled the folder back to "dayz_server.pbo" with CPBO by right-clicking on the folder and clicking "create PBO".

- I replaced the original dayz_server.pbo with the compiled pbo, and started the server.

 

The server gets stuck on the "Waiting for server to start authentication" screen and the counter at the bottom right keeps counting. The last message on the server window is "Game Started", and doesn't go beyond that.

 

 

[Corper]

Ive had this problem, so what sort of things did you change/add to your pbo?

[Dre__]

Ive had this problem, so what sort of things did you change/add to your pbo?

All I do, for testing purposes, is extract the original pbo's contents into a folder, then compile that folder back into a pbo. The newly compiled pbo makes the server not start. I haven't touched any of the extracted content.

[Corper]

All I do, for testing purposes, is extract the original pbo's contents into a folder, then compile that folder back into a pbo. The newly compiled pbo makes the server not start. I haven't touched any of the extracted content.

time to change your pbo tool. There is many out there, check armaholic

[Dre__]

Yea I was thinking the same thing. PBOManager did the trick. I compiled a pbo and ran the server. It started fine. Thanks for the help dude.

[Kisvakond]

Yea I was thinking the same thing. PBOManager did the trick. I compiled a pbo and ran the server. It started fine. Thanks for the help dude.

 BI's BinPBO is the most appropriate one, however it's fairly inconvenient to use.

 

If you re-compress into PBO, always make sure that you set the Addon prefix (PBO manager creates a $PREFIX$ file containing it, although the final PBO do not contain them).

Failure to do so will cause he mission to miss the files referred in the PBO's (as the base path wil lnot be z\addons\<folder_name>).

 

It's also important that you should not binarize the PBO, otherwise they will no work.