Bec not working on Arma 2 VDS

[mkiker]

Hello, I recently got a windows 2008 R2 VDS server from NFO. I have pretty much everything running currently except Bec. I have been running my server for around a year now and been though about 3 dedicated hosts. This is my first time setting up a VDS, much less a arma 2 (dayz overpoch) server from the ground up.

I downloaded Bec from here http://ibattle.org/downloads/ and followed the install guide to the best that I understood from the install and configure tab on that link.

I first downloaded and installed Bec to a folder on my desktop, as it says not to install into the arma directory. I could not get it to work.

I then downloaded and installed it into my servers root directory. C:\Users\HIDDEN\Desktop\Miike's overpoch server\UEP_BattlEye_Extended_Controller_Installer-master It put a folder called instance_11_Chernarus inside that installer master folder. In my main arma 2 directory I do not use the instance_11_Chernarus folder. I use instance_1_Overpoch, so I changed the name in the UEP_BattlEye blah blah folder to instance_1_Overpoch.

I then proceeded to try and run the start.Bat from the UEP_BattlEye_Extended_Controller_Installer-master folder. It said something to the effect that it could not find the instance_11_Chernarus folder. I edited the start and restart.bat files and changed the instance_11_Chernarus to instance_1_Overpoch. I tried to run it again and got this windows can not find 'DayZ_Overpoch.bat make sure your path is typed correctly. Here is the start.bat

@ echo off
pushd %~dp0
cd /d %CD%
start /b "Dayz Epoch Server" /min "DayZ_Overpoch.bat"
timeout 15
cd "C:\Users\HIDDEN\Desktop\Miike's overpoch server\UEP_BattlEye_Extended_Controller_Installer-master\instance_1_Overpoch\BattlEye\Bec"
start "UEP BattlEye Extended Control" /min "BEC.exe" -f "Config.cfg"
taskkill /f /im cmd.exe
cls
@exit

Inside the UEP_BattlEye_Extended_Controller_Installer-master\instance_1_Overpoch\BattlEye I try to open the Bec.exe and get this

C:\Users\HIDDEN\Desktop\Miike's overpoch server\UEP_BattlEye_Extended_Controller_Installer-master\instance_1_Overpoch\BattlEye\Bec.exe
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command -line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

I have no idea where that event log is, or further more how to fix it.

If anyone could please help me out it would be much appreciated.

Mike

[mkiker]

Or if someone would like to walk me though how they installed BEC onto there VDS for arma 2 overpoch, then I could delete what I have done and follow that. I may have made a mistake (pretty sure I did) somewhere.

[Caliban55]

The side-by-side error is caused by a missing dependency for Visual C++ libraries. In this case BEC requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (install both 32 and 64 bit versions; BEC only uses 32bit, but for future applications, it doesn't hurt to install the 64bit also).

Installation: Just copy it to a folder on your drive and configure the config.cfg to point to the folder that has your active Battleye running it it. BEC doesn't require any "instances" from Overpoch.

For restarting, I would recommend to either use NSSM, or the Windows Task Scheduler.

[mkiker]

I ended up working it out with a guy I found on opendayz.