adding add-ons to Arma2

After creating the folders and placing the .pbo files, instead of editing the shortcut or having to have various shortcut for different modfolders, we can use one of the arma launchers created by the community. For example the Arma launcher by Kegetys. (Other launchers can be found in this section: ArmA2 Misc&Utilities)

We start the launcher and first we have to select where we have the arma.exe file. We do this by clicking on "change" and pointing the program to our installation folder.

Once we do that in Options --> Options we can mark Skip splash screens so we don't launch the intro movies.

Now we have to add the mod(s), we go to Options --> Mods and we add the mod as its shown on the pic.

 

NOTE6: Check that the Mod directory name must be the same as the one we created, the other is just a name for reference.

And finally we have to launch the game on Single or Multiplayer, but first we have to select what mod we wanna launch by checking the box close to the mod name.

With the launcher we can also add any server and select what folders we want to use when we join that server, just go to Options --> Servers and fill the boxes with the required info.