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To install Dead Air, download and install these in order.

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Dead Air: How To Install



Version 0.98b of 05.07.2018.


1. Download RePack — Torrent or Google Drive (the modification runs standalone, meaning no pre-existing installation of Call of Chernobyl or Call of Pripyat is required).
2. Translation files, from this page.
3. Download bugfixes (all-in-one).

Run the game as administrator.

Note that the mod is currently in open-beta. Bugs, errors, early features exist and are likely to be fixed with patches.
Frequently asked questions about Dead Air.

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✪Sparrow
✪Sparrow

In question about future updates, are they going to be patched here in moddb?

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Guest
Guest

Are crashes outside cordon fixed or still they are in this update ?

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JugoSweet
JugoSweet

I only had crashes outside cordon when I had view distances and grass amount maxed out. Now I never crash.

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Guest
Guest

Anyone have an anwser to "not enough texture for shaders" crash when going to yantar, rostok and the army barracks?

Mod is unplayable for me if I can only visit the starter areas, redownloading files did jack and I really want to move on & progress further into the zone

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7beat
7beat

xrEngine.exe says i do miss MSVCP120.dll, and isnt running the game. Is this file missing or i do need to redownload it.

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Guest
Guest

You Need MS visual 2013 and put this files (with msvcr...) in System32 or SysWOW64. Install 32bit ver. to syswow64 is probably the answer.

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finnegan962
finnegan962

This is built upon COC right? Does it take the same mods as that or is this standalone?

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ShadSoul
ShadSoul

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This is seriously the worst download I ever had...it ******* sucks the 1 click download doesn't work and the file for each ******* GB sucks ***

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Guest
Guest

You are extracting it wrong. Only extract the first file

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ShadSoul
ShadSoul

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Wonderful now fully downloaded 5 ******* packs and all I got are a bunch of weird *** ******* files GG

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ShadSoul
ShadSoul

Is there some other ******* site who knows how to put in download links????

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Weiss_Schnee
Weiss_Schnee

The download links work everything is correct. You just need to download all those files, put them in a folder together and open the first win.rar file and it'll open all of them.

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dwarfplanet
dwarfplanet

Might be asking too much.

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JohnVicres
JohnVicres

Hello, the download links are pretty unstable (probably because a bunch of people are trying to use them), is there a chance that you guys could publish this in a more download-dedicated website? Idk, mediafire or smth

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spacesharkicane
spacesharkicane

When i try and run the game it says "X-Ray 1.6 Engine has stopped working" right away. I tried reinstalling it/ running as admin. Anyone else have this issue?

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Uknonot
Uknonot

Try updating your Direct X also try setting flash player to x86 not x64

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MilligraM313
MilligraM313

yea me too, took forever to find where to download the main game file, you click on files and its a bunch of translations. finally found it. then it made me INSTALL it, which i thought was weird, didnt think you needed to do that. I put in the translation,, it worked on the menu. but soon as i tried to start a game.... BLAAAA ,, crash.. WTF crashing with NO addons. Ive play Stalker ,Misery, COC, did massive MODS. Ive never had a ******* problem lke this. WTF. Ima post my own MOD, **** this ********.

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DARKSYST3M
DARKSYST3M

I can provide a link if I am authorized

Edit:
I upload a single .zip on my dedicated server while waiting for an answer
(I could provide the link privately while waiting)

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Dov47
Dov47

It would be nice if you send me a link, if you can send it to my email: dov47@o2.pl

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rianrio
rianrio

So, the game itself runs nice but the main menu is extremely laggy, to the point where the mouse has a 2-sec delay when I move
I dont know if its the animated background or something else, but anyone has any idea of a way to fix it?Its not that huge of a problem, but its still rather annoying

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sawko
sawko

Shouldn't the latest version be at the top of the page? I downloaded 5GB file, scroll down and see the 0.98b, another 5GB to download.

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✪Sparrow
✪Sparrow

I'll tell you the truth, this is very badly organized this download availability, because dev's does not download here, and makes it clear about the uptade? Bad organization in making files available to players. Please deliver this in the hand of TRX or any other famous Modder in the community for better beginners to understand where they are downloading the main file and the updates.

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Guest
Guest

I can't understand a thing of the download link and it doesn't allow me to download the files because bandwidth limitations or some thing like that.

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JakePlissken
JakePlissken

Is the tutorial broken nw that we have to download the repack? There is no Dead Air zip only setup zips and a setup.exe. this is my first time installing this mod

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bell117
bell117

Ran into a problem while trying to launch the game, specifically the xray-engine exe runs into a problem mid launch, first it displays a bad image error citing that my d3dx9_31.dll is not compatible with my version of windows, and then after that closes it says that my graphics card can't handle the game and I should lower the graphics settings. I'm using windows 10 with directx12 and a 970 GTX, although I tried the same on my intel laptop and the same problem occured. Reinstalled directx to make sure that wasn't the problem. Is there a fix for this and why is it happening?

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stooe
stooe

Try opening your user.ltx and changing the render to dx9 or something, maybe even change the resolution, this should allow you to at least open the game and access the options menu

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bell117
bell117

I can't find the user.ltx I checked both my documents and the game install location, I don't think it's been generated yet since I can't even open the game as it just crashes on startup.

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bell117
bell117

Just a quick update: I copied my user.ltx from COP to Dead Air's appdata, this partially fixed it as I no longer get the directx error and it goes full screen now, but it still crashes afterwards because of the video card error. I also tested my version of COP, it also crashed because of same video card error but the fix for that was to DELETE the user.ltx, and since I need the user.ltx to for Dead Air, that's not an option so I dunno where to go from here.

EDIT: Found the problem, had to set render to r3, instead of r2

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Hairbearo
Hairbearo

The instructions here are either outdated or outright wrong, the link leads to a bunch of bin files and not a bunch of 7z as described, really needs a rework before it can be used.

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samsaq
samsaq

Did you get it to work? I haven't been able to get past the X-Ray engine launcher popup, without the game having opened at all.

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samsaq
samsaq

Ko0L4iD jul 18 2018
I didn't have any particular issues with install. The new repack has 4 files in it. A setup file and 3 bin containers.

Just run the Setup file and choose the default buttons to get through the installer. The only thing you need to change is the folder where it will install Dead Air. You can hit the button to the right to browse your computer, find and select your Call of Pripyat folder. Then continue with selecting the default options until it is finished installing the mod.

Once it is complete, browse to your Call of Pripyat folder and go into the Dead Air folder. Unzip the english translation file and copy the "gamedata" folder into this Dead Air folder.

Run Dead Air by using the shortcut it created on your desktop and change the localization to english in the game menu if needed (4th Menu option > 3rd Menu option to get to the correct page). You might have to restart the game for it to take effect.

I was able to start a new game and wander a bit without any issues. I hope that helps some people.

Do what this guy has figured out. It's just gotten me to finally launch the game without issues :D

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Ko0L4iD
Ko0L4iD

I didn't have any particular issues with install. The new repack has 4 files in it. A setup file and 3 bin containers.

Just run the Setup file and choose the default buttons to get through the installer. The only thing you need to change is the folder where it will install Dead Air. You can hit the button to the right to browse your computer, find and select your Call of Pripyat folder. Then continue with selecting the default options until it is finished installing the mod.

Once it is complete, browse to your Call of Pripyat folder and go into the Dead Air folder. Unzip the english translation file and copy the "gamedata" folder into this Dead Air folder.

Run Dead Air by using the shortcut it created on your desktop and change the localization to english in the game menu if needed (4th Menu option > 3rd Menu option to get to the correct page). You might have to restart the game for it to take effect.

I was able to start a new game and wander a bit without any issues. I hope that helps some people.

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Guest
Guest

Well i get 2 windows where i can select folders. At the second selection i get an error message even if i select the cop folder.

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Ko0L4iD
Ko0L4iD

The second selection is for the start menu shortcut I think. I just leave it set to it's default setting and continue through the installer.

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JohnnoirAtlas619
JohnnoirAtlas619

I haven't played it in a while, and just today when I open the game, it crashes when I clicked
continued. Is there something wrong?

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JohnnoirAtlas619
JohnnoirAtlas619

Okay, I finally realized that I have the old version, so that's why I couldn't continued playing. However, the RePack version download instruction is messy. It's impossible to translate and common sense doesn't help either. A lot of people are making the same complain, so I'm guessing you're already aware of the problem and at work to provide a clearer instruction? For now, I deleted the entire application except all the mods files I've collected. Good luck translating the instruction and making it easy for us to download!

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Anouar1
Anouar1

how to fix xray crash at the begining ? when i start the game it load and then gone and nothing happen please help

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samsaq
samsaq

Same here, it just crashes before it gets to the menu screen, will comment back here if I can figure it out.

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samsaq
samsaq

Ko0L4iD jul 18 2018
I didn't have any particular issues with install. The new repack has 4 files in it. A setup file and 3 bin containers.

Just run the Setup file and choose the default buttons to get through the installer. The only thing you need to change is the folder where it will install Dead Air. You can hit the button to the right to browse your computer, find and select your Call of Pripyat folder. Then continue with selecting the default options until it is finished installing the mod.

Once it is complete, browse to your Call of Pripyat folder and go into the Dead Air folder. Unzip the english translation file and copy the "gamedata" folder into this Dead Air folder.

Run Dead Air by using the shortcut it created on your desktop and change the localization to english in the game menu if needed (4th Menu option > 3rd Menu option to get to the correct page). You might have to restart the game for it to take effect.

I was able to start a new game and wander a bit without any issues. I hope that helps some people.

The solution - Only problem is that my game is now running in russian, and I can't seem to select english (Solution - Change rus to eng after the 4th, then 3rd menu options were seleted, only issue is the wierd menu translations (Ie: mm_ui_continue vs Continue))

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Tegarccio
Tegarccio

i install the repack, and is a folder on russian, (i guess) that has other folder named Database, and a file gree_nxtra... So this is the green texture, and i can delete this with no conflict, right?
tnx in advance

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Vodka+Hardbass
Vodka+Hardbass

Where'd all the trees go?

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dwarfplanet
dwarfplanet

climate change

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Guest
Guest

Can't start the game, a splash screen with x-ray written appears but stays there forever and nothing happens.....

0023:71F38D99 MMDevApi.dll, Ordinal2()
0023:71F34C6A MMDevApi.dll, Ordinal3()
0023:71F31674 MMDevApi.dll, Ordinal15()
0023:71F3191B MMDevApi.dll, Ordinal15()
0023:77DC64F5 ntdll.dll, RtlTestBit()
0023:77DA54F4 ntdll.dll, TpCallbackIndependent()
0023:778233CA kernel32.dll, BaseThreadInitThunk()
0023:77D99ED2 ntdll.dll, RtlInitializeExceptionChain()
0023:77D99EA5 ntdll.dll, RtlInitializeExceptionChain()

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Supreeh
Supreeh

hey I don't understand where im supposed to download the files from because I cant read russian

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Some1LOL
Some1LOL

How do I install 0.98b?

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SepheronX
SepheronX

For those annoyed by the current setup in trying to download, here you go, I uploaded it to Mega:

Mega.nz

its a 7zip file. A folder with the english translation is also available.

I noticed though with myself, the issue, is that the settings for this game goes to default after closing the application. I was able to force it to english translation by editing the file:

localization.itx

located:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Dead Air\gamedata\configs

replaced line:

[string_table] f = RUS

with eng. So it looks like this:

[string_table] f = eng

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