Bizarre Dayz issue cannot use alt profiles

[William B.J. Blazkowicz 0]

I am having difficulty logging in to any DayZ Origins servers. Everything seems to work great, including gender and spawn point selection, up until the point that the message "Requesting Character data from server" appears on screen.

At this point the game locks up hard.

The progress bar freezes between 80-90%, the login timer counter stops between 1-5, disk/cpu/network activity all go to 0%, and no further packets are sent to or received from the server's IP address. I have tried the suggestions of reinstalling all of ARMA2, as well as letting the game sit at the loading screen for an hour. Neither worked.

I figured out that it was failing when I tried to log in using the "blanky blank" profile I created in ARMA 2, but would work fine when I used the default / non-deletable profile that matched my windows username.

I don't want to use my windows profile as my handle in-game, however, so here's what I tried so far

1. Start Arma 2: OA Beta from steam
   
2. Delete any custom profiles. Only the the default/undeletable one should be left. Exit the game.
   
3. With DayZ Commander, Log in to a DayZ Origins server. The game will use the default profile this time. If this gets you in-game you're making progress and the rest of this will probably work.
   
4. Hit Esc, Abort, and Disconnect from the server, putting you at the DayZ Origins Main Menu.
   
5. Customize your settings/controls/etc as desired for the default profile.
   
6. Create a new profile using your <desired-name> (Don't bother customizing it!)
   
7. Exit the game
   
8. Go to your "Arma 2" folder in my documents.
   
9. Copy the "<username>.ArmA2OAProfile" and "<username>.vars.ArmA2OAProfile"
   
10. Paste them into your "Arma 2 Other Profiles" folder in my documents.
    
11. In "Arma 2 Other Profiles", delete all the <desired-name> files.
    
12. Rename "<username>.ArmA2OAProfile" to "<desired-name>.ArmA2OAProfile"
    
13. Rename "<username>.vars.ArmA2OAProfile" to "<desired-name>.ArmA2OAProfile"
    

My best guess is that something wasn't generated properly when I created my profile from within Arma 2 / OA, and dayz doesn't like it. The default named profile seemed to work every time though. I don't know enough about the guts of ARMA 2 to know what else to do any help would be awsome

[attorney1977 311]

Have you tried logging into Vanilla Arma 2 MP missions or DayZ 1.7.6.1?

Would eliminate/confirm if it's an issue with A2 or DZO.

[William B.J. Blazkowicz 0]

Have you tried logging into Vanilla Arma 2 MP missions or DayZ 1.7.6.1?

Would eliminate/confirm if it's an issue with A2 or DZO.

Able to play Arma 2 MP missons and wastelands

[attorney1977 311]

Might want to check on the origins forums:

http://www.gamersplatoon.com/forums/showthread.php?9083-can-t-play-on-any-dayz-orgins-server

This guys prob has something to do with usernames. Looks like they filter out certain combinations. Not sure if this applies to you.