Please help

[Equil (DayZ) 4]

My problem seems very unique to what i've been finding on these forums and steam forums. Today I was playing fine for a bit, then decided to server hop to where my friends were playing on. Then I was stuck on an infinite loading screen - I was waiting for over 30 minutes when I decided to end task. So then, I decide to boot up the game again(Arma2OA) from steam. The little box pops up with the ticks, gets to the two last two ticks, then "Arma 2 OA has stopped working". I just disregard it and attempt to launch again, to no avail. Everytime I attempt to launch, the process will appear in task manager for about 5 seconds then dissapear. So then, I decide to verify the files. Steam finds a single corrupt file and says it will reaquire it, which finishes pretty much instantly. So I boot up the game again, then it's a repeat of last time. Last two ticks then "Arma 2 OA has stopped working". I'm stuck in this cycle, so I decide to try some different methods.

Strangely, the game will launch fine when I use Six launcher, loading up the menu and everything, says the correct versions in the bottom right, but now when I connect to -any- server it will get stuck on an infinite load screen. I did once manage to get into one server, a local game arena one, however I was spawned at the coast again(I was far inland when I last logged out) and I was getting horrendous FPS(like, 5 or less) so obviously it was unplayable, and disconnected. I thought maybe my GPU might've been starting to give out, so I ran a few other games(Killing Floor, Deus ex HR, Arkham city to name a few) which are all running fine. I tried running the original Arma 2 game which actually launched off Steam without error, however it seemed to have suffered some FPS loss as well somehow, though not as bad as OA had(like 20-30fps) This was striking me as really odd now since I was playing just hours ago with perfectly fine FPS(60-80+) and none of these issues. Also yes, my drivers are up to date.

So now I decided to completely reinstall both games, to no avail. The -exact- same problems are occuring as before, I went ahead and even installed 1.7.2.5, joined the server my friends were in(Had to launch off six launcher, since I still just get the same error when I try to launch OA off steam) and still the horrendous FPS issues, so I have to stop playing. I'm really lost on what I can do to fix this, it's like my game just decided to break for no apparent reason. I've decided to delete the "Expansion" folder in the OA directly and redownload it, but I have a gut feeling it probably won't resolve anything.

Please help, any advice is greatly appreciated :(

Edited August 11, 2012 by Equil