company of heroes opposing fronts screen flickering

At least then I can see if the missions beyond September Snow load properly. If that doesn't pan out, I guess it boils down to a corrupted mission file? I'll have to wait until someone is awesome enough to post a Market Garden status file. Opposing Fronts was the only new software I'd installed.

I checked my clusters and there was fragmentation everywhere. I'm currently performing a full access defrag with O&O, despite having defragged the day before installing OF. I was able to alt+tab out the first time, but (after reinstalling) the second time required a reboot. The music continues to play (and loop, and loop, loop, loop), my HDD continues to whir and blink, but beyond that it's frozen. Once I finish the 1st mission of Market Garden, and 'Wolfheze: September Snow' begins to load, the progress bar stops at about 85% and hangs.

I am able to save games in skirmish (though it takes forever), and I loaded the 2nd mission of the Brit campaign without issue. Well, it turns out the issue is specific to the 2nd mission of the Market Garden campaign.

Company of heroes opposing fronts screen flickering