Hi all, after doing a full reinstall, I had issues with my laucher either just plain crashing, or taking forever to do anything. I had just been lauching the game without the launcher, but the problem prevented me from patching up to the latest patch. I read something somewhere here and on the main forum about uninstalling origin. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, and it seems to have fixed the issue. I just thought I'd share incase anyone else has the same problem and is looking for possible solutions.
I know it's very non-specific, but I know when you're hard pressed to find a solution/alternative to full reinstall nearly anything is worth a try.