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irukae's avatar
9 years ago

1 second black screen after clicking the play button

Hi,

I have recently tried to play SWTOR after a few years and after downloading and installing the game, it won't start. I can login into the launcher but when I click on the Play button, the screen goes black for a second and then goes back to the desktop. The process will then continue to show in the task manager for about 15 seconds. I've tried to change the client_settings in my appdata by changing the D3DFullScreen = true to D3DFullScreen = false, adding FullScreen = false and changing RefreshRate = 120 to RefreshRate = 60. Doing those actions only reduce the black screen to a small window. I have joined my DxDiag. Here is what my client_settings looks like before I change it:

[Renderer]
AllowColorRemapping = false
AllowDepthOfField = false
D3DFullScreen = true
doBlobShadows = false
doShadows = false
DYDDrawDistancePreset = 0
EnableBloom = false
GraphicsDeviceId = 38208
GraphicsQuality = 0
Height = 768
NativeHeight = 1080
NativeWidth = 1920
PerfTestFlags = 4604288
PlantDensity = 0
RefreshRate = 120
ShaderSet = 1
SpeedTreeDistanceScale = 0.75
TextureAnisotropy = 4
TextureQuality = 1
VerticalSyncState = true
Width = 1024

And after:

[Renderer]
AllowColorRemapping = false
AllowDepthOfField = false

FullScreen = false
D3DFullScreen = false
doBlobShadows = false
doShadows = false
DYDDrawDistancePreset = 0
EnableBloom = false
GraphicsDeviceId = 38208
GraphicsQuality = 0
Height = 768
NativeHeight = 1080
NativeWidth = 1920
PerfTestFlags = 4604288
PlantDensity = 0
RefreshRate = 60
ShaderSet = 1
SpeedTreeDistanceScale = 0.75
TextureAnisotropy = 4
TextureQuality = 1
VerticalSyncState = true
Width = 1024

Is there anything I can do?

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