Underclocking my GPU by -100 mhz fixed the issue. Heh.
I've done everything that you've said there already, minus the disabling the integrated card but since your post I've also done that and continue to experience crashes.
My GPU temp and CPU temp is fine overall, just the load for some reason on the CPU increases to 100% while loading into the fleet or some zones/in cutscenes, etc.
Overall the biggest issue is just that driver crashing and whatever effect its going to have on my computer long term.
Not really sure what else I can do at this point as I just did a clean driver install yesterday so .. meh.
Just to confirm , you have tried an older NVidia Driver ?
Have you done a game repair ? and deleted the games cache called diskcachearena etc
Frustrating I know
Yeah. I deleted the bitraider folder and all the things you've named and I've done a full repair, I've uninstalled and redownloaded the game with a fresh install.
I think, possibly, underclocking the card would help but I'm completely clueless as to what to do in this instance for this game.
I should RMA the card but I'm thinking it's SWTOR's programming in general with this specific card since it doesn't do this with any other game and I play a lot of other games that are far graphically superior and computer resource-hogging than SWTOR is.
Underclocking is a fix for EVGA 980 cards and is a known issue
Have you tried a few previous driver releases ? it wont be the first time certain Nvidia drivers have introduced issues
They aren't perfect , try the hotfix driver here take note of the first 2 posts discussing HDMI Timeout and TDR issues , this maybe related
Trying previous drivers is worthwhile as well
I'll try that hotfix driver since I'm currently using 358.50 and that's 358.59 but yes, I've used about 10-15 different previous drivers to get this to stop doing it and nothing has worked.
If this driver doesn't work then I'll try underclocking the card a little, even if that's the 980 fix it could still possibly work for the 970 as I've seen posts around the internet that it's fixed the issue for some people.
