Underclocking my GPU by -100 mhz fixed the issue. Heh.
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.
