After 2 weeks of problems, that weren't confined to SWTOR and initially seemed to point to graphics card or card drivers, I've found the source and SWTOR, like everything else, now works beautifully.
It was all caused by a faulty memory stick.
OK.. so the resolution settings are both OK, although the "Disable Full Screen" was set to false and the refresh rate wasn't included. I've put those in per that article.
I've also deleted the DiskCacheArena file as advised in that link.
Confirmed that power save settings are disabled (I always do that when I build a new Windows machine - saying that, I know there are other device specific power saving settings squirreled away in individual device properties, so I might see if I can see any others lurking around and turn them off.)
Couldn't find anything in the driver settings for HDR, but there is an AMD FreeSync setting and that is set to "AMD optimised". I've tried it with it set to "on" and "off" and still no dice. To be honest, the settings in the GPU driver are pretty much out of the box.
Sounds like in the realms of trying older GPU drivers?
Yes i think trying an older video driver is best at this point
edit the only other thing that may be related is that the dxdiag also details crashing with Corsair.Service.DisplayAdapter
I noticed the Corsair crash too.. Those services aren't exactly crucial - just lighting effects / monitoring for the AIO cooler. I've uninstalled those so that all of the associated services have been removed (there were four of them in total). No difference. Ironically, I found a running thread on Corsairs forum detailing users complaining about that issue as well!
I think i'll have a look at an older driver for the 5700. I'm also going to run the Windows 10 Decrapifier script that get's rid of all the scheduled task and bundled software bloat. That's the only other major difference between the new system and the old one. Fwiw, the old one was running the same GPU, (literally, I took it out of the old machine and put it in the new one), so I'm puzzled why all of a sudden that's causing a problem.. saying that, I'm well aware of how temperamental AMD drivers can be.
Hey ho.. listen, I do appreciate your help and time with this. If it really comes to it, I guess I'll just have to play something else! Let me know if you have any ideas and if I find anything that fixes it, I'll update this post (even if it means necro'ing it some time in the future!)
Cheers.
After 2 weeks of problems, that weren't confined to SWTOR and initially seemed to point to graphics card or card drivers, I've found the source and SWTOR, like everything else, now works beautifully.
It was all caused by a faulty memory stick.
