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rorikjr's avatar
10 years ago

Game crashes after character select

The game loads just fine and gets all the way to the character select screen. I select my character and hit play. It goes to loading screen and when the bar at the bottom gets about halfway across, the game crashes to the desktop. I have tried several different fixes that I found online but none of them worked. The game worked just fine last nite but will not work today. Nothing has been updated or changed since yesterday. Some of the fixes i tried were: resetting the graphics, deleting the retailclient folder and using the fix button, removing and then re-adding the 3 game files into the firewall/anti-virus settings. attached is the launched diag file. don't know what else you will need to see. Any ideas?

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  • @rorikjr

    So the repair you did was as per

    Non-Streaming launcher - Log into the launcher but don't click Play. Check for small letters "ST" in the bottom left corner.
    If this is NOT present, With the new launcher after login , select the username pulldown on the top right and select settings, then press repair.

    Streaming launcher - If the letters "ST" is present, close the launcher, right mouse click on the game shortcut,
    select open file location and delete the BitRaider folder. Then start the launcher
     
    If the repair doesn't help go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars-The Old Republic\swtor and delete the file called diskcachearena
     
     
  • rorikjr's avatar
    rorikjr
    10 years ago

    Its the non-streaming launcher.  deleted the diskcachearena but game still crashes halfway loading the character.

  • rorikjr's avatar
    rorikjr
    10 years ago
    Same for all. Just checked the windows logs (don't know why I didn't think of that before now). It says I have a bad block on my hard drive. Running chkdsk now
  • rorikjr's avatar
    rorikjr
    10 years ago

    Nope that wasn't the main problem. Microsoft is. they snuck in an update that takes secdrv.sys completely out of the system.  this is required for Swtor. Looking for a fix right now. But here is a link for anyone else that explains the problem. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3086255

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    @rorikjr

    How did you know it was this ? just wondering first report have seen about this and it appears was released in September ?

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