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Vraynar
6 months ago
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Game immediately crashes after launch, post 7.51

I can log in to the launcher, enter all the relevant information, hear the 'game is ready' sound, hit play. In the black screen before the actual loading screen pops up, the game crashes. 100% reprod...
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proxos666
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6 months ago

@Vraynar 

can you post the contents of the client_setting file here and what video card you have

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Vraynar
6 months ago

I have a 4080 Super.

[Renderer]
AntiAliasingLevel = 4
AtlasQuality = 0
Buckets = 5
CodeVersionChanged = false
DYDDrawDistancePreset = 2
EnableSSAO = true
GraphicsDeviceId = 9986
GraphicsQuality = 5
Height = 1440
InfoGraphicsVendor = NVIDIA_GPU
InfoGraphicsVideoMemoryMB = 16047
LastCodeVersionRun = 4
MeshLODQuality = 1
NativeHeight = 1440
NativeWidth = 3440
NewBucket = 5
ShadowMapNumCascades = 8
ShadowMapResolution = 2048
SpeedTreeDistanceScale = 1.25
TextureAnisotropy = 16
Width = 3440
RefreshRate = 60
WindowX = 0
WindowY = 0
doShadows = true


[Sound]
DisableSoundWhenUnfocused = false


[Game]
MoviesFolder = ..\..\Movies
SwtorRegKey = SOFTWARE\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic
Fullscreen = false
D3DFullScreen = false
RefreshRate = 60

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    proxos666
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    6 months ago

    @Vraynar 

    These 

    Fullscreen = false
    D3DFullScreen = false
    RefreshRate = 60 (note you have this under renderer already)

    need to be placed under the [Renderer] section not the [game] section

    [Renderer]
    AntiAliasingLevel = 4
    AtlasQuality = 0
    Buckets = 5
    CodeVersionChanged = false
    DYDDrawDistancePreset = 2
    EnableSSAO = true
    GraphicsDeviceId = 9986
    GraphicsQuality = 5
    Height = 1440
    InfoGraphicsVendor = NVIDIA_GPU
    InfoGraphicsVideoMemoryMB = 16047
    LastCodeVersionRun = 4
    MeshLODQuality = 1
    NativeHeight = 1440
    NativeWidth = 3440
    NewBucket = 5
    ShadowMapNumCascades = 8
    ShadowMapResolution = 2048
    SpeedTreeDistanceScale = 1.25
    TextureAnisotropy = 16
    Width = 3440
    RefreshRate = 60
    WindowX = 0
    WindowY = 0
    doShadows = true
    Fullscreen = false
    D3DFullScreen = false


    [Sound]
    DisableSoundWhenUnfocused = false


    [Game]
    MoviesFolder = ..\..\Movies
    SwtorRegKey = SOFTWARE\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic


    Have you also tried a game repair ? which needs to be after login and the play button is lit up ? unless this is a steam install then its per this link for directions

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      Vraynar
      6 months ago

      I have tried a game repair - through steam - multiple times, as well as a fresh install. I adjusted the client_settings.ini file as instructed; the black screen immediately prior to the crash launches in windowed mode and then crashes anyway.

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        proxos666
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        6 months ago

        @Vraynar 

        this can also be caused by a 3rd party overlay, say similar to steams overlay , disable the steam overlay and any others you are aware of and see if it helps

        the only other thing file wise if its corrupted the games cache file called diskcachearena , when the game and launcher is closed it can be deleted at C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic\swtor (default folder location, so locate the steam install)  once deleted a fresh one is auto created on the next game launch

        edit: your location will be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Wars - The Old Republic\swtor\

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