Game Keeps Crashing Every 5 Minutes
My game keeps crashing every 5 minutes. I just updated my Intel Driver
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Start with the sound driver and see if the crash reports for sttray64.exe stop occuring
I played the game for a few minutes on ultra graphics with the sound disabled, and it worked perfectly! So is the solution just to update to HP's audio driver?
It is best to use the HP driver and if issues see HP about it , only other thing is to adjust the sound quality as linked in my post below to see if it helps with sound enabled.
it mentions switch to 24 bit 96000 Hz audio
"Right click speaker icon in taskbar > Playback Devices > IDT High Definition Codec > Properties > Advanced > switch to 24 bit, 96000 Hz."
The sound and Video driver? If possible, I wouldn't like the video driver, as it impacts the graphics for many games.
Just the sound driver as that is what is giving you trouble
I installed HP's sound driver, and my computer didn't consider it a downgrade. I played the game, and it doesn't seem to just crash randomly, but adjusting shadow quality from high to low or vice versa while in game (not in character selection) causes the game to crash, but the new setting is still applied.
The adjust shadow crash is separate to the sound crash , if it is an issue ongoing apart from the once you adjust , see if here helps
Is is necessary to install the game again?
Ok, I'll try what it says tomorrow.
I just checked today. If I have three inbound exclusions simply called "Star Wars The Old Republic," do those count? I also don't have Outbound Exclusions for them.
The exclusions should be for both inbound and outbound for both launcher.exe and swtor.exe
So I should add those too?
Yes , this wont affect the shadow issue though
off hand this maybe a windows permission issue or a driver problem
Are you saying the Guide won't help? I guess I'll make a new thread then.
The guide should mention something about unticking read only on the appdata location and install this directx redist
other then that trying different video driver versions is the best thing
Unticking? Where? Which version of Direct X should I install.
Moreover, my game has still just crashed in the middle of nowhere. I thought the audio driver fixed it.
Disable sound and confirm the crashing stops (apart from when changing shadows)
I'm sorry I haven't had time to post in a while, but I just tried to quest on my Jedi Knight with the sound off, and the game still crashed. I am getting irritated.
Are you still there, Proxos?
yessum, will have a look over everything again over the weekend and see if anything has been missed
Learned something?
Press windows key + x and select command prompt (admin)
type
sfc /scannow
press enter and see if it finds any errors
edit - did you install this directx redist ?
No. Is that one the latest version?
That version is the one for this game , it will add some files that are likely missing on your version in regards to D3D9Ex
it is worthwhile to install
Thanks. I'll try it!
I just installed it. "sfc /scannow" doesn't work. I type it in, click on it, then a window pops up for a split second, but nothing happens.