Game Startup Freezes Computer
Whenever I press "Play" on the SWTOR launcher, my computer freezes and lags significantly for around one to two minutes. My cursor moves at about one frame per second and I cannot use any other appli...
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May be worth trying the latest adrenaline driver at this link which does have fixes for directx 9 games like swtor or even dropping back to the last catalyst driver just to be sure this isnt video driver related
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Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 Highlights
Resolved Issues
- A small number of DirectX®9 games may experience crashes or instability.
- Radeon FreeSync enabled system configurations may experience stuttering when using the performance metrics feature in Radeon Overlay.
- Protected video content may intermittently experience a freeze or hang during playback.
- A blank screen may be experienced while playing back videos when using Movies & TV player.
- Starcraft™2 may experience corruption in multi GPU enabled system configurations.
- Bezel compensation controls when creating display groups may be misaligned or have no functionality.
- Blank videos may be experienced when playing back videos in edge browser after the system resumes from sleep.
- Color corruption may intermittently be observed in Radeon overlay with multiple gaming applications and performance metrics running.
- The Radeon WattMan fan slider may intermittently fail to change after loading profiles.
- Enhanced Sync may not enable for game profiles in Radeon Settings when using Vulkan™ API.
- On multi GPU enabled system configurations Player Unknowns Battlegrounds™ may experience menu item flickering.
- CLINFO may report incorrect values in multi GPU system configurations.
Known Issues
- Radeon Chill may fail to enable on Vulkan™ API games.
- Radeon Overlay hotkey may fail to bring up the overlay or may cause a Radeon Host Application crash intermittently on a limited number of gaming titles.
- Radeon FreeSync may cause stutter with Radeon ReLive Instant Replay enabled on some fullscreen games.
- Radeon Settings may experience a hang when enabling AMD CrossFire with three or more graphics products.
- Trimming videos may fail to create a thumbnail if the video contains non-English characters.
- Flickering may be observed on the performance metrics overlay when Enhanced Sync is enabled on some Radeon FreeSync connected displays.
- Performance Metrics Overlay may hang if enabled when cycling display power off and on.
- The "Reset" function in Radeon Settings for Display, ReLive, and Video may not work as intended when using Radeon Settings in certain regional languages.
- Radeon WattMan may intermittently fail to load profiles for Radeon RX Vega on the global Radeon Wattman page.
- A random system hang may be experienced after extended periods of use on system configurations using 12 GPU's for compute workloads.
- The GPU Workload feature may cause a system hang when switching to Compute while AMD CrossFire is enabled. A workaround is to disable AMD CrossFire before switching the toggle to Compute workloads.
This issue occurred on the most recent driver prior to Adrenalin 18.1.1 releasing. This also occurs on my notebook, which has an NVIDIA chip. (GTX 860M).
I dont see this as a widespread issue, I do recall someone a while ago with similar 1 to 2 minute freeze on launch but haven't found that thread yet and this is one person by memory
I run a 6700k with a 1080 and have no loading issue on the same windows 10 version you have.
While troubleshooting i would drop the monitor refresh rate back to 60 as well for now as well.
If this is occurring on the notepad what software is common maybe a good start
Can start with basics, have you run a game repair per this link
Antivirus have exceptions for the game etc
Can also run a clean boot per this link , if using bitraider you will need to leave all bitraider stuff enabled
Changed my refresh rate to 60hz - no solution.
Ran a game repair - no solution.
My antivirus is Windows Defender, added exceptions/changed settings - no solution.
Ran a clean boot - no solution.
I even installed DirectX9 manually as per the suggestion of another forum post - no solution.
This is rather unfortunate as SWTOR is the only application that causes this issue. I will continue to search for different solutions, but I do not believe the issue is caused on my end.
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