GTX 970 and Constant Freezing Still (Tried all solutions)

@Hozec4

Place the nvidia driver in debug mode as one of the first things - see this link

advise if that has any impact

I have done that multiple times. Just forgot to add it to that list. sucks i have to do it every time i turn my computer on though.

But it will still occur even in debug mode

@Hozec4

Dxdiag directrions are at this link if you can do that would be great

Also press the windows key and type "reliability" and open the reliability moinitor and see what errors are being recorded

@proxos666

here is the log: http://hastebin.com/yemigatihi.tex 

What am i looking for in the reliability stuff? I just see where swtor is crashing mainly.

thanks

@Hozec4

I can see the swtor crashes in the dxdiag as well , they dont help though

Given this is windows 10 , noting multi monitor there was a Win 10 issue previously however the error reporting for that issue is different to what is displayed for you.

But given there is no real indication , and it is something to try , see if the following makes any change.

Initially - in the ingame setting place grass to 0 

if it persists also go back to a single monitor with grass on 0 

this was the workaround for that Windows 10 issue but it was recently confined I thought to certain SLI setups not multi monitor 

but it is something different to try

@Hozec4

Also try putting shaders on very low , there is thread that has appeared recently and sounds similar in what is happening in this thread that appeared today

Nvidia did fix a shadows issue recently in the driver for swtor as well , would need to look up which version but was in this half of the year.

When you say tried older drivers , what version did you go back too ? 

Just trying to get as much information as possible at present.

@proxos666

Well this has been going on for months. I think it started happening with 372.90. I think that is the version that they changed wddm to 2.1 or something?

I can't remember if I tried anything before the above version. 

I played yesterday with shaders very low grass and tree quality/distance set on 0 and had to kill the game constantly to stop freezing. I also turned off anti-aliasing and it seemed to help a little bit but I still get freezing fits. 

I will try un plugging my other monitor tonight and see if that helps.

I am just at a total loss. I really don't want to have to reinstall windows because i only have this issue in swtor. Should I see about installing direct x9 on my computer instead of it being an emulation? I have also reinstalled swtor multiple times and didn't help at all.

@Hozec4

You can install this directx redist (link)

Maybe go to the slow ring on windows insider - the time you mentioned this started was whgen this thread issue started but whilst it was affectingn single cards to begin with , it was fixed in a later windows release and was more confined to SLI systems now

There is also an issue with 980s i have seen , given the 970 is a cut down version not sure if affected as well for some see this link

@proxos666

So moving down to 1 monitor, It kind of helped.. Was more of the freezing wasn't super bad but eventually it got to the point of it locking up.

Ill try moving to the slow ring (not sure what this does completely?) and the 980 fix mentioned. I wonder if my card thinks its in SLI mode when i don't have another card. 

@proxos666

is switching physics to my cpu really a good idea? That is the suggested fix in that link...