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
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.
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.
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
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.
