Infinite loading/splash screen after launch (Windows 11, Steam)
I recently started playing SWTOR on my laptop again and for the past week I've had no issues running it with high graphics settings. Yesterday, however, after I successfully launched the game via the launcher, I got stuck on the Desperate Defiance loading screen. I could hear ambient sounds and the little blue wheel kept spinning, but it seemed like I couldn't get to the servers for some reason so I was stuck on an infinite loading screen. Last night I finally managed to log on after disabling some of my Windows Defender settings and played for a few ours with no issue, but whenever I try logging on today I'm met with the same problem, so I haven't been able to log in again. I assume this is related to Windows Defender since I got the game to work once after turning some protections off, but even if that's the case I'm not quite sure which settings to change as I have both the swtor.exe and launcher.exe as exceptions (I'm unfortunately pretty ignorant when it comes to this kind of thing 😅)
Update no. 2: Got the same connection issue yesterday even with the DNS server changes lmao. I got a VPN as suggested in a different post and now have no issues with the initial loading screen regardless of the DNS settings. I think it's clear now that this was caused by my wifi/internet provider rather than something on the game's end.
