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ChickenSamurai4's avatar
8 years ago
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Loading Black Screen on SWTOR with cursor and sounds but all is updated.

Could really use some help, I've found a lot of people having the problem of clicking play on the SWTOR launcher and loading a black screen with the in-game cursor and character screen sounds. I've looked at many threads on many sites and found nothing helpful. Everything I have is updated best I can tell and I have a great laptop. I have attached a DxDiag of my laptop, hope I can get this working. I've gotten this problem once the first time on this computer but since then I've run it a couple times before and been able to play it fine but suddenly it's going back to doing the black screen.

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  • @ChickenSamurai42

    First you can try to delete the folder bitraider in your Installation directory. 

    It that does not work you can also try to press ALT + Enter (sometimes press twice) to change to Windows mode or you can try this guide

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
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    8 years ago

    @ChickenSamurai42

    Can you try this AMD Video driver at this link  there was a known issue (by HP) with certain HP laptops but can pursue that if this driver doesn't help as the one your using at the moment is from 2011.

    Edit - found this link to the issue that affected a number of DV6 laptops , symptom was see the swtor cursor and sounds but a black screen.

    If the linked AMD driver above doesn't help, i recall stashing the needed driver from amd that the HP forum refers too somewhere so if need can look if i still have it.

  • Hey, thanks! Idk if it was this or if it was just the star wars update but I just downloaded this and booted it up and it seems to work fine, appreciate it!
  • so I had to restore my computer to an earlier point for something and now swtor isn't working again and this won't download? it gets all the way to 0 KB/s and 161/161 MB and then doesn't finish and I can't open it so swtor still is not working now.

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