Pixelated Shadows during Cutscenes?
I recently updated my graphic card (NVIDIA EVGA GTX 970 SC 2.0+) drivers (now December 21st version 361.43; clean install) as I was having a couple of odd issues (SWTOR would blink to a black screen...
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This "screen turns black and fails to re-appear unless I minimize and resume the game." is driver related have seen this before as well, do a clean install of 355.98 driver and see if it persists.
Alternatively place the video driver in debug mode
If you want to try placing the video driver in debug mode , directions are here
