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Anonymous
10 years ago

Problems with story quests and area rendering

Hi I recently started playing SWTOR again and restarted my subscription and am having big problems.  First of all I started with one of my old characters, when i logged him in he was on alderran when i looked around instead of the normal landscape the ground mountains and certain background items were covered in a blue blue message saying materials missing.  I have tried using other old characters and even new characters and when ever I go to a world other than a starting world or capital world like korriban and dromund kass and it is the same.  Another issue is that the maps on these planets are just blacked out and i cant use the speeders.  Another problem is that I stared a sith warrior and he is in the middle of the story arc quest on korriban to get his lightsaber and when i talk to vemrin after i fight him it freezes in the middle of the cutscene.  i have tried resting the quest and it doesn't solve the problem.  I have also tried reinstalling the game multiple times with no luck in fixing the problems and it is getting aggrivating especially since i just payed to reactivate my subscription. 

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Sounds like you installed the game incompletely and are missing some files. I am assuming that you are using the streaming launcher (BitRaider). To get it to verify and fix the files, go to the folder where SWTOR is installed, open the BitRaider folder where you have to delete the .xfr files and the "config" folder, and start the launcher. (source) After it has checked the files, the world should hopefully show up correctly.

    In addition or if the above didn't help, you can deactivate BitRaider and go back to the old launcher which is less buggy. Keep in mind that when doing this, you will have to redownload the game once more - but since you write that you already reinstalled it a few times, I assume this won't be a problem for you.

    To deactivate BitRaider, go to your SWTOR installation folder, and open the "launcher.settings" file in Notepad. Find the following two lines and replace them with these values:

    • , "PatchingMode": "{ \"swtor\": \"SSN\"}"
    • , "bitraider_disable": true

    When opening the launcher, it will then download the game with the non-streaming launcher, and once it is done downloading and installing, you should no longer see any missing models or textures.

    Let us know if this fixed it for you or if there's another problem. 🙂

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