For the loading screens, I gather with all the OS hopping you have checked windows power options are back on High Performance.
Is anything listed in the reliability monitor ?
do a game repair and delete the games cachefile just to be sure.
Ran a repair already, I've also:
Clean installed current and old drivers.
Kept it on High Performance mode.
Using discrete graphics, NOT integrated.
cleaned out registry using CCleaner.
The difficulty with a lot of the fixes I attempt is that the loading screen doesn't trigger until anywhere from 5 min to hours into gameplay.
I also tend to get the message "swtor.exe has been denied access to graphics hardware" or something of the like saying that my computer's graphics driver has stalled then restarted, though this is less frequent.
It's not a temperature issue, I very rarely break 70 degrees celsius.
I am aware of issues with the newest drivers and 860M cards might go and see if anything related to 880m cards
