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Re: certificate authentication failed, please contact customer support

The method you just used will stop working in October and the game will again stop working.

You will need to use at minimum windows 7 to play the game after october

Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
It appears that you are all wrong.
Try this instead:
Edit the "launcher.settings" file in your SWTOR folder, add the following line:
, "skip_self_patch": true
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/6qyz4v/certificate_authentication_failure/
Also, be sure to edit your launcher.settings after running LRU:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Troubleshooting-Guides-Info/Guide-How-to-Switch-to-Non-Streaming-Launcher/td-p/4867417
proxos666
Hero+
7 years ago
@djkc

What you posted was a known workaround before the old certificate expired fully in Oct 17 , which is why that thread was before October 17

Are you saying you are playing on an XP / Vista system with the system clock set past Oct 17 ?
yetanotherglitc
6 years ago
the method that you describbed has and is still working but i am betting that with the release of onslaught that microsoft ie ea games is going to make another push with the .net that only works on winblows 10 with the update. who whats to take that bet...