Re: Moving Game To Micro SD Card

Ok I did your second option... It gives me the option to allow to edit computer (so on so forth) I click accept, then nothing happens...

Okay here are the steps once again:

• Open the Micro SD Card folder where you have SWTOR installed.
• You can see a number of files, find the one called "launcher.exe" (or just launcher) with the SWTOR icon.
• Right-click on that file to open the context menu; then select "Create shortcut" (it's near the bottom above delete).
• There will now be a second file like "launcher.exe - Shortcut". Copy that file onto the desktop.
• Now delete the "Star Wars: The Old Republic" shortcut and rename the new shortcut from "launcher.exe - Shortcut" to "Star Wars: The Old Republic".

You can use a shortcut to open a program. You can easily copy the game to another location, the problem is that the shortcut needs to be updated so it points to the correct location. That's why you got the error message "launcher.exe cannot be found", because it was looking in the wrong location.

With these steps, you will have a new shortcut that should point to the correct location.

Of course, you don't need a shortcut. If you want to, you can just open the folder manually each time and double-click on launcher.exe. But it's easier to have a shortcut.

Yes I know I have done that, its just it asks for permission, then it doesn't open...

Could be that your installation is broken, the launcher repair utility should fix it: http://cdn-patch.swtor.com/patch/LauncherRepairUtilityP1.8.2.exe

But make sure to make a backup of the "launcher.settings" file and restore it before opening the launcher again so it doesn't delete your settings.

Ok, so I downloaded that, then I clicked on it.. But it pops up with an error message saying "Installer Integrity Check Has Failed"...

@MaxHG25

If this is after copying the file onto the SD , try a re-format of the card itself and copy afresh

How do I do that?

@MaxHG25

Likely easiest is to right mouse click on that drive letter and select format , just be sure you are formatting the correct drive (sd card) 

Now why do you want to put the game on a SD card ? There will be a number of issues with this , biggest one is that the SD card will be formatted as FAT32 and not NTFS , from what I have seen if the install you have is Streaming it will not work on a FAT 32 file system.

You can try and change the game to Non - Streaming per here and then copy that game install over to the SD card and see if it works, but I would recommend an external harddrive formatted as NTFS not a SD card myself.

When I clicked on Format, it is possible that the file system is changed to NTFS, should I do that? And after that what?

Thank you for your time.

@MaxHG25

If you format it as NTFS , ensure the game that you are copying works on the hard drive, delete the desktop shortcut for it.

once done copy the entire game folders to the SD card and then find launcher.exe (on the SD card) and right mouse click on it and select "send to desktop create shortcut"  see if it works

Ok, I've done all that, but it asks for permission, I grant it, then nothing happens.

Solution to this?

Right-click the launcher.exe, go to properties, compatibility and select 'run as administrator', apply and try again.

Nope, still nothing, sorry.

Ok, then find your swtor setup or download it from swtor.com, right-click it and select "run as administrator". When it asks you for the installation directory, point it to the folder on your SD card that you copied the swtor files into. After the installation completes, run the launcher.exe (if it doesn't work try run as administrator).

But won't that delete my progress?

@MaxHG25

Running the setup over the top shouldn't delete the existing data if it is viable

All your progress is stored on the BioWare servers.

Ok so, I did that. It nows says:

D:\Star Wars-The Old Republic\avcodec-53.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. 

But then IT OPENS I put in all my passwords/usernames but it just says loading forever!

What now?

EDIT:

It just stopped and said failed to launch or something like that.

@MaxHG25

Run the repair utility here again , it will put new copies of the launcher files again, if that doesnt help , do a global search for avcodec-53.dll and see if another copy exists in the windows common path like c:\windows\syswow64 folder