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Dragonmuse3d's avatar
8 years ago
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scrambled text

All text gets completely scrambled. Restarting the game fixes it, but only temporarily. Gets really really annoying having to constantly go through the process of starting over constantly. This has b...
  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    8 years ago

    @Dragonmuse3d

    Given this issue occurs after an amount of time playing have you considered this could actually be heat/thermal related ? wird things can occur when thermal issues startup.

    It is worth monitoring the temps of both the GPU and CPU , and even take the side of the PC off and blow a fan in to see if it changes how often this garbled text occurs.

    There is a game cache file you can delete at C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars-The Old Republic\swtor this file is called diskcachearena and a new one will auto create on the next game launch. I would of thought if this issue would be there all the time but cant hurt to delete the cache to be certain.

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