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Anonymous
8 years ago
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SWTOR causing display driver to crash and then blue screen

Hey, I'm a long time swtor player and I've recently booted up to try and play the game and within seconds of loading up the character selection screen, the game freezes, the screen turns black, I can still hear audio playing, sometimes the screen will reappear with the loading screen and windows will say Radeon driver has crashed and recovered, then it blacks out again and then I get a blue screen. This happens on my desktop AND laptop (Mircrosoft Surface book).

My desktop is running windows 7 with the latest radeon drivers. I've tried clean uninstalling my graphics driver and installing it again. I've tried uninstalling swtor and then installing it again. But I get the same issue. It doesn't happen on any of my other games which are pretty graphics intense so I can only assume it's swtor that's being tempermental. Has anyone encountered these issues before? Please help T.T

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    *doctor oggurobb voice* HAHA! it's working. I downloaded the very latest version of radeon crimson and clicked CLEAN install which must have destroyed all the bits and bobs AMD have left in my pc over the years. the new driver seems to be working ok. I also changed the TdrDelay in my registry to 8 to give the gpu more time to do its thing. not sure what did the trick but so far so good.

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    well the discourse isnt helpful. i cant find the 15.7.1 drivers he installed to bypass the crossfire garbage. the graphics card itself seems to be working fine for everything except swtor. i don't know. there doesn't seem to be a solution and i dont want to buy another graphics card just to find out it was a driver issue all along. 

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    proxos666
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    8 years ago

    @cystemic

    I will have a look , my thinking is for some reason this may be a crossfire issue with swtor if eevrything else is working ok.

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    the 15.7.1 updates lasted longer than any of the others. i managed to actually load up my ship but then the driver crashed again. the good news is that it just threw me a not responding for the game and didnt bsod or black screen me. and i cant seem to find the option to turn off the crossfire anywhere >.>

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    proxos666
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    8 years ago

    @cystemic

    I believe it needs to be done in the game profile in and AMD Control Center, have a look in the profile for swtor

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    its pretty barren here, theres no profile or mentions of crossfire. i might as well update the software to 16.2.

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    proxos666
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    8 years ago

    @cystemic

    Need to find a way to disable crossfire for swtor only or globally to test this actually is the cause

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    *doctor oggurobb voice* HAHA! it's working. I downloaded the very latest version of radeon crimson and clicked CLEAN install which must have destroyed all the bits and bobs AMD have left in my pc over the years. the new driver seems to be working ok. I also changed the TdrDelay in my registry to 8 to give the gpu more time to do its thing. not sure what did the trick but so far so good.

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

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