SWTOR Crashing GPU Driver
Since the release of 4.0, SWTOR has been causing my graphics driver to crash and I cannot figure out the reason why. This isn't the first post about it; in fact back in 3.2 customers reported similar...
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I also am having a similar issue, after downloading windows 10, I have a Sapphire R9 280x Vapor x, ASUS M9A97 2.0 L.E mobo. All of my drivers and mobo bios are up to date. The game just crashes randomly the card is only a couple months old, I spent a few hundred bucks on it and prior to windows 10 / 4.0 ran the game full speed beautifully.
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Log Name: System
Source: Display
Date: 11/22/15 8:45:32 PM
Event ID: 4101
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Shadow
Description:
Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Display" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">4101</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-11-23T02:45:32.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>8833</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Shadow</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>amdkmdap</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
is the error I get. I only get the error playing swtor.. playing battlefield 4 or dragon age no errors, I'm patient, I thought that one of the windows 10 patches would cover this issue, or the Catalyst patches or your patches. Catalyst and Windows both say the issue is on the Swtor side of this.
Oh no ☹️.
Though I'm confused if it's the game or the video card. I switched out my new AMD card for my old nVidia GT 640, and the game works just fine though I miss the higher FPS rate.
The game is using Directx 9 if the NVidia card is fine , this points to an issue as mentioned earlier as being the AMD video drivers or the Card itself.
Why first step is always a clean install of the video drivers, this relates to @ojibemukwa as well , best utility is DDU to remove all trace of the video drivers.
After a clean install of video drivers and it persists, and swapping the video card out whilst another AMD card would of been best , given the Nvidia card is fine strongly suggests a card issue.
Trialing a previous version of video drivers is also worthwhile.
