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seito1992's avatar
2 years ago

SWTOR is not working on Steam at all

Hi everyone,

I have been struggling with launching the game on Steam for almost a year now.

Whenever I try playing, the green Play button switches to the blue Stop button, then back to the green one without anything.

No error message, no login window, nothing.

I checked the firewall - ok.

I did the game file integrity check - nothing

I checked if the launcher is having the Launch as Administrator set - yes. And when I try to launch the game from that, it says that it's already running (Task manager says otherwise).

I reinstalled the game - multiple times

It works with the regular client, but very annoying that I could use the Steam version before, and for no apparent reason, now I cannot.

Started after switching to Win 11, I believe maybe that's the case, but I know people who can run it no problem with Win 11.

There was a link in the forums that people considered the best solution. Of course the site has no longer been available (why would it be...? I need it now...).

Is there anyone with a similar issue? Or someone who had the same but found a solution other than reinstalling the entire OS?

I went through this forum, the SWTOR forum, the Steam forum... nothing...

4 Replies

  • Sooo I might be able to help, try this, goto

    %localappdata%/swtor/swtor and change clientsettings.ini file

    from

    D3DFullScreen =true

    to

    D3DFullScreen =false

    then restart the game... make sure steam is completely closed out, and not running in the background before you do this else it wont work!

  • Also, I just noticed your question was posted yesterday, so hopefully you get this message and are able to fix the issue!

  • ydpbve00dbxt's avatar
    ydpbve00dbxt
    Rising Newcomer
    2 months ago

    This did it, thank you so much!  I didn't have a D3D entry at all, so I just added it at the end of the list.

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