Swtor keeps crashing on first screen
Okay so, the situation looks like that. After Onslaught dropped I took few days to just level before deciding to tackle the storyline - at least up until the game started crashing when I was trying t...
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I have to go its 2 am here , will check back when i am awake
Ok! Thanks for help (here is 4 pm)
Also, I did that clean boot via the instructions, left the bitraider thing running - and it's still crashing, just freezes with music in the background still and then crashes
after trying that clean boot I'm trying to get in game everyday, still crashing as before
You also have issues playing dragon age origins ? both are directx 9 games
nope, zero problems with DA: Origins (i have it installed and was able to get in, run around, start new game etc.)
on related note... I had a problem with Pillars of Eternity at the same time with swtor, can get in but cannot load game or start new one - but that's probably a graphic card issue (considering before i was playing when my radeon card was still functioning)
Can you generate a new dxdiag now the driver is updated, what is odd is if you look at the original dxdiag at the end you will find multiple DA:O errors with the d3d9.dll
that is interesting, I didn't have problems with da:o in years, but i also have it on gog now
but here is the fresh dxdiag
May need to check on the errors listed in the dxdiag , some are also an update failure for example
if you press the windows key and type reliability , open the reliability monitor and see what errors have been occurring over the last few weeks.
ok, i'm looking at that reliabity monitor, only errors I saw are from razer cortex and the da:o ones you mentioned... besides that on two windows update but it got out of the way eventually and I'm up to date with them
a pattern seems to be emerging "maybe" DA:O d3d9 , Pillars of eternity d3d9 and swtor d3d9
Maybe see if pillars of eternity runs ok under d11 per this link see the post by Asmodean-
I think its worth seeing if this is a directx 9 issue
it does look like a pattern, I'll try - have to reinstall Pillars first,
I have direct12 installed, do I have to install 11th or...
No its apart of windows , so in theory you are good for all direct x versions
I did the thing with Pillar's - still crashes after new game on first screen, no change
Not sure where to go from here , maybe a hardware issue ? although there are no error reports for swtor yet there is for DA:O which is odd
although dxdiag shows no issues with directx apart from DA:O crashing with the D3d9 dll file once
not sure if you want to try a broader option like trying a windows inplace repair per this link this is intended to keep all user data and just needs to re-install windows updates again or do a refresh, given what other things tried it doesn't leave a lot of options.
looks like it, honestly i'd prefer not to doing a kin of reinstall again, I had it done about 2 months ago (cuz of the radeon card)
i had this kind of thing happen before? but the fix with deleting the player gui's worked, now I don't even have it because of re-install, but it stopped by itself after a bit
i never know with swtor honestly
If you have no GUIs to keep , maybe delete the swtor folder in the appdata area, it will auto create a new copy on next launch is something easy to try first
I deleted it and it didn't crash! seems it was something there, might have to lower my settings for it to continue working, i'll be checking that
Fingers crossed
so. after just deleting the folder it let me in, crashed when I tried to set graphic settings - now crashes again at start-up.
i looked into settings, they saved, i might have to lower them, but I have no idea which one is making that problem pop-up
Just opening preferences or was something changed ?
i just started setting my usual ones, hit submit and then it started having problems, which is weird because I had those settings with this graphic card for a while now. do you think onslaught changed that much with the game?
It is possible, looks like trial and error i'm afraid, although likely AA or shadows maybe start with them
I am currently enabling option one by one to see which one will break the system, for now AA is disabled, shadow quality too, and shader is on low - no crashes yet, we shall see
got setting to this: (i'll attach screenshot)
still have to check if it just won't crash on startup (but it's not throwing me out for now, so i have high hopes edit:too soon, crashed agaaain), but i will survive on those options
sooo thank you for help and endless patience?
Thank you! I still have to play with those settings to make it stay working, but now at least I have a starting point ^^
May the Force serve you well.
back to square one. I did the thing where I put one option up or higher, and then restart the game - windowed-fullscreen? works. high textures and character detail (only that-no shaders, bloom etc.etc.) it got into character screen and crashed when I clicked preferences. wtf, swtor.
I'm really contemplating just leaving playing swtor until i buy a new computer but i really wanna play.
edit: now it crashes when I click the preferences, but let's me into character selection
