swtor not launching 4.2a

@joeee_zafah

By memory this behavior could be due to a particular driver version, have you tried an older video driver.

If nvidia for example drop back to 362

well i checked and it's nvidia 354, there is an option to go to 364.51.

This rig is brand new as of a month ago so I'm not sure what's going on because there were other patches that had no issues.

aha, there was also a intel graphics driver update on 3/11..

@joeee_zafah

Possiblly related on laptops the intel card governs the resolution etc for the Nvidia card

I gather you have tried using both the Intel card and Nvidia card to play to see if there is any difference ?

Post a dxdiag per here to get a look at whats in play

@joeee_zafah

This thread here is what led me to believe driver related 

Try this 

Press the [Windows] Key + [R] at the same time 

Copy the following in to the text box and press ok 

%localappdata%\swtor\swtor\settings

Open the client_settings.ini file in notepad and ensure the following are displayed within 

Fullscreen = false
D3DFullScreen = true
RefreshRate = 60

Check NativeHeight, NativeWidth, Height and Width ( all 4 ) match your monitor resolution.

Save and close the file.
Start the game as normal.

I'm not entirely sure what does what, but on my old laptop I had to constantly uninstall the intel graphics driver.

Here is the info you requested!  http://hastebin.com/duhifoxaxo.tex

Thank you!

@joeee_zafah

Try 

Install this Intel Driver here

Reboot etc

then install this Nvidia Driver here

Ensure the game is set to use the Nvidia Card and not the Intel Card

also try my previous post 

Ah, very nice, very close, the only thing that I had to change was the fullscreen to false.

One thing though is that the windows task bar doesn't disappear.

@joeee_zafah

Right mouse click on the taskbar and select properties and tick "auto hide the taskbar" see if that helps

Ok, did the autohide taskbar and there's a blank bar at the bottom of the page.

I suppose I can try these driver links, but I'm not sure how to set swtor to ignore intel / recognize nvidia.