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Arauto_Kagnos's avatar
6 years ago
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SWTOR randomly crashes to desktop

I've been having issues with SWTOR CTDing for years now but I've finally decided to give these forums a shot in order to hopefully reach a solution. So the issue is as the title suggest SWTOR just crashes to desktop randomly for me. I am not aware why and I've already uninstalled the game in 2018 in order to attempt to fix it but the results were the same, I've also removed BitRaider and switched to the non-streaming launcher thinking it would help, it hasn't though it as fixed a few of my launcher issues I've had in the past. So is there any way to fix this issue or is it something I'll have to continue to deal with? 

For additional information in hopefully isolating the issue here is my grid: 

  • Mother-board:ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC M5A97 EVO R2.0.
  • CPU: AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor 3.30 GHz.
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5.
  • RAM: 2 4GB DDR3.
  • HD:ST2000DM001-1CH164
  • Monitor:1336 x 768, 60 Hz.
  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    6 years ago

    @Arauto_Kagnos 

    double check windows updates too now the component store is fixed.

    if still problems with swtor, Next step to try is take the system to a full clean boot per this link and try swtor again.

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  • Well thanks for the help! And the patience in explaining me things. I'll run the scan and post the results when they are done. Anything else I can do that is possibly related to the random CTDs?   

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @Arauto_Kagnos 

    I am hoping this will resolve the bluescreens if it doesn't may need to test the ram next 

    hard to say what is happening with swtor at present, given you have done a clean install on the video driver and fixed the store issue, maybe best to see what is occurring now this has been done.

  • I haven't ran SWTOR since creating the thread as a matter of fact as I wanted to test out all the solutions in order to see if anything worked. I'll update the situation after I play for a while today, if no CTD occurs then I guess the issue has been fixed. In the case a blue screen happens again (Though its rare for it to happen) I'll test out my RAM. I'm planning on trying to upgrade my PC in  about 5 months so I'll be getting new RAMs so hopefully I don't have to deal with faulty hardware for too long.

    Edit: Here is what the scan had to say.

    Spoiler
    Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and repaired them successfully.
    For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
    windir \ Logs \ CBS \ CBS.log. For example, C: \ Windows \ Logs \ CBS \ CBS.log. For repairs
    offline, details are included in the log file provided by the / OFFLOGFILE flag.

    Edit 2: I checked Windows Update and it seems I had an update to install.  
    Edit 3:I just crashed to desktop again after being online for less than 5 minutes. The issue has not been fixed.

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @Arauto_Kagnos 

    double check windows updates too now the component store is fixed.

    if still problems with swtor, Next step to try is take the system to a full clean boot per this link and try swtor again.

  • All right so there was an update from Windows that I was missing so I've finally finished installing it and downloading. I'll re-boot my computer and see how it goes, I'm quite frankly not optimistic about it so chances are I'll have to do the full clean boot. Question just to make sure in case I need to do it, if I start up on clean boot following your guide and SWTOR doesn't crash do I just proceed as the guide says and de-active some setting or is there anything specific I should look at it based on all the information we have so far? I don't mind doing trial-an-error here. I'm just wondering if there is anything specific I should look for.

  • All right I've ran 2/3 flashpoints so far with different graphics settings (Just in case that was what was causing the CTDs in case my optimization wasn't really optimized). And so far I haven't had a single CTD, compared to earlier today and yesterday the game is incredibly more stable after doing all of that so I think the issue has been fixed for now, thank you very much for your help. 

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