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thexcur3
3 years ago
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SWTOR wont launc on new Windows 11 PC =/

I just bought two gaming PC's for me and my son; he's 11 and he is barely getting into MMO's. I wanted to show him SWTOR first since he's a major Star Wars fan.  The game installs and updates via la...
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    thexcur3
    3 years ago

    Thank you for helping me out during this time,

    I went and searched and apparently im not the only one with this issue. I had no idea, I should have done a Google search first.

    What worked is setting the launcher up for Windows XP SP3 compatability. 

    I have no idea why that worked but it did.

    Thank you for sticking around at least, much appreciated. ❤️

thexcur3's avatar
thexcur3
3 years ago

Thank you for helping me out during this time,

I went and searched and apparently im not the only one with this issue. I had no idea, I should have done a Google search first.

What worked is setting the launcher up for Windows XP SP3 compatability. 

I have no idea why that worked but it did.

Thank you for sticking around at least, much appreciated. ❤️

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proxos666
Hero+
3 years ago

@thexcur3 

Hey thanks for saying what solved it for you , haven't heard of using the xp sp3 compat as a solution , may help someone else hopefully

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    Darth_Vortex01
    3 years ago

    Just wanted to say that I had the same problem and downloading the DirectX fixed it so thanks for posting that info.

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