I think at this point we can all assume that there is probably a communcation problem at Bioware. While the problem was acknowledged by a single bioware "Communityteam" on 11.15.2021 - it probably hasn't moved from that point, or it was deemed by uninformed useless management not important enough. Reguardless of where the thread stands on the official Bug forums; It's being ignored - even with a detailed explanation on how they can fix it. Covid, Holidays, etc don't help things - but you'd assume some kind of update or thank you for the fix information passing it on the correct people - but I assume, due to the Free to Play Aspect/Limited Bioware Staffing (Pseudo-maintaince mode) - there is NO correct person, or at least we have no way to get in touch with them. You can be sure at this point, there probably isn't anyone working off a 12th Gen Intel CPU on the SWTOR bioware team. I'm certain some executives son/daughter (Lucasarts/Disney/Intel) that played SWTOR and got a nice new 12th generation Intel computer for the holidays, things would gain some traction. An even sadder fact, is we don't know for certain if the message even ever got to the right people. It could be sitting in a stack of silly bug fixes like armor color not being the right tint/color; that pile of bug fixes people report could be insanely large over the years. Go to Twitter, Go to Reddit, Make Memes - If you make some more noise about this creatively, it might get looked at with the right set of eyes (and see the fix was given to them on a silver platter) - because the Bug Fourm message is ignored - The silence is telling. I mean, how can you ignore a post that has 26,948 views? Edit: I just realized, reguardless when they fix this - it will have to be a manual download as their patcher won't load to patch it.

Going out on a severed limb here (luke)... maybe others can see something I can't. Windows claims launcher is causing a program fault which crashed it out on the ader lake processors; in Windows Events the laucher blip before it crashes. Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic\launcher.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\dataexchange.dll I also noticed if you remove the libcef.dll from the same directory the launcher is in; It will load the laucher with an on-screen error message dialog box - "Failed to initalize web browser" If the libcef.dll is there but the icudt.dll isn't - you will get a CEF Initization Error dialog box - "Failed to load the required icudt library" Both DLLs returned, will once again to no load - Faulting module of dataexchange.dll. Active Internet connection does not matter for the launcher to fault. The real sad thing here is, I'm pretty certain the game/client plays fine and we are all just stuck due to an error in a web based launcher.

I don't think anyone brought this up. Perhaps someone at EA/Bioware/whomever is in control of SWTOR these days should commincate with ZeniMax Online Studios. Both SWTOR and Elder Scrolls Online are built on the same engine (modfied, etc); and while I'm sure over the years lots of changed, but the base loaders/patchers are quite similar. Elder Scrolls Online has no issues with Alder Lake.