Someone posted an extensive list of things to do in order to fix the issue, but none actually worked for me. Perhaps they will for other people? Anyways, having to resort to extensive and complete "programmer" fixes on your own, especially with limited knowledge of how computers work, is still unacceptable! The fix should be in the game itself. But it seems like either broadsword has no actual fix/doesn't know how to fix the issues of 7.4+, or that they couldn't be bothered to fix it. Either way, it's not on us to fix it! It's on broadsword.

Same issue sometimes. Honestly, this game is completely broken and unplayable by a large percentage of the player base at the moment. What's totally unacceptable, is that this has been going on for over a month!

With what little of the graphics and lighting I've seen since the update, I am not surprised. I can't even play the game longer than a couple minutes without it crashing to either a black screen or to the desktop. But I have noticed that on the fleet, force lightning abilities seem to have this awful glare that didn't used to be there and it hurts my eyes. Honestly, the 7.4 graphics update broke the game and those who can still play it, are experiencing worse graphics than before the update. The solution is simple: revert back to before 7.4, then re-apply the update without the graphics changes. Clearly, the developers need to stop applying patches and updates until they have at least a 98% guarantee of non-game breaking bugs, or bugs bad enough to completely ruin the player experience!

Can't be my computer. I can play my other games just fine. And they have some impressive graphics. No black screen with total war games running on max graphics and fielding 10 000+ high detailed models running around the battlefield. No black screen for Baldur's Gate 3, max settings. No black screen for civ 6, age of empires 4, etc. So whatever they did with 7.4, clearly is the result of horrible programming that causes this issue. I want my money back!

Nope still not working! Besides, I begrudgingly did all this, but nothing worked. A player should not have to resort to such extensive fiddling & tweaking to play a game. If players are forced to attempt all this tech support stuff, the problem isn't with their setup, it's with the game itself. And the game's lack of usability and function. I've been playing SWTOR on and off for years, and never had these kinds of problems before 7.4. Therefore, the only explanation is 7.4 is the issue, not my computer. And not the computers of all the rest of the core player base who are facing the same issues!! So clearly, the developers and team at broadsword need to get their bull in order! Fix your blasted problems yourselves so we can play a game that functions! It's the bare minimum. So since your faulty ficken9 product does not work anymore, you should offer some sort of refund or compensation to players who subscribed within the last month, only to be unable to play a defective product. Better yet, rollback 7.4's graphic changes. I honestly don't see much of a difference where it counts. And what little graphics I was able to experience before the game kept on crashing, actually seem slightly worse than before the update. It's not an improvement. Do not fix what's not broken (for the most part)! The update ruined the game for a third of your player base - minimum. You will loose paying subscribers. You will go out of business because players have frankly had enough bull in terms of everything failing in this game over the past year and a half.

I tried all this! It didn't work. And the black screen & crash times are even more inconsistent. Sometimes the issue happens within seconds, and for a while I thought I fixed the problem where I was able to play for about 8-10 minutes or so without issue. But nope. These are my computer specs: Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics 3.80 GHz Installed RAM 12.0 GB (11.3 GB usable) Device ID 2CDC5840-AB03-44DE-BF99-41A3E9B3D947 Product ID 00342-21939-40520-AAOEM System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor These are my monitor specs: Desktop mode 1920 x 1080, 60 Hz Active signal mode 1920 x 1080, 60 Hz Bit depth 8-bit Color format YCbCr444 Color space Standard dynamic range (SDR) This is the one crash report that happened today (for some reason, I wasn't getting them every time yesterday either) [See attached file]

Having the same problem. Part of me is thinking that the devs, and broadsword are all aware of the game-breaking bugs plaguing this game. And are just doing the bare minimum of their job description. Probably in hopes that they can still receive a paycheck whilst desperately hoping the game fails so hard, it gets shut down for good. Then they can move on to other projects, instead of being stuck moderating a 12+ year old game.

Major bug! One of two effects happens at random. Effect 1) The game crashes completely, and the application just quits. Sometimes there's an error report, other times, nothing! Nada! Afterwards, it won't even load as if both the in-steam application, and the desktop application aren't even being registered. Then if I restart my computer, everything is fine! And the game plays as normal. Until, a few minutes later until this happens again. Effect 2) The screen goes completely black. Regular gameplay does not seem to be effected. Just a black screen with no control over where I am going, or with what I am interacting with in game. Then I'm forced to use ctl + alt + delete and force the game to close via task manager. Sometimes task manager doesn't work, and the only option is to force-shut down my computer, which can't be good for it. If I can use task manager, I can reload the game in gameplay seems unaffected until either it randomly crashes, or the the screen randomly goes black. When I mention randomly, I'm on the fleet ( haven't even been able to leave the Imperial fleet yet without these bugs!). My character could be talking to a vendor, moving around by foot or vehicle, or just standing still. It makes no difference what tabs are open, or what actions my character is taking. These crashes are always after a few minutes, with inconsistent times . First crash happened within a couple minutes, the next after about less than a minute. And the most recent crash, about a minute and a half. Fix the damn game! This product is riddled with more bugs than a cadaver of an entomologist who's dying wish was to be buried with his treasured insect collection! Fix the product, or the game will inevitably die in shame due to faulty programming.

Honestly, seeing how bad the state of the game is currently made worse by 7.4, I'm kind of hoping that this is the year the game will finally die and shut down for good. I feel like I'm watching Old Yeller and wondering who will have the courage to finally take SWTOR out behind the shed with with a metaphorical shotgun. *Imagery to have in mind* A rabid Aric Jorgan bites Bowdaar. The Wookie starts foaming at the mouth. With a look of pain and sadness, Theron and Lana take Bowdaar out behind a shed on Odessan. A shot is heard. Screen fades to black. Silence. The game is dead.

Couldn't be a corrupted install. I tried through steam, and through the non-steam install. And multiple times. Regardless of how the game was installed, the results were consistent. The game plays and runs. But with negative efficiency. Most likely OwenBrooks is correct. It's probably a memory leak issue. And one that the devs haven't completely fixed yet. Which leads to the notion: A patch should not be released until there is a 100% guarantee that such major game breaking issues will not occur. The smart thing would have been a) for the devs to delay releasing the patch until they had that 100% guarantee. OR b) roll-back to before 7.4, take a couple weeks to a couple months until they have a 100% guarantee that no one in their player base would encounter this. But the devs in the past, and now with broadsword, have a consistent history of ducking up patches and updates. Either because of greed or incompetence. Who knows!

Having the same problem since the update.

Why should we have to do any of this? Especially if someone is rather terrible with computers. Looking up and having to specify these things is just bad game design! The game should be able to detect and do that for us. The game should be able to run smoothly based on the minimum requirements. But it still doesn't even do that! My computer can take the highest settings of any game normally. It's a high end gaming computer with a good graphics card. Yet, since 7.4, even on the lowest settings, the game crashes and cannot function.

Even after the patch to fix 7.4's game breaking bugs from launch, the game is still unplayable! Quite literally. I'm stuck on the loading screen, until the computer crashes. I tried a fix. Which was to manually delete the settings file. That solved the problem. All graphics were set back to default. Then as it turns out, no matter the settings (Low or High), the lag is so terrible that it takes almost a minute to complete a single step forward!. On high, the graphics look so dam n blurry! On low, even worse. I checked the CPU usage. And found out that there is still a bleedthrough. After about 10 minutes of misery, my computer crashed. Now this might be expected, if my computer was old or outdated. However, my computer is only about a year old. And it's a very high-end gaming computer with an impressive graphics card made for gaming! I'm able to play Warhammer Total war on this computer with full graphics, and a mod that triples the amount of units on the battlefield. And my computer can take over 24,000 troops on the battlefield from that game without any problems or overheating. So explain how SWTOR, a rather old game, can cause crashes and shi tt y graphics, despite my computer? My computer is not the issue. The issue is with whatever bugs are causing a CPU bleedthrough and/or infinite loading screens. The issues are with 7.4 being broken and not fit to publish! Please devs, make sure you fix your stupid patches before you publish them for your stupid game!! I can handle a patch that has non-fatal or game breaking bugs. Like a bug that makes random, non-story related NPC's face disappear. Or a random cosmetic outfit causes some minor visual glitch when in a heroic mission cutscene. Or an out of place voice-line for only that one mission. But a series of bugs that make this game unplayable, even unloadable is unacceptable! Fix this. Patch and fix the patch/fix for 7.4. Or take the servers offline, rollback 7.4. Work on the issues for a couple weeks. Then re-apply 7.4 when you fixed all the issues! It's not rocket science. Okay, rant over. Now for the minor bug I encountered. When opening the game, the client makes me "accept" and check the boxes for the user agreement each time I open the launcher. It's just a minor annoyance. Since I've already done that in the past. And it seems to demand I do that again, each time I exit the game and re-enter. It's pointless. I will uninstall the game. I already canceled my subscription. And I shan't play this game again until the devs fix the game breaking bugs with 7.4! And if the new graphics updates still look this bad and lack any functionality after 7.4a,b,c, etc, then what's the point? You ruined and broke your own game beyond repair and should just close the servers, apologize to the community and quit your jobs.

It's happening to me a lot lately too. But so far not on Arenas. Only on Warzones. Usually the character gets stuck and won't move or act during combat for some reason, then obvious ends up slaughtered, or you type in /stuck, and respawn in the start area. But you are still stuck and then get booted. On a side note: whilst complaining about this bug in chat, I found that the word "damn" was censored in warzone chat. But not in fleet chat. What's up with that? "Damn" isn't even a swear word. At least not for any reasonable person. lol

Happened twice to me today! And it really sucks because one of the times, we won the warzone, and I had 13 medals. But after the warzone timed out, and my character returned to the fleet, I checked and found out that no progress of any kind or rewards were given..