[Guide] "How To Install Swtor Correctly And Address Windows 10 Issues"
Click "Download Client" ensure in order to save to your PC.
Right go through the setup.exe and select "Run as Admin".
Very quickly you should have the basics installed as well as a shortcut will be on your desktop.
click OK so that you will be looking at your desktop now with the shortcut.
Now right select the shortcut and select properties, here you need to put a tick into "Run as Admin" within the capability tab, click apply/ok.
Run the shortcut now (double click).
Sit back and wait for an client to fit then update; you could receive an error or 2 saying something like "only 1 may run with a time", press ok and ignore them and continue waiting.
Approximately within minutes you should be investigating the nice new Launcher client.
Shut this down NOW.
It is time to address some firewall issues.
You desire to ensure that -
1) The launcher.exe has inbound and outbound exclusions.
2) The brwc_swtor.exe has inbound and outbound exclusions.
If you've Windows 10 (*Similar Navigation for Windows 7/8 also type "Windows Firewall in to the search click advanced).
Click within the "Notifications"
(The page looking icon towards the bottom right down through your clock).
Then "VPN"
"Windows Firewall"
Now around the Left Hand Side "Advanced Settings".
Here inside Left Hand Top Corner you will notice "Inbound Rules".
You would want to have all 3 exclusions for "Swtor Launcher.exe" "Swtor Bitraider.exe" and lastly "Swtor.exe Retail"
*You may need to manually add these.
Click "New Rule" Top Right.
Program > Next>
This Program Path: > Browse> "Navigate to your desired *.exe as listed above. > Next
"Allow the Connection" << VERY VERY IMPORTANT.
"Tick all 3" >Next
"Give it a Name" > Click Finish
*Do this for all those 3 exe's make sure you perform the same for "Outbound Rules" also.
**If you have these exclusions then simply double clicking them 1 for a time to examine their "properties" will reevaluate them.
QUOTE=OwenBrooks (*credit where credit is born)
ESET - disable protocol filtering
Kaspersky - disable scan secure/encrypted connections
Nortons (Firewall) set exception to Allow rather then Auto
Now quickly right go through the Swtor shortcut on your own desktop and select "Open File Location".
Right Click the brwc_swtor.exe and select properties, change this to also "Run as Admin" through compatibility tab, click apply/ok.
Now it really is Reboot your Machine.
*If your Launcher is Broken this is actually the link for the "NEW" tool to solve your Launcher
Located Here (*Updated)
Now that you could have Rebooted, lets run the Launcher on your own Desktop you'll get a small confirmation box notifying you it's running as admin and this it's permissions are elevated, please click ok.
(*If your by using a Laptop be sure that it is plugged in power and Ethernet cable is preferred).
Log In for the Launcher using your Account info
Go come up with a Sandwich/Coffee/Work on World Peace
*Here you must see the game details are starting to download, ideally you would like to LEAVE IT ALONE until it can be done.
Patience is actually an asset here and 100% installed and mint is much better then 5% installed which enable it to fart around about the starting planets this will let you world of grief finishing the install.
*If you might have Patching issues this link will rapidly identify if it is best to have an issue.
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/cdn-patch.swtor.com
Once the overall game is completely installed and also the Launcher Bar implemented to 100% and yes it no longer shows, as well as the play button could be the only thing calling a message...
Shut Down the Launcher - we're not ready yet to click Play.
Now we'll once again Open your swtor folder by selecting your desktop shortcut and selecting Open File Location.
Here you will note another swtor folder with your swtor folder lets navigate our way community . star wars blah blah/swtor/retailclient.
Here you can find your Swtor.exe; as before we will change this to "Run as Admin"
(*Right Click, Properties, Compatibility, Tick "Run the offer as administrator", Apply, OK, close)
Now lets go back for a Firewalls and add the exclusions out and in for this exe also.
Time to reboot again
Cool were back.
Now click Start and type %appdata% into the search bar colliding with Enter.
your explorer has now opened up towards the address "blah blah appdata/roaming".
Click about the appdata from the address bar to help you now understand the 3 folders Local,LocalLow and Roaming.
Select Local, and scroll right down to "Swtor".
Right Click and select Properties, eliminate the tick from "read only", click apply e-mail for including all sub folders and files.
Now lets navigate our way via your appdata/local/swtor/swtor/settings folder in order that we can..
now Open client_settings.cfg (opens in notepad).
Here we desire to ensure we have
WindowX = 0
WindowY = 0
NativeHeight = 1080 (This should be your screens 'native resolution')NativeWidth = 1920 (This should be your screens 'native resolution')
Height = 1080 (This should be your screens 'native resolution')
Width = 1920 (This should be your screens 'native resolution')
RefreshRate = 60 (This should be your screens 'native refresh' rate ideally)
D3DFullScreen = false (*for now)
FullScreen = false (*for now)
Now Save and Close.
Now has to be great time to make certain that you have manually downloaded and installed Dx9.0c correctly.
Directx9.0c
http://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=8109
*As before save the file location for a PC, unzip the file.
Now Run the Setup.exe as Administrator (right click).
Power Options for Windows... happier not saving the entire world here and merely ensuring that all of your power settings will High - zero power saving options please
Reboot Time
Your generally good to experiment with now, sadly windows 10 users have to be sure that they have turned off a couple of more settings, it may help if you could have 7&8 to go on reading also.
Xbox app on Windows 10 contains an Overlay that is certainly recommended that you turn this off, annoyingly you could have to actually log to the app having a Microsoft Aaccount to do this.. you'll discover the DVR settings within the 8th icon down for the left along with the 2nd tab in, just eliminate the tick plus your goood.
Ati's Raptor and Nvidias Gaming evolved advisable to not have these running and positively any and all overlays put off.
Mumble/Teamspeak/Ventrilo overlays are temperamental.
QUOTE=OwenBrooks (*credit where credit arrives)
ESET - disable protocol filtering
Kaspersky - disable scan secure/encrypted connections
Nortons (Firewall) set exception to Allow as an alternative to Auto
"I stole this link off Owen for rolling back your Video Drivers or clean installs".
Lastest Display Driver installs or reverting Display Drivers
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Things to consider I'm carrying this out at 4 am and I currently do not have access to access to my previous guide so I will add things as I remember them. All of the should get 99.9% of swtor gamers installed and operating.
*If in the end of this you've Network/Connection issues please offer the tools that I have provided here a chance.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/STAR-WARS-The-Old-Republic/Simple-guide-to-identify-network-issues-for-Swto...
Taking all of the onboard further issues please either revisit with questions and "Logs" or..
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/star-wars/star-wars-the-old-republic/swtor-support/
*Updated Dec 2016*
This Link Contains every one of the numbers and options on the market for calling among the many Swtor sales departments.
Or it's fine to use +18553452186 on your contacts on Skype because this is how I take action from NZ.
*The team that handle the phones really are quick and attractive these areas, whole things should require less then 5 minutes should you use Skype.
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Morning All, Today is Tuesday March 22nd 2018 09:07am in NZ.
I thank those who still find use out of this guide, sadly I have been busy outside the PC and also have been struggle to put inside time that I once did.
It is a useful one to see that guide still emails me and my phone receiving EA XP points, just for this reason I am going to add some "NEW" tid-bits to attempt to help those navigate a number of the changes that I am mindful of that have happened with Windows 10 since I first created this informative guide.
1: Windows 10 has added a nearly hidden optimization targeted towards gaming which includes created many issues for gamers.
If you navigate on your games EXE files it is possible to "Right Click" the EXE (in such a case SWTOR.EXE this is often found in your Swtor/retailclient folder; this is required after each new swtor update); Here you will want to click "Properties" then select the 'Compatibility" Tab.
Down the underside you will desire to add or make sure both
- "Disable Fullscreen Optimizations" &
- "Run the program as Administrator"
Are Both Ticked, click Apply now close.
2: If you might have an Nvidia card and experience a colour (we spell 'Colour' correctly in NZ) flashing tint all over your screen 'Only' if you load a casino game, this can be due to how Nvidia and Windows 10 interact.
You will desire to OPEN your "NVIDIA Control Panel", this can be done by simply "Right Clicking" your "Desktop" and selecting it.
Now with NVIDIA Control Panel open select "Adjust Desktop Color Settings" for the left hand colum
In "2. Choose how color is set", please Select "Use NVIDIA settings" and click on "Apply" then close.
