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Don't know if this is a good place for this, but I decided to give SWG a try and downloaded the trial. However, I'll be playing and only about 5-10 minutes into playing my game will just freeze up. I'll ctrl+alt+del and my task manager will say the game isn't responding and I'll end task.

Anyone know why it's doing this? It is not my PC, because I can play any other MMO flawlessly. City of Heroes, WoW, Warhammer, no problem, and SWG doesn't seem to require any higher performance than those games. So what's the deal?

Actually the game gets MORE fussy when I go into the settings. I did fiddle around but I didn't really see anything familiar that might help improve performance, though I attribute that to me being unfamiliar with SWG's options.

Hmm, doesnt sound like anything ive heard of before, have you tried browsing the Support Forums?

I just figured someone might have had the same issue.

Have you done a file scan?

I would do a full scan and if that doesnt work go into the game files and run the file TREFix.exe and see if that helps.

Don't really know how to do a file scan but I ran the TREFix.exe and it didn't find anything to repair. I played the game again and it ran a lot better for a while but about an hour or so into it it froze up again.

I don't see any black boxes or anything like that. The game looks fine it's just a bit choppy sometimes and like I said freezes up.

Perhaps it is just the trial, which is quite lame actually since a buggy game isn't a good first impression to give potential new players.

Yeah, it says Scanning and then Launch Game (the scanning part only takes like a second), but I don't see any full scan button.

Well, I went into preferences and deleted the scan cache or whatever and I guess that forced a full scan. Still can't see any full scan button though, unless you're talking about after the game actually launches and not the station launcher.

By chance are you using Vista? Something simular happen on my sons laptop when we first installed it. Yes.....Vista IS the devil!

I just reinstalled the game and it's still choppy when I start it up. The starting logos fade in and out in "spurts", and when I spin my character around it's very choppy as well. I really don't know what the deal is. It doesn't seem like a router/firewall issue would cause choppiness, but at the same time I don't see how it can be a problem with my PC when I can run more demanding games just fine.

If it's just an issue with the trial client (assuming the trial and actual game clients are different), then that's just bullcrap.

P.S. I still can't for the life of me find the file scan option on the station launcher. The closest I could find was deleting the scan cache or whatever it is.

Hey Azzahn,

Sorry to hear about your issues using the SWG trial via Station Launcher.

The trial client is the same as the full client, but your account will have a few restrictions, so there likely isnt an issue there.

I would advise using that "Delete Scan Cache" button that you found as this is effectively the Station Launcher "Full Scan":

Delete Scan Cache: Whenever you play a game, Station Launcher scans your game files to determine if they need to be updated. The first time Station Launcher does this, it must do a full scan, which can take a while. However, the scan is cached so a full scan is not required every time. Clicking "Delete Scan Cache" will force Station Launcher to do a full scan again. Generally, you'd only do this to help solve problems you may have with the game.

If this does not help, please let me know.

I did the delete scan cache thing a couple days ago and it didn't seem to help.

Edit: Just tried it again and the game is still choppy on the load up and the character select screen.

Edited, May 21st 2009 12:16pm by Azzahn

My graphics card is a GeForce 8600 GT driver version is 182.08, and I have Directx 9.0c.

The music is fine, even when the game freezes the sound is still going and I can still move the mouse cursor around. The graphics are what's choppy.