So today I decided to play SWTOR again and I'm getting reeeally annoying issues with constant disconnects.
It could be the ISP or the router, but my boyfriend is sitting a meter away from me and is playing on his laptop at the moment. No lag, no problems, everything works fine.
What did I do: I've added rules and exceptions, shut down my firewall and AV completely, deleted files and folders and stuff, switched to non-streaming launcher, reinstalled the game, checked for updates...
I'm using 64-bit Windows 7 SP1. Drivers are up to date. Every other mmo game I play works fine (WildStar and WoW).
Here's the pathping with clearly suspicious 13th hop:
This link will help explain the pathping results , the 13th hop is ignoring ICMP by rule to the router and as the 14th hop is fine it has no bearing on the pathping
loss appearing between the numbered lines is what hurts a connection and all yours are 0
what occurs if your Boyfriend isn't playing ? is this wireless ? have you tried a wired connection to see if it still occurs ?
I experience disconnects regardless of whether he's playing or not. He has wireless connection, my desktop is on wire. I tried switching cables and ports and connected directly, still nothing worked.
Another thought is does it do this via wireless ? just trying to determine if the network adapter may be hiccupping, have seen cases of that with wireless but cant say I have seen with Ethernet though but I guess it isn't out of the realms.
When I have seen it with wireless on occasion it was a driver issue and the game was triggering the fall over in the driver.
Have you monitored the temps at all of the AMD X4 B55 CPU ? given yours is overclocked to 3.5 from the default 3.2 it is worth checking.
The CPU you have shouldn't be getting over 70C , so worth grabbing hwinfo (link) for example and monitor the temperature as swtor is a good stress test.
given the disconnection is random it is another possibility, plus at least you will know if things are getting hotter then they should be or not.
play the game in window mode if needed so can monitor what the temps are doing after say 20 minutes of playing.
on a side note next time you look at upgrading anything if you can grab at least a GTX1050 card, the GT 710 (benchmark) are similar in performance to a intel card so you will notice a reasonable difference, just a suggestion from the dxdiag for the future.
