Posted by

Hello all, Make sure you skip to TL;DR if you can't be bothered listening to a bit of background story:) For quite some time I have been having slow patching, I can't even remember how long it took to download SWTOR itself.

Hello all,

Make sure you skip to TL;DR if you can't be bothered listening to a bit of background story :)

For quite some time I have been having slow patching, I can't even remember how long it took to download SWTOR itself. I have a speed of 10 Mbit/s (megabits per second) and the launcher would only ever go as high as 150 KBs (kilobytes per second) instead of the full speed of about 1 MB/s (megabyte per second). So after going through many and many threads everywhere, I gave up. Almost tried everything. So now that I was so excited about GSF and class changes (Shadow Tank <3), I decided to start downloading the PTS. I got a little depressed in seeing 150 KB/s so I decided to look further into the issue. What really fixed the issue for me was to change DNS to a public one (in my case I used Google's public DNS). Nothing bumped up the speeds as much as changing the DNS, which basically changes the location from where you are downloading (or something along those lines). Speeds went up to 550 KB/s - but fluctuating constantly and even slowing down to slower than the speeds mentioned above. Flushed DNS, no change. Restarted the PC the day after (yes, I am very stupid), speeds are now constantly around 760-770 KB/s, which is not max, but almost 8x faster than it's ever been :D.

TL;DR: Personal story about my unsolvable issue and why I am about to make everyone who has slow download problem's life easier by making a list of steps to take to eliminate all issues

1. Check the theoretical speeds you're meant to be getting by running a speed test on speedtest.net

   EMD offers a premium experience that includes unlimited access to CD quality music and advanced discovery features in an advertising free environment. Let me blow your mind. Members also enjoy unlimited free mp3 music downloads without registration. Search and download from millions of songs and albums. Learn how to download music and how to burn music.

   • Before starting the test, you want to make sure that speedtest.net is using the same units as the SWTOR launcher. Go to the settings (top right of the webpage, next to login) and select kilobytes or megabytes.

• Run a test by clicking on begin test, and compare the speeds with the launcher.

• More often than not, your download speed for SWTOR will be slower (for me almost 25% slower). Anything over half you should be worried about.

• If that's the case, proceed with the next steps.

1. Use a wired connection if using wireless to check for any improvement.

• If no improvement, then the wireless connection is not the issue.

1. Pause the download for a minute and restart it.

2. Restart launcher.

3. Do a launcher repair by running FixLauncher.exe in the SWTOR folder.

• It will make your launcher update at soon as you start it.

1. Open launcher.settings (SWTOR folder) with notepad and make sure that P2PEnabled is set to True.

   Jul 8, 2014 - Hi tezza192. It seems missing drivers on the system., I'd suggest that you update BIOS and chipset driver on your computer to check for issue. Dell intel sd host controller driver windows 8. Intel SD Host Controller Drivers manufacturer is SDA Standard. System Requirements: Windows 8, Windows. Download the latest drivers for your Intel SD Host Controller to keep your Computer up-to-date. Aug 9, 2017 - Hi, I'm looking for driver for Intel SD Host Controller device, a part of Dell Inspiron 14 3452, for. Drivers for Windows 10 and Windows 8.

2. Restart PC.

3. Make sure that the SWTOR folder is added to your antivirus' exceptions.

4. Make sure that swtor.exe and launcher.exe are added to your Firewall's exceptions (both, not just one or the other).

   • If you want to really make sure that neither your firewall or antivirus are at fault, you can disable them just to check for any improvement in speed.

5. Flush your DNS cache.

   • Hold Windows key and R together, type in cmd

   • In the command prompt, type: ipconfig /flushdns

6. Try changing your DNS to a public one i.e. Google Primary: 8.8.8.8 Secondary: 8.8.4.4

   • This can be a quite complicated thing to do, and I will therefore post a well written guide on the subject. How To Geek: The Ultimate Guide to Changing Your DNS Server

• After doing so, it is a good idea (I repeat: good idea) to flush your DNS cache again and/or restarting your PC.

This is as much as I know and I have tried, and it's all put here together for you! Other suggestions or anything I've missed are welcome in the comments!

P.S. This SWTOR help page suggests opening some specific ports and ranges of ports (http://www.swtor.com/support/helpcenter/6602). If you knew enough, you wouldn't want to open ports such as 80 and 8080 because, without further explanation, they are the weakest ports for anyone to break in your network (very common ports). It also mentions a pretty big range of ports that you're leaving open, and you really really don't want to do that. The majority of modem and routers will not block SWTOR, though it can possibly happen on very old models, it should be ok on that front. This may be taken as my opinion

P.P.S. Some other page may suggest fiddling around with the hosts file. It is not recommended to fiddle around with this file, and it is unlikely to affect the download unless on very specific cases (usually English Assets issue, which don't seem to have happened for a while).

P.P.P.S. I am in Australia, so this issue may be more common here. In actual fact I do know of other friends that suffered considerably slower download than their actual speeds.

Edit: Grammar and formatting.

I have a laptop with the following configuration:

Processor: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86 GHz

Installed Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB

System type: 32-bit Operating System

Display Adapter: Intel 965 Express Chipset Family

I previously had Windows Vista Ultimate on this laptop and very recently have upgraded it to Windows 7 Ultimate. I had a copy of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic which I had run on my PC with Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and I decided to install the same on my current laptop which now has Windows 7. However, upon successfully installing it in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2), I run the application too in the same compatibility mode. But it gives me the following message:

'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: swkotor.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 00000000
Fault Module Name: swkotor.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 00000110
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: be9b
Additional Information 2: be9bf493184e8a1cc6dbc11c84c53984
Additional Information 3: 9e35
Additional Information 4: 9e353e53e9ec76750b5c1f800beee128
Read our privacy statement online:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409
If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
C:Windowssystem32en-USerofflps.txt'

I have also checked my display adapter's drivers: they are updated.

How Big Is Swtor Download

I'd be grateful if you could throw some light on this error.

I have referred to your replies on the similar issue. However, in my case I don't even reach the main menu of the game.

How To Make Swtor Download Updates Faster

Please note, that I didn't not install this game on my laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate.

Many Thanks, in anticipation

syb1987