{"id":14757,"date":"2020-12-10T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:24:51","slug":"swtor-quick-play-mode-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-quick-play-mode-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"SWTOR Quick Play Mode Bug Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there is a nasty bug in SWTOR that is mostly hitting players who are using the original SWTOR.com launcher, not the Steam launcher, called the &#8220;quickplay bug&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While you play, the game continues to download. If you finish the starting planet before it completes, you may start a new character and play one of the other 7 class stories. When the download completes, you can access the entire game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the official fix for the issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi folks,<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned above, our team is currently looking into it. In the meantime, here are a few potential workarounds which helped other players resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch the game as an admin: Right Click &gt; Run as administrator<\/li>\n<li>Perform a bitraider repair:\n<ol>\n<li>Open your SW:TOR game folder.\n<ul>\n<li>32-bit Windows &#8211; C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\BioWare\\Star Wars &#8211; The Old Republic\\<\/li>\n<li>64-bit Windows &#8211; C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Electronic Arts\\BioWare\\Star Wars &#8211; The Old Republic\\<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click on the bitraider folder and press Delete.<\/li>\n<li>Start the launcher again and log in.<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the launcher to repair itself and update your game.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use the repair tool:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.ea.com\/en-us\/help\/star-wars\/star-wars-the-old-republic\/swtor-launcher-troubleshooting-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SW:TOR launcher troubleshooting guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Change the compatibility mode: Desktop Icon &gt; Properties &gt; Compatibility &gt; Run in Compatibility mode: Change from Windows 10 to XP SP 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please keep giving us your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we get this issue resolved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is the video explaining and showing how to Run in Compatibility mode!<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed youtube-video-size-big\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTHHrTfiyCk\" class=\"video-thumbnail\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/lTHHrTfiyCk\/maxresdefault.jpg'><i><\/i><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTHHrTfiyCk\" class=\"youtube-below-video\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Video<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here is an additional fix I&#8217;ve seen going around too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14786 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI-728x546.jpg 728w, https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eo-agRvVQAAa9ZI-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there is a nasty bug in SWTOR that is mostly hitting players who are using the original SWTOR.com launcher, not the Steam launcher, called the &#8220;quickplay bug&#8221;. &#8220;While you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-technical-support"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}