I've seen plenty of comments / postings about the game crashing when using ranged weapons. Mostly having it linked to specific weapons, hitting shields, particle effects, amount of projectiles, specific enemies, specific locations, etc...

Has the root cause ever actually been tracked down?


I've been playing as almost entirely ranged with an entirely foot based ranged army. Currently ~50 strong of imperials and a few droids and mercenary types. I've been using a "Heavy DLT-19 with scope" as my rifle of choice.

I've had numerous battles on land and ship with this army and weapon combination. Even took part in several massive faction battles with a ton of troops on the field on both sides exchanging blaster fire. My weapon is an awesome shield destroyer so I regularly target shielded enemies to open them up for my troops continous barrages to take them down.


Throughout all that I hadn't crashed until just now. I'm training the peasants at Serenno to defend themselves against ~30 Blazing Claw Pirates.

I tried the fight numerous times. I repeated each method several times as well to see if I could find any kind of trigger for the crash and these were the results...


* If I let my troops fight the battle entirely on their own - No crashing. I tried not giving them orders and just letting them do whatever, giving them a charge order only, making them hold position, hold position and spread out to max, hold position and stand closer to max.

* If I fought in the battle using melee weapons - No crashing. Tried it only mounted, only on foot, and a combination of the two. Focused on people without shields and people with shields. No isues in any situations.

* If I fought with my gun - Crash. Fighting only with my gun, whether targeting only shielded or unshielded troops only, I'd crash out. Doing a combination of ranged and melee seemed to buy me a little extra time, but would still crash. I'd get around 4 - 10 hits in with ranged on average before I'd crash out. Couldn't say if it was just hitting the target or actually killing it that was triggering the crash since my DLT-19 does 92 piercing damage and outright kills just about anything even if they block with a shield.



Based on my results I think the theory that its caused by too many projectiles can be ruled out otherwise the troop on troop battles should have triggered it at least once.

I also don't think its tied to weapon in particular as I've been using this weapon for ages now and often in big fights. I generally have my troops hold position and engage in drawn out ranged fights where I provide support by continually sniping targets.

It being trigger by hitting shields doesn't really seem applicable in my case either since I primarily use my weapon to wipe out shield bearing enemies or at least de-shield them for my troops.

I'm almost inclined to think it might be more prevalent in specific locations or when a fight occurs as part of a mission. Since all my previous battles haven't had this occur, but this single planet defense mission the crash was predictable and repeatable.

Just my feedback on it there. Unsure if its useful at all. (Unfortunately, I accidentally picked "Save" and not "Save As" so I stupidly overwrote the save. Sorry. I was hoping to be able to hold onto it for testing.)


So... anyone know of any further developments regarding this issue? Like a true cause for it or any way to predictably determine when its likely to happen so it can be avoided?