CRASH: User Account Control prompt causes Graphics Lockup in CO/STO.
Reproduction Steps:- Be playing CO/STO in a Windowed Fullscreen mode.
- Open a program that will prompt you to update it, thereby triggering a UAC prompt asking for permission before proceeding. Firefox Aurora/Nightly is an example of one such program that often asks for this. Trillian has also been used to reproduce this issue.
- Authorize the update then return to the game.
- Graphics will remain frozen rendering the game client unusable however the audio will still play.
Location: All Zones
Frequency: All the time.
Details: If you receive a UAC prompt while playing CO/STO, your graphics will lock up indefinitely, forcing you to quit the game client via right-clicking the game icon on the taskbar and closing it. This does not generate a crash report or prompt the game to ask for permission to re-check files because the game believes everything was okay and that you just clicked the close box to exit out of the game rapidly.
Relevant hardware/OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit, ATI Radeon 6970, ATI Catalyst 11.9.