Compression could absolutely cause an issue and so can the exception list depending on the AV program. In any case what you are experiencing with the crashing is not common and seems to be unique so I would take a shot at both.
Sounds like you got something going on there that's causing some of this. If you have any malware stuff or built-in stuff make sure you had the BW folder and all it's contents to the exception list and launch both as an Admin.
That's a new one. I've leveled 2 new characters over the past month and did not skip cut scenes and I've had no problems. What profile are you using? Have you tried just using an empty combat profile? I see in your logs it's not specifying so I'm not sure if you are editing that out for privacy...
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Update 76
The following changes will be pushed in the next update:
* Added HK-55 Mode for that pesky 2 hours of having to play him
* Assassin / Deception AoE was totally broken
* Guardian / Vigilance movement was missing from melee argument, dps rotation needed a total re-write (thanks...
Update 75
The following changes will be pushed in the next update:
* Operative / Lethality: added range to Shiv (this was causing players who though agents were range classes, lots of grief)
* Operative / Medicine: removed crouch and orbital strike (seriously does no one play this class)
*...
I kind of figured that, this thread is so old I'm not sure how many people have exhausted themselves trying to figure it out or get an option added. I guess we can consider this a bump but probably low on the priority list since the range now is OK.
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Have you tried changing the pull distance? Maybe the gathering pulse gets it's range from there. It would be in the character settings xml
Update 74
The following changes will be pushed in the next update:
* Darkness - added missing Depredating Volts - thanks SirSik
* Hatred - fixed Death Field (was not casting correctly)
* Carnage - added missing Bloodthirst, reorganized priority for dps increase - thanks kurfer
* Annihilation -...
Update 73
The following changes will be pushed in the next update:
* Combat Medic fix to make Kolto Bomb spam less
* Code Cleanup
* Rechage Cells accidentally removed from Basic Trooper (back in 5.0 changes or before)
* Interrupt with HotKey implemented and working in all classes (uses F5 to...