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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
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Fox the Sly
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Billychu said:
It's an awesome class to be sure. I love the versatility. It's gonna be my main at release.
Fox the Sly
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nataku said:
If the beta was any indication then it won't be a problem. I saw plenty of non-Jedi running around when I left Tython.
cartoon_soldier
Member
Fox the Sly said:
Yup, lot of smugglers at least. In fact all my 4 mans were 2 jedi classes and 2 non-jedi classes.
Is the beta test happening every weekend? Come on Bioware, invite me to the normal beta test!!
RaySpencer
Member
Fox the Sly said:
It wont be. MMO players get into betas, but the average Star Wars fan will want to be a Jedi.
BattleMonkey
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Non jedi have the better stories too
gatti-man said:
Personally I was pretty surprised how well the beta ran for me. I had a rock solid 60fps at all times at all max in-game settings. I am running 5870s in crossfire though, so I was pretty surprised ATI already had a crossfire profile in place even though it's not perfect judging by the occasional visual glitch I was getting.
I did notice that forcing AA through RadeonPro tended to tank my FPS pretty badly even with crossfire.
BattleMonkey
Member
Effect said:
Weekend ones are 3 days about and the ongoing is until they say stop for a next phase or until around release for all we know.
MaddenNFL64
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Lvl 42 Jedi Shadow PVP. The stabby stabby stealth spec, not the tank spec.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/kHcL3uOfEhAFcu2soq6
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/kHcL3uOfEhAFcu2soq6
Fox the Sly
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CcrooK said:Well another week with no invite. No biggy. Y'all need to come join up in Dark Souls if you want something to pre-occupy your time
You could do what some are doing and create multiple accounts to increase your chances of an invite. It works.
I did. :3
HarryDemeanor
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It didn't work for me.Fox the Sly said:
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Yes it is. Phenom x4 needs to be tossed in the garbage. This game is very cpu dependent. Every person that complained of low fps in general chat had an old/bargain cpu. I can see why you are taking the stance you are since you would be replacing half your hardware to upgrade but it is what it is.Carm said:
Carm said:
Yeah, I saw the thread.
I'm running
i7 920 OC'd to 3.6ghz (HT Disabled)
6 gigs of ram
Radeon 5870s Crossfired.
With crossfire enabled and vsync disabled I was hitting 100+ fps pretty much everywhere except highly populated areas, where it would dip down to 70ish. Vsync enabled was a pretty solid 60fps everywhere.
With crossfire disabled, I still managed 50-60fps 90% of the time. It would dip down to the high 30s in cities with a lot of players / npcs.
The only sure fire way to kill performance for me would be to force AA in my control panel, any form of AA being forced would drop me to 20ish FPS no matter what type of AA or how much even with crossfire enabled.
Look at this graphically/cpu intensive screenshot *rollseyes* Relevant stats in upper left corner.
Notice shadows are turned off, everything else is on highest settings, otherwise it would be 5 or so less fps. It's great a lot of people are not having issues, but don't go saying someone has a shitty computer just because of their performance.
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Notice shadows are turned off, everything else is on highest settings, otherwise it would be 5 or so less fps. It's great a lot of people are not having issues, but don't go saying someone has a shitty computer just because of their performance.
Screenshot
BattleMonkey
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Something is off, at highest settings the textures should look nothing like that.
MaddenNFL64
Member
Carm said:
I think some motherboards are shit with TOR right now. I remember some horrible thing happening a ways back with a certain brand of PC, the game would die on it.
Ya, they need to make sure the drivers, and compatibility is on point by launch.
BattleMonkey said:
As I said, that was everything on highest settings except shadows turned off. AA is turned off in the beta, I didn't force AA.
gatti-man said:
There were others but they were lower spec or I didn't feel like looking up to see how powerful the cpus were.
i5 750 @ 3.2ghz
4gb ddr3 ram @ 1600
80gb ssd
560TI OC
15-20 FPS at default video settings (1920x1080)
Absolutely unplayable.
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Phenom II x4 955 (3.8ghz)
4 GB DDR3
GTX 460 1024MB
and with everyone on lowest settings and at 1080 resolution im able to get JUST BARELY to 30-31 FPS with no one else around me.
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AMD Phenom 2 x4 940 3.2 ghz
4gb DDR2 1066mhz RAM
ATi 4850 512mb
I'm on all low settings getting an average of 10-15 fps at all times in the starting Ord Mantell area. I hope performance can get better than this, because it's a pretty big deal breaker
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Phenom 2 X4 965 3.4Ghz
8 GB RAM
Radeon HD5770
I've got everything on the absolute lowest settings, and am getting an unplayable 11.5-13 FPS. Ironically, turning everything up to max only drops me about 5 frames, which is just silly.
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I have to turn the resolution down to like 1024x780 just to pull like 5-10 FPS. My system specs destroy the minimum ones.
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Count me in. C2D E6550 @2.3GHz and a GTX460 1GB (833MHz)
5-10 FPS average. If frames were low in the starting area I could handle it, but the game's unplayable/unenjoyable.
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Radeon 5870 1gb
AMD Phenom X6 1090T
8 gb RAM
For me, the game REALLY chugs whenever there's a lot of people around, and there's a noticeable dip in performance whenever there's just a few people around. In most personal story phases, I get 60 FPS with vsync enabled, and in Coruscant I get around 50 something. Of course, I hear people with my video card talking about never dropping below 60 no matter where they are.
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Look, I'm not expecting 60fps locked with special effects from 20 npcs/players in view and animations going off, I'm expecting 30. What I saw in beta was so far below that it was awful. The game looks as bad and sometimes worse than a game on an engine that is over 7 years old.
If the game is unplayable on a 2 year old quad core, the game is doomed for failure. My cpu was released Nov. 2009.
MaddenNFL64
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Maybe your client was buggy? I dunno man. Those textures in that picture are awful no doubt. Hope your problems get fixed sooner than later.
Giolon
Member
Carm said:
There's something wrong. It shouldn't look like that at max settings or run that poorly. I'd post a screenshot from my machines, but that's an huge NDA violation. You should be looking for assistance with this issue on the Beta forums and from Bioware anyways, not the peanut gallery on GAF.
MaddenNFL64
Member
Giolon said:
*tosses peanuts at Giolon*
You bastard.
StUnNeR H2K
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Carm said:
Something else has to be going on to only be seeing 15-20 fps with that setup. I'm running with a older graphics card and I'm still seeing better fps.
i7 2600K
8 GB DDR3
115 GB SSD
EVGA 275 GTX
I have all the settings almost maxed and I run 40-50 fps @ 1920x1080. 15-20 fps was what I was seeing like 3 builds ago (back in March) in some heavy traffic areas. One tip that I have been using is to 'disable desktop composition' for the swtor.exe file, which turns off the aero desktop junk while the game is loaded.
Game doesn't look like that. Here's what mine looked like at max settings. It's probably the worst place to show it on but I was just testing the experimental AA but you can tell textures are noticeably better.
http://i.imgur.com/ZITHA.jpg
sorry for bad compression.
http://i.imgur.com/ZITHA.jpg
sorry for bad compression.
darkressurection
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Sent you a PM.Phloxy said:
Giolon said:
Oh I have screenshots that look better, I just used that one to point out how bad it looked with the low framerate shown in the upper left corner. Some parts of the game look good, not great. I ran into a lot of ugly textures on highest setting, some decent ones here and there.
I really don't want to get into a graphical argument but it really doesn't look any better than a certain other mmo running on a 7 or so year old engine. Lighting *may* be better in some places. Even that I can't say it's really better because they are going for completely different looks so different lighthing.
Moaradin said:
AA is not selectable in game, or wasn't for me, not gonna force it to take screenshots, this is what the game looked like when I played.
Again, I do have better screenshots, but I used that one to show how bad the framerate was in that shot with no AA or shadows turned on or anything graphically/cpu intensive going on. It was on the highest settings though besides no AA/Shadows.
Now with that said, I did get 60+ fps in some areas, there was just no rhyme or reason as to why the fps fluctuated so much. Nothing could be on screen and it could be in the high teens/low 20s. Other times numerous npcs would be on screen, yet 60fps.
Edit: Here is one of the better screenshots I took. 60fps but no npcs/players nearby, shadows on, no AA. Looks pretty good because everything is far away, up close, not so much.
Sax Russel
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Carm said:
I don't know if this was pointed out yet, but in that SS your card is running in the downclocked/2D mode, which is probably why your performance is so bad there. Did you have any driver failures before that? A bad overclock failing on the card can lock it in the downclocked mode until you restart.
As for the textures... I haven't been in that area in a few months (time to go take a look!) but I do remember them being pretty bad there, yeah.
Edit: Though not that bad I guess http://h7.abload.de/img/textureshuxh.png
I'm getting ~80fps there on a GTX470, have the ini file AA on
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