I bought a Naga for Christmas since I've been wanting a gaming mouse for some time and I was also curious if it would improve my gameplay experience in SWToR. So I paired it up with the Razer Scarab and even though it felt literally ALIEN to have buttons under your thumb and it was definitely not as easy to get used to them as I had initially thought, after a week or so of using the mouse for a few hours every day it totally blew me away. On the Scarab the glide is silky smooth and precise and the ergonomics of the mouse make every gaming session a dream. I would recommend it to anyone wholeheartedly, but with the added word of caution that the first few days might be potentially frustrating!

Could you please tell us how you did that? It's at least some improvement

Is there sand on Tatooine?

Figure 3 in that paper is exactly what's going on in the game right now!

Ditto!

The second .exe is probably the remote renderer, causing our fps to plummet.

Mother of God, look at the difference that makes. We might have struck gold if we can force these textures

Great post, this is exactly the proof we need!

That perfectly shows how the potential of this game is neglected in a most perverse way, for the sake of "good" performance which isn't even there...

I've got an overclocked 580GTX on my desktop, but I'm not seeing that quality either. No one does!

That is the quality we were promised right there. Crisp, high res textures and perfect AA. I doesn't matter if I can't run it on my laptop, I sure as hell would be able to on my desktop back home!

I second this idea as well

They might delete the posts and lock down the threads on the swtor forums, but other websites have already picked up the news. There's little they can do about that, except bribing them.

Talk about us people with low-end machines not being able to run the game, huh... More like can't run the release client!

My laptop ran those high textures and everything else except shadows (which were disabled entirely) to the max at 1920x1080 and the gameplay was butter smooth. Now I'm getting 15-20 fps on low settings on the same laptop

Yup, that's pretty much what happened. BioWare played us really bad on this one, took us for granted. Not likely to happen again after this though...

"All your rez are belong to us" is even better

Welcome to the killing grounds, brother!

Me too! It's so sad, but I could not stop laughing

I am 100% sure that something like this will happen, especially after today

This is even better! http://i.imgur.com/0lF3U.jpg

You're welcome my friend!

At least learn how to spell before giving us your 2 cents here, please...

I totally agree with the OP that this is a major problem with SWToR. Even though I did not give it much attention at first, it is now constantly bugging me to the point that I find melee combat on my lvl 35 assassin to be very fragmented and blocky . I find this most visible with Thrash - after you activate it, there is an annoying 0.x second delay before you can activate any other ability, during which the character just sits there facing the enemy, instead of progressing fluidly to the next attack, let's say Saber Strike. BioWare should really pay close attention to this problem and remedy it, since it's a notable impediment to the "heroic" combat they advertised for SWToR in the first place!

High resolution textures are not currently available outside cutscenes and there is no difference between high or medium textures in the menu. I really don't know why Bioware haven't enabled them already, but we'll probably see them at launch.