In my case, I went to the NVIDIA Settings panel (typed in NVIDIA Settings in the Win 7 search) -- you can check out your settings for 3D acceleration. There are some options in there where you can either override every piece of software that uses 3D acceleration, or let each application use its own settings. Usually, if you haven't messed with it before, it's set to allow each application to run its own settings by default.

Oh, WOW. Ok, so apparently, this is interesting. This seems to have fixed the issue. I let SWTOR handle the 3D acceleration stuff, turned everything to HIGH, and shut off shadows separately. Seems to have completely solved the problem. 60+ FPS. /boggle

Ok, full list of stuff I've done (still getting 5-10 FPS everywhere, not just inside and not just on one planet): - Clean game install (twice) - Settings to High, then back to Low again - Shadows Low (then OFF) - Driver rollback - Windows Update - Spybot/MBAM scans - Settings LOW - Antialiasing OFF (and the other suggestions made for the NVIDIA settings panel) - SpeedFan scan - msconfig to clean up Services/Processes booting up at startup I am completely at a loss as to why the game is performing thusly. And I truly, truly mean that.

So, I'm jumping into this thread hoping for some help. Please do me a favor and read the entire post before making a suggestion, as it's a bit complicated and I have lots of details. Ok, here we go: My husband bought a PC this year in anticipation of SWTOR. Basic specs: Intel Core i7 3ghz NVIDIA 9400GT 8 GB RAM 64-bit Windows 7 I, on the other hand, have been running on a 4-year-old rig that I'm lazy about upgrading: Core Duo 2.66ghz NVIDIA 8800 GTS 4GB RAM 64-bit Windows 7 We both played in the beta, and his rig was able to run flawlessly at medium settings. He was able to run some settings at high, but chose to run them at medium in order to get better FPS. I had some lag issues early on, but the last couple of beta builds really optimized for me and smoothed out a lot of my issues. Yesterday, we were both accepted into Early Access. Yay! BUT WAIT. My computer is running easily at 50fps. His is completely, unbearably choppy. It's unplayable. So what's a girl to do? Well, I got to work on troubleshooting. Here's what I've done so far: Ran msconfig to shut down anything stupid running at startup (i.e., iTunes and MS Office, etc) Updated all drivers (or checked at least. Everything was up to date) Set all settings to "Low" Shut off shadows Took the steps listed earlier in this thread (disabling AA, antisotropic filters, etc) Ran a clean install of the game as of late last night I'm not exactly computer illiterate, I know my way around, and I'll tell you what, this left me scratching my head. What the heck else is there to do? Today I'm trying a rollback of his driver (though I'm playing on the SAME driver on my older PC without an issue), and attempting to seek help from other brains who might have other ideas... namely, you guys. Any ideas on this? I'm stumped. Especially considering my game runs smooth like butter, and is about half the machine his is. And it ran the game perfectly fine not a WEEK ago in beta! Thanks for the help and time!

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