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It is odd that some people have problems with their FPS rate. When the game first came out I had this mental and eye-bending stutter in the game, by which I mean I'd move forward a few steps and pause for less than a second, move forward and pause for less than a second. Drove me mad. I tried everything I could think of and ended up reinstalling Windows. Downloaded the game again and it wasn't there any more. I put it down to something on my PC. It ran the game, without shadows, at a respectable 30+ FPS. Since then I've upgraded from a processor which ran at a jaunty 2.6Ghz, to a processor that runs at 3.5, and the difference was amazing. Using the same GFX card (an AMD 6970) I went from 30+ to 60+ in all areas with all GFX options on, name plates and all. I can run 16 man ops with the same 60+ frame rate. If I gather in places with lots of others, my FPS remains consistently above 40+ and I experience no rubberbanding, no lag, etc. It's tricky to determine where the issues some people have are coming from. It would seem that the engine performs worse on some systems. It does however perform very well on some systems. I guess that if everyone that has no problem with the way the game runs on their systems posted up topics, they'd outnumber the people that do have problems. IOW - clearly there is an issue because people suffer frame rate drops. It would be great if BW could fix those issues. I think, sadly, it's very difficult for them to "fix" things so they work well on every PC configuration.

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In all seriousness, and without getting into rants, argument and counter-argument, or about whether a particular way of bringing it to attention is right or wrong, the fact is Shadows do suffer from survivability issues at the higher tier of end game. I always get matched with our shadow tank and I've learned how to manage him, but often I wish he was a Guardian or a Vanguard.

Well, I'm not cool, but I'm pretty much hung up on .

Cool, glad you get a giggle out of it before you change channel. Those of us that like it take your thoughts onboard, ignore them and continue to talk about what we like.

Delicious.

Cool thread. I confess I spend far too much time watching **** when I should be working. I also confess to really disliking people who think that watching too much **** is a bad thing.

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I'm a big Science Fiction fan and read copious amounts of the stuff. I was wondering what, other than Star Wars, you would like to see made into an MMO, or any game really. I would love to see two particular backgrounds made into games: 1. Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs. His depiction of a world where you can be "skinned" into a body - squeezed through the net or saved to disc could be a real winner in terms of a game. 2. Alastair Reynold's world of Revelation Space has a lot of potential. Real meat and bones Sci-Fi with a well thought out and "realistic" universe. Any other universes that you'd like to see translated into games?

I'm a big fan, and I got hooked watching those Peter Cushing films, although my parents inform me that as a kid I would insist on watching the show back in the Tom Baker days. I do remember quite clearly the regeneration episode from Baker to Davidson. Peter Cushing doesn't count as a Dr as he was billed as Dr Who in the films, apparently! I love the reboot, Ecclestone was amazing. It's a real shame he only did one series, but he certainly gave it a kick into orbit. They're repeating his series on Watch at the moment. Tennant, wasn't too fond of to be honest, although he did reign through some of the most interesting tales, and the ultimate tragedy of Rose and Donna. He had it harsh, and Tennant brought a lot of humanity to the role. Matt Smith - erm, good Dr, but made him too much like himself. Jumpy and zany and out there, not much gravitas, although there are exceptions, the Impossible Astronaut and Name of The Doctor for two. I'm looking forward to the both of them appearing in the 50th anniversary special, but, as is to be expected, I'm looking forward more to who the new who is going to be and how the regeneration happens. Who(!) would you like to be the new Dr? I've a hankering for Russell Tovey.

Brilliant.

These sort of posts are why some people don't like you. Why did you reply in this thread? You have contributed nothing other than your assumptions about somebody. Your turn of phrase ("...not able to keep his fingers out of the cartel pack bin...") only serves your ability to alienate people. You posted simply because you could. You have offered nothing - at no point when reading your post did I think " yeah, that's relevant and well said". You're very confusing. You post as though you have a thesaurus sat next to you, but you're unable to articulate a sensible argument. Your posts do not offer anything constructive. I've not checked your post history (I'm really not that bothered to look you up) but it seems to me that all you do is reply in other peoples' threads with a view to telling them that they are wrong. You baffle me. I realise that I'll probably get a warning or something for this post, but that's on me, I made the choice to post. I do not wish you any ill feeling - you are within your rights to post whatever you want on the internet. I would say, however, that your attitude and phrasing could be improved. To OP - sorry to have derailed your topic. Oh, one final thing before I'm banned from the forums - any educated person would know that although "I could care less" is an idiom Americans use, it does not excuse a person from understanding what it does not mean. You could not care less. The point of the phrase is to indicate that you have no more care to offer, A lack of care, not the ability to care less. It's meant to suggest that you really are not able to be bothered about something. You really couldn't care less. Your level of care has bottomed out and there is no further place for your care to go. Using "I could care less" really doesn't mean what you want it to mean. This maybe strikes people as random, but I've noticed you using the phrase "I could care less" in some of your more..how should one put it...passive aggressive posts.

Yep. Sounds like a regular day in the Group Finder. It is what it is. You get bad, you get good.

I just had to phone CS to remove my security key after my phone got broken and I failed to notice the "Lost your security key?" link. I got straight through, the chap pointed me in the right direction, and 3 minutes later I received my OTP and removed the key. Back in the game. Cost of a regular phone call.

^^ Had to be said.

Cool - this guy has the answer - can we spend Cartel Coins to get him to fix it? Please?

Love it.

If you want dual spec currently, you need two sets of gear for most combinations and the knowledge of the skill trees to change on demand, and the field respec perk. To dual spec without that, you'd need gear that is more specific to the base class and works no matter which advanced class chosen, or gear that adjusts depending on your advanced class, or adjusted trees which modify gear depending on which tree of which advanced class you are. In other words, to get rid of the requirement of having two or more sets of gear, you need to rethink the way that gear is designed. We do effectively have dual spec, it just means you need two sets of gear and you have to spend the time to respec. As for a "quick - click" button to change gear and skill tree - well, no. I think that's essentially the same as having two different characters in one. If you want your character to perform two roles (whether they be Tank and DPS, Healer and DPS, or PVE and PVP) it should be harder than just clicking a button. Actual respeccing should be involved, or roll another. IMO you created your character and it does what it does. If you're stuck for a healer, recruit a healer, likewise for the rest. I don't think that some smaller guilds having problems filling their spec sheet is a reason to introduce instant respeccing. Also, the ability system in this game doesn't easily allow for dual spec because of the tree system. What you want would require them changing ability for ability base on how many points you've spent in a tree. In other games, changing to an alternate spec changes the action of the ability. This one doesn't do that so much.

It is strange. Since 1.4 I've had super smooth glossy shadowy niceness. I'm on a 2.8ghz, 4-core machine with a 6970 and 8gigs of pretty slow (800mhz DDR2) ram. It all runs flawlessly for me. Clearly I'm one of the lucky ones.

6970 - No problems at all - always on high everything - game runs the same after 1.4 although now I have nice smooth and dynamic shadows PC = AMD 4 x 2.8gz - 8gb ram- 128gb SSD.

Yawn.

Ah bless. So you believe what the Community Team tell you. You did decide.

Oh really. You've decided that have you?

I agree with some of what you're saying, but (GW2 excepting as I've not played it yet) aren't all games exactly like that? Do you not have to do the same quests over and over again in each MMORPG? This idea that SWTOR should have somehow been different baffles me.