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So this all ties in with Biowares High res texture explanation regarding the texture atlas. So you are in Ilum or in the fleet and Chug Chug Chug your FPS drops and stutters. Well I think i know why this is happening and why the Chug happens. This all ties to what bioware said that their system only uses high res textures in cinematics and NOT ingame. Well.... the game is constantly switching from high resolution textures to low resolution textures on player models (not environment) Zoom in all the way and look at a player model, now move a few steps. you will see the player model switch from low res to high res. I've been doing this all over the fleet and it happens pretty consistently. I guess the reason why it chugs is because the game is trying to switch texture resolutions on all players back and forth whenever you move. This happens on ilum as well Test it for yourselves Please note it will only do this for a little bit then it will stop. You have to go like 500 yards away and come back to where you were for it to start the low to high res cycle

nah man before last patch i was farming them they would respawn 2-3 minutes after the chest would disappear serious

i always went there and was alone 1 chest every 2 mins had the whole area to myself now there is nothing. did the new patch break it?

Ummmm is this place broke? Ive been looking for chests for the past 30 mins and can't find ONE easy champ commendations before. Now? nothing anyone know whats going on?

I meant don't be upset that I'm going there to farm free valor because of what the patch has done to Illum

Excellent! don't hate on me... reason i was asking is because when i get home i'm going to go there and get free valor from whats going on Terrible mistake on BW. Having said that, Its an opportunity i can't pass up till it gets fixed

Had a question... im level 43 and i wanted to check out what the big fuss is all about in illum. I heard that people are getting banned for going there if its above their level... Would a level 43 get banned for going there? it's not like im lvl 12 or anything Greatly appreciated thanks!

How i feel man......... how i feel http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liylt3rAnh1qzsokro1_500.png

yep I-7 920 overclocked to 4.3ghz 16 gigs of ram 2 460's overclocked in SLi runs battlefield 3 maxed out at over 70fps total ****..... I'm no the only one with these problems. there are tons of people

To StephenReid........ and well everyone else who has been participating in this thread since the start The reason why people think there is more to what you are saying comes down to performance you have high end machines that are struggling with low res textures, other mmo's run fine, high end games i.e. battlefield 3 run fine. swtor struggles in fleets and in open world. the game chugs like its loading assets (paging issue it seems) and as a result you are down to 20fps. Most people can't fathom how the game could be released when it runs so bad. Some (myself included) could let this slide if it was running high res textures and that's what was causing low performance (as per your 1st post/explanation on textures) The fact is, the game is running low res textures, looks ugly, and is bringing down rigs with 12-16gigs of ram running i-7's and high end videocards in sli/xfire to its knee's This is normal? Then you or someone else from bioware on a joystix interview say that its our rigs that are the problem. This is why we think there is wayyyy more to the story then you and bioware are saying. There are too many holes in your story. Don't get me wrong, i love swtor but my god the engine runs terrible Bioware.. we are not console gamers, we aren't sheep. We are pc gamers. We are smart and will find problems and call you out on them....

To Stephan........ and well everyone else who has been participating in this thread since the start The reason why people think there is more to what you are saying comes down to performance you have high end machines that are struggling with low res textures, other mmo's run fine, high end games i.e. battlefield 3 run fine. swtor struggles in fleets and in open world. the game chugs like its loading assets (paging issue it seems) and as a result you are down to 20fps. Most people can't fathom how the game could be released when it runs so bad. Some (myself included) could let this slide if it was running high res textures and that's what was causing low performance (as per your 1st post/explanation on textures) The fact is, the game is running low res textures, looks ugly, and is bringing down rigs with 12-16gigs of ram running i-7's and high end videocards in sli/xfire to its knee's This is normal? Then you or someone else from bioware on a joystix interview say that its our rigs that are the problem. This is why we think there is wayyyy more to the story then you and bioware are saying. There are too many holes in your story. Don't get me wrong, i love swtor but my god the engine runs terrible Bioware.. we are not console gamers, we aren't sheep. We are pc gamers. We are smart and will find problems and call you out on them....

Yet wow has options for high res textures, 64 bit client, tons of advanced options that make it look decent. Its just sad that there is NOTHING to up the graphics in this game and god knows how long till something comes by.

There are holes in the story

I hate comparing the game to wow because to me this is much better (ex wow player) however...... Wow is a VERY old game. Their engine runs great, works of multiple cores and has a 64 bit client. swtor comes out basically end of 2011 and is single threaded, runs low textures, etc etc I mean how can that be? I understand why they are using atlas but why not include the option. unless it actually crashes the client? least give us a choice? I don't wanna come off like all i'm doing is ************ but its pretty evident the game runs awful in many situations. But its running LOW RES textures... is the engine that bad? It's just mind boggling to me I could understand if i was running their high res textures via an option and they say it won't run well and i'm getting the performance i am now... but on low res textures.... gimme a break