Okay I'll begin by stating this laptop is not mine it's my wife's and I hate it but what can you do. Asus G72Gx I will list the fixes I tried and what gave the best results. Keep in mind that you may be aware of some of the steps I am suggesting I am just trying to cover all the bases. 1.First of all make sure windows is up to date. 2.Download the beta drivers from nividia. As of my last check their last update was October of last year for actual drivers......go figure..grab the beta you won't regret it. 3. Check your power scheme. AKA the little plug in the right hand corner. Make sure it is set to high performance. You can overclock it but I wouldn't suggest it more as follows as to why. 4. Clean your machine! this laptop's cooling design really gets to me not only does it start to sound like a jet engine after awhile but if it's dusty forget it. Download a windows gadget or similar tool to check temp. Match gadget with type of video card you have. Buy a can of compressed air and blow out some of the dust. 5. maybe get a cooling pad I'm still debating this I will have to look at the laptop more in depth to see if a cooling pad is even feasible. 6. The above steps gave a big improvement in fps I got even more by making these in game settings changes. 7. Log into game. Open up graphics settings. Pretty much everything on low. You can check FPS by hitting control, shift, F. When I had the bare minimum I saw about 60-70 fps. Now I adjusted I believe character detail and AA 1 level higher or just on or low. This brought the frames down to about 40-50fps. However the game does run smoother and I haven't heard the wife freak out over fps drops in about a week now. 8. Lastly not sure how related this might be but the wife actually tried this before I did all this with some success. For some reason the game would play better after a complete shutdown not sure how this might be related not exactly a expert here. My final suggestions would be to do the above steps and test it out after a complete reboot. 9. I hope this helps a few of you out there with this annoying machine this is the best I have to offer. 10. 1 last thing I thought I should add for swtor this comp is by no means great just a fact as it is the above will at least make it playable thou if you want better settings save up for a new machine. GL have fun and may the force be with you.