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Hi OP
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that laptop is not going to play swtor on anything but low, at the very best.
AMD in laptops are notorious for being poorly cooled and dangerously underpowered in the first place, so bad choice. And, the cpu is simply way, way too slow, since swtor is very cpu hungry, and swtor has it best with 3.5GHz or better.
Second, you are (at least) 2 Gb of ram too low, and seeing it is shared ram with cpu-graphics, I dont even know where to start, but probably as much as 8 Gb low. But it is bad.
Third, and last, it is a laptop, it is going to have thermal throttling, and often. And when that happens, the game tanks to 0 fps for several seconds.
---Make sure it always has plenty of fresh air for intake and that the exhaust is free too, and NEVER EVER put it on soft surfaces.
Oh, and a little advice, as a minimum help: IF one, for reasons unkown, wants to use a NON-dedicated laptop for gaming, at the very very least still go for a machine with a dedicated GPU AND an SSD harddrive.
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Are you from the EU? If you are, see here: Hello, all, I have some serious problems in order to buy cartel coins and subscription.... - New Player Help - SWTOR | Forums
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Hi there.
This is the only place swtor and Boosteroid is mentioned in the same sentence: Is Star Wars: The Old Republic playable on any cloud gaming services? (cloudbase.gg)
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If you live in the EU, welcome to the club: Cant buy a subscription or Cartel coins. - Bug Reports - SWTOR | Forums
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BroadSword... The new owner of SWTOR
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You will not be told the truth by Owen. You live in a country that is aligned with the EU on bank matters. It is because of the EU law regarding 2 layer authentication that you can not buy anything from BS.
P.S. What do you know... I can post again lol.
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1 hour ago, OwenBrooks said:
I gather you managed to pay for a subscription some how given you are posting here , i can only suggest what other Danish people have found worked for them
I live in Denmark. There is no way I can pay for this, I even talked directly to my bank (very rare these days, that a bank actually does that, and then over such a trivial matter), and they can not make it work as long as BW/EA dont change their payment methods. Only one bank in Denmark allows for this kind of payment (for now that is, untill they might have to change too) and that is a Norwegian Bank (Norway is not a EU member).
BTW... Did you not know that pref. players can post on the forum?
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2 minutes ago, OwenBrooks said:
I am a player so i would suggest if you are living in Denmark and the credit card is not working then i would suggest using paypal or pay via steam
Very few Danish banks works with Paypal because they are expencive (and too unsecure and they do not live up to Danish standarts in customer protection, meaning the banks them selves will have to hold such costs and legal fall out). And Steam is still working on their multi-factor authentication solution, so that is so far not an option yet.
But I take it you will elevate this to say "change bank"?
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12 minutes ago, OwenBrooks said:
I gather you are from Denmark, there is a known issue with certain credit cards issued out of Denmark, this has been around for at least a year now
I would not actively tell customers that THEY are to make up for a companys slack... That is part stupid (trust), but also potentially illigal: Unfair contract terms - Your Europe (europa.eu)
See 11
Oh, and the "known issues" with cards from Denmark, do you know what it is?? It is because Danish banks HAS to use multi-factor authentication BY LAW. And has been required to do so for the last 11 months and 20 days. Presicely.
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9 hours ago, SteveTheCynic said:
Yes, indeed, it is. That is the date that the page was published, ffs.
Oh, so that was what you meant. Well, it clearly states it was adopted in 2015. The page provided is a summary, last updated and clarified on the mentioned date. Now I know you always play strawman, but even you cant be that stupid...
9 hours ago, SteveTheCynic said:What part of "There is yet to be a clear timeline for implementing PSD3 and PSR" and "The finalized versions might be accessible by late 2024" (note the word "might") makes you think there's any concept of "on time" yet?
Because that is the time schedule the EU works with. When the text on the second hand source I found was made, it was not yet set. The PSD3 was only agreed upon November 7th, 2023 (Payment services (europa.eu)), but the final text is not made yet. So the original plan for it to become law in mid to late 2024 is in the air. But like chess, you can not really rely on your opponent NOT making the time control. You still have to play and make moves as if he does.
9 hours ago, SteveTheCynic said:I did read. Three times, to be sure. I even asked my browser to search for some of the text. I didn't find it.
You even asked for a link, so that must mean you know what they are and how they work. Now, from there....
9 hours ago, SteveTheCynic said:OK, so you should have cited *those* pages in your previous post.
The whole page/both of them, is only about this piece of paper (lawtext), and how it works... Not being able to find it, on a page dedicated to it....
9 hours ago, SteveTheCynic said:Please note: I'm not saying that EA and/or Broadsword 'mostly EA, in fact, since they're the publisher) shouldn't pay attention to this, just that what's cited doesn't actually justify it.
Well... The laws of the EU also is in effect for both you and BW. Justification enough. Or do you always drive 200 km/h in towns, just because 40 km/h is not justified?
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53 minutes ago, SteveTheCynic said:
Observation: the above link says clearly that strong customer authentication (including multi-factor) is already required:
Yes. See the later part about problems with recurring payments/accumulated value...
53 minutes ago, SteveTheCynic said:This page mentions no dates.
2 hours ago, MortenJessen said:28 June 2023. It is the very first thing (almost) it says.
53 minutes ago, SteveTheCynic said:So it's not quite as pressing as you're making it out to be.
So you did not read it. It clearly states:
The finalized versions might be accessible by late 2024. The member states usually receive an 18-month transition period, suggesting that PSD3 and PSR could take effect around 2026.
Note that this means "LATEST CASE", as IF PSD3 is implemented on time, the countries has at most 18 months to adapt. Implemented means "IN EFFECT" and from then on you have 18 months to comply or you get some sort of punishment. Depending on what you mean by pressing, and how BW has so far ignored 2 years of warnings... I disagree.
As an aside, it takes quite a long time to actually get the infrastructure made and ready for this kind of projects. The company I work for, took around 10 months to just implement PSD2. And brutally speaking, it already had a quite developed infrastructure for web-sales, and far better resources available than BW in the IT department.
53 minutes ago, SteveTheCynic said:This text is not in any of the three pages you linked. Can you provide a link?
It is. You just have to read. Directive (EU) 2015/ of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC (bpfi.ie)
But here is a link to a summery: Additional Security for recurring Card Payments - Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (bpfi.ie)
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They were implimented in June 2022, with a latency implementation period between 12 and 18 months. Meaning January 2024.
Electronic & cash payments and rules on surcharges - Your Europe (europa.eu)
Revised rules on payment services (europa.eu)
Duly note that the futher PSD3 will be implimented in late 2024 too.... But any information on that I can find is only second hand:
PSD3: Everything you need to know - Adyen
But the real juice is here (The coloured lines are quite literally subscriptions). When those terms has been met, you HAVE to validate any futher payments with two-factor authentication, and that is were BW/now Broadsword fails. Because you CANT.
Does strong customer authentication always apply?
PSD2 allows for the application of exemptions in some circumstances, however your bank may still choose to apply strong customer authentication if they believe the transaction requires it.
Under PSD2 the following exemptions may apply:
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Low value remote (online and mobile) transactions up to €30
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Contactless card payments up to €30
Except: When a cumulative value of €150 is reached. Or when 5 contactless payments of up to €30 have been made - At unattended payment terminals for transport fares and parking fees
- Payments to trusted beneficiaries that you have set up through your bank
- Corporate initiated payments subject to Central Bank of Ireland security approval
- Accessing some account information – like account balance or 90 days’ worth of transactions
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Low value remote (online and mobile) transactions up to €30
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Welcome to the new reality: at the end of 2023 no more EU players will subscribe to SWTOR. There will be 3 servers with only f2p, and then BW will close them.
Because BW was told (by me among others, the whole last year and 2023 untill I canceled my sub and no longer gives a "insert sexy word for human to human interaction"), that EU laws from the end of 2023 will forbid any payments that does not use the two-factor authentication. And that will also hit Steam, before you ask, as they are as behind as EA and BW, now Broardsword. But that is the story. Enjoy being f2p low life from the EU, like me. Because BWs answer to those of us who told them: We dont give a BEEEP about SWTOR any more, so why should we invest like 2-3 million dollars into a new payment method?.
There you have it.
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Take a look in the unclaimed items stash in the cartel window.
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Depending on what you mean, I take it you are refering to the choose window that pops up when you click a corpse or clickable... I have sad news for you. It can not be locked in one place, it follows the mouse. Sorry.
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What is it with these super entitled players who wants everything served to them on a plate? And when they have to pay attention and put in an effort, they whine about no one using the brooms in front of them.
This fight is super easy on story mode. Time consuming yes, but difficult, no. You actually dont have to put in an active effort if you dont want to. Just follow the mechanisms, and STAY OUT OF STUPID, and she goes down after 10-12 minutes. If you, aside from following the mechanisms, actually puts in a little effort (do damage) on your own on her during the fight, you can actually kill her in 5-7 minutes.
Long fight yes, but dont make it worse than it is by saying it is hard. Because time consuming is NOT the same as hard nor difficult. Just try, thats all. And pay a little attention to what she does, and it will be fine.
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Just one question; what category did you use for submitting? Using the wrong category will get you nowhere. I am not at my computer with swtor right now, so I can not look it up.
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Character Name:
Class:
faction:
Server:
Issue: a short brief description of what's wrong
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Be polite.
Make sure it is understandable.
Keep it brief, but with all of the facts.
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Make a new ticket, were you refer to the old ticket by using the ticket number (of the old ticket).
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17 minutes ago, Spikanor said:
why remove also jace malcom,empress acina,darth marr, lord dramath, satele shan, rass ordo, darth rivix and tau idair also from the companion sheet since i not know in the first place why are there in the companion sheet at all since you never get then as companion to use out side the story.
So much this. Let me remove all the "dead" companions that are not reclaimable from the holo-something on Odessen (class companions). Marr has been dead, storywise, for nearly 2 years, and he is STILL in my companion tab. Why oh why?
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If we remove all the politics (and policies) from the debate, do the people who suggets this woke crap even understand the level of work required for coding, and the man hours needed for voice acting, for this to work??
Out of swtors nearly 200 million dollars budget, nearly HALF went to voice actors and coding of already existing choices that needs multible lines of responce, including romances. And realism aside (that kind of money just dont exist for swtor anymore), to carter for a few woke millennials who cant read a history book with out dying (here, have mine), the benefits of a change has to be justified by gameplay. And tampering with original source code in that part of the game, has more impact on other parts of the game than most of us understand, so I rather they dont start tamper with it, knowing BW/Broadswords attitude towards things that are not broken (NUKE IT) and fixing stuff they "did not break" (PLAYERS ARE LYING, BUUHUU) (as in, they never acknowledge anything, even less come around to fix it).
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There is a very big chance she did not. Since Nok died but a few hours after being awakened by Risha (Chelah) from carbon. And she was about 10 years old when Nok was frozen down, so even if she knew any thing, it would be old memories and at best small fragments of what for her and Vette would be matters of no concern, so as such not worth remembering (properly).
Add to that that Nok was notoriously secretive, so the security around him when he was in those meetings, was most likely high enough that even his daughter would not be able to get to spy.
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Help for those who wants to buy/use laptops to play SWTOR
in New Player Help
Posted · Edited by MortenJessen
Some times my spelling is bad, but this time it could be helped :=)
Having over the years seen/read quite a few peoples complaints and/or ideas about laptops and gaming, and the misconceptions they have about "gaming laptops" I have here a little list to help others in the future. These (minimum) specs are meant for good gameplay in SWTOR, on high, with V/sync turned OFF.
Processor:
Intel Core i5 (sixth generation or newer) or equivalent. 3.2 GHz or better. SWTOR is very cpu hungry.
Operating System:
Microsoft Windows 10 x64. Or 11
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, or better.
4 GB minimum, 8 (or more) preferred.
Memory:
16 GB RAM.
Storage:
500 GB storage drive, SSD (or a seperate (internal) SSD drive).
Monitor/Display:
15.6" LCD monitor, resolution of 1920 x 1080 or better.
Network Adapter:
802.11ac 2.4/5 GHz wireless adapter. But a cable connection is still better.
And a few basic tips: Dont play on soft surfaces. Laptops thermal throttle if they dont have free air intake and exhaust. Laptops can (and will) have some noice "problems" compared to a stationery, because of air flow, so keep that in mind when you choose where you put it and play, if the sound part of the experience is important to you. Wood has the better acoustics compared to steel, but steel has far better acoustics than plastic.