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    Why does my game lag when I have above the system requirements?

    in General Discussion

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    Gonna Hijack the thread a little bit lol

     

    I've been looking for a way to set the priority higher for SWTOR THANK YOU SO MUCH! My concern though is system load for the program....i'm assuming it's small. Have you had any trouble with it too? Whenever I try to set priority for the game most of the time it won't let me until much later in the game.....so strange. I'm gonna try it though.

     

    Also the D3D, I can't find the download anywhere.....but I am concerned because I don't use triple buffering and Vsync is turned off because I use windowed mode. I'm looking for better performance, I can do with a little vertical tearing here and there.

     

    Don't laugh because the game works fine, I'm just trying to get more out of what I got........I'm running the game on an integrated graphics AMD quadcore 2.2 with 4gigs of ram (Radeon HD 4200). I get about 20-25fps in wzs and it's enough but I wanna try anything to push that up. Do you think (with my setup and the way I run the game) that this D3D overrider would be necessary or even helpful?

     

    Thanks again!

     

    ~Cathexis

     

    Hey Cathexis

     

    I'm pretty sure D3D is included in the RivaTuner installation http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.09-download-163.html, so download that package and check through it. It should be in there. Once installed, set it to launch on windows startup and add swtor.exe (C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic\swtor\retailclient\swtor.exe) as a profile. Make sure you set "Force Triple Buffering" and "Force Vertical Sync" on swtor.exe's profile. Also make sure "sound indication" (speaker icon in the program) is not muted. You'll hear a system sound whenever you launch swtor and the program is "overriding" vertical sync.

     

    I'm not exactly sure what this thing does, but it makes my game run a lot smoother. And ofcourse it gets rid of my tearing. The vertical sync through the game and through the nvidia control panel on my system don't work as well as this override for VS works :)

     

    Try it out, I'm sure you'll notice if it's making a difference or if it's slowing things down.

    Why does my game lag when I have above the system requirements?

    in General Discussion

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    Hi there

     

    Sounds strange, checked your PC and it seems to fit the requirements. Weird that it's lagging even when all settings are on low. Have you tried altering the settings in your video card control panel? It's a bit annoying but if you try out all the settings in there and keep logging in and out (you have to restart game everytime you change settings in gfx card control panel to see the changes), you might find something that works. Also, I found that downloading a program called "D3D Overrider" makes the game a lot smoother. It overrides vertical sync from game and gfx control panel, gets rid of tears, generally seems to make the game a bit smoother for me.

     

    You can also download Prio Priority Saver - http://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html and install it. After this, open SWTOR and login and run the game. Alt + Tab out so you go back to windows. Then press ctrl+alt+delete to open task manager. Then click the button at the bottom with the administrator icon which says "See processes from all users". Left click swtor.exe and set the Priority to "High" and make sure that "save priority" is selected. Do the same on launcher.exe. This gives you a few extra FPS in my experience :)

     

    Game Booster and Advanced System Care actually seems to slow swtor down, so don't even bother with them. Make sure you close as many processes and programs that you don't need running while you're running the game...

     

    Besides the programs I suggested, just keep messing around with your graphics control panel settings until you find a combination that works..

     

    I know it shouldn't have to be this difficult to make the game work but it's worth trying to get it a bit smoother :)

     

    Oh and also, if none of the above work, try googling "SWTOR tweaks config.cfg" and check out some of the results. There's a lot of guides out there which will help you edit the client configuration file to make the game run smoother.

     

    Hope this helps and good luck :)

    Att: Devs - Warzones: Group Join Improvements

    in Suggestion Box

    Posted

    Hi there

     

    Loving SWTOR a lot, however one thing that really annoys me is that when you're in a party and you join for Warzones as a group, the group disbands when entering the warzone.

     

    What I would love is that once you've left the warzone, your party is still formed and people in the party can re-queue together...

     

    I know this seems small but when you keep coming out of warzones and have to re-invite party members and re-queue after that it gets a bit frustrating. This was never an issue in my previous favourite MMO - Rift :p

     

    One other thing - when you get kicked out of a Warzone for hesitating too long in the protected area, it's really irritating that you get spat out into Korriban and Hutta Departures... We should get spat back to where we were playing before entering the warzone...

     

    Please devs, can you make these changes sometime soon? :)

    Can't "prepare" new spell while another is channelling?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This also frustrates me but I do think it's working as intended... Depending on your ability queue delay (in Preferences) you have to click the spell AND select a spot to use the AoE spell within that limit. So for example as a sage, if you're channelling Telekinetic Throw and you want to use Force Quake, you'd need to wait for the channel timer to reach 1.0 seconds or under, giving you 1 second to click the spell and select your Area of Effect... Annoying, I know...
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