I am one of those that actually plays both. I Love the storyline in Swtor and the combat. But i Love the awesome scale of WoW (well its had years of development) and it's sense of place + humour. The invisible wall effect that you get in Swtor compared to the more freeform exploration in WoW is also annoying. Crafting in both games seems fun enough but PvP in WoW is x10 better. I'm trying not to put Swtor down here by the way, but the one thing that really wins for me is the smoothness that WoW offers. it all seems far more polished and tweaked. However, both games have great points.

Yes i am aware of this but even GW2 and FFXIV run better than this on my laptop. Interesting fact there about the 90% cpu tweak. Right back on topic, Why no slider?

Thanks for the replies, sadly my settings are already set to that. However, the nameplate tip is something i haven't tried yet and i remember Warhammer Online benefiting from something like this. I am aware of the already inbuilt sliders and i have both Trees and Grass at 0. Its the view distance that i am really interested in though and sadly there isn't the option for this other than editing game files.

Not disputing what you are saying here, but i have found that many other games have worked just fine (Even GW 2 and FFXIV ARR run alot better than this) The laptop i own although not great seems to be able to play better looking games faster than this one manages. AMD A8 4500k 1.9-2.8GHZ under load 4 GB ram Radeon HD 7640g integrated. What i am saying is that the inclusion of a draw distance slider would improved FPS by quite some margin and that is the underlining factor with this thread. I have done many tweaks to the computer all with positive benefits to its general running for games. Its just Swtor that seems to suffer the most. Wish people would look at the post and not the old "Well he added WoW into this conversation, let's put out the old generic reply of how old it is". It isn't the major factor here , its the view distance.

Please implement a view distance slider to help people with lower spec machines. I can only imagine the amount of people that would suffer less frustration and carry on playing rather than reverting back to other mmo's if this was implemented.

Hi all, I recently purchased a laptop which i know to be "ok" to play the game but on low. But for some reason the game's fps has gone from a solid 30-50fps down into the low 20's with stuttering etc. I look after the little blighter very well and it gets all the maintenance required to keep it running tip top (if you could call it that lol) In WoW on Good settings it ran very well indeed once the View distance was put from Good down to fair. Hey it even got a steady 60fps and looking pretty tidy. So why oh why oh why haven't they implemented this into this game. I know that there is a farclip edit etc but surely someone with half a mind could bring a simple slider into this game and therefore make it alot more playbable for the masses. I remember that in Beta it was there but no more. Its a no brainer in my books.

Hi all, I recently purchased a laptop which i know to be "ok" to play the game but on low. But for some reason the game's fps has gone from a solid 30-50fps down into the low 20's with stuttering etc. I look after the little blighter very well and it gets all the maintenance required to keep it running tip top (if you could call it that lol) In WoW on Good settings it ran very well indeed once the View distance was put from Good down to fair. Hey it even got a steady 60fps and looking pretty tidy. So why oh why oh why haven't they implemented this into this game. I know that there is a farclip edit etc but surely someone with half a mind could bring a simple slider into this game and therefore make it alot more playbable for the masses. I remember that in Beta it was there but no more. Its a no brainer in my books.

Good job

Now is that is hitting the nail on the head

You lot are kidding right? I mean surely they wouldn't have been so short sighted as to allow 50-54 being included in the mid bracket. Jesus H Christ i'm joining in the fun tonight and already i'm worried that this will kill my enjoyment with my latest alt.

What the hell is wrong with people. I mean why do this to the detriment of your own enjoyment in a game????? I hope that the ride from 50-55 takes as long as it needs and that i see everything that i can. Some people are such prats.

I came back to Swtor after 3 weeks in GW2 (and a quick dabble on WoW) and was horrified just how clunky this game really is. Combat felt awful and the graphics were very subpar to GW2 and ran like crap. Such a shame.

Thanks for filling in the holes Bro, good write up.

The community here is not as bad as WoW by a long shot. However the king of terrible communitys certainly goes to Tera, simply mindnumbinly awful.

Agree totally, the guy is simply trolling.