A guy on tom's hardware gave me settings that have given me the best video performance i've ever had and fixed all my graphics and aliasing problems. For anybody that it helps: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1790790/optimized-nvidia-control-panel-settings-gtx-780.html#11480100

Hi - I recently splurged for my birthday and got a GTX 780, which is pretty fun. I am trying to optimize SWTOR for everything my game can handle. I have the settings maxed in-game for SWTOR, but still see aliasing issues something and shimmering/flashing shadows. What are the optimal settings in nvidia control, if you could go through it line-by-line for a max system (Titan or GTX 780)? I appreciate your help Ambient occlusion: [] Antistropic filtering: [] Antialiasing - fxaa: [] Antialiasting - gamma correction: [] Antialiasing mode: [] antialiasing setting: [] antialiasing - transparency: [] CUDA - GPUS: [] maximum pre-rendered frames: [] multi-display mixed gpu acceleration: [] Power management mode: [] Texture filtering - negative LOD bias: [] Texture filtering - quality: [] Threaded optimization: [] Triple buffering: [] Vertical sync: []

It is not pay to win, or at least, no more so than any other game with digital currency now. In Guild Wars 2, SO many people paid to get gold so they could get the mats for their legendary weapons or mystic armor. Of course, parts of the recipe were things you had to grind by playing. So basically you could get second highest tear of gear. In Warcraft, tons of people used to buy gold or, even, buy rankings, so that they could unlock gear. I understand your point that the Cartel is sanctioned and operated by EA, but the basic point is the same. In Warcraft, if you shelled out enough for gold, you could get to all but the highest tiers of gear, especially in recent patches where there are MANY bind on equip items in the strongest dungeons that you could buy for gold. The trend in PVE in MMORPGs is flattened gear because people are tiring of the raiding and incremental gear grinds. In old Warcraft, you literally had to agonizingly go through each tier. Now, really, there is tier 1 and like tier 1.5. This is no different from SWTOR. There is base gear you can get pretty easily, and the absolute best gear which you have to earn. In PvP, I think it's much better than Warcraft or other options, in the sense that you literally can only get rewards by playing PvP. I think SWTOR has some stuff to fix, but I think people are looking for problems in the Cartel that aren't there. Should there be some vanity or gear things people pay money for in the cartel store? Yes, if you like SWTOR and don't mind people paying and getting that stuff so the F2P players can stay F2P. I you don't like the cartel, you should have subscribed. If enough people had done that, they wouldn't have needed to do it. This is P2I - Pay to Improve. But that's what you get when you can't run solely off subscriptions. I don't know - I bought the game on deluxe pre-order, played two months and left. I'm back now and I'm really impressed at the changes and I like it. I know it is frustrating and slow to see the problems, but EA had a management shake-up, fired 15% of the Company and is SLOWLY trying to improve. Christ, you should see the mess they had with Simcity. I stupidly bought that too and that game is dead on arrival. At least, hopefully they can fix this one before it's too late. I think keeping up lots of content will help. Also, gear is one thing but performance is another. Even in these MMORPGs, you can have the best PvP or PVE gear, but the action is all in getting the heroic clears the quickest, or sustaining high PvP performance in tourneys. Everybody I know in PvE in the good MMORPGs has basically the best gear, but there are still huge gaps in top 500 guilds in WoW and how fast they clear the hardest bosses. There are huge gaps between people capped in PvP gear and who stays on top. If you think even getting the best gear means you have "won", you haven't. People will know who cleared the content the fastest and, the moment the new content comes, if you weren't naturally good or putting in your time, you have to pay again. Honestly, if some person is going to pay $50-100 a pop to get some gear each time any new content drops, that's crazy pricy. If they choose to have their fun paying that kind of money, that's life. It's just a game and it's not like their actions inhibit my fun. I can accomplish the same thing, have the pleasure of knowing I did it myself, and pocket the cash. Plus, the way I think about it is I subscribe, but if enough people weren't paying for those cartel coins, they would have to shut the game down or come up with some even crazier scheme. Just wait - see what happens when WoW gets below 1M subscribers one day. The cash scheme there will make Bernie Madoff look like Aunt Jemima. They will make you pay to take a dump in capital cities or to dance with other NPCs.

Hi All, I was a deluxe purchaser on pre-order, but after two months was quite disappointed and took a break. I just came back recently and was heartened that at least some things seem better and improved in the game. However, I don't have a good sense yet for how much has truly been fixed / content has been added / how many still actually play. I tried to get an actual handle on server statistics and player satisfaction from many blogs and sites, but I get a lot of conflicting information. I do know they compressed the number of servers, which was inevitable. However, what do you all think - I'd love to hear from you. Specifically: -Are you paid subscriber or free-to-play -Do you think the game has a future or not say, let's be reasonable, a year from now without major cutbacks -Do you think the game is improved and will I see a difference if I left two months after release until now -Are you going to keep playing SWTOR, even with other titles coming out like Skyrim or Wildstar. Does it have your allegiance? -What are your highest priorities to see added or fixed in terms of content or game issues that would make you stay longer? Thanks much for the info

Hi SWTOR Team (and player community), I just came back to the game after a multi-month hiatus. I had the game for the first two months and pre-ordered and stopped because I was disappointed at what was an unfinished game. I have to compliment you now, because the game is much improved, so much so that I got a subscription again. However, there are three problems, that I experienced in my first two months of the game, that still exist. Each of these issues are well-documented on many forums and by many users, so I am sure that they exist, are real, and are not related to things like drivers or problems on my system. I have a GTX670 3GB, Intel I7-2600k, Intel 500 Solid State Drive and 8GB RAM. All my drivers are current. I have the Nvidia Experience recommended settings for Star Wars. None of the three issues I have occur in any other games. I have a 100MB/Second internet connection, and never have latency on any server in the Americas, where I play, that is higher than 15ms. Issue 1 When, and only when, I have a loading screen between zones, there is a weird skipping that occurs in the sound. This has existed since Vanilla Beta. Many users have this problem and it is unresolved. Again, my drivers are all current, this doesn't happen in any other game, and I've read about 50 posts on this today and how other people are having, and have had, this same problem for months. Issue 2 When I get on taxis and ride around in cities, particularly noticeable when taxing around Coruscant, the taxi flickers and the image of the taxi disappears in and out for brief moments. Again, I have the most current drivers, I have run 4 different artifact tests, I have no other video problems on any other game, my video card never revs higher than 55c because of watercooling. This is a SWTOR problem. Many other people have documented it. Issue 3 This is more general, but occasionally I get latency bursts in the game, sometimes in combat, sometimes when I summon my companion. This must be something with the game engine because I have smooth gameplay in any other title, even Crysis or Mass Effect 3 with fully jacked settings. Many people have this issue too. I really love the game and as long as you keep cranking content, I'm going to stick around for a while. However, these are known issues since Vanilla Beta and I'm still waiting for a fix, as are many players. Finally, I guess I should mention one more thing, although this isn't really a technical issue. Issue 4 Since you added the cartel system, I've tried to buy the expansion four times and to buy cartel coins 10 times and I've had it (this is true right now as of September 1st in the morning and all weekend) tell me the system is down and I can't buy more coins or anything from the shop. I think it is completely CRAZY that if you are going to do one thing right to save the sinkhole of cash you guys are losing on this title that you would make sure if I want to PAY MONEY to you for an expansion or coins that will likely make me PLAY LONGER and PAY MORE IN THE FUTURE and I'M A SUBSCRIBER, I should be able to buy coins or, god forbid, the expansion. I find this inexcusable and ridiculous but, hey, it's your own loss if your whole goal is to get people to pay and when they want to, you won't let them. I really like this game - just please don't muck it up. Now you are into free-to-play and you have a certain window of trying to stabilize the game and win players back before Wildstar and Skyrim Online rip a whole in you. Do it right gang. Thanks and good job on all the improvements since Vanilla Beta although, honestly, with the provided budget, I had hoped for more on release. Never too late to improve, though, and I applaud you. Best, Amir