+1 was very pleased to see this I love the cut scenes for the new planets and now fleet its feels a lot more Star Wars.

What ever you get here are some tips that could save you a few ££ Anything over 8GB of memory is a waste unless your planing doing video encoding , video recording or running a ram drive (which is pointless if you have an SSD) all while playing swtor, if your just gaming 8GB of memory is the sweet spot. A quad core processor (i5) is also the sweet spot for gaming unless doing the things mentioned above there isn't any games out there that use more then 4 cores at the moment in fact there aren't many that fully utilize more then 2 physical cores, The extra virtual cores on an i7 can actually reduce performance in "some" games like Arma2 although it's very minimal your basically going to get the same performance from an i5 as you will from an i7 when gaming. Get an SSD, fps won't be hugely effected but loading times are massively reduced, not to mention overall system performance, make sure its a sata3 and your mother board supports that speed. I don't use AMD processors but out of choice I'd take an intel K series as intel "slightly" edges out AMD on performance and power consumption although its pretty minimal and you can't argue with AMD's pricing, The K series means it's fully unlocked for overclocking so you can easily overclock them for a free performance boost as raw grunt speed still has a major impact on gaming performance/fps amusing your graphics card is not **** and bottle necking your fps. Graphics cards I think Nivida are currently offering the best GPUs although I have an AMD GPU myself just get the best you can afford maybe with the cash you could save with the above mentioned tips you could blow it on a better Nivida card. Hope this helps

Add 1st person/cockpit view !!!

I have played all three class's of ship a fair bit and no matter what anyone says (you won't change my mind) gunships are easy mode, They practically require no reaction skills or on the fly thinking you can just sit there and rack up kills with one hand on the mouse which says a lot in my book. I'm not trying to offend or troll any GS pilots but in my opinion they don't belong in GSF.

I would love to see a jetpack sprint ability for Mercs similar to force run but maybe a longer CD or maybe it would generate heat something to make it balanced. I feel this would help with our mobility/survivability issues an it would be epic to have a bounty hunter able to use his or her's jetpack.

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Since I upgraded my rig I run on max settings, but before my upgrade I found turning the viewing distance down would help a bit with performance along with shadows off.

Also having this issue, twice in a row now !

ffs thought they might of sorted that 0% gpu load rubbish out Thanks for the reply's guys

Hi, I have just read the 2.2 patch notes and noticed this .... Has anyone noticed any fps improvements in WZ's or fleet since the patch ? I reinstalled my OS a couple of weeks back and not reinstalled SWTOR yet to try it myself. Thanks

You people asking for a guard nerf are crazy ! Guard has been unchanged since release, now all of a sudden since 2.0 your crying its OP doesn't that tell you something else has changed and is out of balance since 2.0 ?? aka Healing Picking on tanks only useful pvp skill just because your loving the increased heals since 2.0 is not the answer.

/bump I would like an official word from BW on this too

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Great game I love it , they just need to optimize the game asap the fps issues with pvp are badly letting the game down.

LOL cartel market I like it, while I don't have a high end rig and don't expect top end performance I too see next no difference between very low & very high settings, In warzones/fleet I pull 19-30 fps at best with spikes and dips above and below that with average of 60+ anywhere else, I have tried many tweaks to windows and the games settings including the .ini file all with no luck.

Your not alone it's the game engine when groups of players are in an area the engine can't cope and its been that way since launch which is why open world pvp has failed in swtor. Sadly the reason most of the posts on this issue you've found are over a year old is because BW are ignoring the issue and most players have given up asking.

I just noticed the new AMD 13.4 drivers came out today, has any AMD owners had a chance to try them yet and was there any performance increase in swtor ? I doubt it but you never know.

Thanks a lot for the info I was under the impression it was the other way round, this is actually good news for me as it means I been looking at the wrong hardware and can start looking at other options I have an old rig with intel 2.4 quad over clocked to 3.2 with 4gb of ddr2 & ssd my card is a HD6850 also over clocked so I assumed my cpu would be the bottleneck as the card is much newer. Thanks for the correction

Is't the in game FPS meter RED = cpu bound GREEN = gpu bound ? So your fps meter is RED its your CPU that's struggling not the GPU Correct me if I'm wrong

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Of course smug/agents will say its fine and the rest of us will says its not, but isn't that normally the first sign something is not right ? Yes if spammed it leaves the smug/agent with little resource but what they all forget to mention is they can just use there resource recovery skill and be ready to continue. Image if it was a inq/cou with no CD on force run yes you would drain all your force spamming it but the advantage it would give in some situations is unbalanced and that's without any added defense buff. My opinion, make it resource free and the same CD as force run.

I am right in looking at this I almost have full partisan armor and my defense stats look terrible. My old WH gear was fully augmented where as the partisan isn't yet but there seems to be a massive drop in defense stats. Ruff example: lv50 WH defense 24% shield chance 50% absorption 50% lv55 Partisan defense 12% shield chance 32% absorption 29% I still have to get the main/offhand 2x implants plus relic for my partisan set and augment them but the huge difference in stats i can't see myself getting close to my old lv50 stats. Will the new lv augments fill the gap or am I missing something ? Thanks