Nice way to launch at someone who was not denying that PvP has serious issues and was helping clarify the issue. Have you tried using Wireshark to looks the packets or is your expertise shooting from the hip? Since you call the measurement that SWTOR gives "ping" I think we are clear on your technical knowledge anyway.

OK, short version for those with short attention spans. SLI/Crossfire adds a lot of overhead and this is why you do not get 2X performance from using 2 cards. If the game is unable (See DX9 comments) to utilize two cards, it means you get the penalty and not the benefit. As has been discussed ad nausea um, this game is intensely CPU dependent. I run OC CPU with lots of RAM and a single 970 with all settings to max except shadow maps and see 60+ FPS in 16 man ops. SLI will probably not ever work with this game and is totally unnecessary.

Probably about the same level of difficulty as getting rid of trolls.

Holy cra^p! You're a community of trolls now?!?

Remember the 2/10 I gave you on the other worthless thread? Rescinded.

Fair enough! Wow, the game engine is even worse than I thought......

So why did you participate since before launch, take 2 years off and then come back to do nothing but complain? You posted a couple times at launch, left for two years and now have 400+ sad and whiny posts. What's worse, a poorly finished game engine or the player that keeps coming back and doing nothing but whine and complain about it?

I would normally give this troll a 0/10, but since they managed to get 4 pages of response in a short time I grudgingly give 2/10.

What in the world does that empty comment have to do with the subject? The clipping has been known and acknowledged since before launch as a physics issue that would put too much of a performance penalty on the game. Considering how poorly the game generally already runs, I tend to believe this too be true and would not want single digit frame rates to fix a cosmetic issue. Since fixing clipping (a VERY common issue in games) would require deep alterations to the existing engine or a change of engine altogether, I think we all know the answer to the question. Live with it or move on because no matter how many pages of threads about clipping, it is very likely not changing in a game that is barely keeping its head above water as it is.

People are finally catching on to what a sad troll you are and are ignoring your threads so you resort to bumping your sorry little threads. Made my day, thanks!

Fixed

Oh man, I wish I had 2.8 Billion credits so I could afford to buy.....oh wait......

Yes, it is the interconnects that cause the greatest part of the slowdown, but it is very common to over estimate the speed of light. At 100% speed of 183,000 miles/second it takes about 16 milliseconds to go from west coast US to east coast. In a fiber optic cable you get about 75% of that and therefore each 3,000 miles adds 20 milliseconds. That may sound fast in human experience, but 20 milliseconds is a long time to a computer. A high quality business router will add about 200 microseconds per hop assuming no bottlenecks. Oh, and try not to use the term Interwebz as it is a horrible and totally inaccurate term. When you are playing an MMO you are not using the World Wide Web. When you engage in forum battles, that is the web.

The way I did it was to use the mod-able pieces you can buy/craft/get from quests and then use the armorings/mods/enhancemements purchased with planetary comms or from mod-able gear obtained from quests.

The only difference in the two quotes is one refers to web based and the other to online and they both refer to EA having sole license for core gaming markets. I have a feeling bother are referring to browser based games and not MMO's as being in the Disney area.

Agreed. I suggest we begin impeachment proceedings immediately.

I would take a guess that you are friends with them because you all played SWG together and since SWTOR supposedly killed off your beloved game they want this game to die. I get it. As to your point of another Star Wars MMO not being made as long as this game is alive, I have my doubts. If they see an opportunity to make money on a new game while this one is still profitable, EA would not pass that up. They are in games purely about the dollars, not for love of gaming or any particular IP.

.....and yet never achieved the size subscriber base this game (briefly) had nor ever turned in the profits it is now. Not saying this game is wildly successful though. Not even going to rehash the tired debate about the state of SWG when it was mercifully shut off. Oh I know everyone could see right through it. Just was part of the theme of my post.

I found this to be very true as well. Up until about 15 months ago, I ran this game perfectly with a Core2 Duo overclocked to 4.3 GHZ and a very old video card. Of course, that poor old CPU was starting to give out due to the heavy OC, but a good example of this games' CPU dependency. Like you, I started gaming long, long before graphics cards even existed and have therefore put heavy emphasis on CPU. Maybe old fashioned for modern games, but pays off when playing on a creaky old engine like SWTOR!

I just wanted to say how much I genuinely appreciate the honesty of the OP about being a first class troll by telling us right in their signature. Having the "Community Ambassador" is complete flame bait as there is no such position and the op has declared this title as a way to rile people up when someone purports to speak for others. Then the real kicker is advertising their loathing for this game by proclaiming an undying love for a failed game that many of its adherents believe was killed to make room for a new Star Wars MMO. On the flip side, we should be nicer to the op because their self image is quite obviously very low if these types of activities are required to boost their self worth.

I twice mention that the game is way too picky about settings. In no way was I defending the crappy way it is programmed. The point is that since most have far better frame rates on equal and sometimes lesser machines, it will be up to you to listen to ideas about different setting to try out if you want to play this game. SWTOR IS the problem in the unforgiving way it needs to be tweaked. There will be no magical fix or engine upgrade coming. Rants do not increase FPS either. I also use an Nvidia 970 and get 40-60 FPS in 16 man operations with everything but shadow maps set to maximum. It sounds like local machine settings or terrible internet. The Nvidia Experience is an option wrapper that comes with the drivers and tends to get installed by default. Check it.

Actually, considering how many people with lesser stats get much better performance shows it is not an optimization issue. Yes, the engine is very quirky and does not do well at all with certain configurations and settings. As an Nvidia user my number one recommendation is to disable any GeForce experience settings. They are horribly set for SWTOR and will degrade your performance. One example is the way it puts the game in full screen mode instead of full screen(windowed) and causes a substantial performance hit. The game is far too picky about settings, but this is just the way it is and I doubt this will change. Your system is more than enough to get good performance and if you want to play you need you need to look at your local machine and not wait for some never-coming mythical engine upgrade.

Actually, this rather pathetic lifeform spends the time they could be using to play a game they enjoy, spends their time looking for the most inane and pointless things to complain about. Try an avoid posting in the threads this person makes as it is a waste of time.

I guess to each their own, but Full-Auto was a very underwhelming animation in my view. DFA - cool. Flamethrower - cool. Full Auto(Unload) VERY average and not a very good argument as far as "aesthetics" is concerned, ESPECIALLY as a class with one weapon.

Exactly