Looks like I may have to start playing again in 1.2. Hope it's worth it honestly. Tired of wasting money. If 1.2 turns out to be bunk, i'm done. Not whining, not complaining really. I'm not a kid, but an adult who doesn't like paying for things that simply don't seem worth it, or entertain me to some degree. That's all there is to it

Hotkeys don't matter when you don't have the bars to put them on. Yes, yes...I know there's sidebars but not everyone likes the look of having bars on the sides of the screen, and thus taking up more screen space then necessary. Not a huge complaint by any means but still it's rather annoying. I hate sidebars. In any mmo. I don't want things cluttering my screen. I've always kept my UI in WoW very minimal. Wish I could do that here, and no I'm not comparing the two games for the love of christ.

I think we're hitting a point where there's gonna be a slight surge in population due to the latest marketing spree we've seen for the game. Especially all the tv ads etc, and with EP.1 3D being in theaters, and TOR ads going along with it, well... you're gonna see some curious people checking it out. Who knows if they'll stay. We'll see after a month where the game is at. As for me, my 50 on a standard realm is about to get left behind. Tired of seeing 50 republcs on the fleet at 9:00pm on the weekends. I have a character on Mind Trick which I rolled to 24(I think?), and it was heavy when I did so, but now standard usually and even then... I see like 110+ people on the fleet, republic side. Probably double that for imps. Might have to roll a char on canderous ordo. Very Heavy EST. Hmm.. I did want to make an agent or a sorc. Maybeee.

I do however agree that I get the bag/skill book opening thing, where if you spam it fast enough the system bogs down to literal frame-by-frame. Pretty bad, but fortunately(not defending them or the bug) I don't intentionally do things I normally wouldn't just to claim bad fps/horrid engine. Again, not saying it SHOULD be like that. Just that I don't do that. If you open your bag up, there's a split second stutter. Literally happens as fast as the snap of a finger. I don't believe it does it when you close the screen. Just opening it or the skill book. Who goes around opening and closing there bags in rapid succession? Heh.

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It's not all in my head when I'm monitoring my frame-rate 100% of my time spent in-game. Maybe it's just on my end. Not stuttering anymore. And I've seen roughly a 10fps increase on the fleet and on ilum/warzones. The game still poops the bed when there's 50 sith sorcerer's spamming force lightning on ilum, but that's really the only case I've gotten really unplayable numbers(like 10-12fps or so). I'm honestly not the type of person to make up some fairy tale and then go run to the forums about it. I'm 26, not 6. If I wasn't seeing it first hand, I wouldn't be bothered to make a post. And as far as my gpu running considerably cooler now when I haven't changed any of my cooling hardware/configurations? I wonder how that's in my head lol. Like I said earlier, the ONLY thing I have done differently from last week to now, when I've been playing, is read an old forum post, on here and swtor reddit of a ton of people claiming that running Fraps in the background while playing helped with their performance in-game. It made ZERO sense, but seeing as how I have a licensed copy of fraps, I figured why not. I always have the in-game fps counter on anyway, and with fraps it's that much easier to see. I didn't see one post of someone saying "Doesn't work". They could of been there, but I didn't look hard enough. All the posts i saw were "I don't believe this, but it works for me...what the hell?" and that's my exact reaction right now. I'm finding a hard time believing that running a 3rd party program in the background could increase my average fps by around 10.

There was a patch this past week. But I don't think it was mentioned or not that they made any overall improvements like that. Could be a ninja change. Maybe something magical happened in my system, I honestly don't know. I haven't had any serious updates, or changed my drivers at all.

Is it just me, or did they manage to make the game much more stable as far as frame-rate goes? I haven't changed drivers, and I am seeing about a 10fps improvement on average. Also one thing I noticed, my graphics card is running considerably cooler while under full load. Strange. I know they said they mentioned they found an issue involving the sudden drop of fps inside certain areas like caves, etc. But this is all over. I admit, the ONLY thing I have done differently lately is running fraps in the background because I heard a rumor from multiple people saying for some reason, albeit VERY strange, it was helping fps. Not recording or anything, just having it running and using it to monitor my frame-rate. When I say considerably cooler, I mean, this 6770 used to run at 75c under full load with the fan set to about 70%. Now, same settings, nothing different, 55c-60c full load. Very strange. Honestly I'm not trolling or anything, the game just feels more smooth to me. I used to average around 45fps or so while questing with everything full max except shadows, now with vsync on, it is pegged at 60fps 99.9% of the time. On the fleet, I'm also seeing an improvement. In highly packed areas, I'm getting 45fps or so now instead of the 25-30 I WAS getting, warzones, same thing. They feel much more playable now, and I'm definitely seeing an improvement. So what gives? Does everyone else notice this too? It honestly can't be this fraps trick thing can it? if I turn vsync off, the highest I've gotten seems to be about 111 where it stays. Can't tell the difference between 60 and 111 so I keep vsync on just because. No reason really. Specs: Windows 7 64-bit i7 2600K 8GB DDR-3 1866 XFX 6770 oc'd 900/1300 750w psu ocz 120g ssd/1.5tb hdd Ingame settings: 1920x1080. Everything set to high except shadows being off. Shadows have been off since I first installed the game a month ago.

It's not that I wouldn't enjoy it, it's just there's several major flaws that hinder me from doing so. If they weren't there, I probably would. I understand as you say, you changed it up a bit deeper into the series, but still -- it's too hard to watch someone playing a game at less than 10 frames per second.

Honestly man, I couldn't watch it for longer than half way through the cut=scene. Your commentary style is just all sorts of wrong. You're too...idk how to really say it... you're too literal? As in, you're literally commentating every single action that happens on screen as if I'm listening to an audio tape and not seeing it for myself. Example: In the cinematic, when Malgus takes down the Jedi at the end, and his lightsaber falls and hit's the ground you say "That's a used lightsaber". Well, don't you think that's a bit obvious? Just play the game, and comment naturally. It sounds like you're forcing something almost, and while I didn't rate it personally, I can expect others will feel the same. I mean every single action that happened in the cinematic.. "That's a ship" "Whoa" "Oh my" "Oh dear" "Oh it crashed" "Oh that's what they were using that crashed ship for". It's too much dude. When a cinematic like that plays, it's best to keep silent and let the viewers watch it. It's ok to make comments like "Oh wow that was cool" but keep them sparce and let the content of the video pull the user in by itself. I'm not being a jerk, or trying to sound condescending. I do LPs myself. I know everyone has their own style of commentary when doing LPs but if you want viewers to watch it, and take it seriously -- you should really try to avoid doing what you're doing here. Also, even though you apologized for it -- need a better mic, and you need to have it much further away from your mouth. I mean at some points it's painfully loud and annoying. Again, not trying to be a jerk even if it comes off this way. But if you can't take criticism, then well..you have a lot to learn lol. I'm only trying to help your future videos come off better. More viewers = Happy LPer. I'm sure others will get what I mean. When you get into the actual gameplay, it's ok to have tons of commentary. That's what an LP is for, but the way you do it is everything when it comes to whether a viewer will watch the 30+ minutes of it, or listen to it for 2 minutes and shut it off. Also just looked at your next video... eh.. man idk. Not really the best idea to do LPs on a system that runs the particular game your doing at 5 fps. It's hard on the eyes. Good on ya for recording it. If it's fun for you, that's all that matters...but man - You need to upgrade lol.

Then you care to explain to me why I'm still getting slowdown with a 2600K i7 almost clocked to 5.0ghz? It's not all CPU related, and I refuse to believe it is. I still get slow down, and this was even mentioned by the devs that they even found a reason for it to be happening at seemingly random indoors(caves, etc). I honestly wish this game used DX11 though. If I can use it in WoW, and how blizzard just released an entire 64-bit client of a 8 year old game...that provides very noticeable FPS improvements(talking 15-20fps) for those with 64 bit machines...I see no reason why bioware can't do it eventually.

Your specs bud, not the game. I have a modern pc and this does not happen. i7 2600k, Gtx 560 ti 448 core, 16gb 1866 ram, etc. 60fps. 95% of the time. 1920p/max.

Was going to say the same thing. Obviously doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Ragnaros was not downed for months after release, same with onyxia. In fact both world firsts were pretty big events. And then thinking back to EQ, in the velious days in particular...sleepers tomb. The ancients? And then kerafyrm herself? The so called "end game boss" that was all but unkillable ON PURPOSE? I mean, she wasn't really part of the raid content. I don't think SOE wanted people downing the sleeper anyway if I remember right. Think it was more of a lore thing, and they wanted her to awaken when all 4 ancients were killed and wreak havoc. That is why once she was awakened, she never appeared again. Servers had rules as to the awakening of the sleeper. People had to stand on watch, because only guilds worthy enough, and large enough were entitled with the responsibility of awakening the sleeper and attempting the ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity of defeating it. For nothing but bragging rights. No loot. Nothing. Just a dead corpse, and to say you did the impossible. Rez rushing anyone?

Don't get me wrong, I love FPS gaming but for the longest time I didn't have a competitive computer to be doing any sort of competitive fps gaming(comfortably) anyway, so I moved over to console for MW/MW2/BLOps, etc. Never got into CS:S and only played 1.6 casually for fun in pubs. The only fps games that really suckered me into the competitive side of things back in those days were COD and strangely you probably wouldn't expect, before that, a little game called Medal of Honor. Allied Assault and Spearhead. Played a lot of both but spearhead was full of glitches, and if you weren't good with a sniper you might as well not even play the game. The challenge was all about being the best sniper out there. No more no less. I mean don't get me wrong, you could get a lot of work done with an SMG(not so much MGs) or bolt action rifles, but a GOOD sniper could ace an entire team without much thought involved...if he didn't miss his shots, and I rarely did in that game. Played it until they dropped the ladders for it(That was TWL at the time...bleh). I probably will get back into it now once the next best thing drops for competitive fps gaming. Honestly not a fan of call of duty anymore because it's the same game with the same mechanics, different guns, different maps. If you're a good player at mw/mw2/or black ops, you'll be good at mw3 and so on. Tried BF3 for a bit, and while fun...can't see it being truly competitive in the nature I like just because there's too many variables that can effectively take a skilled player out of a match with little to no effort minus just being lucky. IE: Vehicles. I will never play an FPS game competitively that has vehicles, unless they were turned off. Sadly, I just don't see myself getting into it like I did MOHAA/COD. But I was 17/18ish then, and times were far different. Ha. Now that I built my new rig for TOR here, it's just going to take the right game...but I'm future proofed for at least another couple years anyway. Good luck with SC2 dude.

Ah, that's awesome to hear man. I mainly pugged and ran scrims via irc and all that fun stuff, but those were the days when fps gaming took a backseat to wow for me. I don't remember much about those days other than TSN shoutcasting, and watching the big teams throw down in the finals. I definitely played against you in random games though, hence I remember the name being exactly -47- if I recall. Small world. I think about the only things I remember anymore is nade spamming over the roof on harbor, and all the placed grenade spots that I spent hours with clans finding in private lobbies lmao. Or rather "set nades". I'll watch your stream for a bit when you post that it's up. Checked it a minute ago, and seen that it's not currently feeding anything.