akarabzie Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I know not everyone is having this frame rate drop but alot of us are and its getting old. Let me start off by saying i have a fairly decent gaming rig and ANY and EVERY game that has come out this year i have been able to play on the highest settings. I have a 3.8 GHz Quad core processor and a GTX 560 GPU. So someone explain to me why SWTOR is the only game that will make my computer crawl to 2 FPS when in the middle of a PvP fight on Ilum? I cant even complete dailies becuase of this. If Bioware wants to continue making money and have SWTOR last longer than a year unlike most newer MMOs they need to get their **** together and provide fixes for the PvP community or it will die. Forget about all the balancing of classes for now and get this stuff to run smoothly. Its been what over a month now and nothing has even been addressed about it. I hate to say this but even the PVP in RIFT was better than this **** and it didn't lag. This is my QQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilrasis Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Try installing the Dx9 redistributable. Apparently there were files left out of the pre-installed package distributed with the game and it is causing it to use DX10 files to emulate the DX9 ones... or something. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=8109 Moderate to large increase in ilum for me for a better rig than you're running. My work PC saw a huge improvement. My laptops both saw moderate improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akarabzie Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 I will try this thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexvx Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Try installing the Dx9 redistributable. Apparently there were files left out of the pre-installed package distributed with the game and it is causing it to use DX10 files to emulate the DX9 ones... or something. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=8109 Moderate to large increase in ilum for me for a better rig than you're running. My work PC saw a huge improvement. My laptops both saw moderate improvements. Do you have a forum link of other people doing this? DirectX 9 is a subset of DirectX 11 (the one Windows 7 uses). Any DX9 native calls should be handled as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tservo Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Try installing the Dx9 redistributable. Apparently there were files left out of the pre-installed package distributed with the game and it is causing it to use DX10 files to emulate the DX9 ones... or something. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=8109 Moderate to large increase in ilum for me for a better rig than you're running. My work PC saw a huge improvement. My laptops both saw moderate improvements. I did this, it seemed to help a bit. But it can still really really slow down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akarabzie Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 I mean have the Devs even mentioned this.....Do they know how big of a problem this is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilrasis Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I mean have the Devs even mentioned this.....Do they know how big of a problem this is? Yes, the original suggestion came from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilrasis Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Do you have a forum link of other people doing this? DirectX 9 is a subset of DirectX 11 (the one Windows 7 uses). Any DX9 native calls should be handled as such. Don't know. I originally found it on reddit.com/r/swtor -- apparently it was an official "oops we f'd up" announcement.... something somewhere wasn't being included and the emulation was slowing it down substantially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatsuAra Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Try installing the Dx9 redistributable. Apparently there were files left out of the pre-installed package distributed with the game and it is causing it to use DX10 files to emulate the DX9 ones... or something. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=8109 Moderate to large increase in ilum for me for a better rig than you're running. My work PC saw a huge improvement. My laptops both saw moderate improvements. Sorry im quite a Nub here... But where would i direct these files to be installed at? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilrasis Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Sorry im quite a Nub here... But where would i direct these files to be installed at? Thanks Create a folder (wherever, but I put one on my desktop) and extract the file TO that folder. (don't extract it to your desktop directly.) There is an executable inside the archive that will now be in the folder which you can run to install it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caultonpos Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Upgrade your video card drivers - made a huge difference for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatsuAra Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Create a folder (wherever, but I put one on my desktop) and extract the file TO that folder. (don't extract it to your desktop directly.) There is an executable inside the archive that will now be in the folder which you can run to install it. Thank you for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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