Eillack Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 And yet many people are not having problems at all. Shows how much you know. You mean the X amount that haven't left which are having issues ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTHC Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 It's entertaining watching people jump onto a (mistakenly) necro'd thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubernetic Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Why don't people go for the obvious problems of: - game locks up when you open a UI element (e.g. inventory opening) - game locks up when you get a quest update (e.g. Ilum) It's clear the engine is a mess. Never had either of these problems. This may not be as pervasive as you believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akomo Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 (edited) I can count on one hand the issues that were server side and its still not 5. Most lag issues are the rig or ISP.Thats about 90% at least. Other issues are the human element, third party apps,or incompatible systems. But don't take my word for it since EA has a log of how many times I successfully connect and play. As far as FPS goes I get a steady 25 to 40 on a 5 year old system. Edited March 4, 2013 by Akomo addition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJWyler Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 It's entertaining watching people jump onto a (mistakenly) necro'd thread. It is quite amusing - just about a year exactly too! Anyway since we are here - I have the game installed on three different machines - 2 laptops and 1 desktop and only ever experienced the CTD issue way back in 1.3 or 1.4 which was quickly resolved. The desktop is 4 years old and the older of the two laptops is 2.5 years. BJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metwars Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Never had either of these problems. This may not be as pervasive as you believe. you never had anyone of these problems because they were fixed in patch 1.2, the post you quoted was a year old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGriffith Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 This is always something I don't understand. Why didn't they make a new engine or use one their existing engines? Like CryEngine 3 or Frostbyte 2. No, instead they choose a half-assed, poorly optimized 3rd party engine that no one has heard of. Games like this are in development for years, and have a lead in time that is even longer. The developers need to pick a game engine years before they kick development into high gear. The Hero engine at the time looked like a good match with a decent performance and good set of periferal programs that would greatly speed up development cycles (easier to get various types of content into the game). By the time the issues with the high demand of large® numbers of PvP came to light it was far too late to change the game engine. For most of the PvE and the smaller PvP arenas the Hero engine performs quite well and can do even better than Bioware is comfortable with allowing (the cut scenes are the engine at the highest resolution it is capable of, but in normal gameplay that quality would lead to FPS jumping all over the place from 0.1 to 100 depending on how many models and textures came into view). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 (edited) Why the necro? Old threads should have their titles auto-changed to bright red font when they get necroed. For the record though.... my laptop (which is a now a 2 year old Asus Gaming laptop) plays this game just fine and always has, even back in the early days when many people were having real struggles. Edited March 4, 2013 by Andryah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuixupu Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 (edited) It was an accidental necro. That won't stop people from not noticing it's old and replying like it's new, though. Edited March 4, 2013 by chuixupu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshlaBoga Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Source: http://www.darthhater.com/articles/swtor-news/19981-guild-summit-interview-with-daniel-erickson/page-2 Q: Where are you on game engine optimizations? Because I currently get about 5 to 10 frames per second on Alderaan and about 20 in Huttball and I have a PC that can run Crysis 2 at ultra. With no real explanation on what is going on. A: "Wow. You should do some investigation, because that is not typical. [...] 10 FP on Alderaan IS odd. There's not a single planet that I get less than 20 FPS on even when I'm lagging a lot. If you're getting 5-10 frames on a planet then that's atypical. Now sub 20 FPS on fleet is something that bugs me, but that's not atypical, a million players get low FPS on fleet once there's 200+ people. So saying that you should do some investigation because you're getting 5-10 FPS on Alderaan? Yes, I would do some investigation if I were you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuixupu Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Thread is from a year ago guys....don't think the OP is around anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJWyler Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Thread is from a year ago guys....don't think the OP is around anymore. Actually, his last activity was yesterday, so I would say he's still kicking around. BJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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