Wyer Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I like to play my mmos in a window, so I can play Football Manager at the same time. Never had any problems with any mmo, until ToR. With the server population issues, I have kinda gone back to the 'retro' mmo anyway as I have no problems playing that in a window. With ToR, everything slows down and becomes lag like. Making it unenjoyable to play in a window. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WerTwist Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I play in windowed mode all the time, and have no problem alt all. What kind of machine are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavensAgent Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 No problems with running the game in a window, per say, but I have noticed that if I also have videos or other visual media SWTOR seems to instigate a tug-of-war for system resources that can slow things down fairly dramatically. Since you're running an actual game in addition to SWTOR, then perhaps this is the issue you're suffering as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyer Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 I play in windowed mode all the time, and have no problem alt all. What kind of machine are you using? Custom built Dell XPS 8100 i7 @ 2.80 HZ 8gig ram nvidia GeFroce GTX 260 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sillenna Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 (edited) I used to play WoW windowed, and had about 0 performance drop. However, with SWTOR it's around 20% performance drop in windowed mode. Unfortunately, enough to force me to use fullscreen mode. Edited April 6, 2012 by Sillenna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConradLionhart Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 This will vary from system to system, but personally for me, I have no problems playing under windowed (full screen) mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farho Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I've been playing FS windowed and had no problems until 10 days ago. Now I have sever performance drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dacdom Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 well swtor is an issue, stop wasting your time searching for a solution they don't know how to fix things. This game will be on Beta phase for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieAlteHexe Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 No problems here at all in windowed mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostvein Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 The only difference I noticed was my FPS drops when I am doing something in Windows. I run 3 monitors, whenever I move out of ToR onto the other displays it drops from 60 FPS to 30. Outside of that, its been fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kogarvandalin Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I play windowed mode all the time. I've played both SWtoR and WoW or SC2 at the same time, just different monitors. Only issue I have is when SC2 is loading a new map sometimes I get loading screens in SWtoR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakinor Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I play in fullscreen windowed mode with no issues on an HP slimline 5130y with a radeon 5series card:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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