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  1. My laptop is also an ASUS, with an i7 @2.4GHz 4700HQ & GTX 950M (2GB GDDR3 VRAM) + 2x4GB DDR3 @1920x1080p 17" Can run GTAV, Skyrim, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV, Batman Arkham Asylum, Divinity Original Sin etc on a mix of high and very high (with the most costly video settings being off ofc) settings and still get 60FPS. Even easier if you overclock the GPU a bit. Welp. In SWTOR though... on maxed out settings or the lowest, firstly the game barely looks better (aside for shadows & high shaders which both cost quite some perf though in some areas) , secondly, even if you can keep (and you will) 60+ FPS in the wild questing one vs A.I. mobs ... Once you drop in a warzone in a 8vs8 environment, once the action is started and everyone uses skills to buff up or fight, your framerate will tank to an averaged 18-23 FPS lol. Can rises up back to 40 ish or so when alone afking defending a node ... But as soon as you'll fight you'll see 7-15 fps So give it up, at least you'll be able to run better looking and more modern games at very high or maxed settings & btw on my desktop I got an i5 6600k @ 4.2 GHz & a nvidia GTX 980 Ti 6GB GDDR4 @1250 MHz, game still runs horribly in PvP (like it still drops down to 15 fps in heavy combat before going back up towards 40-60 when doing nothing (like respawning or the 1min warzone intros). It's like the game gets bottlenecked by the server or the file swapping process (as the game is actually TWO 32 BITS PROCESSES thus with the usual 32 bits limitations) in addition to being poorly coded (*ahem* unfinished second hand bough Hero Engine * ahem*)). And having an i7 with 4 physical cores + 4 hyperthreads @100 higher HMz compared to an i5's 4 physical cores (no hyper threading) is barely gonna be noticeable on a laptop anyway since the game isn't coded to use more cpu powers with more cores, it just splits the damn load on each core accordingly. So dual core, core2duo, i5 or i7 it won't change much. As said even with a top 5 desktop cpu with overclocking too (still runs at 40°C and not even at more than 30% load lol) game still runs like a bad slideshow in warzones. It's a bit better in 4vs4 matches, But not by much.. Even with a 4820 crazy 1300$ CPU overclocked to heavens the game WILL NOT RUN AT 60+ FPS IN WARZONES, EVER, NEVER
  2. I'm actually surprised they still have humans at the customer service lol I heard the waiting time for anything, even the simplest ones, to be resolved is anywhere between 3 weeks and 1 month+ So get ready to wait a long time
  3. 09.21.2015 , 04:13 PM | #263 Last Activity: 10.17.2015 11:50 PM Oh look, another bland post from another yellow poster that has since then long been inactive On topic: Give it up, they are N E V E R gonna fix this mess of an engine They can't even if they wanted to spend multipe millions on it, they'd have to start from scratch again. Well, start from scratch altogether, as they didn't even craft the engine themselves but bought it second hand before it was even complete from the Hero Engine team (which since then completed it, but they got dismissed when offering help to BioWare and can no longer help as they butchered the code to finish it for rushed release in 2011 )
  4. Someone managed to get to lv40 ish solo, without a companion, with the base lv 10 starter gear So... Upgrading gear / mods or using a companion breaks the game it seems
  5. Every. Single. Game. http://i.imgur.com/rwmupmN.jpg
  6. Final Fantasy XIV is still as good as ever (I'm too tired with the vertical grinding and have no plan on resuming it, my Dark Knight item lvel 180 from early July is good enough for me lol, I will resume it when they add more content to catch up to so I don't run out of things to do in a month). I didn't check too much Heroes of the Storm (that's Blizz' take on the MOBA genre right? It didn't seem too different than LoL or Dota so yeah... From the online revenue rankings I saw earlier this week it doesn't seem to be as successful as others but maybe it IS good afterall ^^ I'm just done with WoW and Warcraft as a whole. And Starcraft & Diablo too) Star Citizen ! Can't wait for it ! I took a look at EVE & Elite Dangerous but meh ... I will also wait for Star Citizen
  7. This. It seems every online game now tries to cater to Candy Crush Saga and Farmville addicts by making everything easy as hell to entice them into playing their game (and later on pay for DLC/ Skins / mounts etc) Remember back when we had ONE LIFE and one hit would kill us, and we had no save, no passwords (NES & GameBoy era)? Pepperidge farm remembers
  8. Not sure if you heard about it/checked it out already, but there is "The Repopulation" which is in the works (using the real Hero Engine, not an incomplete failure tweaked by BioWare Austin ) which a lot of people talk about (great crafting system and open world sandbox). Having never played SWG (or SWGEmu (yet)) I can't comment on the similarities or differences though.
  9. Damn, I wish I had played EQ2... Probably cause I was barely 18 when WoW launched and thus I jumped right into it, ignoring the classic EQ2 in the process... I wish I didn't. It's nice to hear they had some guys like that that ran the game Humor FTW
  10. Spot on. I have no doubts this game could have been much better if it hadn't be for E.A.
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