Look it's pretty clear there are two sides to this argument. Those who believe the scheduled downtime at 2am US time is OK, and those who think the 7pm downtime in Australia is not OK. Those who are for this time insist that it has to be all done at once, and that the people who are complaining are making a big deal out of a small problem. The perfect solution is to have it rotate, so that one week it is 2am for US, next it's 2am for EU, then it's 2am for Australia! That way people are only inconvenienced a little over 1 day a month. I'm sure everybody would be fine with that.

You just took me back to a place of awesome by just mentioning a Sound Blaster and ISA. Those gigantic golly gee gosh darned holy mackerel cards were the best. I remember trying to setup coax networks with ISA Nic's. Back when IRQ's were something that people had to know about. Jumpers, and IPX and Terminators. You'd spend most of the night trying to get dummies system to work and then whatever was left playing Doom 2 or Duke. Good times.

I can only speak for myself, but not only did the very low shaders do very little to improve my FPS, but it makes the game look so bad that I wouldn't want to play it anyway. The things you do. They confuse me.

Shhhh... He's sleeping.

Sleep well, my angel.

Why didn't you use that then? That data sounds a lot more reliable.

Oh, look. It was incompetence. I must be pshycic.

Yep, absolutely correct. Their technical expertise is seriously lacking, and whoever is controlling the deadlines is only interested in one thing, their reputation to get things over the line on time. This same person will likely move on to bigger and better things, leaving the next guy to clean up his mess. And oh what a mess it is.

I've thought that SWTOR ran too hot for a while and I've seen a lot of threads about it both here an in other forums. Normally I would side with the user error crowd on this one because I personally have never come across a game that caused this sort of problem. I cancelled this morning because I'm not happy with the performance of the game, but I was still curious so I thought I'd do a comparison between SWTOR and Rift. Now because I already think there is a problem with SWTOR and because I am unhappy with the product, I tried to give SWTOR every advantage I could. For example, I tested it first, so that it would have a nice cold system to work with, and because the temperature where I live goes up around this time and the second test would probably have a degree or two extra because of it. I would have turned on the air con but I have a cold at the moment. I wanted SWTOR to win because I'm just as interested in whether or not my card is faulty as I am about demonstrating this issue. I would love to upgrade my decrepit 260, but can't justify replacing it if it's doing the job. So to the test! Basically, for whatever reason, the perfect place to test SWTOR's use of your video card seems to be the character select screen. I get more GPU activity there than anywhere else. No idea why. I adjusted a few settings to get the GPU usage to between 57 and 60%. There was some fluctuation but it stayed within that range and was usually at a steady 58%. Almost immediately the temperature rose, and so did the fan speed. I let it sit for a while until it seemed to max out at 84 degrees. Now there's a chance it could have gotten higher, but it definitely wasn't getting lower. Also, I don't have all day to wait around. I'm not happy with that temp and will be looking to improve my cooling, but I can live with it for now. Anyway, to make things fair I had to give my PC a chance to cool down, so I went for a run (Yes I have a cold and I went for a run. Some people exercise even when they don't feel like it.) Once I returned I instantly noticed the room temperature was definitely higher. I ran the test anyway using the rift character screen, and was able to tweak my settings to use a very, very steady 60%. There were minor fluctuations down to 59, but it was mostly at 60. The first thing I noticed was that it took a lot longer to heat up. The fans didn't bother really kicking in as the temperatures were a lot lower. Eventually the fans hit 100% and I let the thing sit there and see how hot it would go. The temperature stopped at 78%. Again, it probably could have gone up, but I gave it as much or more time as SWTOR so I feel I was fair. Especially considering that an hour or more had passed between tests and the room was a lot hotter for Rift. So I guess if you take these crappy tests at face value SWTOR is doing something funky to some systems. If I had to guess, I would say that SWTOR just makes your entire system hotter as it seems to need every resource it can get, but I don't care enough to get further into the details. And I know my machine isn't great but it meets the spec and I don't think it really matters in this case. Here is a screenshot of the NVIDIA Inspector results. Maybe someone smarter than me can find a reason for this or point out what I could have done to get a more accurate result. http://i39.tinypic.com/8ytg0y.jpg

...it can't handle SWTOR. 1 - Staying connected with friends on the internet 2 - Keeping your finances in order using MYOB 3 - Playing every other video game made in the last or next 6 months on High or Ultra settings.

That sounds like you need to run the exe with admin rights.

No. I would love the game if it didn't peform so horribly. But it does, so I do not.

You're right, I wouldn't be happy with "We're working on improving that". After nearly 2 months I expect something a hell of a lot more informative than that.

Didn't get one question regarding the ****** fps thousands of your customers are experiencing? Yeah I believe that. Good to hear Ilum is getting more features. I'll be sure to check those out 1 frame at a time.