The acid pools are very weak right now in lowbie pvp as well. Fire traps are still painful.

Interesting. I assumed it was magic.

Bear in mind that the servers are not all in one spot. I'm east coast and The Ebon Hawk gets me about 60ms less latency than does The Harbinger. Don't just select a server based solely on population and pops (though both are high for The Ebon Hawk), but include location into your factoring.

I was thinking that, but the driver was only a few months out of date. Could that really have done it?

I had played the game a couple years ago on my old computer, and it ran fairly well. I upgraded my computer this summer. When I came back this month I noticed the bad fps, and had to set all my graphics settings to less than they were a couple years ago on my old (much slower) computer. Then just yesterday I downloaded a new graphics driver from Nvidia, along with finally setting up the Nvidia experience. It asked if I wanted to optimize SWTOR, and I said sure. It set everything to the highest levels. I thought when I logged in I would be looking at a slideshow. But, suddenly, the game runs beautifully and looks gorgeous. It is MUCH smoother now than it was on the lower graphics setting prior to Nvidia doing whatever it did. I have absolutely no idea what Nvidia did beside turn up the graphical settings, but they did something when I clicked optimize, because the game runs so much better now it's baffling. An anecdote for you all. I have no idea what actually happened, but it worked perfectly. edit: Specs: i7-4770 3.40ghz 8g ram 64bit gtx 760 Runs very well on highest settings (since I clicked 'optimize' yesterday).

I have a pretty powerful computer (WoW on ultra with 90ish fps in most areas). In TOR at low graphics levels I'm at 59-60 fps, but with lots of micro spikes (coined that term possibly) that make for jerky visuals. WZs are basically the same, but with more micro lag spikes. It's playable, but annoying, and just based on pure game specs and computer power, I should be seeing a much prettier, much smoother game.

I'm going to have to bookmark this thread.

This happened to me once, though less drastically. Just two icons moved from their column to a new column. It may have been my first login since coming back when I changed the game's resolution (as the poster above alluded to).

Cool. Thanks.

Probably a very dumb question, but where are basic comm gear vendors? Are they scattered about the worlds, or is there a central vendor in Fleet or somewhere?

Is it reasonable to level solely through the story quests and WZs? Am I missing anything big if do this? Will gearing be a problem?

After having spent a year and a half of full time Waiting For Tor, obsessing over every leaked vid and screenshot, then getting into three(!) weekend betas, spending countless hours on the forums (remember the old off-topic?), it was nearly impossible for me to believe that the game was actually about to go live.

This isn't mouse sensitivity, this is camera rotation speed. It's on a slider in the game's Preferences tab.

It only gives me four options in the preferences to change the camera rotation speed. 0%-26%-52%-77%. 0% is too slow, but 26% is REALLY fast (slight movement gives me three or four full revolutions). Is there any way to put it somewhere in between those two? I bet 7% would be good.

Thanks for the info!