mArchangel Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Do you really think that you can have much better textures without some performance drop if you don't own a high end PC? Ok here a little wisdom: Texture quality has NOTHING to do with performance drops UNLESS you run out of video memory and we almost ALL have at least a GB of video memory. Ample!!!! Period. Trust me, I mod games since years. Secondly why cant we have the option?? If you run SWTOR on a toaster switch it off. But just because mainstream has a toaster to play does not mean I need to be punished for having a PC meant for gaming actually. LOL Absurd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ommm Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Secondly why cant we have the option?? Yeah, atleast give us ini commands or something. Edited January 10, 2012 by Ommm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rophez Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 No word yet...good or bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzing Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The game looks fine on my machine. Have you updated your drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBoness Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 As far as I can tell, the 10gbs of data removed from the transition to launch would have little to do with "activating" higher res textures. The fact is, the high res textures appear at odd times, they are available on our HDs, just not at our disposal. As others have stated, it wouldn't really surprise me if our systems are being taxed as if the high res textures are in effect. My performance is far too low for a game of this graphical quality at "med" settings. Something else that struck me as odd...is anyone else having trouble recognizing the higher res textures in convos? I still feel like they are terrible. Just so we can get some sort of consensus on what we all are running..EVGA GTX 560ti @ 1000/2000/2106i5 750 @ 3.2ghz4 gb ripjaws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rophez Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The game looks fine on my machine. Have you updated your drivers? LOL - it gets tiring explaining this to everyone, so I'm gonna pass this one by. Suffice it to say that there is a difference between a game looking 'fine' and having sharp, clean textures on your character when you zoom in on a decently high resolution (I play at 2560 by 1900.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ommm Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) buzzing read the thread carefully again and do your own testing in and out of conversations. geforce gtx 560ti 2gb@285.62amd phenom x4 95516gb rama wd black is what i got here. it does not matter what hardware you are on. wether amd/ati or nvidia. everyone got this issue regardless, because it is this gameand i really would like a statement now. it is simply unacceptable advertising the game as such without delivering in the end, what has been a standard in the industry since years. Edited January 10, 2012 by Ommm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabrielhead Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Something else that struck me as odd...is anyone else having trouble recognizing the higher res textures in convos? I still feel like they are terrible. Its random like eyeballs or huttskin and wookie fur. sometimes its there, sometimes it isnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBoness Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Its random like eyeballs or huttskin and wookie fur. sometimes its there, sometimes it isnt. Ah, i see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barracudastr Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The game looks fine on my machine. Have you updated your drivers? you know I am a CG artist. When I am working on a project and its in the early vis stage and my mom see's it on her random visits she says wow that looks really good..... when in reality to a cg artist it is a very very rough draft and looks like crap to me. If fuzzy/blurry textures look fine to you then its you because to the rest of us it isn't really fine. And when you look at other mmos from the past 3 years theres a glaring difference they are all on a pretty high level of quality graphically compared to swtor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBoness Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 buzzing read the thread carefull again and do your own testing, pls. gainward phantom geforce gtx 560ti 2gb@285.62 amd phenom x4 955 16gb ram wd black is what i got here. btw it does not matter what hardware you are on. wether amd/ati or nvidia. everyone got this issue regardless. Really doesn't surprise me that there is little fluctuation in performance from either side of the gpu aisle. Seems to me that in this particular case(which is actually quite rare) that the game is the culprit, and waiting on BW is all we can do. I must admit, the lack of AA is frustrating me a tiny bit more than the lower textures. Simply because my brain tells me to go into the graphics options and check to see if I have AA enabled. I suppose it's a gut reaction since the last time I was without an option for AA was long before I had the system to run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wifeaggro Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 you know I am a CG artist. When I am working on a project and its in the early vis stage and my mom see's it on her random visits she says wow that looks really good..... when in reality to a cg artist it is a very very rough draft and looks like crap to me. If fuzzy/blurry textures look fine to you then its you because to the rest of us it isn't really fine. And when you look at other mmos from the past 3 years theres a glaring difference they are all on a pretty high level of quality graphically compared to swtor. Agreed. They were extremely short sighted in the sevolpment planning. The art style is not my favorite but it is passable if there is high res textures and AA right now its not even on a 2008 scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ommm Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) I must admit, the lack of AA is frustrating me a tiny bit more In that case i got good news. You can simply turn it on via the ini. If you got ATI force it via the driver instead. Edited January 10, 2012 by Ommm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daMarek Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I know the day isn't over yet but I doubt we'll get a response today. I feel totally let down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabrielhead Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I know the day isn't over yet but I doubt we'll get a response today. I feel totally let down its only like 10 am BW time isnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sessmar Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 My beef is during one of the weekend betas I jacked all the setting to see how good it would look and decided to invest a couple hundred dollars in a new video card. I mean, I've waited years for this game and followed it religiously why wouldn't I take the steps to play it in all it's graphical glory. Then it releases and it doesn't look as good as it did in beta...after I upgraded. Kind of a kick in the tauntauns. I'm sure they will be implemented at some point but damn man a least respond to the problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ommm Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Nvm me. Edited January 10, 2012 by Ommm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBoness Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 In that case i got good news. You can simply turn it on via the ini. If you got an ATI force it via the driver. My first reaction after booting the game up was to swiftly exit and try to force the AA through the Nvidia Control Panel before I vomited on my keyboard from the vertigo-inducing horror that BW calls it's "launch-ready product". Didn't seem to make a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ommm Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) My first reaction after booting the game up was to swiftly exit and try to force the AA through the Nvidia Control Panel before I vomited on my keyboard from the vertigo-inducing horror that BW calls it's "launch-ready product". Didn't seem to make a difference. Im pretty sure AA works for me just via the ini. Not an expert by any means, but i know there are diffrent modes for AA. Might be the specific mode forced via the driver is not compatible. Edited January 10, 2012 by Ommm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amarinth Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) its only like 10 am BW time isnt it? It's 12:20 in Austin atm, so it's not quite that early, but they still have a few hours before the office closes. Edited January 10, 2012 by Amarinth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mormack Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Apologies in advance to those patiently waiting here. I won't have a response for you today, but will tomorrow. here's to hoping you come through for us today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daMarek Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 It's 12:20 in Austin atm, so it's not quite that early, but they still have a few hours before the office closes. Yeah I was hoping for a response before lunch break... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowFated Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Really doesn't surprise me that there is little fluctuation in performance from either side of the gpu aisle. Seems to me that in this particular case(which is actually quite rare) that the game is the culprit, and waiting on BW is all we can do. I must admit, the lack of AA is frustrating me a tiny bit more than the lower textures. Simply because my brain tells me to go into the graphics options and check to see if I have AA enabled. I suppose it's a gut reaction since the last time I was without an option for AA was long before I had the system to run it. If you want AA you can easily force it in the INI file. I have been running AA x16 since launch day, makes the game look amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daMarek Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 WOOT WOOT just found this texture pack download: http://www.firstpost.com/topic/organization/lucasarts-swtor-texture-pack-video-tcer7P4BZgQ-13953-1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabrielhead Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 WOOT WOOT just found this texture pack download: http://www.firstpost.com/topic/organization/lucasarts-swtor-texture-pack-video-tcer7P4BZgQ-13953-1.html Lol. this game looks as bad as minecraft sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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