Hero Engine: why?

What do you want, every character having 50,000 Polygons or a lag free game?

I'll have to look for the reflections. Thanks! It might be that because I have to play the game at the lowest possible settings because of FPS bugs I don't get to see them. I've probably only tried the high settings for an hour or two.

I'll have to look for the reflections. Thanks! It might be that because I have to play the game at the lowest possible settings because of FPS bugs I don't get to see them. I've probably only tried the high settings for an hour or two.

High res textures are currently disabled. Selecting that option doesn't get you high res textures. As far as the cores go, it uses two cores on my four core CPU and per the HeroEngine developers the render is limited to a single core. Multi-core support is a planned feature with no ETA. The engine will use other cores for network which is generally not that demanding (this is paraphrasing one of the HeroEngine devs). It could be other parts of the game are using the extra cores but it's not something I've seen and it's not what I've seen others report.

I will gladly give you a screenshot, or post a video if you wish - I'm finishing work in 8 hours which after you may have them.

However, I don't claim that the game runs great on my system (yet) - Warzones and Imperial Fleet are heavy pain but it's a known issue and not system dependant.
It still does utilize my four cores (while GPU usage stays on super low in high populated areas, what's up with that?)

My system specs are;
AMD Phenom X4 955 @ 3.2 Ghz
4gb DDR3 1333Mhz regular latencies (cheap Kingston)
ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti OC @ 950Mhz core, 1gb version
Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm

The game isn't lag free atm. I run SLI 580 gtx + i7 920 @ 4.1 gHz with hyper threading enabled + 12 gb of tri-channel ddr3 RAM @ 1333 mHz, and I still dip to around 24 FPS in some areas. That's funny, because I can max out every single other game on the market and not dip below 60 FPS with v-sync enabled.

I have a X4 960T 3ghz (3.4 if it wants to turbo), and it only uses 2 cores at about 70%. I honestly have no idea whats going on its barely pushing my cpu but my fps is not so great. Video card is a gtx260 216sp, which is a 2008 card but its not slow. Can play battlefield on medium settings and be over 30fps in 64 player games the entire time.

I mean, EA and BW make enough, you could have outsourced your Engine development and made the engine fit your game.

I see a whole lot of people disseminating misinformation, acting like they're AAA game developers because they read blogs and forum posters.

You have no idea what the modified engine is like or if it's causing problems unless you have access to the code. Period. Stop pretending to have insight where you don't.

Doesn't really matter what the specific cause is; the problem exists and needs to be fixed. I'm tired of having the game bog down my system like TOR is a state-of-the-art graphics engine with Ultra settings when the fact is, the game has very simple graphics and doesn't even have high-quality textures. Why should it perform badly at all? Whatever the reason it needs to be fixed. It makes me annoyed when I can play a game like Rift, that has far more detailed graphics, on the highest settings at 90+ FPS, and TOR is constantly swinging between 60 all the way down to 25 with inferior texture, lighting, and shadow quality..