Hero Engine: why?

From what I have read online, it basically is Biowares engine. They used HeroEngine because they'd worked together before, and Bioware already has some employees that worked at HeroEngine. Bioware were the first licensee of the engine too.

It's just the base for building MMO's, it's not a ready made game (HeroCloud appears to be a bit different in that respect) By the looks of it you are free to change and enhance the base code as you wish, and I imagine Bioware have heavily modified the base engine from what Hero actually gave them.

Just a bit of reading and research will answer all your questions, no need to fill a thread with speculation and conjecture.

Everything is relative, in the end performance is opinion based.
Though I find it sad that many people getting suckered in by buying a new rig to run a game while it isn't their rig just the poor optimization.
Though I do agree with you that better content/fixing bugs and adding all those promised features is atm more important than optimizing performance.
How ever I do think they could have done a better job.


Slightly side tracking here.
Has been done quite some times, companies bragging about how good the game runs and what type of GFX card you need to run it smoothly but once the game is out you just notice how poorly it is optimized.

Another side track:

Yes I am aware AMD and intel aren't making it any easier for the gaming industry.
How ever if this game was meant to last for a long time they could have gone for it.

Some one stated this in a Q&A with SR and he basically brushed it off with that this isn't what most players want, and it isn't the thing they 'should' focus on.

I 100% agree with you that this is important though.
Question is how much does this engine limit let's say PVP and PVE design.

lol and it would kill any PC you tried to run it on...

^speculation and conjecture

It's a flexible engine even in it's free to use mode, I've had a blast designing encounters for my own pleasure on HeroEngine. Bioware has the whole engine in their hands to extend, it'll turn out just fine...

We're all just too impatient

http://www.heroengine.com/

Just read about it.... Not like it's a big secret or anything.

The two swtor.exe process created when launching the game use all 4 core of my q9550 (40 to 70%). Some people report that the game use only two. Seem's more like a bug than an engine shortcoming to me.

It is either a bug or processor driver issue, I've got four cores in use aswell.

Might be worth checking the affinity options in task manager for both swtor.exe processes to see if they're actually even ticked on.

i am standing up for a round of applause.
100% agreed.

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