What's my bottleneck?

Having his board work in Dual Channel might help...a tad. You can't seriously be suggesting he has gone from 1 fps to 60 fps just by buying new memory though and I suspect that you are well aware of that.

Also, my memory is dual channel, 4 GB and it's still performing badly in the same area. Why is that? It's performing badly with 6 GB as well...because there is no difference between 4 and 6 GB in this game.

Well, I don't particularly have a reason to be skeptical. I have, however, found you to be an entirely abrasive, prideful, and inflexible person in this short forum exchange. And I'm far from confident that you really understand as much about hardware as you'd like us to think.

Lots of people made suggestions based on what they know, me included. I grant that I don't know everything about computers. But an upgrade of RAM for 50 bucks, and the OP is a happy camper. Is that a bad outcome?

If the OP upgraded his RAM and is now happy with his performance, that was the point of this thread, was it not? That's why I believe him when he says it's better. Why would he lie about that?

Yeah, I'm done, by the way. I was enjoying talking about hardware. This has devolved into pretty useless stuff now.

Go in UEFI (the replacement for Bios) and turn off hyperthreading and it will be even faster unless you multitask alot.

He also tuned down the GFX to get 59FPS. he went from 2 to 20 with the mem upgrade b4 tuning down GFX a bit.

I started out trying to help the OP and got nothing but venom back from the start.


Great outcome. Had nothing to do with the extra RAM.

That "pride" word both you and he mentioned. I know what the OP is experiencing, I've shown numerous screenshots showing that memory usage is constant at 2.5 GB - btw weren't you going to screenshot yours with only SWTOR playing? - yet he insists that a measly 1 GB upgrade is somehow increasing fps from 2 to 60?

Hundreds of people could read this and actually believe they need more RAM when they don't - and plenty of people can't afford hardware upgrades willy-nilly. You people are a menace.

If you have a copy of the game that runs well on one machine and badly on the other i would suggest doing what i did and delete the game on the machine running badly and doing a copy from the computer running well ... It seem dumb but it fixed most of my bad fps issue . My bd ocmputer had an install taking 21.5g and the good one 19.5... Everyone should have 19.5 gig space used on their tor folder not anymore than that.

So you're saying that he didn't tune the graphics down before now?

Come on wake the hell up. The OP "claims" to have bought more memory...but didn't screenshot the results until after he had installed the latest Nvidia drivers...and now you are suggesting he wouldn't turn down the graphics settings before buying new memory?

If you had a gaming problem would you change graphics settings or install drivers first...or go out and buy some memory?

Seriously...use some logic. I'm still waiting on his task manager screenshot because frankly I'm not convinced he even bought more memory - somebody probably pointed him to a new driver instead of the one he got with the card and that has fixed his problem.

1. Why did you stick around then?
2. Yes it did. Win 7 can easily eat 4gigs before you ever launch a game, depending on what you have installed, what services are running and so on.

I'm not claiming anything, just told you about one of his posts you seem to have missed.
Just after he installed the memory he went from 2-20, then he turned shadows to low and got 59FPS.

Why are you still here trying to pick a fight? just let it go, boot the game or something and have some fun.

You'd have to be really going something to be using another 1.5 GB of RAM. What are you doing, running two games at once?

This game uses 2.6 GB RAM max, because my whole system is using 2.6 GB RAM while running on a clean install of Win 7. I already screenshotted proof of this, it's undeniable.