BioWare: "most" people aren't having SWTOR performance issues

Read the full article here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ormance-issues

Perfectly shows how detached BioWare is from its community and confirms my decision not to continue playing this technological POS.

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So, some of us feel that the minority who are having problems should have their problems dealt with.

"We are the 5%" comes to mind..

I have 1 year old laptop (bought previous December) with most powerful video card at that moment - having 15-25fps on fleet.

I wouldn't call that "I have no issues" and somehow I doubt more than 50% of SWTOR players have less than a year old computers. Making graphic more complex will force many players - include myslef - to switch to low quality settings. However could be nice to have ability to tweak graphics a bit in low population areas.

There's your problem
A LAPTOP cannot run a game half as well as a PC can.
There are a (very) few companies that make professional gaming laptops, but those aren't going to be anything < $2k. Anything else is going to give you minimal performance, which you're seeing.

You want optimal performance? Use a desktop

I was one of those who sat wondering about the issues when i was easily able to play the game on high (minus shadows) on a 3 year old mid range pc. I upgraded from a dual core AMD Athlon II to a AMD phenom II hex core at 3.7GHz, 4gig 1066MHz DDR2 to 8gig 1600MHz DDR3, ATI radeon 4850 to ATI radeon 6970 and somehow my frame rate has halved from 30ish to 15.

Every other game I have including bioware titles ME1 & 2, DA:O + expan and DA2 can be run on max settings with framerates of 50+. And before you say MMOs are different I ran WoW at over 100fps on max settings.

The components i'm using are hardly obscure. They're some of the most popular currently available.

And are these low end components there James? Has it occured to you that whilst you've heard 5% of the community complain about low fps issues. How many others suffer in silence?

Just making myself heard as one of the "few" people having performance issues.
My rig surpasses the reccommend specifications for this game by a long shot; we're talking Quad-Core, a over-clocked GFX card just one generation below the current and enough RAM to run two instances of that OTHER MMO, in said MMOs capital city AT ONCE without a hickup.

And still I can't push far beyond a steady 30 FPS dropping as low as 15 FPS in Fleet and some planets. I've tried most of the "fixes" out there; the XP 3, forcing and tweaking the nividia control panel, INI. I even went out and got myself a copy of windows 7. And even then, on a fresh install with nothing but the necessary drivers, SWTOR and Windows 7; piss-pot performance.

I get that you need a SWEET SUPER COMPUTER to run this, but at least have the courtesy to make this a fact BioWare. Don't give out false recommended specifications.

If you state that the recommended system is X and any player has this system or better then this should equate to a MINIMUM of 60 FPS during "standard procedures" on HIGH settings. Not scrapping by at 24 FPS with minecraft textures and shadow-effects so bad they make baby jesus cry.

I don't know why people keep posting stuff like this without posting the exact specs of their systems and expect to be taken seriously.

Case in point: I'm running on PC that has an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00Ghz (dual core CPU) with 4gigs of DDR2 RAM, Asus P5K-VM motherboard, Windows 7 64-bit OS, and a video card (eVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1gb) that I recently added. I have had only occasional slowdowns but generally exceed 60 FPS when playing, which is a huge improvement over the FPS I got with my last vid card (eVGA GeForce GTX 520 2gb).

I can't imagine much. Honestly, if you were having problems playing a game you enjoyed. Would you sit quietly about it? Or would you do some investigation and try to get some help?

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Any reason I can't break 10 fps in a warzone and maybe 25-30 in empty instances?