Hero Engine: why?

Ok let me get this straight the two cores the game does use isn't considerd multi-threading, because actually the game is only useing one core? Data from the game only passes through one core the other core handles the OS which is multi tasking, but as far as the game goes, it isn't multi tasking because the hero engine only use on core, nothning more.

Yes.

Also, the floors are shiny in the Imperial Fleet. That should be enough.

SWToR is what happens when you outsource your development team to India where they don't even know what Star Wars is.

Yup, if they choose it to be.

They had High-res textures for all models in Beta, but when they began stress testing, they found that there were processing problems when large amounts of models were in small areas (i.e. the Fleets).


Now, I don't necessarily agree with their decision, but they decided to remove them temporarily while they try to fix the issue, rather than have people crashing.

The engine already makes use of all cores, so there is no issue with that... as for DirectX 11, I think that was a design choice. They went with a stylized look to avoid high-end photorealistic graphics. MMOs aren't like FPSs and SP games. FFXIV went with high-end graphics, and the rest of the game suffered because of it.


But regardless... High res textures will be re-implemented. They'll be starting in patch 1.2.

Reading the documentation takes too much time! Better just stick with the basic features...

Not a big fan of this engine either...When you can run every game on the market at High settings or above and yet this games forces me to put half of them on low...its not cool! Also the ability delay is hella annoying!

Ok so the Hero Engine did come with a "ReadMe" file, it's just no one at Bioware has read it yet. Got it.

It is interesting to me, because I know nothing of programming or what makes a good engine or not, but what I do know is I did test a post here stating that there is a serious memory leak in the hero engine. I opened my task manager and every hour, on the hour, I checked to see how much memory this game was using.
I was astounded to find that in a period of 3hrs time I went from using 1.1g to 2.3g. Is there any other way to combat this issue barring a game restart? I have been doing that since that is what one of these posters suggested. Is there anyway for BW to "plug" the leak or am I resigned to knowing that will be a constant?
Great thread btw, very informative and frankly quite eye opening.

That doesn't mean it's a memory leak. It could be a number of things causing that issue. Memory leaks are incredibly hard to spot without using developer debugging tools. If there is one they will get to it and fix it.

Someone said that there was a third party program that checks memory leaks and contains them somehow...i think turbo-memory was the name, or something similar.