Terrible FPS issues and ability lag in Warzones.

Same issue here. I can run BF3 and and crysis smooth as silk. PvE on swtor is just as smooth.

As soon as I enter a war zone however I lag unbearably. Tried about 25 different fixes etc.. nothing works and I have no idea whats going on.

People with supercomputers ($2-3k machines) have issues. I don't have a high end machine by any definition, but it should blow this game out of the water.

i5-2500K 3.30 GHz
8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5
Windows 7 64 bit

I have a 700w PSU, and liquid cooling. Overheating and underpowered are not problems. All drivers are up to date. Ping is at 39ms. I have zero bloatware and keep my HDD's defragged and my registry clean. I've seen 10 FPS on Alderaan. That should never happen. Bioware, your graphics engine sucks.

I called Bio,..they said ,."oh..it's your internet connection"..k...I have Fios....you have a better one? No problems with connection..."Oh...it's your Vid Card...." so I had it replaced...(even though it was tested and had no Issues). I've been playing WOW for over a year everyday with no problems...but put in a brand new Radyon 5450. STILL RUNNING AT ^%^%$#$% 3.6(4.5)-to-6.2(8.5) FPS if I;m lucky. ***? You know it's your problem! Stop blaming the rest of the world and fix this $H*&...PLEASE! Your giving me a F$%$#$ headache!!

I run 80-100fps on everything maxed in pve, when I join a warzone I get 40-60 OH the horror :P. But i did end up buying some rediculous upgrades, and u use to have the same issues w/ fps, delay, lag etc. if you want a new card and have some money to spend go for the GeForce gtx 560 IMO it's a good deal for 250-275.

cancelled my sub due to lack of info for a fix

I have a Geforce 560 ti, I get 20 fps in warzones.

Got 2 months. if this keeps up im done aswell fking **** lagg fking **** pvp.
Gieve update or atleast tell us what ur gonna do about it.
Fking **** game

I have a 560.

This is really weird for me because 2 weeks ago I was having ZERO problems with all settings maxed out. I have moved to another city (with an even LOWER latency) since then. So I get internet in my new home (plenty of bandwidth), log in...and all of a sudden I can barely play warzones with all my settings on LOW and my res reduced from 1080p to 1300x760.

I understand new game/development/etc etc. I will never understand the "Check your settings and the required specs" nonsense people are getting from tech support. How about you check your patch? The game was fantastic, now it's laggy in an intense zone where laggy is very very bad.

All I can say is running Crysis2 with everything set to Ultra used to be the 'test to run' - now the joke seems to be if your machine can run SWTOR. :-D As it stands today, I think it would be an understatement to say that Crytek's CryEngine 3 is a bit more 'advanced' than what we have from Bioware with SWTOR's engine.

My machine summary
Win7x64
Dual Xeon 6-ways overclocked to 3.8ghz (24 cores)
64gb RAM
Dual Nvidia GTX 580's running in SLI
Dual OCZ Revodrive X2 SSD PCIExpress boards - striped at Raid 0

This machine cost more to build than a small new car (thanks to my job always upgrading my machine every few months) and I have no performance problems running SWTOR.

I run in 2560x1600 resolution without any frame rate issues.

A couple of things that I can tell you from running it on this machine... I've never seen a game that uses so many CPU cores while simultaneously pushing the video cards so hard. On a dual core machine, I would imagine this game would not perform well.

A few weeks ago, I switched from OCZ SSD's running via onboard SATAII to these new onboard PCI Express x4 SSD drive cards (700+MB/s instead of 200MB/s like the stand alone OCZ Vertex 3 SSDs) because of another project. The drives are so smoking fast that they make "normal SSDs" look slow. SWTOR still pauses not just when loading a new instance, but sometimes in the middle of things like a warzone. I'll see a 2-3 second pause - like it is waiting to get something from the server (and I see a brief drop and then spike in network traffic). Now granted, this could be a driver issue with these new drives that are so new that I'm testing, or it could be periodic internet lag (I run on a 110mb/s internet connection to my house - but IT IS with Comcast... ) but these drives have worked flawlessly with everything else including testing SQL2008 and MYSQL doing huge random disk I/O without issue. I mention all of this because I do not see these "pauses" with any other game. I thought that these new drives may make the loading time less, but it had no effect. That tells me that this is likely a network issue - not a local issue.

I'm sure there is optimization to be done, but I think those of you that are running on older dual core machines are fooling yourself if you think it's still fast enough. Remember - when Crysis 2 came out, everyone started upgrading their PCs because it just required more hardware than anything else up to that point. There were people then that complained "this game sucks because it won't run on my machine". Perhaps that's what we are seeing here? Combine that with code that is still buggy and network traffic shaping with Bioware's servers that hasn't really been optimized yet, and you have the perfect storm - for now. I don't know who is hosting their servers, but I'm sure they have been scrambling trying to balance server and network traffice to make performance more consistent.

Schweddy, sounds like you've got a nice system. And if games keep throwing insane processing demands at you, you will likely keep your head above water. I have an i5, which I might upgrade to an i7 in the next year. It's a computer I just bought 5 months ago.

What's weird is how dramatically everything changed just since patches hit in the past few weeks. I mean, same warzone went from 30-50fps to 10-25fps AFTER lowering everything from maxed out 1080p to low graphics and low resolution. There's no point debating that more money could solve my problem. But I don't think Bioware expected that a million people would have to shell out a coupla grand AFTER they were already happy with the performance at launch.

PATCH NOTES: You will now need to buy a new computer to PvP.