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How can you not run SWTOR on max?

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How can you not run SWTOR on max?

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SukeLywalker
12.14.2011 , 08:01 PM | #81
Quote: Originally Posted by Kabloosh View Post
Same reason why people buy crap cars that lose almost all their value in 2 years.
Indeed. Which is why I'd rather wait till I have the money to buy it for what it's worth, then save that money, make decent payments to build my credit on the car until it is payed off by that 2 year mark or earlier. If anything happens I'll have saved money within that two year span to tackle any unforseen issues like a car accident or just get new tires. Oh wait then it's worth less than I paid for anyway by then xD

I guess that's the way it goes with cars.

Anyway.........I bought a HP Tower for around 500 bucks and its above recommended settings. The graphics card I bought for it is above par, but I've had some recent issues with my monitor it would change colors and flash. Not sure if this was SWTOR related, but it's been an issue since the last beta.

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Buckmoth
12.14.2011 , 08:02 PM | #82
Quote: Originally Posted by wolfsheadbane View Post
didn't know TOR had skyrim graphics
I wish it did...my computer handles Skyrim on high settings with no problems. SWTOR barely chugs along at medium.

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wolfsheadbane
12.14.2011 , 08:02 PM | #83
Quote: Originally Posted by Knewt View Post
Then why are you paying $50+ to buy the game and $15/month to play it? Save the money and use it on rent, food and the other things.
exactly , people try to make out like 40 bucks for like 4 more gig will break the bank yet they have the money to just dish out on an MMO

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Moiras
12.14.2011 , 08:03 PM | #84
Quote: Originally Posted by wolfsheadbane View Post
oh my god this made me LOL hard!

also for all of you people saying blahblah bigger priorities blahblah i am 20 have 2 children don't work neither does my partner live at home with my parents and still managed to buy a machine that cost 2500$ if you are the age of 13-16 then i understand but even then i don't see why your parents woudn't get you a machine that wasn't from 1720 for christmas or something
Wow... these people make trolling WAY too easy.
Let me get this straight. You live at your parent's home, with your partner and children (at your parent's expense, I must assume), and yet you spend your dollars (2500 of them) on a gaming rig.
Your dumb *** deserves to be living in a box under the freeway until you learn a few life lessons. FFS.

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Fardarter
12.14.2011 , 08:03 PM | #85
All my pcs since around 2000 I either build myself or had specially built. Except for my last one that is 2 or 3 years old now. I bought a Gateway FX series and it has been very good to me. I did have to replace my power supply and when I did that i swapped out the gtx260 for a gtx580 and it will be good for a few more years. I think I spent maybe 1200 on it. I added a $500 gpu but that isn't bad considering the extra life it adds.

Gaming capable machines have gotten much cheaper though. I would regularly spend 2k on machines. You could play this game and most others very well for under a grand.

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bfishback
12.14.2011 , 08:04 PM | #86
My laptop is a year old, and cost $1000 dollars. So I doubt a $200 dollars laptop could run it..

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SukeLywalker
12.14.2011 , 08:04 PM | #87
Quote: Originally Posted by Saitada View Post
My computer isn't exactly stone age.. maybe early iron age. I upgrade it as I can, when I can. But I also have a Mortgage, Car payment, Homeowners, Car and Health insurance, Water, Electric and Gas, not to mention paying $4.50 a gallon for gas for the car each week ($35.00 to fill it up x 4 = $140.00 a month average), I have Cable, Internet and phone bills, food etc, all of which comes to more than $5500.00 a month. I also have a savings account that I put money back for a rainy day emergency as I am also a prudent person that believes firmly that the Gods play dice with mankind and we never know when we are going to get a snake eyes roll.

So with all my bills, and being in a single earner home, upgrading my computer when it works and accomplishes what I need it to do, is often last on the list of my priorities. I do upgrade when I can though but expenses and prudence come first.

~Saitada
I'm in that same boat. Have fun in game!

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Dudeo
12.14.2011 , 08:05 PM | #88
Quote: Originally Posted by Knewt View Post
Then why are you paying $50+ to buy the game and $15/month to play it? Save the money and use it on rent, food and the other things.
Because I am getting it for Christmas.
Also, if I don't buy this, I better not pay for my tv license, I best not buy books to read, I best simply pay for whatever will keep me simply alive and anything else is pointless. Everyone needs some way to relax and have fun, whether you can afford it or not.
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Victrixz
12.14.2011 , 08:05 PM | #89
Quote: Originally Posted by bfishback View Post
My laptop is a year old, and cost $1000 dollars. So I doubt a $200 dollars laptop could run it..
OP has no idea what the hell is talking about yet he made a post trying to come off as he does
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wolfsheadbane
12.14.2011 , 08:06 PM | #90
also why are people gaming in this day and age if they don't have a system that can run a basic MMO like SWTOR? It's not exactly age of conan or anything the graphics are simple as it gets