Texture resolution.....

i agree.

Models are above average and so the detail of landscape.

But what BW thought about the texture i dont know. They are defintily low. EXTREM low-

And to the fanboys here.
NOONE is expecting the frostengine 2 (from BF3) but above average should be an aim.
Look at TEra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ykb1QfJW5I

The game is already released at korea and will be release early 2012 at EU/USA.

And of course the famous candidate Guild Wars 2 has extremly better graphics than SWTOR. Release also early 2012

You can always improve grafics by forcing AA and AF through your card settings(not sure if AF affects it though, when i get my access I will try it).

Also if grafics where that much of an issue everybody would play Lineage 2 or other korean rpgs when WoW came out and yada yada.

I got the feeling there are better textures out there, there's just something not working as intended. Maybe the lowres textures are a bug, known issue still being worked on or something just some players are experiencing.

Someone mentioned setting it to low, exiting, then setting it to high and restarting would fix it. I also had a problem with other preferences settings not being saved after restart (cover quickbar).

I do have the lowres issue and sometimes textures even don't load at all (had a pitchblack Satele earlier). So I'm sure there's just something wrong there and let's hope it will be fixed soonish – either way an official statement concerning this (including AA, AF, etc) would be nice.

So before people are get all heated up: it might be that the other person isn't seeing the game as you are, so consider this being the reason he has a different opinion about the visual quality of the game.

face it...your PC sucks ..

When playing the game i dont mind the low(er) resolution textures, its the talks with npc`s or cutscenes that do it for me.

Darth..whats his face, the one when playing a Sith Warrior, in his Ice Hockey Goaly uniform..

Looks like a 2004 character, the resolution of his armor is absolutely dreadful.. (and yes i`m playing on Max).

If you have a game with a older graphics engine, you should try and and avoid scenes where your 2ft away from a character, zoomed in on his upperbody.. hence showing the immense lack of detail on his armor/helmet.

Can you not just force AA and AF on your graphics card setting if they aren't available ingame yet?

Sitting tight for my invite just now and hoping it will play well on my laptop!

SparklesMgcraw

go to:

C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Local\SWTOR\betatest\settings \clientsettings.ini

edit these to your content (I use notepad++):

Height = 1080
Width = 1920
D3DFullScreen = true
PlantDensity = 150
Height = 1080
NativeHeight = 1080
NativeWidth = 1920
Width = 1920
WindowX = 0
WindowY = 0
DynamicLightsLimit = 2
MeshLODQuality = 1
TextureAnisotropy = 8 (or whatever you like, 2, 4, 8, 16)
FarClipScale = 4
VerticalSyncState = true
doShadows = true
UseMinSpecShaders = false
EnableBloom = true
FullScreen = true
TextureQuality = 0
AllowDepthOfField = true
GammaRamp = 1.037854
SpeedTreeDistanceScale = 1.25
AntiAliasingLevel = 4 (or whatever you like, 2, 4, 8, 16)
DebugAdvEnviroLighting = true

save when finished and enjoy

Remove yellow

yes you can...but that will not fix the texture quality !! only the edge rendering of object !!

While it's not game breaking at all, I have noticed that for some reason textures look worse then they did in the beta. I'm a fan of the art style but I agree that something seems off with the textures. It looks like they've changed the graphical settings anyway with them entirely removing AA which, again isn't a huge deal. Is baffling considering most modern games today.

Strange.

Don't you mean: \SWTOR\retail\ ?

I can't remember the layout of the folders.