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Vesperascit
02.09.2012 , 01:04 AM | #71
Quote: Originally Posted by Khemizt View Post
Hello, I purchased SWTOR a month or so ago, thinking the game was finished and playable (like many others), but it soon became apparent that the game is not yet finished and still in a Beta like state. I would just like an estimation of when the game will be finished? By finished I mean when will the game be playable for a full hour with no significant bugs or glitches.

Basically I'm wondering when the game will be up a state where a normal/competent company would release the game.
I'm playing it right now, and it's fantastic.
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Maidel
02.09.2012 , 01:04 AM | #72
Quote: Originally Posted by Norumaniac View Post
What's weird is that you say its about the SSD, another dude says its CPU, another one says it has to do with the RAM and yet another one says its about the GPU.


But there isnt any official posts telling "ok people, you need an XX processor, an XX GPU and a SSD to play the game".
Anyone who says the gpu affects loading times is an idiot.

As for the other things, they might all be right depending on each users particular bottleneck.

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Colow_Leper
02.09.2012 , 01:06 AM | #73
Quote: Originally Posted by Norumaniac View Post
What's weird is that you say its about the SSD, another dude says its CPU, another one says it has to do with the RAM and yet another one says its about the GPU.


But there isnt any official posts telling "ok people, you need an XX processor, an XX GPU and a SSD to play the game".
Nope - he's right - the loading screens are just that - the game loading the new area... from disk.

FPS could be memory or a slow processor or slow GPU or out of date drivers or any combination of those (and more besides).

Going back to WoW, they used to have it much worse, I remember coming around the corner into the commons in Ironforge and stopping dead - whilst my machine loaded all the graphics for the PCs crowded around there. When I added more memory, it fixed the problem because all of the game resided in memory - TOR doesn't do that (and I think that it should be able to - but, as I haven't totted up the size of all the graphics, I'm not acually certain whether it's possible).

Edit

A SSD will only speed up the loading because it's faster than a mechanical HD - a RAM drive should be faster still (and I did read that people were experimenting with that - not seen the outcome though).
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Culveren
02.09.2012 , 01:06 AM | #74
Quote: Originally Posted by Maidel View Post
Anyone who says the gpu affects loading times is an idiot.

As for the other things, they might all be right depending on each users particular bottleneck.
Yeah its just that on a modern PC the thing that is usually bottle-necking load times is a HDD. Unless you have a crazy slow CPU/ no memory, in which case you are most likely going to complain more about the horrid FPS than the loads lol.

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Shingara
02.09.2012 , 01:08 AM | #75
Quote: Originally Posted by Culveren View Post
Yeah its just that on a modern PC the thing that is usually bottle-necking load times is a HDD. Unless you have a crazy slow CPU/ no memory, in which case you are most likely going to complain more about the horrid FPS than the loads lol.
yup could be anything from your bio drivers or dx drivers even to if your pc is full of dust.
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Khemizt
02.09.2012 , 01:09 AM | #76
My boot drive is an 10K rpm WD raptor, so we can move away from the HDD talk being that it's not the problem.

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Culveren
02.09.2012 , 01:11 AM | #77
Quote: Originally Posted by Shingara View Post
yup could be anything from your bio drivers or dx drivers even to if your pc is full of dust.
What?!!? Dust does not affect load times. As for the other things an SSD would make a much bigger difference than bios (besides maybe raid setups enabled through bios) or drivers.

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TapVallian
02.09.2012 , 01:11 AM | #78
Quote: Originally Posted by dangerusdave View Post
Sheldon Cooper?! Is that you?
Bazinga!

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Culveren
02.09.2012 , 01:11 AM | #79
Quote: Originally Posted by Khemizt View Post
My boot drive is an 10K rpm WD raptor, so we can move away from the HDD talk being that it's not the problem.
Raptors are nowhere near as fast as SSDs.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jjameson/arc...t-vs-raid.aspx

He says the difference is "laughable" in reference to how slow raid raptors are.

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Colow_Leper
02.09.2012 , 01:12 AM | #80
Quote: Originally Posted by Khemizt View Post
My boot drive is an 10K rpm WD raptor, so we can move away from the HDD talk being that it's not the problem.
Yes it is - sorry, but compared to memory transfer speeds, your drive is slooooooooow.

(it's a hell of a lot faster than mine though!)

and it only affect the load screens - mind you when you get one entering your ship, entering the orbital station, entering the spaceport - that's a lot of load screens.
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