Optimization Truth: It was NEVER my computer?

That first quote is just priceless.
But on the other hand what would you expect them to say?

' We spend 200 million dollars developing the game and all you got was unfinished mmo from the year 2006 that features a crappy engine'

Must admit, i haven't read the whole thread. Only the OP. But i bought this computer recently, to pretty much suit the tech spec, for this game. And it makes the game, for lack of a better word, wonderful (That is, more so than before.) No lag, no framerate problems. Nothing but crisp clear and smooth gameplay. I'm not trying to claim you are wrong. Per se. But perhaps there is a grain of truth in what has been claimed by others?

Just wanted to put my two penneth in.

[EDIT]: When i say i run the game well with no problems, i do mean at full graphics etc...

You can try SWTOR Unleashed from my signature to reduce drastically your fps drops.

Regards

In short, your Hero engine...well...sucks. It is poorly optimized, and the amount of hitching and slowdowns i experience as the game loads everything is downright frustrating..

heres an example:

flashpoint,you and your group "Wipe"
so now you have to resurrect at med center , one loading screen, just to appear at the entrance where i have to walk 2 steps forward to get back into the isntance.and thats ANOTHER LOAD SCREEN! why do i have to go thru 2 loading screens back to back ? why not rez me inside the instance?

going to a planet: ship loading screen, galaxy map, travel there, now exit ship, now load screen , now orbital station, now load screen , now shuttle, now load screen again , and finally im on the planet...

ive put up with it for so long because i like the game, but the poor implementation of the engine also makes me run at 24 frames per second generaly on a machine that runs skyrim, guild wars 2 , battlefield 3 , and a few other graphically intensive games with what could be equated to 200% better performance ...im left with no choice but to decide its your optimization on the hero engine and how it uses video card drivers

ive been puttin together PC's and gaming on them for the past 12 years, i still remember all my DOS commands and ive installed more video card drivers and copies of EVERY windows release than you can imagine, so im not some scrub with an adware ridden best buy pc speaking out of my butt, believe me when i say , that if you want your f2p model to work , you need to make it so that any regular joe can run it smoothly, because most f2p comers will NOT put up with this poor engine performance for months on end like i have, let alone invest 6 months into it...

anyways , i might be back as a subscriber if major overhauls are done to the engine and its optimization , if GW2 can do it with 2.0 shaders and 100 people on screen on this machine...then its not me , it swtor ...good luck !

Yeah hi, research more. My game was running terrible on my 5 year old rig.

Recently bought a new rig (i5 3.4 over clocked to 4.4ghz, 16 gig RAM, windows 7 and a GTX 660ti) game now runs fine everywhere solid 60 fps everywhere because I keep vsync on. So yeah I used to be of the opinion the engine is bad now I know it's just not very good with old hardware.

I love how the self-appointed "YOU MUST GLORIFY BIOWARE AT ALL TIMES!" police immediately turn this topic into "OP is complaining about frame rates. What are your PC specs OP? Your PC must be crap because my game runs fine!"

In reality this thread was about bioware deception and lying about the game engine problems by blaming player's PCs

I have been here since beta and EGA and virtually EVERY patch since launch has made fps worse. I used to be able to play on an older core2duo (2Ghz) laptop with a humble 9600mgt at 1280x800 and 4GB ram and get decent frame rates (40-50) throughout (PvE only since i dont PvP) with shadows on high, AA at 4x and bloom on.

1.2 took a huge chunk out of fps and I had to turn off bloom and shadows to have smooth play of around 25fps.

1.3 made the game nigh unplayable in many scenarios unless i really turned the graphics down. At that point i finally shelled 4 months salary for a spanking new computer and was happy to get around 112-120 fps in normal scenarios and 95-100fps in semi crowded fleet.

After seeing this post today I just checked my fps and its an apalling 64fps on Hoth with only 22 people on the server and nothing in sight but a few tauntauns as far as the eye can see...

And before you go whacking my new PC here are the specs
Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770K OCed to 4 GHz
Z77 motherboard
8GB Kingston HyperX running at 1600
Gigabyte Geforce GTX670 with windforce OCed to around 1080MHz (cant remb the exact figure)
Mushkin Chronos elite SSD connected to SATA3 bus (this is both my OS drive and the drive running SWTOR)
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 with all latest drivers and directX installed (even installed the latest DX9 known to help improve SWTOR performance)

So dont tell me its my system. I have seen the performance of the game steadily degrade with every patch released. The degradation of my laptop or new desktop hardware is far too miniscule to result in the fps drops - ITS THE SOFTWARE!!

Looks like your GTX670 requires a 500W supply without being overclocked. That you have everything else overclocked, I'm guessing you're going to need at least a 750W-800W supply in there to avoid any issues. But that's just a guess.