Thanks for 1.4.1

I have one nVidia GTX 570 card and I did notice a slightly overall decrease in fps since 1.4, but I have no major graphic issues (stuttering) at all. I am using a driver that is dated Oct 15 2011 and version 8.17.12.8562. Maybe old drivers will help some people?

How much patience will EA show in getting my monthly payment?

I had an older driver (prolly not 2011) but still older. The stuttering did not improve updating to that latest release. Some of the tuning like name plate helped, but its still apparent while moving around, even in areas with no other players. I haven't tried 1.4.1 yet to comment on the patch.

It was clearly related to the shadows update. I think the issue was they thought it was isolated to certain small subsets of players and under estimated or under reported to the higher ups the impact. Now they are in CYA mode. Smooth gameplay is very important. The stuttering gives it the feel of an untested, unpolished game. All the features and adds in the world cannot overcome poor visual performance. The engine has always been poor with shadows on. I know this isn't all that uncommon, but I've not had such poor performance on a game in a while in the lowest settings. Usually those are for laptops with integrated video cards that struggle. Systems with above average and higher graphics cards shouldn't be performing this poorly.

Agreed. Continue to call them out on this.

You are completely ignorant of the hundreds of things some of us have tried.

Ive tried 3 different Nvidia cards, downgraded drivers to more then 22 different versions, clean installed a harddrive with updated drivers all around, turned off and on seperately every single slider, option, control for graphics in this game, and gone down to the lowest resolutions.

Since the day 1.4 came out tons of people are left with a stuttering mess of a game while we continue to have to pay subscriptions with days of legitimately playing lost and they have nothing for us.

You assume too much and think that some of us are not willing to turn of shadows? You are so off base and clueless its astounding.

They had plenty of notice and information and STILL released the patch anyway.

Patience? This has been a bug riddled game for many for almost a year now. A paying customer, no matter how "complicated" a product is, is more than entitled to legitimate communication and help. When they receive neither for weeks, it is in no way fair to them to just "be patient" while their money is still being asked for.

Agreed.

Also, the latest drivers for Nvidia are needed to play MoP_WoW. The WoW runs very smooth with the latest drivers. I conclude it is not my computer since the only game having problems is SWTOR.

Anyone else noticed that when opening friends panel fps drops do 1. That wasn t the case before 1.4.1 patch. It s really annoying.

Yet it isn't happening to everyone. So it is a specific issue related to some specific hardware, and most likely a problem with the game's code and a specific set of drivers. Not the easiest thing in the world to fix.

That's a new "feature".

The stuttering thing is a major bummer
So, it'll be another week or so of significantly less enjoyable play time, should I choose to loging to SWTOR.
Most MMO games don't feel responsive enough even when they run smooth, and if they stutter on top of that, things are bad.

I have no performance issues on other games, tried out a rather fluid MMO beta just yesterday actually, and it doesn't have a massive difference whether I run this game on highest or lowest, so... blehh. Wouldn't have felt the urge to add my tears to the pool, if some people didn't insist the problem to be mine rather than anything at all with the game.