Re-Optimize This Game

Does anyone know if they plan on re-optimizing this game before or after the expansion release? Ever since the stutter issue with the game that they "fixed" I've still be having issues planing they game even on lower settings. I was wondering if anyone else was still having issues. And yes I am running a high end machine with everything updated to the latest drivers.

It's not a big deal but I remember being able to play the game without any issues what so ever.

Have you tried this?
http://windows7themes.net/how-to-imp...windows-7.html

TOR is useing the alpha hero engine client,

No im not fracking kidding, wish was.

Its not even the beta version, let alone the regular version or the hero engine 2.

You don't think they modified the engine themselves? Yes, they bought a older version of the engine (was the newest at the time), but then they developed it further themselves.

I wouldn't expect it either, converting from DX9 to DX11 is a massive undertaking, even for a relatively small project. Let stand for a major project such as this.

Additionally, as quite a lot has changed, not all your developers may be familiar enough with DX11, this would require extra resources to be spent on the time they take on getting up to date.

Furthermore you will be challenged with the difficult choice on whether to keep supporting both DX9 and DX11, risking to run into DX specific bugs which then quickly get the notion of simply to play with e.g. DX9 (as most commonly its DX11 running into issues, due to many developers being inexperienced with it). Prime example to this is TSW, of which the DX11 client has been perhaps one of the most buggy DX11 applications till date, for many people simply not even launching.

The other option is to fully switch over to DX11, but then you face the issue of minimum requirements for the game skyrocketing, as you'll need at least Windows 7. Or Windows 8 in terms of DX11.1, not to mention the requirement of a DX11 capable GPU.

Which makes it a hard decision to make:

1. Losing further development time by needing to code for 2 APIs simultaneously, and risking an increment of API specific bugs. Which may even further increase if OpenGL support is ever considered to allow for Mac support.
2. Cutting off a major part of your player population by ditching DX 9 support as EA is doing with certain other franchises which make use of the Frostbite 2 engine (this engine only support DX10 and DX11, these two versions of DX are much more similar to each other and hence easier for programmers to support simultaneously); e.g. Dragon Age III for the BioWare fans.

I see what your saying but by the time they actually do implement this is they even do most people should have Win 7 or above but yes for now it probs is best to stay with DX9

TOR is useing the alpha hero engine client,

No im not fracking kidding, wish was.

Its not even the beta version, let alone the regular version or the hero engine 2.