New engine > expansion(s)

SHE IS OUR SELF APPOINTED AMBASSADOR!!!!

You'd best kneel...she's very very (self) important...she speaks for us all (not really)

Yes, you guys are much better off being represented by someone naive enough to think they can just put in a new engine.

Truly, you are the champions.

Not all AMD CPUs are junk. The A-series is garbage for gaming, and the FX-series that ends in 'e' is a power-saving model meant more for micro-ATX and home theater PCs where heat is a concern.

Just a few simple rules with AMD, get the FX series CPU, don't get anything that is lower than XX50 or you are taking a gamble. Sure you'll see a lot of people posting about amazing overclocks out of an 8320, but there's a reason why those chips are underclocked from 4 GHz to 3.7 AND binned lower for a lower price point. When you are gaming you are looking for stability more than pure overclock potential. It's worth paying the little bit extra to go for the 8350 over the 8320 and having a stable build that runs at 4-4.2 GHz.

Since you are going for AMD, build it yourself. Seriously, most of the issues people have with AMD is the fact they buy prebuilt computers which are loaded with bloatware and "malware" since these are discount computers and they recoup their money selling your demographic information. If you are going to go that route, at least buy your own OS and software direct from the makers and install it yourself after reformatting the HDD.

This is my current build:
FX-8350
Asus M5A99 FX R2
8 GB GSkill Ripjaws PC14900 CL8
Radeon HD 6770
Win 8.1 OEM

The lowest my fps dipped was 30 fps during a 6v8 with lots of AOEs especially FS. It hitched for a split second when everyone lit off AOEs all at once but otherwise it runs 40-50 fps in warzones and 70-80 on fleet. All the drivers are current non-beta builds, direct from the manufacturer's website. So if anyone is getting less than this on a similar build, there is junk running on your computer that doesn't need to be running, or you have a driver issue. If a clean build with current drivers has no issues running the game, then it's obvious it's not the game or the hardware.

I've stated before in another thread that I would pay for an expansion and also that it will prob never happen. Best we can hope for his bandaid fixes.
There are also those who assume a new engine would lower performance across the board.

Your computer is going to sit at 50% or less most of the time because operating systems typically limit how much a single process can use. This is the reason SWTOR run two instances in the first place.

There's also the fact that most times you are only seeing total CPU usage, you could have 1 core maxed at 100%, 7 other cores sitting idle, and it would only show a CPU usage of 12.5% on one of those stupid widgets.

That's why good hardware monitoring programs will track all cores independently.

That is not the reason why they have 2 process, engine has 2 process to bypass the 2gb limit on 32bit, and cause they didnt want to A do a 64bit client or B program the client right.

From developers stand point have 2 .exe is bad idea cause that mean they have to be synced which in term degrades performance

Well maybe a new engine is a bit to much, but how about refreshing some of the graphics. Higher quality textures or model overhauls. Games Like Eve online and Wow have been doing this to improve their looks over the years. Bioware and EA are totaly infested in this game, they are gonna release a new expansion, maybe they should also look into some way to improve certain graphic/engine stuff. And I know gameplay over graphics but it could not hurt to improve some of this stuff.

You are mistaken, it has two processes for threading and supposedly memory limit reasons but I've never seen the secondary process use much memory at all, currently the main exe is using 1200MB for me and the other one is 220mb.
I'm not sure where you even got the idea processes can only use so much percentage of your CPU, truly odd you would think that, given how modern applications and games are widely multithreaded, i.e TH3 pegs all 4 of my CPU cores as do media encoding applications etc, if modern applications weren't able to use more than 1 core then Intel and AMD (and us) would be a bit boned since one of the reasons we use multi-core cpus now is because they couldn't keep just increasing clock speed to increase performance.

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