Alienware M18x - Prepare to deploy Star Wars TOR

we on the same server as the current light side guilld? good job making the creds btw and let me know what server to be on and ill setup a character there. I've been having some latency issues, but I'm calling the ISP tomarrow so hopefully they will get it fixed soon.

 

Heyas,

Need a BIG favour. Would any of you who are getting constant 60fps + out of SWTOR mind giving me a run down of the CCC setting you are using. EG AA settings, AA type, in game settings, etc. Also, if you are overclocking your 6990m's, what are the settings.

This would really help me.

EDIT: Also, what drivers r u using? Dell stock (new one) or 12.1 preview?

Thanks in advance

Oh, and merry merry and happy happy and all that crap to you all

 

I am using the latest beta drivers from dell that are floating around. My CCC settings are default I have not touched anything other than activating my Crossfire.

I just maxed the ingame graphics but the ingame settings do not allow you to mess with AA.

The game looks really good even without AA tweaked.

 

Just tell me what time you need me on and I will try my best to be there.

I usually get off work at 5:00pm Eastern time zone and get home at 5:45-6:00pm

So anytime after that I can be on unless its a weekend then I can log on earlier.

EDIT: As far as the server it should be the same. The name is Naddist Rebels ( everybody on the server calls it Nudist Rebels so its easy to remember )

 

I have been playing as my trooper and managed to get him to level 12. I got a sith warrior at level 7 ill keep working on, but im gonna start a bounty hunter hunter here soon as well because i'm getting used to having some ranged firepower as my commado

As to times im online, im four hours behind most of you guys (ak standard time) so it makes it a bit harder, but ill try to be in when you need me

 

For anyone interested:

I am part of a Empire pvp guild on Vella named Excessive Force. We are a small guild with members from past WoW pvp guilds. We also have a vent server.

If your interested message Xundrak ingame.

 

Anyone getting negative crossfire scaling with 12.1 and the latest CAP? The game is near unplayable with crossfire in any sort of city for me.

 

Sorry no issues here with the latest dell beta drivers

 

Yes, I could use as well. Thanks.

 

I am running dual 6970s and my performance in SWOTR was pretty bad. After a couple of hours, I fixed it. FYI I am using latest Dell AMD Drivers.

1) Disabled Vertical Sync in game.
2) In the Catalyst Control Center, under Gaming --> Gaming Performance --> Standard 3D Settings I had to move the slider all the way to the left to "Performance". This changed my FPS dramatically, putting me in the > 60 fps.

*Note: The graphics quality did not suffer at all by doing this. The game still looks great.

/Bite

 

On my 6990's with the latest dell beta drivers I just left the default driver settings. Vertical Sync will cap your FPS to 60 but anything more than 60 your eye cannot even see the difference so I would not worry about Vsync on or off unless you want the high FPS.

 

Hi all. For some reason I was not getting thread updates...


Saturday at 1pm est. on Naddist Rebels server at Kass City we can meet and group up. I am Trekker so add me to your friend list and whisper me to find exact location.

We need four guys in a group and 5000 credits. I will pay the 5000 credits.

With four people in a group at the galactic market in Kass City there is an NPC to make a guild with four grouped players and 5k credits. If anyone knows more or differently please advise.

Pm me for any suggestions or concerns. Thanks!

 

Will be ingame asap, im having some strange boot issue(of course it had to had happen when i had to meet you guys). Working on fixing but idk how long its gonna take

 

Need one more to form guild!

 

Wont even boot on intergated graphics doing a system repair hopefully it clears the issue up. I'm really sorry im not there like i said i would be.

 

Lets try tomorrow 1/1/12 at 1 m Dromand Kass Naddist Rebels server... Need one person from here!!!!

 

I should be able to get on around 1-1:30pm est ill make sure my computer boots this time

 

All good Sunday 1-1:30 Stomachus!

 

ill try to be on that time ^_^

 

Thanks Oni, need to save a spot for bigtony with his HD troubles...

 

I will be there on my crappy desktop

 

By the way my ingame name is Oni-San

So msg me I will be on from now till all day. Although I am on call at the hospital so I might need to leave at a moments notice.

 

Hey guys, just curious. There are some areas of TOR that take a massive fps hit at current. Depends on which side your currently running (Rebel Vs. Empire) but for example: Rebel Side: Jedi Temple indoors on Tython and the Rebel Fleet station, or Empire Side: In the pyramid areas on Korriban.

I've seen fps go from 70 down to like 28 just changing rooms, and I have things set mostly to medium on a desktop system. On the m18s, off VSync at 1920x1080 are you guys just crushing it? like 100fps plus all the time? Just curious.

As a side note, the "High" settings in TOR are currently forked back to medium settings if you weren't aware. The High settings are suppose to come, possibly via a client side patch on tomorrows maintenance window. Those High textures will finally be working, and are actually rumored to make a big difference in the texture quality.

 

I thought it was just me because I could of sworn that in the beta the graphics looked better (it still looks great).

I am pretty much "crushing" the game at all times except when I am on a speeder auto ride from one side of the map to the other then it sorta drops to 40s.

Otherwise with Vsync on I get 60 static and without vsync I get microstuttering at 110-120.

 

I stopped paying attention to fps after It stayed at 60FPS for a while(v-sync) it will be interesting to see how demanding these new textures are though. Still shouldn't be a problem on the m17x or m18x. M14x might have some problems running it maxed though idk.

 

I agree but I would love to see more info regarding this update. Can somebody link the notes since my job filters anything game related.

 

I tried to copy and paste but it wasnt working to well on my tablet here is the website though with the notes

 

I hate my work's proxy! It's too damn smart for its own good.

"
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Don't sweat it Oni. These are actually the patch notes from a week ago. The new patch notes won't be official until after tomorrow mornings maintenance. The patch is rumored to be 1.0.3 and address the graphics textures for "High" settings. The devs in the TOR forums have acknowledged the issue and say the fix is coming. Many are firm that tomorrow is the date, as if a dev has confirmed that but I have yet to find where they sourced that piece.

I guess we wait and see what happens in the AM. Servers are going down from 2am to 10am CST Jan 4th. Ill post the notes in here in text form for ya tomorrow so that you don't get nurfed by the work firewall

-Thrawn

 

I'm running the 12.1 Drivers. I force 8xAA and 16 Aniso w/ crossfire on default or 1x1 via CCC Profiles. In game settings are high except I uncheck the vsync and shadows are off (they look ugly).

Seeing roughly 45-110 depending on area in game and how long I have been playing (client seems to get worse the longer it is open). Huge swings but very playable and the AA is a must have for me as it looks awful by default.

 

Hope this works properly ... I removed all the spacing. It's from the PTR forum. Dec 30/2011.

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1.0.2 Patch Notes

General
        Guilds that are currently leaderless will have an Officer chosen and promoted to Guild Leader.

Classes and Combat
    Sith Inquisitor
        General
            The Darth title is now properly granted to Sith Inquisitors.
    Bug Fixes
        Corrected an issue that could prevent players from taking cover when targeting large NPCs.
        Fixed a bug that caused some abilities with activation times to be interrupted when used from cover.
Flashpoints and Operations
    Flashpoints
        Taral V
            General Edikar now has the correct loot in Hard Mode and no longer enrages in Normal Mode.
    Operations
        Bug Fixes
            Fixed an issue that could cause choosing Nightmare Mode to not set enemies to Nightmare difficulty.
Items
    General
        PvP lockboxes now cost 70 commendations, contain more consumables, and always contain an item.
    Bug Fixes
        Corrected several PvP items that were Bind on Equip. They are now Bind on Pickup.
        PvP vendors on Capital Planets now offer the correct PvP items.
        Commendations received via in-game mail are now correctly added to the Currency tab.
Missions and NPCs
    Missions
        Imperial
            Number One with a Bullet: Players who choose dark side options now correctly receive the mission First Strike after completing this mission.
            First Strike: Players who did not receive this mission will now receive it upon entering their personal starships.
        Republic
            Death Cloud: Players can now complete the "Toxic Waste" bonus objective regardless of how quickly they complete this mission.
    Bug Fixes
        Corrected mission steps on several planets that could cause client instability.
        Fixed issues with some missions that could prevent pending rewards from being accepted.
Space Combat
    Bug Fixes
        Fixed an issue that caused a client crash if a space station was destroyed in Space Combat.
UI
    Maps
        Group members no longer appear on all planets on the Galaxy Map.
        Corrected an issue that could cause map notes to disappear after logging out and back into the game.
        Corrected some map notes that referenced the incorrect map.
        Updated map notes for "travel to planet" steps in class missions on Nar Shaddaa, Hoth, and Belsavis to indicate the planet's space station.
    Bug Fixes
        Players now receive the appropriate message if they attempt to create more characters than are permitted per account.
        Group members outside of a player's phase are no longer prompted to roll on items.
        The In-Game Customer Service Portal no longer appears to hang while the "updating" message is displayed.
        The Guild interface now properly displays the guild member list when it is sorted.
        The "Show Sith Corruption" option no longer toggles off when transitioning between areas.
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
        Taxi rides are no longer occasionally interrupted, causing the player to be dropped from the taxi.
        Using the /dismiss command now correctly dismisses a vanity pet.
        Corrected some issues that could cause players to become stuck on the loading screen when logging into a character.
        Players can now use emotes while riding a vehicle.
        Fixed a bug that prevented some text-only mail messages from being received.
        Graphics preferences in settings files are now consistent with actual settings in use.
        Being in Do Not Disturb mode no longer prevents characters from being logged out for being away.
        Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled.
        Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being logged out for inactivity.

 

Thank you ! Rep+ for the assistance.

Although I do not see anywhere about the graphics update.

 

Found the "Bermuda Triangle" on Balmora. Massive glitches replaying fights and not allowing completion of a mission. Got it sorted out.

Oddly every glitch was when I was grouped with someone.

 

I think this is what the graphics update is about here: Graphics preferences in settings files are now consistent with actual settings in use.

 

Thanks Thrawn! I believe you its just that I would like to get more info by seeing the dev's information.

Well the update should be today so I will hold my fingers crossed for the update!

 

Thanks!

So when are we all getting on to play together? Also feel free to invite as many people as possible to the guild because the more the merrier!

I will be on tonight around 6pm EST

 

Great find guys. Originally I saw the date of the notes, and didn't realize that it was from the PTR. So this is likely to be the very patch we receive. The two things to note regarding graphics are (as BigTony mentioned) graphics actually using what they are set to in prefs, and the other one is at the end:

"Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled."

Indoors areas are definitely where I see the performance hit, so that last one makes me smile.

 

In the beta they actually had AA as an option but greyed out. I did see a post somewhere of messing with a config file to activate it without messing with the drivers.

I was hoping they would add that option again but I have not heard anything regarding that.

 

Has anyone tried to play the game with the Intel HD 3000?

I'm wondering if I could play it while in class

 

The config only works for nvidia (I think). Tried it on my 6990's and it just crashed the client instantly. Only way to get AA was forcing via radeonpro or via the 12.1 profiles.

Edit: Here's the patch notes for evil proxy companies =P. Only slight changes were detected with my merge utilities but there are a few differences.

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1.0.2 Patch Notes 1/4/2012

General

    Guilds that are currently leaderless will have an Officer chosen and promoted to Guild Leader.



Classes and Combat


    Sith Inquisitor
        The Darth title is now properly granted to Sith Inquisitors.

    Bug Fixes
        Corrected an issue that could prevent players from taking cover when targeting large NPCs.
        Fixed a bug that caused some abilities with activation times to be interrupted when used from cover.



Crew Skills


    Gathering
        Removed some high-level harvesting nodes from Tatooine, Corellia, and Ilum.



Flashpoints and Operations


    Flashpoints

        Cademimu
            General Ortol can no longer be pulled out of his room.

        Maelstrom Prison
            Corrected an issue that could cause Kilran to behave incorrectly when defeated in cover.

        Taral V
            General Edikar now has the correct loot in Hard Mode and no longer enrages in Normal Mode.

    Operations

        Eternity Vault
            Gharj can no longer be pulled out of his encounter room.

    Bug Fixes
        Fixed an issue that could cause choosing Nightmare Mode to not set enemies to Nightmare difficulty.



Items


    General
        PvP lockboxes now cost 70 commendations, contain more consumables, and always contain an item.

    Bug Fixes
        Corrected several PvP items that were Bind on Equip. They are now Bind on Pickup.
        PvP vendors on Capital Planets now offer the correct PvP items.
        Commendations received via in-game mail are now correctly added to the Currency tab.



Missions and NPCs


    Missions

        Imperial
            Number One with a Bullet: Players who choose dark side options now correctly receive the mission First Strike after completing this mission.
            First Strike: Players who did not receive this mission will now receive it upon entering their personal starships.

        Republic
            Death Cloud: Players can now complete the "Toxic Waste" bonus objective regardless of how quickly they complete this mission.

        Bug Fixes
            Corrected mission steps on several planets that could cause client instability.
            Fixed issues with some missions that could prevent pending rewards from being accepted.



Space Combat


    Bug Fixes
        Fixed an issue that caused a client crash if a space station was destroyed in Space Combat.



UI


    Maps
        Group members no longer appear on all planets on the Galaxy Map.
        Corrected an issue that could cause map notes to disappear after logging out and back into the game.
        Corrected some map notes that referenced the incorrect map.
        Updated map notes for "travel to planet" steps in class missions on Nar Shaddaa, Hoth, and Belsavis to indicate the planet's space station.

    Bug Fixes
        Group members outside of a player's phase are no longer prompted to roll on items.
        The In-Game Customer Service Portal no longer appears to hang while the "updating" message is displayed.
        The Guild interface now properly displays the guild member list when it is sorted.
        The "Show Sith Corruption" option no longer toggles off when transitioning between areas.


Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

    Taxi rides are no longer occasionally interrupted, causing the player to be dropped from the taxi.
    Using the /dismiss command now correctly dismisses a vanity pet.
    Corrected some issues that could cause players to become stuck on the loading screen when logging into a character.
    Players can now use emotes while riding a vehicle.
    Fixed a bug that prevented some text-only mail messages from being received.
    Graphics preferences in settings files are now consistent with actual settings in use.
    Being in Do Not Disturb mode no longer prevents characters from being logged out for being away.
    Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on some machines in indoor areas with shadows enabled.
    Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being logged out for inactivity.

 

I have not tried it myself but the game is not that demanding. You might have to drop some settings but it should run.

 

looks like i'm out of the fight for a 5-7 days. Dell suddenly appears to have got their act together and sent me a box after a month of calling and trying to get this stuff resolved. Good luck out there guys and I'll join you as soon as I get my PC back.

 

Will save a spot for you Tony and help level you up when you return!

 

Not sure what you guys are seeing (after all most of you put down like +25000 in Vantage lol) but the game is running much better for me on the graphics side. I'm seeing 15-30% fps increase across the board and in most indoors areas its running even faster then that. Not sure what all they played with for this patch, but it was definitely significant.

 

The only thing I saw was that AA not being on became more evident. Before even with AA off I never saw any jagged edges so I did not feel the need to mess with my radeon pro to force it but now I think I will need to.

 

Even with shadows turned on it is significantly smoother. 8xAA 16xAniso + High Shadows (which look horrible btw). Was only seeing about a 10-15% drop from no shadows. I'm definitely impressed, although I think they might need to modify the way the patching works.

If the patch server you are connected to drops out (which happened to me last nite) you have to restart the client in order to get it to reconnect. I had to restart 4-5 times to get a server that would finish patching.

Speaking of patching is anyone else surprised by the low size of the patches thus far? I was expecting 100mb+ quite honestly.

 

glad to hear its running rather smoothly for you guys as to the patch sizes, I think its because most of the patching goes to the server, and only the things that are modified on the client side are things like options and GUI stuff I could be wrong here though.

 

Did you find those options in a game file or did you just use radeon pro?

 

I use the app profiles in 12.1. Just a warning radeon pro and 12.1 cause issues when they are both turned on (radeon pro works fine for 11.x though).

 

Thanks I never used the app profiles so I will start messing with those.