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    Star Wars: the old republic

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Jenings, Jan 4, 2012.

  1. Jenings

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    System: XPS 702x

    Hi,

    Has anyone tried out bioware's the old republic on the 702x? I tried the beta a while back and performance was really abysmal. Has the situation improved? If your playing TOR on your laptop what settings are you using? What kind of FPS are you getting?

    World of Warcraft runs like butter, but thats a 5+ year old game. I'd hate to drop $60 on a new game and find it unplayable :confused:
     
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    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    No idea about FPS, don't really care. Plays and looks awesome on my L702X on high settings. System gets a bit warm, but not bad. Beta looked great and played fine as well.
     
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  3. khetik

    khetik Notebook Deity

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    The l702x has the gt555m card I believe, and you should be able to run the game on high no problem/lag. Try out the 290.53 drivers as I hear they are good.
     
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    Indeed khetik, the l702x does have a gt555m (one of the better varients of that model if I'm not mistaken)

    Thanks for the replies, as for the beta, I tried on high but I think at that point it was still pretty early on. Can you force fullscreen yet or are you still limited to a fullscreen boarderless window?

    Anyway, thanks for the input!
     
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  5. robcope

    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes, it is full screen. I have only had my l702x for about two weeks. I was playing on an Hp hex and it was horrible. It plays great on my l702x.
     
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    Jon vMagic Notebook Consultant

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    have the game

    running on 1366x768 with everything on high, drop the shadows from high to low and the frame rate bearly drops at all
     
    Jon vMagic, Jan 4, 2012
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    I have the game running 1600x900 on medium runs smooth as butter
     
    mystycs, Jan 7, 2012
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    Anyone playing 1900 x 1080 ? I really would like to know if its possible to play SWTOR smoothly on high with that resolution before I am going to buy that Notebook.
     
    Naimshakur, Jan 7, 2012
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    I play 1900 x 1080 on medium on my xps15 with no prob.
     
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    robcote, can you contact me? I have the exact same laptop as you but getting 5-20 fps on swtor. Need help!
     
    kpgjedi, Apr 16, 2013
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