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    AMD's A10 good enough for fairly high settings on The Old Republic?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Wolfpup, Oct 29, 2012.

  1. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    I wouldn't think of The Old Republic as a super demanding game, but it's the first game my 2009 notebook won't play with reasonable settings.

    I want to avoid switchable graphics, and wouldn't mind going cheap, so I've toyed with the idea of getting AMD's A10 (possibly with a a second GPU too)

    Anyone know how reasonable I could run The Old Republic or other new games on it?

    Like I was getting 15-30, and generally a pretty sluggish frame rate on an older mobile 32 core Geforce 9650GT
     
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    Prydeless Stupid is

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    Not currently subbed, but on a free trial account I was getting 10 to 40 fps in warzones, depending on how many players were nearby. On Dromund Kaas, I got between 10 to 60 fps with it being around 35 fps in combat. It dipped to 30 and below when using a speeder cab or running around, which I suspect is my hard drive crapping out and/or having foliage quality at max.

    Graphics settings used:
    Bloom - Off
    Convo DoF - On
    Texture - High
    Shader - High
    LoD - High
    AF - Low
    AA & Shadow - Off
    Atlasing - High
    Grass & Tree Quality - 100%
    Character Visibility - Medium
     
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