SWTOR with Z2?

Has anyone tried Star Wars the Old Republic with the Z2? Looking for FPS info and general playability feedback.

I looked several pages back in the forum (on my phone). Sorry if this has been asked/answered already.

Thanks.

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I am currently playing it on Z1.

1600x900 - Low Setting- I get about 40fps constant. Non-modded BIOS or Drivers and no OC.

With that in mind, you should have no problem playing on the Z2 WITH PMD (of course, as without PMD there is no way the Intel can handle that.)

Hope I helped.

 

Thanks - that does help.

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If it helps, I can play SWTOR 1600x900 on low on my VAIO SA which is similar to the high spec Z2.

 

I get between 20 and 30 fps on my Z2, with PMD, i7, 4gb ram, high graphics settings, 1600x900. It really depends on the environment as to what the framerate is like.

 

That's interesting. Thanks for the info. What happens to framerate and playability if you lower the game graphics settings to medium?

 

What you need to know beforehand is that the swtor client is one of the most poorl coded pieces of software i've ever seen (and i'm a dev so I've coded some nasty sh*t lol).

It works, then doesnt. Some places you get 60fps, some 15... It's not clear, and not stable.

Give them a few months to work the kinks out.

 

TBH the framerate varies a lot depending on where you are in the game (obviously the more stuff that is going on the lower the framerate), but in busy areas it averages around 20-30 fps still. It can go as high as 60 fps and as low as 6 or 7 fps though. It really depends. It's certainly playable, even on high settings tbh. In fact, if you turn the graphics right down and the screen res down it is playable on the internal intel card too.

 

I play it fine with and without the PMD.

 

Can you give us an overview of the settings your are using with and without the PMD? This would be great!

 

I think our definitions of "fine" are not compatible^^

There is no way that PMD-less Z2 can run SWTOR passably, let alone correctly.

The intel HD card is not designed with intense 3D in mind, but solely video decoding, OS display, and maybe just maybe some 2D gaming. Sure, it runs Counter Strike, but can't feasibly go past there without dropping into single digits FPSs.

As I seem to understand it this game is highy GPU intensive, so your CPU can't be picking up all the slack.

Could you give us settings and FPS results without the PMD? This baffles me.

Have you ever seen an EEEPc run crysis?

 

Crysis on a Asus Eee PC VX6 Lamborghini - YouTube
Crysis on the Asus eee pc 1201n - YouTube

 

pyr0 you cheated, ION doesn't count lol.

 

I have played SWTOR without the PMD at 800x600 with low settings. It's choppy but perfectly playable.

I've also played with the PMD, and was disappointed. At 768p with high settings, it's just as choppy as the low settings without PMD.

My impression these days is that the PMD is not adding nearly as much performance as I would have expected.

 

The choppiness is from very bad implementation of shadows handling (does not degrade gracefully). If you set shadows to "off" it's smooth sailing and you can bump everything else up. I think they are trying to create realistic shadows from all light sources, including fires, holos, etc. That's just too much. WoW is much better at creating shadows where it counts.

 

Thanks ZugZug, that helped quite a bit. Incoming rep...

 

Looks like Bioware introduced new option "Blob Shadows" - might be a good compromise now.

Edit: Or maybe it's something they are testing out. Need to look for tweaking guide or something.

 

ZugZug, what exactly do you mean with Blob Shadows?

 

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\SWTOR\swtor\settings\client_settings.ini

doBlobShadows = true

 

Out of curiosity - how does the game run with "blob shadows"?

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