Likewise, if you’re in a city environment, the shadow settings with the overall texture quality can have awful impacts (looking at you, Nar Shaddaa).

Grass Quality and render distance often combine with shadow map quality and resolution to awful effect in open wild areas. SW:TOR is generally consistent with settings that pull down performance. There’s plenty of guide videos for graphics comparisons – clicking the image above will bring you to a great one from swtoristaĪlthough we’re going to be doing a new build below to get you playing on as tight a budget as possible, there’s a few things to keep in mind for your own builds. Star Wars: The Old Republic Graphics Settings (Balance to Your Setup) At this point in the game’s life, however, you’re not exactly going to see a huge re-work. What we do know is optimization of the engine (although improved over the years) still causes trouble. How much of this is the engine not handling multiple player animations and effects, versus how much of this is server performance issues, we might never know. Anyone who has played the game for any length of time will tell you one thing: performance is worse in PvP. The Dark Side of the Engine (PvP Performance)Īlthough we’re going to gear the build below toward PvE performance, we need to mention PvP performance issues. So now, years later, it’s very surreal coming back and taking a dive into the engine performance. As I’ve been into building PCs for a long time, back then I would often give advice on the very subject of this article. There’s even some of my stuff still online, almost 5 years after I stopped.

Those who know my history will know that once upon a time I was a top streamer for this game.

Yet behind the scenes, there was trouble brewing.īefore I get into this much further, I have a small caveat. It was hyped like you wouldn’t believe the early tests of the starter planets went well and the press had already dubbed it a potential WoW Killer. Although heavily customized, The Old Republic is still classed as a Hero Engine game.Īlmost 10 years ago, The Old Republic had one of those crazy, once-in-a-generation launches.

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