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I built a new computer this week.
AMD 64 3500+ venice core
gig of the whole corsair good ram
6800gt graphics card

all other good components

And I STILL CANT GET THIS GAME TO RUN MAXED OUT AT 30 FPS @1280*1024

Am I doing something wrong?

I can run doom 3 on ultra and get 59 fps
Halflife 2 and get around 100 fps
Planetside I have to use vsync because I get 200+fps
Battlefield 2 at around 60 or more
And even EQ2, a game known for its high requirements, runs well on high settings at 1280*1024

Whats the deal with this game? There is just no way this makes sense.
Im putting another gig of ram in soon, but I doubt that will matter.
DOes this game just not want to work right?

Welcome to swg.. were you play you are more technologicaly advanced......

Game core is old, not sure if it's a valid excuse. MMO's do run slow because it's more internet connection then above that, but if you run those other MMOs fine. Also FPS is capped at 30 for this game.

I also run a high end system, and it runs choppy a lot at certian moments.. Strange Indeed.

Im happy with my money spent on my secound gig... games graphics are still... 99/00 not /05

SWG is capped at 30 fps.

I have two systems that I play the game on, but my Alienware is the more interesting story.

Up until last Friday, I had 512MB of RAM in it. I was running a 3.0 processor with a PCI-E GeForce 6800. The game was HORRIBLY laggy. I wasn't happy with the way it ran SWG, Half-Life, Doom... You name it. I would get graphics-stopping lag biking into Moenia, and it would even take a long time to bring up my datapad. The screen would literally just freeze for 2-3 seconds in lag heavy areas multiple times. I would walk to the starport and see myself move about three times over 100 meters.

I popped the 2GB in it and it runs everything smoothly. Zero lag, except for the occasional stutter in space. I can bike into any city smoothly without any stoppage. I also load into the game and into cities really quickly. I can't advocate the 2GB of RAM method highly enough.

And if you ever go into Fry's or any sort of electronics store and some retard tells you that you only need 1 gig to run everything you own well and that "it's all video card," kick him in the nuts and tell him what an idiot he is. He doesn't know what he's talking about. I can't speak to how well this game runs with 1 gig, but I know tons of people who have problems with other games on just 1 gig.

/shrug

Message Edited by mcb650 on 06-23-2005 08:47 AM

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ClevtonRyles wrote:

its all about 2 gigs... been using that much for well over a year, the difference was noticable, especially in the load times.

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Last I checked, SWG uses "75% of total system memory up to 1GB"

Even on my current system's 1.5 GB, when checking the RAM usage (game settings off the launchpad), it lists at 750 MB maximum, not 1125 (75% of 1500). The key to needing more RAM is dependent on what else runs in the background, including how "clean" your Whidows Shell is, what lives in the tray, what you have on the Quick Launch bar (if anything), if you have a background image, etc, etc, etc...

Have you considered creating a second, barebones boot state for SWG? Nothing on the quick launch, nothing in the tray, no "candy-like" effects, just a clean, classic Windows style with nothing but the bare essentials running, and no window "animations", etc?

Definately improved my fps.

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Taln2 wrote:

Having designed a graphics engine, I can tell you that they're not unlimited in their power - they're only granted the amount of power that the programmer provides them. Suffice it to say, SWG's graphics engine is extremely poor in it's rendering, which is what holds it back primarily. It's major problem is that it tries to draw *everything* at one time, which is so utterly taxing on memory and processing that the only way to gain more improvement from SWG is to buy a significant amount of RAM - specifically, 2gb.

This is true of EverQuest 2 also, in which their developers actually tell the playerbasethat 2gb RAM is required for their epic raid zones. Any less and you'll find it downright unplayable.

My recommendation: get another stick of that corsair RAM (good stuff btw)and prepare to be amazed. Same goes to anyone with even just average computers out there- don't go nuts upgrading your box, just get 2gb RAM.

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Thanks for that Info mate. I just bought a 1GB stick of PC2700 SODIMM for my laptop and I'll now buy another. Even if it dont really improve the game that much, I can still say "Yup, I gots 2 gigs. you?"

Having designed a graphics engine, I can tell you that they're not unlimited in their power - they're only granted the amount of power that the programmer provides them. Suffice it to say, SWG's graphics engine is extremely poor in it's rendering, which is what holds it back primarily. It's major problem is that it tries to draw *everything* at one time, which is so utterly taxing on memory and processing that the only way to gain more improvement from SWG is to buy a significant amount of RAM - specifically, 2gb.

This is true of EverQuest 2 also, in which their developers actually tell the playerbasethat 2gb RAM is required for their epic raid zones. Any less and you'll find it downright unplayable.

My recommendation: get another stick of that corsair RAM (good stuff btw)and prepare to be amazed. Same goes to anyone with even just average computers out there- don't go nuts upgrading your box, just get 2gb RAM.

I get a almost get a constant 30 FPS and your computer is yet a little better than mine.