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Anonymous
10 years ago
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Massive FPS drop on new laptop

Hi, I recently bought a new laptop - ASUS ROG G551JK (i5 4200H, GeForce GTX850M, 8 GB DDR3), thinking it wiuld be a significant upgrade over my previous machine which handled SWTOR on Medium - High ...
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    proxos666
    10 years ago

    @KaleTogras

    Considering this is a laptop

    In the Nvidia Control Panel , ensure there is a swtor profile and adjust the below

    If you enable Vsynch ensure triple buffer is enabled in the Nvidia Contro Panel , conversely if not using vsynch turn off triple buffer

    Set pre-rendered frames to 1

    Then In-game settings set shadows to low, if really need go to nameplates and untick scale nameplates with distance , test with this on and off to see which you should have it set too.

    Let me know if this helps or not  

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Hey Proxos! Thank you, that solved that issue...but opened up another one ☹️.

Now that my FPS is 55 - 60, I'm getting horrible screen tearing which ends up with the game freezing after a while. I have V sync turned on, but I'm still getting this issue ☹️.

Thanks for your help!

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proxos666
Hero+
10 years ago

@KaleTogras

Considering this is a laptop

In the Nvidia Control Panel , ensure there is a swtor profile and adjust the below

If you enable Vsynch ensure triple buffer is enabled in the Nvidia Contro Panel , conversely if not using vsynch turn off triple buffer

Set pre-rendered frames to 1

Then In-game settings set shadows to low, if really need go to nameplates and untick scale nameplates with distance , test with this on and off to see which you should have it set too.

Let me know if this helps or not  

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    proxos666
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    @KaleTogras

    Just thought I would mention a recent issue ,

    Go into windows services and disable Nvidia Streamer Service this has been known to impact fps 3 - 5 %

    obviously providing you don't use it , but it is now enabled by default , planned to be sorted in a future release.

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      Anonymous
      10 years ago

      I only had time to run the game briefly before having to run out and now it's running maintenance for 4.0. It seems to have done the trick (I got a couple of small flickers during load times, but none in the game). I will try again tonight, see if this all did the trick and report if this solved it.

      Thank you so much Proxos, you are amazing!

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