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ObsidianVashti's avatar
6 years ago
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Microstutter Graphics

Hello everyone,

I know there's a lot of comments in general about SWTOR's rendering/engine limitations and negativity aside I just want to make sure I have every possible feature adjusted to obtain the best possible performance. My game has what I call "microstutters" every couple of seconds where the graphics hitch and create a "tear" in the visual experience. I posted this issue in the past and some brilliant soul (*@proxos666) was able to tell me that if I turn "Triple Buffering" to "On" and set "Pre-rendered frames" to "1" in the NVIDIA Control Panel the experience should be much improved. Thankfully after that suggestion the game went from being an unplayable flip comicbook to the microstutters I still experience today. The stutters exist no mater the graphics settings. I can turn everything to low and still see the same issues, so I know it's not lacking hardware. I didn't have these issues on my old laptop so I know it's something either about my hardware or configurations that SWTOR doesn't like. I've tried all the typical avenues: driver updates, turning off shadows (which have their own blocky issues) etc... Anyone have any step-by-step guides for using what others have called "NVIDIA Profile Inspector" or how I can at least try to smooth the visual? It just breaks the immersion for me. I have a sneaking suspicion it just may be the fact that I got an overclocked EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX970 SuperSC ACX 2.0+ which sets off the output rhythm. But I'm not that techy on GPUs. Specs, DxDiag, and more should be attached. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Right now SWTOR is set to Ultra
NVIDIA Control Panel:
Antialiasing- FXAA: On
Antialiasing- Mode: Enhance the application setting

Antialiasing- Setting: 8x

MFAA: On

Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance

Triple Buffering: On

Vertical Sync: On

Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    6 years ago

    @ObsidianVashti 

    driver can be uninstalled via the control panel, or you can use DDU at this link

    At the end of the day it comes back to user preference for settings

    I am still on driver version 419.17 have had no reason to update so havent yet

    As to playing the game, i dont use vsynch, and tend to play in fullscreen (window) mode which uses its own form of sync

    I gather you have tried setting vsync to fast , this setting is also meant to have no tearing and be a more improved version of initial vsync

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