NPC animation faltering
i resubscribed to the game to find myself shocked with a broken game , all npc animation are running at low fps and arnt smooth at all , they are painful to watch , i tried re-installing the video d...
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How close were you to the npcs? I think the swtor engine now slows down the animations at ranges greater than 30-50 meters in order to save resources. I think that may be what you're referring to. A graphics revamp patch was released last summer that changed a lot of rendering distances for objects in game. It caused some problems with some encounters, i.e., platforms in EV, but those issues were fixed recently in another patch. So the low/choppy appearance of the animations of NPCs at a distance may be intentional to increase overall fps/performance. However, the closer you get to the npcs, the animations should become smooth. Let me know if getting closer to the NPCs (<30m) fixed the choppiness.
No im talking about npc less than 1 m to my character , npc that im engaged in combat with , all their animation is much slower than mine , only the npc that i highlight have normal animation speed , when they die and get unhighlighted they have choppy dying animation as well , please this is breaking the game for me , all questing and flashpoints are broken now , i can link multiple forum thread with people complaining about the same issye
hmm, I have experienced some general lagginess/choppiness in the past. Some solutions previously were to delete the "DiskCacheArena" file in the swtor folder (it gets re-created when you launch swtor) or deleting the "Bitraider" folder (it gets re-created when you launch swtor as well, but also initiates a file verification check). It has been a long time since I've had to do either of those, but if you previously played swtor and are a returning player, those solutions may help if you haven't tried them already. Alternatively, though a Much slower process, would be to uninstall swtor then reinstall from a fresh launcher from swtor.com (assuming you have not done that already either). This solution should ensure that all of the files are most up to date and that the launcher is most up to date, from a fresh download, but it will take a while depending on your connection speed.
