Sudden Performance Drop: SWToR
Hey, On 1 October 2015 I resubbed to Star Wars The Old Republic. I played up to and including Tuesday 6 October 2015 with more than adequate frame rate (fps); the game ran really smooth. I logged ...
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I'm not sure I know how to disable the on-board via the BIOS; as a rule I stay out of there because I generally stuff something up regardless of what I do. So I'll just clean off the drivers I currently have for the Nvidia and do a fresh install.
Just to go a different tact your system only has 4GB Ram, will benefit going to 8GB
Shut down as much of the background programs as possible before playing, does the HDD appear to always be doing something ?
Look for Disk Thrashing this could affect performance if the page file is in heavy use
If only getting more memory was that simple; for various reasons it's not an option at this time.
There's a lot of read activity; star wars being the most of it while it's active. After a while, when idle, everything drops to below 50k B/sec with star wars swtor_main_bnk_streamed_a_1.tor and swtor_main_bnk_streamed_a_1.tor going to the high 100k B/sec.
The paging file does seem to be in heavy use though I have no idea if that's normal or not; we're kind of going beyond anything I've ever looked into before; it's reading often but the highest I saw it at was around 40k B/sec.
I would know if any of this is really high or what to do about it if it is.
I did do a clean installation of my graphics drivers but that just seems to have made it worse; upon login today the game started at around 20 fps and it hasn't gone higher since at lowest graphic settings and in combat it drops to below 10.
Also Windows Aero is off and I had nothing on in the background that shouldn't have been there. All of which is kind of moot because I had loads in the background between the 1st and the 6th of October and the game still ran perfectly.
Given the 4GB Ram , to get the best use I would recommend ditching the bitraider streaming version and switch to the non streaming
now this is a new game download initially but it is worth it , to remove bitraider running in the background.
once switched , you can use directions here to do a clean boot and free up as much as possible in order to get used by the game and stop pagefiling as often.
Another option is if you have a fast usb drive setup readyboost , it isn't a miracle cure to more memory but It may help a little.
See the post here how to disable bitraider if you want to give it a go.
Okay so I can't follow these instructions:
right mouse click on game shortcut and select open file location
open the launcher.settings file in notepad and locate the below line and edit to the below
, "PatchingMode": "{ \"swtor\": \"SSN\" }"
, "bitraider_disable": true
SAVE the changes.
Delete the BitRaider, Movie and Asset folders then start the launcher.I can't open the right file and do anything in there. Notepad doesn't respond and MS Word shows gibberish.
