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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proxos666 wrote:
Have you confirmed what is using the CPU % when it occurs in task manager
Not exactly; it jumps around lot with the game in question using the majority of CPU; I narrowed it down to the paging file and avast anti-virus services. Just tested and it's just Star Wars or the other games using most of the CPU... just alt+tabbed now and CPU was 77% with Star Wars and Chrome using the most of it.
I test with Chrome open because I used to have Skype and a good few tabs of Chrome open while playing without incident.
If you have a a lot of hard drive activity, and the FPS drops occurs when the HDD gets "idle" I think it is swapfile related.
Your games will benefit from a RAM update to 8 GB in any case.
Would be an idea to check your swapfile settings in Windows, I think the activity on HDD stops because whether the file is full, or HDD tends to get full.
Is the Windows swap file on the same physical drive as your games ? I remember reading you having two drives, try reallocating it to the drives which is not your gaming drive.
Side note : This game profits a lot from running on an SSD.
