Make the changes in Red
Optimise sounds like Geforce Experience not the Nvidia Control Panel
This thread here is what led me to believe driver related
Try this
Press the [Windows] Key + [R] at the same time
Copy the following in to the text box and press ok
%localappdata%\swtor\swtor\settings
Open the client_settings.ini file in notepad and ensure the following are displayed within
Fullscreen = false D3DFullScreen = true RefreshRate = 60
Check NativeHeight, NativeWidth, Height and Width ( all 4 ) match your monitor resolution.
Save and close the file.
Start the game as normal.
Ah, very nice, very close, the only thing that I had to change was the fullscreen to false.
One thing though is that the windows task bar doesn't disappear.
Right mouse click on the taskbar and select properties and tick "auto hide the taskbar" see if that helps
Ok, did the autohide taskbar and there's a blank bar at the bottom of the page.
I suppose I can try these driver links, but I'm not sure how to set swtor to ignore intel / recognize nvidia.
Can you post the contents of the client_setting file here
Most should select the Nvidia card within the nvidia control panel program list look for swtor profile and set it to use performance card
