*****Official Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread*****

specs im runnign on are as follows:
amd x2 6000 at stock
4gb generic ram
4870 512mb at stock
windows 7

i can run it perfectly well, ive not messed around with the settings though, i can see better systems making it look very nice though :cool:
 
Played for about 6 hours last night as a BH and loved it. I'm a Pre-cu/cu Galaxies player so hope that gives others hope! There were initial problems with loading and lag etc but this calmed down after a while and was a really enjoyable experience. As has been confirmed above story areas are instanced but thought it worked really well, and no loading screens at all, just move from one room to another. Voiceovers I thought were excellent. I have KOTOR and can see similarities, but I haven't got very far along in it so hard for me to say fully.

Q6600
4Gb RAM
8800GT
Vista 64

Ran fine, although I lowered settings to medium to try and help it along early on.
 
specs im runnign on are as follows:
amd x2 6000 at stock
4gb generic ram
4870 512mb at stock
windows 7

i can run it perfectly well, ive not messed around with the settings though, i can see better systems making it look very nice though :cool:

Played for about 6 hours last night as a BH and loved it. I'm a Pre-cu/cu Galaxies player so hope that gives others hope! There were initial problems with loading and lag etc but this calmed down after a while and was a really enjoyable experience. As has been confirmed above story areas are instanced but thought it worked really well, and no loading screens at all, just move from one room to another. Voiceovers I thought were excellent. I have KOTOR and can see similarities, but I haven't got very far along in it so hard for me to say fully.

Q6600
4Gb RAM
8800GT
Vista 64

Ran fine, although I lowered settings to medium to try and help it along early on.

Thanks for taking the time to let us know. Now all I need to do is find a convincing excuse, for the missus, on why we need a new PC ...
 
Thanks for taking the time to let us know. Now all I need to do is find a convincing excuse, for the missus, on why we need a new PC ...

Tell her that you absolutely must have a new PC so that you can play this game and that playing the game means a huge amount to you and that if she loved you she would understand your passion for your hobby and not mind you getting one. :)
 
Is this game going to be open beta at some point? And do you know when the game is released if there will be a free download and free trial?

It is currently in Beta, and Open Beta will be most likely maybe a month off launch, so next year at some point.

However, I doubt you will be able to play it free for a good few months or even years. I don't think I have seen any MMO that has been free to download, or had a free trial at launch, maybe some point in the future.
 
For those of you playing the closed beta can't you please upload loads of pictures and videos for us to see?

The videos I've seen online so far are not very good, most of the official ones dont seem to show very much and the player one's are just rubbish and usually low quality.

Thanks in advance.
 
For those of you playing the closed beta can't you please upload loads of pictures and videos for us to see?

The videos I've seen online so far are not very good, most of the official ones dont seem to show very much and the player one's are just rubbish and usually low quality.

Thanks in advance.

I imagine people don't want to break the NDA rules... like me!
 
I can run on max high settings but at the moment there are not many options to play with gfx wise, all we have is low/medium/high and shadows on/off


Game looks nice but the textures etc are not super high res.
Maybe its the art style they are using but I would say that LOTRO at max is a far better looking game. I think they will be aiming for all the children that play WOW on a low spec machine :)

AMD 955 BE @ 3.7
4 gig ram
GTX 260
 
I can run on max high settings but at the moment there are not many options to play with gfx wise, all we have is low/medium/high and shadows on/off


Game looks nice but the textures etc are not super high res.

Often some early betas do not include the highest res textures for short tests like this, doesn't mean star wars didn't, I'm not in it so I wouldn't know ;D
But as we know, graphics these days mean very little as they are of a general quality, it's more about gameplay and you're right, for mmo's you broaden your market having lower spec systems able to play it.

I'm actually surprised by the lack of leaked information to be honest though!
 
There's no reason not to have a range of settings so all pc's can play it but the high end just play at a higher quality. I also suspect the settings have been locked down to restrict leaks and early complaints of poor performance...
 
I also suspect the settings have been locked down to restrict leaks and early complaints of poor performance...

None of that makes any sense, there's no such thing as "locking settings to restrict leaks". There's no working around screen capture programs or a camera, or someone simply spewing information.
However, EA seem to be on the ball and shutting down vids quick!
 
It might just be the feeling of a new Star Wars game feel, if you catch my drift?

Yeah that is understandable :)

Played for about 6 hours last night as a BH and loved it. I'm a Pre-cu/cu Galaxies player so hope that gives others hope! There were initial problems with loading and lag etc but this calmed down after a while and was a really enjoyable experience. As has been confirmed above story areas are instanced but thought it worked really well, and no loading screens at all, just move from one room to another. Voiceovers I thought were excellent. I have KOTOR and can see similarities, but I haven't got very far along in it so hard for me to say fully.

Q6600
4Gb RAM
8800GT
Vista 64

Ran fine, although I lowered settings to medium to try and help it along early on.

Sounds promising, is it heavily instanced? or is there open world also?

Likewise I signed up the moment it was mentioned but not to worry! :D
 
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