Pre-release thread discussion

[Nevermore]

Isn't that what the memory on the graphics card is for?  Pre-loading textures?  Or maybe it's just caching textures already used so when they're needed again they're already there?

[Furiously]

Put the game on a SSD?

[tmp]

It's still limited to how much the gfx card can hold at once and that's 0.5-1 gb nowadays, with a chunk used by the geometry data and whatnot.

[luckton]

Put the game on a SSD?

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!   

Playing in the last weekend beta, I had just installed and setup a brand new SSD for boot and primary game purposes.  TOR ran like a fucking dream.  Can't wait for live to get the 'real' high-def textures.

[01101010]

Put the game on a SSD?

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!   

Playing in the last weekend beta, I had just installed and setup a brand new SSD for boot and primary game purposes.  TOR ran like a fucking dream.  Can't wait for live to get the 'real' high-def textures.

Until that day when the SSD no longer functions. 

[luckton]

Put the game on a SSD?

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!   

Playing in the last weekend beta, I had just installed and setup a brand new SSD for boot and primary game purposes.  TOR ran like a fucking dream.  Can't wait for live to get the 'real' high-def textures.

Until that day when the SSD no longer functions. 

Which with any luck won't be for a long time.  I played every trick in the book for ensuring the SSD has a long time to live, and only gets taxed when it actually needs to do something.

[eldaec]

Your PC is going to be a 5 year old piece of shit you can't run anything on before the SSD even starts to fail.

[eldaec]

Death to all rotating hard drives.

[Pezzle]

And Avatars, you anti rotationist? 

I am all for SSD, but the costs need to come down before they are a viable alternative.  $200 bucks for 128 GB?  Once prices normalize on HD's you will get at least 10x that capacity for less money.  Very hard to ignore that difference.

[Fabricated]

Death to all rotating hard drives.

You're supposed to screw them into the case to prevent that.

[calapine]

And Avatars, you anti rotationist? 

I am all for SSD, but the costs need to come down before they are a viable alternative.  $200 bucks for 128 GB?  Once prices normalize on HD's you will get at least 10x that capacity for less money.  Very hard to ignore that difference.

All my geeky friends who have deal with repairing pc's regulary HATE anything that moves within a PC. hard-drives, fans, etc... apperently these things love to fail.

And yes, until SSD are bit cheaper it's best to go with an SSD for the OS and games and a big slow HDD for data storage.

[Ingmar]

My (admittedly relatively limited) experience with them at work is that SSDs fail more often than HDDs still.

[Simond]

It's probably only for these who pre-ordered the CE anyway

Or available later in a very reasonably priced DLC pack.

[Merusk]

And Avatars, you anti rotationist? 

I am all for SSD, but the costs need to come down before they are a viable alternative.  $200 bucks for 128 GB?  Once prices normalize on HD's you will get at least 10x that capacity for less money.  Very hard to ignore that difference.

Who needs that much space, it's all on the cloud or network storage now, man!

[eldaec]

My (admittedly relatively limited) experience with them at work is that SSDs fail more often than HDDs still.

They do but the failure rate isn't high enough to be worth worrying about for non-commercial applications.

I am all for SSD, but the costs need to come down before they are a viable alternative.  $200 bucks for 128 GB?  Once prices normalize on HD's you will get at least 10x that capacity for less money.  Very hard to ignore that difference.

But yeah, this is a problem.

When I say death to all rotating hard drives, by 'death' I mean 'use a small SSD for the OS and a larger seagate hybrid for data storage'.

[Ingmar]

I am pretty sure Sjofn's amount of play will approximate datacenter levels of stress on hardware.

[luckton]

My 60GB SSD I bought over the turkey holiday cost me a $1 a gig.  A fair price to pay, IMO, for the ludicrous speed I have now.

The deals are out there, you just gotta get on top of it.  Especially now that classic hard drive prices are on the rise due to natural disasters overseas.

[eldaec]

I am pretty sure Sjofn's amount of play will approximate datacenter levels of stress on hardware.

Is it possible to run multiple clients and group with yourself on one machine?

[Ingmar]

Moving voice cast discussion over to this thread, here's the credits:


Apparently Steve Blum is *not* the male BH?

[luckton]

Blum is.  Maybe BW made a typo, or they were crediting a foreign-voice actor for a different localization.

https://twitter.com/#!/blumspew/status/144302297537720321

[Rasix]

I thought the female BH was someone else as well.  Courtenay Taylor, who did Jack in ME2.

[Ingmar]

That one was just a rumor I believe.

[Maledict]

Haha, perfect. The guy who voices the oh so smug IA is called 'Bertie Carvel' and has starred in doctor who  and Sherlock Holmes.  Unless he's waving a crumpet whilst singing God Save The Queen he couldn't be more British.

I may have to take up stalking.

[Lucas]

Regarding the "Match Chest Colour" option:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=11909584#edit11909584

I wanted to let everyone know that we're very aware of the interest in this feature.

We've spoken with the development team and we'll have further comment on it soon - before the 10th, we hope.

[Ingmar]

Also the extremely fey Sith Inquisitor played Boy George in a stage production. 

[luckton]

http://liberi-fatali.net/the-old-republic/star-wars-the-old-republic-guide-and-faq

For the lazy, that guide has IMDB links for all of the voice talents for the classes and companions.  Don't jump to the Voices section...find the class/character you want, link will be within.

[luckton]

And after consulting some more Twitter feeds and the link I provided, let's clear up the Blum thing.

He 'is' in the game, as the voice of the SI companion Andronikos Revel.  Spackman does play the male BH, he just sounds surprisingly like Blum.

[Ghambit]

Put the game on a SSD?

FML, I totally forgot about that portion of my rig expansion.  Guess I might as well take this opportunity to do it, although I dont plan on putting the O.S. on it.   Definitely a partition of virt. ram though.

Other than that, I guess I'll OC my geforce.

[Fordel]

Regarding the "Match Chest Colour" option:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=11909584#edit11909584

I wanted to let everyone know that we're very aware of the interest in this feature.

We've spoken with the development team and we'll have further comment on it soon - before the 10th, we hope.

Further comment? The only thing to say is "Yes it's back in and we are very sorry that we ever made you think we wouldn't put it in!"

[Pezzle]

Why must you resist the Technicolor Dreamcoat?

[eldaec]

Fuck you guys who want matching outfits without EARNING it!

[Sobelius]

Fuck you guys who want matching outfits without EARNING it!

No one's getting fucked if they're wearing those clowney mismatched outfits.

[Pezzle]

Maybe by other clowns?

[Ghambit]

Jedi fuck with their minds.   
It's either that, companions, droids, or a.r. holovids.  None of these require matching gear.

Space is lonely.

[Sjofn]

I am pretty sure Sjofn's amount of play will approximate datacenter levels of stress on hardware.

Hmph.