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Sobelius
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Game client runs way better but it's still buggy as hell. Every alt tab messes up the screen resolution so my windows bar is half way up the screen. Few crashes so far, its a step up from beta but not much.
I had those issues in Beta, but not so far in release. I completely uninstalled the game last week (even though I'd played on the turkey day weekend and didn't need to), and downloaded the new bits. Can't say that would fix things for you, too, but if you didn't start with a fresh install it could explain some of the wonkiness.
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fuser
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I had those issues in Beta, but not so far in release. I completely uninstalled the game last week (even though I'd played on the turkey day weekend and didn't need to), and downloaded the new bits. Can't say that would fix things for you, too, but if you didn't start with a fresh install it could explain some of the wonkiness.
It's a fresh install and latest video card drivers.
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Morfiend
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I was having the issues with tabbing out changing my UI location. I had to change the game client to run in the same resoultion as windows and it fixed that.
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Sand
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So far no real issues. Client downloaded quick and installed to my D: drive easily. Game is running so/so with only sporadic lag but when it does hit the lag hits baaaaaaad.
Havent encountered a single cue or problem getting into game.
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eldaec
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Yeah even at only level 20 my BH has maybe 8 core rotational abilities and a couple cooldowns. I can only imagine it'll get worse, particularly with no macros.
Sounds horrific, 8 isn't nearly enough.
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Thrawn
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Of all the little issues, my biggest launch complaint is that they left the pre-order color crystal as that terrible yellow/black thing.
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fuser
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1hr 20min in the queue and still 353 away (800 when I joined), the estimators are not a real world indicator.
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Thrawn
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700ish in queue, time to find out what my computer thinks of playing Skyrim while SWTOR is launched.
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fuser
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Finally got in, 2h20min in queue
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Rendakor
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Is that for the BC server? I haven't hit a queue yet for my selected-at-random PVP server (Valker Highway or somesuch).
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fuser
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Is that for the BC server? I haven't hit a queue yet for my selected-at-random PVP server (Valker Highway or somesuch).
Nope, The Fatman server assigned by the bioware for a friends guild
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Mattemeo
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Well, the beta stress weekend was pretty much a silky smooth experience. Tonight, however, is much more what I'd expect. Horrible lag-spikes, a ping of 55k ms before being forced out and now after restarting the game, I'm stuck on the loading screen before the server/char choices and have been for 5 minutes. The 20th is going to be interesting!
Oh, and the game still can't work out how to shut itself down half the time.
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Rendakor
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Is that for the BC server? I haven't hit a queue yet for my selected-at-random PVP server (Valker Highway or somesuch).
Nope, The Fatman server assigned by the bioware for a friends guild Ahh, I think I have some coworkers on that server. Fortunately for me I have no desire to deal with people from work in my MMOs so I rolled elsewhere.
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Nevermore
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Well, the beta stress weekend was pretty much a silky smooth experience. Tonight, however, is much more what I'd expect. Horrible lag-spikes, a ping of 55k ms before being forced out and now after restarting the game, I'm stuck on the loading screen before the server/char choices and have been for 5 minutes. The 20th is going to be interesting!
Oh, and the game still can't work out how to shut itself down half the time.
Are you sure your connection problem isn't local? I'm not having any trouble at all tonight.
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Over and out.
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Triforcer
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SCREW THIS FUCKING LAUNCHER!! I've never had login problems in any MMO I've ever played, until this steaming pile of voodoo shit.
I finally got the launcher to get me to the login screen- to do that, I only have to delete launcher.exe from the original download, take another copy of launcher.exe from a USB (taken from a computer that successfully downloaded and patched SWTOR) and save it to my computer, THEN save a second copy of the identical file from the USB drive (named "launcher1") then try to use launcher1, it tells me to rename, I do, and then the FIRST TIME ONLY after I rename when I click on the launcher it gets me to the login screen (if I want to go there again, I have to uninstall everything and redo everything above). Really, it doesn't work if I don't do each and every step above- even fucking naming the first USB file launcher1 manually and then renaming it later doesn't work.
After I got to THAT point, the launcher now tells me "unable to receive patch data- check your internet connection." I think I'll shoot myself instead, or sacrifice a fucking goat on my computer, or something.
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sinij
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Considering how long you have been around f13, I'd think you would at least have understanding what usually going on around release (or pre-release if you want to be technical) time of any mmorpg.
If things like that enrage you, I suggest you re-visit TOR not sooner than in 2 months, maybe 3.
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Rasix
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SCREW THIS FUCKING LAUNCHER!! I've never had login problems in any MMO I've ever played, until this steaming pile of voodoo shit.
I finally got the launcher to get me to the login screen- to do that, I only have to delete launcher.exe from the original download, take another copy of launcher.exe from a USB (taken from a computer that successfully downloaded and patched SWTOR) and save it to my computer, THEN save a second copy of the identical file from the USB drive (named "launcher1") then try to use launcher1, it tells me to rename, I do, and then the FIRST TIME ONLY after I rename when I click on the launcher it gets me to the login screen (if I want to go there again, I have to uninstall everything and redo everything above). Really, it doesn't work if I don't do each and every step above- even fucking naming the first USB file launcher1 manually and then renaming it later doesn't work.
After I got to THAT point, the launcher now tells me "unable to receive patch data- check your internet connection." I think I'll shoot myself instead, or sacrifice a fucking goat on my computer, or something.
Have you checked their forums, specifically support forums? This kind of sounds like something on your end.
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Nevermore
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Didn't you say you were running a Japanese OS? How is that at running non-Japanese software?
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Over and out.
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ajax34i
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I'd scandisk to check the hard drive for errors, then reinstall (or copy) the whole client, not just launcher.exe.
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Zetor
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Something is up with Taris. I've been experiencing huge fps drops and intermittent freezes today, especially when opening the map - but only on Taris, and only after having spent a few hours there and having done a lot of the quests. There are reports on the forums of people getting perma-stuck on the planet and crashing upon login, even. I'm not there... yet.
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« Last Edit: December 17, 2011, 06:41:46 AM by Zetor »
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Wolf
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Is anyone else having issues with windowed full screen? I can't tab out of the game. Wondering if it's something on my end or it's an issue everyone has.
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As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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Triforcer
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Didn't you say you were running a Japanese OS? How is that at running non-Japanese software?
My wife's ancient Japanese laptop (while it couldn't run SWTOR in the end, given it lacks enough cores) could activate the launcher and patch fine. 5 hours tinkering last night, time to start again...
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Reg
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Is anyone else having issues with windowed full screen? I can't tab out of the game. Wondering if it's something on my end or it's an issue everyone has.
I noticed that myself. It's behaving like regular full screen when I tab out.
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Sobelius
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Is anyone else having issues with windowed full screen? I can't tab out of the game. Wondering if it's something on my end or it's an issue everyone has.
I noticed that myself. It's behaving like regular full screen when I tab out. Not I. Only LOTRO does that to me. I'm running Win7, no other apps running when Alt+Tabbing out.
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Sobelius
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Something is up with Taris. I've been experiencing huge fps drops and intermittent freezes today, especially when opening the map - but only on Taris, and only after having spent a few hours there and having done a lot of the quests. There are reports on the forums of people getting perma-stuck on the planet and crashing upon login, even. I'm not there... yet. I think I spotted something on a Dev tracker post responding to people getting stuck on Taris, or crashing out/memory leak.
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luckton
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For the windowed(fullscreen) issue, change it to actual windowed mode, apply, and switch back.
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Viin
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The iPhone security app is available now, btw.
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jakonovski
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Queues are absolutely horrible, over two hours tonight. I was able to play two LoL games while waiting for access.
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Sand
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Well, the beta stress weekend was pretty much a silky smooth experience. Tonight, however, is much more what I'd expect. Horrible lag-spikes, a ping of 55k ms before being forced out and now after restarting the game, I'm stuck on the loading screen before the server/char choices and have been for 5 minutes. The 20th is going to be interesting!
Oh, and the game still can't work out how to shut itself down half the time.
^That is pissing me off. I try to shut the game down and I end up with a black screen and the SWTOR mouse pointer. I have to manually alt-tab out of the black screen to my desktop and then use task manager to close SWTOR. WTF!?! Oh and while running my first Ellessee (spelling?) instance today I lagged so bad at the closing that I had to restart the client while someone held the instance open so I could run back in and finish the quest. I lagged in the cut scene at the end and it broke the client. Couldnt get out of the cut scene.
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Nevermore
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I had trouble shutting down in beta but I haven't run into that problem once since the game went live.
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Over and out.
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Der Helm
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PvP instances seem to lag pretty badly, at least for me. Skills activate 0,5-2 seconds after I press the corresponding button.
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Sand
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PvP instances seem to lag pretty badly, at least for me. Skills activate 0,5-2 seconds after I press the corresponding button.
When I lag its like hitting a brick fucking wall. Nothing works. Whats really weird is even the music slows down, which you would think would be all client side controlled and impervious to lag going on between the client and server.
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Furiously
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The client doesn't handle desyncs very well.
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Ingmar
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I would describe the number of issues I've encountered as shockingly few. The most annoying one is the guild roster does not update/display right so if I want to accurately see who is logged in I have to relog.
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Der Helm
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I would describe the number of issues I've encountered as shockingly few. The most annoying one is the guild roster does not update/display right so if I want to accurately see who is logged in I have to relog.
Use crtl-u to turn the ui off and on, it's faster than reloading.
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