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Old 08-05-2015, 09:45 AM   #1341
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New trailer with some game play released today



Lana looks like she's older,

Looks like this new villain is willing to stab his sons in the back by offering to share his empire with you.
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Old 08-07-2015, 03:48 PM   #1342
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My biggest issue is that I logged in on my lvl 50, there is zero guidance as to where I should go or do.
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Old 08-07-2015, 11:08 PM   #1343
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My biggest issue is that I logged in on my lvl 50, there is zero guidance as to where I should go or do.
If you go to your station, you'll find mission npc's for the black hole, section X and Illum, and I think Oricron.

You're ships holo has Makeb, if you've got the hutt cartel expansion. If you have the shadow of reven there's a terminal in you're ship that will give you the starting point with the fractured alliance 1 and 2 chapters,
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Old 08-08-2015, 11:23 PM   #1344
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I've run two of my toons through all of the end game content including the Shadow of Revan and Rise of the Emperor addons.

On Rishi, each character gets an individual mission.

My Agent met up with his own boss to rescue a former comrade.

My Jedi Counselor had to build a holocron.

But the fascinating one was tonight with my Sith Inquisitor

Spoiler!
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Old 10-15-2015, 09:28 AM   #1345
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Just a reminder for subscribers if you're playing that the new expansion KOFE is only I think 4 days away in early release.

There are some pretty significant changes to game play (Planet scaling, changes to armor stats and companions) and crafting.

Should be an interesting first few days. The story line looks pretty spectacular.
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Old 10-21-2015, 09:18 AM   #1346
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Without getting into spoilers and such, if you play(ed) this game and enjoyed it, early access for the new expansion started yesterday, and it is fantastic! Bioware has gone back to the roots of telling a story, I'm only on the 5th of the 9 released chapters, and it has been great so far.
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Old 10-21-2015, 12:23 PM   #1347
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I'm going to do the upgrade on Friday and play some of it over the weekend.

I hear that the story is great. But there are major changes to companions, and crafting that some people are a bit crabby about.
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Old 10-21-2015, 09:31 PM   #1348
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Why do you guys have to bump this thread? My computer died a while back and I haven't replaced it. I've missed playing this ruttin' a lot, but don't see myself going back any time soon.
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Old 10-23-2015, 11:09 PM   #1349
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So I jumped in tonight, the download and upgrade took a few hours. Just a point, if you get to the download part and its not progressing, disable the bitraider and it works just fine.

I just wanted to take my Inquisitor for a spin through Ziost, CZ and Black hole to do a dailies run. The Level Sync makes things a bit harder, but if you're properly armed and armored its not a big deal. Heroic 4's are gone and they've been replaced by heroic 2's.

So the first time I went in and looked at my companions, the entire companion system has changed. Now instead of armoring them up they just auto stat up to their level and their armor is just a shell now, there's no stats.

I did notice that when I logged in all of my companions were naked, which was disturbing, but apparently when the upgrade happens they're stripped of their weapons and armor, most of it is in your inventory, but if your missing gear for your companions, head over to your mail box, they'll be a wack of recovered items.

I did notice that the cash rewards are a lot smaller now, but you can level up to 65 in a pretty big hurry.

I haven't looked at the crafting system, but it looks like its gone through big changes as well.
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Old 11-05-2015, 10:07 PM   #1350
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What servers are people on? Just fired it back up to cure my Star Wars itch with the movie so close now, and I'm liking all the changes they've made
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Old 11-06-2015, 09:18 AM   #1351
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I'm on the Bastian with all of my toons.

the populations really gone up over the last couple of weeks. I was on Hoth and there were 2 instances running at the same time.
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Old 11-06-2015, 10:47 AM   #1352
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Have they done another server crunch, or is it just a expac surge?
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Old 11-06-2015, 11:40 AM   #1353
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Its a surge they haven't done any server shutdowns since the first one IIRC.
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Old 11-11-2015, 09:09 PM   #1354
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I don't know much at all about computers, so I'm wondering if my wife's laptop is powerful enough to run SWtOR.

Windows 8.1
ADM A8-4500M APU w/ Radeon HD graphics 1.90GHz
7.46 GB usable RAM
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I've got everything downloading and patching as we speak.

EDIT:

It actually just finished patching, but won't after I log in.



I have this come up on my task manager.
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Old 11-13-2015, 10:12 AM   #1355
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How much video memory do you have


Your ram is ok,

Your processor should be ok as well

What you should do is see if you can run the fix installer icon on the opening login screen, it should look like a gear wheel.

But your video card at a minimum needs to be a 2gb card
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Yeah, I can't find any specs on my graphics card other than what is posted.

I decided to try redownloading, reinstalling, and repatching last night to see if that would help. I've patched enough to play on the starting worlds, however after I click 'Play' my screen resolution drops to 800x600 and a small window ~1/4 of my screen opens to the splash screen, but the small loading cog in the lower right won't turn.

As for running the installer fix, I assume it's in 'Settings' under the username drop down at the top of the launcher. It's the only gear wheel I can find. Sadly, it's greyed out and I can't click it. I'm guessing the launcher and game have to patch completely for me to be able to access it.
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Yeah, I can't find any specs on my graphics card other than what is posted.
Try typing in "dxdiag" in your search bar and run that to see more specs on your video card. Chances are it's an onboard video card (part of the motherboard) which are generally not great for games. DXDiag will at least tell you how much video memory you have.
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Old 11-13-2015, 01:59 PM   #1358
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Card name: AMD Radeon HD 7640G
Display Memory: 4063 MB
Dedicated Memory: 479 MB
Shared Memory: 3584 MB

4 gig. Should be fine, I would think.
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:21 PM   #1359
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Yeah, I can't find any specs on my graphics card other than what is posted.

I decided to try redownloading, reinstalling, and repatching last night to see if that would help. I've patched enough to play on the starting worlds, however after I click 'Play' my screen resolution drops to 800x600 and a small window ~1/4 of my screen opens to the splash screen, but the small loading cog in the lower right won't turn.

As for running the installer fix, I assume it's in 'Settings' under the username drop down at the top of the launcher. It's the only gear wheel I can find. Sadly, it's greyed out and I can't click it. I'm guessing the launcher and game have to patch completely for me to be able to access it.
Very strange usually the only time your locked on the starter worlds is if its still downloading the rest of the game during your initial install.

Yes your right they changed the position of the installer fix to under settings, if its greyed out its not a problem with your installer.

Your best bet would be to probably produce an in game ticket to support.

Your video card should be fine.
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Very strange usually the only time your locked on the starter worlds is if its still downloading the rest of the game during your initial install.

Yes your right they changed the position of the installer fix to under settings, if its greyed out its not a problem with your installer.
I'm in the process of repatching, as I completely uninstalled when I first encountered the problem. I'm thinking I won't be able to access the settings option if I'm still patching? Maybe...
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