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Clean drivers

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http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/...-download.html

Just download the latest version at the very bottom. Then download your new graphics drivers from the manufacturers website. (NOTE: The next steps will temporarily cause your display resolution to be funky) Boot into safe mode (press WinKey+R enter msconfig, go to the boot tab and click safe boot, minimal, hit apply. Then restart your computer). Once booted into safe mode, run the program. Click uninstall & restart. Then reinstall the newest drivers for your GPU after booting into windows normally.



I posted this tip on a subreddit for another game I play and it helped lots of people, here's the post:



http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/...ine_anecdotal/ I give this first because it can have drastic improvements on performance, some up to 500% increase in fps. NOTE: You should do this process everytime you update your graphics drivers! Basically it's reinstalling your graphics drivers but using this program to do the uninstalling. Its supposed to remove all remnants of the previous driver. Apparently uninstalled/updated drivers can leave behind crap that leads to issues.Just download the latest version at the very bottom. Then download your new graphics drivers from the manufacturers website. (NOTE: The next steps will temporarily cause your display resolution to be funky) Boot into safe mode (press WinKey+R enter msconfig, go to the boot tab and click safe boot, minimal, hit apply. Then restart your computer). Once booted into safe mode, run the program. Click uninstall & restart. Then reinstall the newest drivers for your GPU after booting into windows normally.I posted this tip on a subreddit for another game I play and it helped lots of people, here's the post:



DirectX9 emulation

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Some of you might be asking WTH is directx? Here's a quote from microsoft

Quote: DirectX is a technology that helps create the special visual and audio effects that come with games. It can help your computer get more performance out of demanding multimedia programs such as games and movies.



NOTE: DO NOT extract the downloaded file into an open directory, make a separate folder name dx9, then extract the stuff there. Then go into the folder and run the dxsetup file.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...n.aspx?id=8109



Here's a reddit post on the topic, with some explanatory post and good discussion. If you don't see any increased in FPS, you probably had the dx9 files already (sometimes games install them for you).



http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/commen...our_framerate/ This trick has proven to help quite a few people!Some of you might be asking WTH is directx? Here's a quote from microsoftSo obviously this is going to impact our experience in SWTOR and gaming in general. Most computers come with directx11 today. Directx11 is backward compatible but not really efficient at running dx9, this is because of emulation so I've heard. If you manually install dx9 alongside dx11, it won't need to emulate dx9 and things will be more efficient! Note: Nothing will be deleted or overwritten in this process!NOTE:extract the downloaded file into an open directory, make a separate folder name dx9, then extract the stuff there. Then go into the folder and run the dxsetup file.Here's a reddit post on the topic, with some explanatory post and good discussion. If you don't see any increased in FPS, you probably had the dx9 files already (sometimes games install them for you).



CPU core parking

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It can do other things, like automatically adjust process priority, memory priority, restrict processes to designated cores, etc. There are free and paid versions, and the website has a comparison of the features.



https://bitsum.com/processlasso/



If you want to manually park/unpark your cores, bitsum also has a seperate utility to do that



https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/



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https://bitsum.com/docs/pl/gaming/

https://bitsum.com/docs/pl/faq.htm#gaming CPU core parking is only relevant to computers with multi core processors (which is everything nowadays). When a CPU is 'parked' its power is scaled down. Power settings like 'power saving mode' use CPU parking to save energy. For gaming, we don't want this. However, we still want our computers to save energy when not gaming if possible. What I recommend is a program that will automatically 'unpark' your CPUs when a designated game is running, ensuring all your CPU's are running at 100% capacity while playing. It's called process lasso, it serves are a task manager & will automate and optimize many things for you. Once you install the program, open swtor, then open process lasso, right click on the swtor.exe and tick... classify as a game, and set the power profile to bitsum highest performance. If you have the paid version, that will automatically unpark all cpu's when swtor.exe is active, and then return to your previous power profile when swtor.exe is no longer active.It can do other things, like automatically adjust process priority, memory priority, restrict processes to designated cores, etc. There are free and paid versions, and the website has a comparison of the features.If you want to manually park/unpark your cores, bitsum also has a seperate utility to do thatSome info



Windows & other settings

Spoiler Windows has some expensive (CPU hungry) features that are purely cosmetic. Stuff like aero, aero peek, special animations, fading, transparent windows. Some players see a little boost when turning that stuff off. Click on start, right click computer, then properties. Go to advanced system settings on the left, under performance, click settings. I recommend clicking the 'Adjust for best performance' then turning on 'Smooth edges of screen fonts'. Without the edge smoothing, on screen text is pretty hideous and hard to read.



There are usually a few settings in the graphics card control panel that i set as well. If you have nvidia, right click the tray icon and then click nvidia control panel. Go to manage 3d settings, then to the program settings tab. Find SWTOR. I set power management mode to "Prefer maximum performance'. If you only use 1 monitor, set the multi-display/mixed-gpu acceleration settings to 'single display performance mode'. Another setting that MIGHT help (do some testing) is the maximum pre-rendered frames, which I set to 4 (the max).



This one may seem obvious, but I'm going to say it anyways, turn off all other non-essential applications when playing.



Oh ya, and turn off shadows Hi! Over the course of playing SWTOR and gaming in general I've picked up on a lot of good optimization techniques for gaming. I'm here to share everything I know with you! All of these directions are windows 7 specific.Clean driversDirectX9 emulationCPU core parkingWindows & other settingsOh ya, and turn off shadows Emotions are stupid and should be hated.