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    Star Wars: The Old Republic

    Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Dec 20, 2011

    Star Wars: The Old Republic is a massively-multiplayer role-playing game set 300 years after the events of BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic series, but still approximately 3,600 years before the events of the films.

    How would my laptop fare on low settings?

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    #1  Edited By Rokkaku

    Mine has core 2 duo 2.2ghz, 4gb ram and ati mobility radeon 4250 (4gb ram). This does meet the min specs but I'd like to know what type of framerate or experience I'll have before I buy the game, thanks.

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    #2  Edited By Rokkaku

    anyone?

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    #3  Edited By adz117

    Urm probably not enough to have a good time, the game is very poorly optimised at the moment.

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    #4  Edited By Drazat

    Don't bother I have a better desktop and I have given up on the game till better drivers / patches come out.The game does not run well unles you are massivly over the recommended specs.

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    #5  Edited By MeierTheRed

    On my Desktop it runs very smooth on high, but that's also way above those specs. But in bootcamp with my MacBook Pro with a 6750 its runs well on low settings, but when you change some settings to high it starts taking performance hits. So i would imagine your card not cutting it quite. You could probably play it on low, but i think the FPS would be pretty bad.

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    #6  Edited By Joru

    I have a laptop with an Intel i5-2410M 2.3GHz, 6GB of RAM and an Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics chip and it works pretty well on low. The framerate sometimes drops down, but it isn't very frequent.

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    #7  Edited By deanoxd

    i am running the game on a old amd 4 core with 8gb of ddr2 memory and nvidia 560 card and i can run it at 1920x1080 high settings, will get some minor slow downs during big boss fights when there is a lot of AOE going off at the same time. And the only place i have bad performance is when i am on the imperial fleet but my understanding is so does everyone else.

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    #8  Edited By MeierTheRed

    @DeanoXD said:

    i am running the game on a old amd 4 core with 8gb of ddr2 memory and nvidia 560 card and i can run it at 1920x1080 high settings, will get some minor slow downs during big boss fights when there is a lot of AOE going off at the same time. And the only place i have bad performance is when i am on the imperial fleet but my understanding is so does everyone else.

    Yeah Imperial Fleet is a hot spot of performance bog down.

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    #9  Edited By JoMate

    Should work as long as you put everything on low and make sure to turn the shadows off completely cause those alone account for half the fps.

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    #10  Edited By Marz

    @pornstorestiffi said:

    @DeanoXD said:

    i am running the game on a old amd 4 core with 8gb of ddr2 memory and nvidia 560 card and i can run it at 1920x1080 high settings, will get some minor slow downs during big boss fights when there is a lot of AOE going off at the same time. And the only place i have bad performance is when i am on the imperial fleet but my understanding is so does everyone else.

    Yeah Imperial Fleet is a hot spot of performance bog down.

    it is, even my i7 2600k @4.4ghz and gtx 480 dips below 30fps during peak times on the fleet.

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    #11  Edited By Jimmi

    I am running almost the same laptop as you but with a Radeon HD 3650 and with everything on low or off, 1280x800 resolution it's smooth as butter 90% of the time. The other 10% it is very bearable, maybe 20-30 frames per second.

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    #12  Edited By Rokkaku

    @Jimmi: I've just bought the game so good to hear!

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    #13  Edited By ztiworoh

    I have a 2010 Macbook running Windows XP via bootcamp and it runs great on medium settings - the only thing that really bogs it down is turning on high quality shadows. The machine is a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo, with 4GB Ram and an NVIDIA GeForce 320m - nothing really great at all. I get like 30 - 40 fps most of the time - it's not amazing, but totally playable

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    #14  Edited By sparky_buzzsaw

    I have an Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS, with about 4.4 gigs of RAM. Would I even have a shot at running this?

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    #15  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    @adz117 Says you. The game runs great on my laptop maxed out at 1080p. Then again I'm running an i7, SLI GeForce GTX 460m's, 16 GB RAM, and RAID 0 hard drives.

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    #16  Edited By JoMate
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    Why on earth would you even still buy a laptop in that case? Might as well build a small desktop, for half the price but twice the performance, and put a big handle on it for transporting.
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    #17  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    I'm out of the country again for a year and bringing my far more powerful custom gaming rig was too much of a hassle.

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    #18  Edited By fleshribbon

    I have a 3-4 year old desktop computer with 6GB RAM and a 2-3 year old graphics card with 1GB RAM and the game runs OK for me on normal settings. It doesn't scream at above 100FPS like some ppl seem to be obsessed with but I'm happy with it and it still looks way better than a console game.

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