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  • ScarisScaris Member UncommonPosts: 5,332

    I will give it a try and let ya know if I have luck with it as well. Will be interesting to see how it does on all ram.

    Personally I still miss good ole ramdrive.sys!

    - Scaris

    "What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World

  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077

    Please do... I know I've been nothing but thrilled since I thought to turn the sucker off. It didn't make the GAME any faster (it wouldn't) since the game runs in RAM. It makes the OS faster.

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  • milhoan6milhoan6 Member CommonPosts: 580
    Thanks for the help...I'll try and get 2 gigs of RAM soon.  In the mean time, however is there any settings I can change in game or on my video card that will make the game more playable for me?
  • Ch3cksixCh3cksix Member Posts: 55


    Originally posted by milhoan6
    Thanks for the help...I'll try and get 2 gigs of RAM soon. In the mean time, however is there any settings I can change in game or on my video card that will make the game more playable for me?

    There is a great EQ2 post for setting vid if you can find it. In summary tho...the most intensive GPU hog is shadowing. Turn off all shadows and your game may run smoother. Apologies if some one has already suggested this.

    The others are right about RAM in this game tho. SWG has more models for weapons and stuff than any other game I've ever seen. In SWG if you put on a necklace, it shows up on your character! That model and the other millions of models must live some where and if they can't fit into RAM they must be loaded from the HD. Thats why SWG runs so smooth with 2GB of RAM, no HD round trip.

    Ch3cksix

  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077


    Originally posted by milhoan6
    Thanks for the help...I'll try and get 2 gigs of RAM soon. In the mean time, however is there any settings I can change in game or on my video card that will make the game more playable for me?

    1) On the launcher:
    Click on Game Options
    Click on Graphics
    Change the Vertex Pixel Shader to 1.1 (Override)

    Go to Advanced
    Check "Disable World Preloading"
    Check "Disable Caching"

    Then OK out and launch the game.
    In the game turn off shadows
    Turn down the flora detail or turn it off.
    Reduce the range that flora and fauna are rendered.
    Turn off bloom (personally I think bloom looks fake in all MMO's anyway, I always turn it off).

    Enjoy! That should speed up things dramatically.

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