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Perfomance compared to RIFT
Rafadotnechi
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Hey there would like to ask for those who played both Rift and TOR
How is TOR perfomance compared to RIFT? i mean i can run RIFT on mine Desktop with a acceptable perfomance/graphic(i have a poor GT240DDR5) do you think i can have a similar result with TOR? thanks.
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Well I only played TOR in beta but I'd have to say it plays better than Rift did on my PC at similar settings.
Performance in SWTOR is definitely superior to RIFTs. Regardless of specs, my wife's machine, which is a bit older than mine, runs SWTOR on much higher settings than she can run RIFT.
Bit better than Rift UNLESS you turn on shadows in game or / and force AA in drivers.
Then it is awful.
SWTOR graphics runs better on older machines.
I had a lot better performance in Rift than I have in SWTOR
2.2ghz triple core processor, Radeon 4850 HD, 4gb RAM, and SWTOR framerate is about 30 on lowest settings.
Sounds about right in my experience.
A very few SWTOR places are not optimised or something as they are very laggy.
I can run both maxed. On RIFT maxed I would hang between 30 and 40 fps in areas, in SWTOR around 100 fps.
I had no problem running Rift on max settings. In TOR, my FPS is a bit choppy unless I turn off shadows and the like. Playable, but surprised me that it isn't better.
edit: Of course I won't turn off shadows. They make a huge difference in graphics quality. Suprised to see people talk about them like they aren't important.
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
Well there are certainly problems with performance.
Of course withut shadows, AA, etc there can be very decent performance, but true - game looks poor then.
On the other hand if you turn shadows and / or AA performance can be preety poor. Definately drop in performance is too big.
Guess there has to be problem with engine or something.
Imo also that's why no high-resolution textures. Propably performance with them is not acceptable on low or mid end PC's...
There's some kinda memory leak with shadows, but aside from that ToR runs much better on crappy computers (like my own).
In my experience SWTOR is running better than Rift. I played Rift for 6 months with graphics on high, no shadows. I am running SWTOR maxed out.
Rift I would get 35-40 fps (fine for me). SWTOR I am getting 60-80 (also fine by me
). Never had any lag so far with SW and only one diconnect while playing. On Rift I would get occasional lag with a lot of people on the screen.
Rift I get between 50-70 fps average on max settings Star wars I get between 80-100 . So performance wise a less powerful computer could handle it better I would think .