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Most users have no performance issues in Star Wars: The Old Republic despite recent complaints of low framerate, according to game director James Ohlen.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Ohlen explained that roughly five per cent of over a million users in the MMO’s playerbase have an issue.
These problems are down to low-end PCs, he stated.
“The thing is, for the most part, 95 per cent – oh I can’t give you the exact percentage – most of our players aren’t really having performance concerns.
“However, we know that it’s important that there is a smaller group of people usually with lower end machines that are having problems in some areas. And one of the most important things for us to grow our service is to continue to bring in more players, including those players who only have low-end machines.”
He added that there is still a team working to optimise the game.
“So we have a client team, a team of programmers, whose entire job is to optimise the code, find out where some of the issues are, and then fix that up.
“Most of the performance issues are localised though. They’re things that we can track down. I would call them bugs.”
Patch 1.1 is currently on public servers, and features a number of content updates as well as fixes to bugs.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre(s): Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG, Science Fiction
