We recommend you to rather have detailed textures and shaders than go for Bloom (Keep it disabled). If your rig is good enough, you can enable it by replacing ‘False’ with ‘True’. Similarly, choose Refresh Rate that is supported by your LCD/ Monitor.īloom It produces a glow of lightning around objects and gives more HDR feeling to the objects in the game but has a huge impact on performance and may make combat difficult with random slow-downs and stuttering. Experimenting with these variables will help you find values to run the game at optimum performance. You can change the values in height, width, nativeheight, nativewidth to suit your needs. Higher it is, more prettier SWTOR will look, but that will have a negative impact on performance of the game and you may experience random slow-downs during combat and low FPS, making combat difficult for you. Go the next page for details on Advanced SWTOR Tweaks or check this page for General SWTOR Tweaks and sample config files. Note that this isn’t the only INI setting file in SWTOR and we will explain others later in this guide.
Now let’s talk about the impact each setting would have on the performance or graphics of Star Wars: The Old Republic before explaining which settings you should really consider tweaking. If you have an ATI Card and have added ‘AntiAliasingLevel = 2′ tweak, it may cause your game to close after the splash screen. Height = 1080 Width = 1920 WindowX = 0 WindowY = 0 DynamicLightsLimit = (#) TextureAnisotropy = (#) FarClipScale = (#) PlantDensity = (#) D3DFullScreen = true NativeHeight = 1080 NativeWidth = 1920 AllowDepthOfField = true doBlobShadows = false SpeedTreeDistanceScale = (#) EnableBloom = false UseMinSpecShaders = false TextureQuality = (#) VerticalSyncState = false AntiAliasingLevel = (#) MeshLODQuality = (#) enableadvenvirolighting = false DebugAdvEnviroLighting = false You may not see all these variables but you can add them as explained later: You may see the following variables in this file (Values may be different based on your settings). Where To Find SWTOR INI Settings File You can find it in:Ĭ:\Users\%username%\appdata\Local\SWTOR\swtor\settings\client_settings.ini It is recommended that you keep a back-up of the original file before you add/alter tweaks.
#Ini file from the force awakens version and simply changed the name from skidrow to mine Patch#
You may have to make the changes again after the patch if it over-writes the changes made to your CFG. To make these tweaks work, you will have to set your client_settings.ini to read-only and if they still don’t work, you may have to make the changes to ‘client_defaults.ini’. If that doesn’t cut it, move to this advanced section of SWTOR Tweaks.īioware highly recommends that you don’t make any changes to client_defaults.ini and client_settings.ini so be warned. Advanced Tweak – Keep ‘AntiAliasingLevel = 2′ – it is optimal level at which the game works (Not for ATI Users).īefore you move on to this section, we recommend you try to adjust in-game graphics settings in such a way to optimize SWTOR graphics and performance. Don’t force V-Sync through Nvidia or ATI Catalyst control panel it will make performance worse in most cases. Setting in-game setting ‘Character Model’ to low will give you much-need performance boost and add to that, its effect on graphics is minimal. Recommended – Nvidia users can force tipple buffering and enable multi-tasking it has helped several users. This is a trade-off you will have to make. You want Bloom, Shadows, Vertical Sync and Anti-Aliasing then you will have to adjust Texture quality and other graphics setting appropriately so you can still run SWTOR at best performance. Whatever changes you make here will directly affect the settings that follow. Higher the resolution, prettier the graphics, and more resources required to run the game. Resolutions Game supports a range of resolutions, pick one that your monitor or LCD supports and stick with it. Thanks more help on Star Wars: The Old Republic, read our SWTOR troubleshooting guide. Following are the list of in-game options with the recommended settings that you can tweak in the graphics option menu of Star Wars: The Old Republic.