Star Wars: The Old Republic: PC Performance, Benchmarked

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Rarely are MMOs anticipated as hotly as Star Wars: The Old Republic. We take a close look at the offspring of legendary developer Bioware and the larger-than-life Star Wars franchise, then tell you what kind of hardware it needs for smooth performance.

High Detail, No AA

Now that we’ve set a baseline with the low detail settings, we add bloom and high-detail shaders. Most importantly, the change in shader detail adds proper shadows.

All of the cards in these graphs deliver more than a 30 FPS minimum at 1920x1080, a playable result across the board. The GeForce cards do lag behind similarly-priced Radeon boards, though you probably wouldn't see the difference on-screen.

Don Woligroski
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.