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Revision as of 13:51, 28 December 2019

Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic cover
Developers
BioWare
Publishers
Electronic Arts
LucasArts
Engines
HeroEngine
Release dates
Windows December 20, 2011
Star Wars: The Old Republic guide on StrategyWiki
Star Wars: The Old Republic on MobyGames
Star Wars: The Old Republic on Wikipedia
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2003
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords 2005
Star Wars: The Old Republic 2011
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – Remake TBA

General information

Official Website
Community Website

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Official website
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Free to play
Windows
Origin
Origin
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Deluxe Pack also available.
Windows
Owning any retail or digital version gives a one-month subscription and permanent Preferred status; see Features for details.

Essential improvements

Disable Bitraider

Bitraider can cause major network and performance issues, including having to redownload the game every time you play.
Follow this guide

Notes

The entire game will have to be redownloaded upon uninstalling Bitraider (>40GB), but after that only future updates will need to be downloaded

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\SWTOR\

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin

Video settings

Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 80, 8995, 12000-12999
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Improving performance

Turn down shadows[citation needed]
Turning off shadows drastically increases the performance of the game, and can normally change the frame rate from unplayable to acceptable.

Character gets stuck (unable to move)

Use command[citation needed]
  • Type /stuck in the chat window if your character gets stuck in the environment.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

RAM Disk

This thread specifies how to implement a RAM Disk with Star Wars: The Old Republic.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP or Later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better
System memory (RAM) 1.5 GB for XP; 2 GB for Vista, 7
Hard disk drive (HDD) 28 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Shader model 3.0 support

References