Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Developers
	BioWare
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
	LucasArts
Engines
	HeroEngine
Release dates
Windows	December 20, 2011
Reception
Metacritic	85
IGDB	85
Taxonomy
Monetization	Free-to-play, Subscription
Microtransactions	Currency, Loot box
Modes	Multiplayer
Pacing	Persistent
Genres	MMORPG
Themes	Sci-fi, Space
Series	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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

Community Website

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Official website		Free to play
Origin		Deluxe Pack also available.

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

Graphics settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			Use Widescreen Fixer to fix HUD placement.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			Edit configuration files to increase global UI scaler beyond 1.25.
Field of view (FOV)		Calculated by desktop resolution, not render resolution. See WSGF.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Medium uses FXAA, High uses x2 MSAA, and Very High uses both. There is no Low option. TrSSAA has issues and TrMSAA doesn’t work.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Framerate is capped at 111 fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Uses operating system settings.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

General settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		The game uses 5.1 or 7.1 if available. No in-game settings.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Can be changed in 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