“Yeah, I’m not having fun playing. I was doing FP yesterday and it was dark. My eyes hurt after 1 and I needed to do 2. I hope they do something quickly or I won’t be able to play.”<\/em><\/p>\n All my graphics were dark\/shiny\/messed up when the update first dropped, but changing my graphics up and back down fixed it.”<\/em><\/p>\n Unfortunately this issue has not yet been officially addressed by the Developers, so we only have player suggestions. The best ones I have seen so far involved trying to edit the .ini file. I have not tested this myself and can not guarantee it will work for you.<\/p>\n The Developers posted a long message to players who are experiencing the low-quality graphics.<\/p>\n Hi everyone,<\/p>\n We\u2019re seeing reports of players who have noticed a drop in quality in graphics and we wanted to offer some insight and also a few steps that players can take to improve quality.<\/p>\n As a reminder,\u00a0as of 7.2.1,<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cmin specs\u201d for SWTOR have been updated:<\/p>\n For troubleshooting steps, a great place to start would be the\u00a0Troubleshooting graphics on PC article from EA Help<\/a>.<\/p>\n An important note for laptop players is that Windows has the ability to force which GPU your laptop uses. It can select the lower powered GPU if your laptop is either not plugged in or if you did not specify which GPU to use.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n To select a specific GPU, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n For players who use a NVIDIA graphics card, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n If you do not see the \u201cRun with graphics processor\u201d option when right clicking on the app, then you can specify the GPU the following way:<\/p>\n To know what video card SWTOR was given by Windows to run with on the last run you can get this information from the client_settings.ini:<\/p>\n There is also a setting in that file that controls when the game switches to forced lower resolution textures:<\/p>\n Note that any card with less than 256MB of memory will use lower resolution textures.<\/strong>\u00a0However, if you change the above setting to below how much memory you have, that will turn off the forced lower texture resolution. This is a workaround to avoid the lower texture resolution, but it is highly recommended to use an updated video card for optimum overall performance.<\/p>\n Thanks all.<\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Additional reading: https:\/\/answers.ea.com\/t5\/General-Discussion-Technical\/Really-low-quality-of-graphics-on-win-11\/td-p\/12711069<\/a><\/p>\n You will you need to edit your game\u2019s setting file on your computer while the game is shut down.<\/p>\n The hard part is finding that file. To locate it, you\u2019ll need to open your File Explorer, and find the drive your game is saved to, this is usually the C: drive which you can click on the left side of the screen. The second step is to find the Users folder, and from there choose the folder of your account on your computer.<\/p>\n Third is to open your AppData folder \u2013 if you can not see the AppData folder, it may be hidden, so to show hidden folders you need to click the \u201cView\u201d tab on the top left of the File Explorer, and check the checkbox that says \u201cHidden items\u201d on the right.<\/p>\n From the AppData folder, you follow a set path: Local > SWTOR > swtor > settings.<\/p>\n C:\\Users\\SWTORISTA\\AppData\\Local\\SWTOR\\swtor\\settings<\/kbd><\/p>\n You\u2019re looking for a specific file in here, and if you have a lot of characters there may be a ton of files in this folder. The one you are looking for has your SWTOR account name \u2013 the one you log in with, followed by the word _Account.ini. So mine would look like\u00a0swtorista_account.ini.<\/strong>\u00a0If you double-click this file, it should hopefully open up as a text document automatically \u2013 if it doesn\u2019t, right-click the file and choose \u201cOpen with\u201d and choose \u201cNotepad\u201d from the list or \u201cChoose another app\u201d and find \u201cNotepad\u201d if it\u2019s not on the little right-click dropdown.<\/p>\n Once it\u2019s open, you\u2019ll be able to see it\u2019s just a little settings file, nothing too scary to edit.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/old-new2.jpg\")
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