Minimum Specs For 4 Instances Of SWTOR On One Machine?

[remanz]

I went through quit a bit of performance tuning for 4 boxing SWTOR.

1st. THE Most important part: you need 8GB + RAM, to 4 box. 12GB to make it playable. 16GB to be able to smoothly play it. and trust me on this, with 8GB or 12GB , you will get bugged down with large open areas.

at the current stage of the game client, it loads pretty much the entire planet into memory when you launch the game. and as far as I can tell, it doesn't do a good job in memory management (does not clean up enough when you leave the planet). When you are out of memory and go to cache swap, you will get 5fps and stuck for 20-30seconds.

2nd. SSD. solid state drive is more useful for SWTOR than for wow. (really long loading times if you use normal HD).


3rd. Graphics card. get as much as VRAM as you can get . recommended 3GB gtx 580. The game client does poor memory management, both system RAM + VRam. Min 1.2GB (570 GTX)

4th. CPU, standard multiboxing stuff here. i7


(note on system RAM, it is cheap so no reason to hold back on buying the memory. I just purchased 24GB ddr3 1600 RAM for $95 in a local retail store. so do get memory. its worth it for boxing this game)