Dragon Age Inquisition. High End PC, Low end performance.

[Bob Piss]

Hi.



I got Dragon Age: Inquisition on Tuesday. My system seems to blow the recommended reqs out of the water (for the most part), yet for some reason, the game seems to be running kind of ... poorly. Not awful or unplayable by any means, but I'm averaging 30ish FPS and having a very choppy experience. If I pan the camera around, I get a quite a bit of stuttering. No major tearing to report.
To try and improve the situation, I've done a fair bit of messing around with Catalyst control center. Obviously, the first thing I did was drastically lower in-game graphics settings. No noticeable improvement between Ultra, high, mid, and low. I updated to the most recent version of my AMD drivers which cause a catastrophic effect. After updating drivers, my game (and actually any fullscreen 3d application) would either bluescreen or crash my computer entirely. Was unable to uninstall AMD drivers afterwards as it would blue screen everytime. Ended up with a clean install of windows. After the clean install, the problem persisted (and actually expanded to FIREFOX specifically) so I decided to roll back to the previous version. Games seem to be working fine now without incidents of crashing, but the initial problem still persists. What could be wrong? I read somewhere that Disabling CPU Parking was a thing I could try. I don't know anything about it but there is some utility floating around that let's you do that. I can't really think of a bottleneck here ... Ideas?





CPU: AMD FX 9370 4.4 GHz 8-cores

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 7950 IceQ 3GB Edition (x2 crossfired)

Memory: 16GB DDR3

Storage: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB and a Corsair 2Tb

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extereme9

PSU: Corsair CX750M 750W

Thank you.

 

[Memhorder]

Try the game with just one GPU.

 

[Bob Piss]

Oh yeah? You think just disabling crossfire via Catalyst controls will do it? Or should I completely remove?

 

[Memhorder]

try both. But disable first and see if that works.

 

[Tradesman1]

Need a much bigger PSU, that CPU drags a lot of power (they recommend a 1,000 watt for it and a single good GPU, would look for a 1200 or so doing XFire (and not a CX model, the Corsair CX are entry level and have weak caps)

 

[ingtar33]

Hi.



I got Dragon Age: Inquisition on Tuesday. My system seems to blow the recommended reqs out of the water (for the most part), yet for some reason, the game seems to be running kind of ... poorly. Not awful or unplayable by any means, but I'm averaging 30ish FPS and having a very choppy experience. If I pan the camera around, I get a quite a bit of stuttering. No major tearing to report.
To try and improve the situation, I've done a fair bit of messing around with Catalyst control center. Obviously, the first thing I did was drastically lower in-game graphics settings. No noticeable improvement between Ultra, high, mid, and low. I updated to the most recent version of my AMD drivers which cause a catastrophic effect. After updating drivers, my game (and actually any fullscreen 3d application) would either bluescreen or crash my computer entirely. Was unable to uninstall AMD drivers afterwards as it would blue screen everytime. Ended up with a clean install of windows. After the clean install, the problem persisted (and actually expanded to FIREFOX specifically) so I decided to roll back to the previous version. Games seem to be working fine now without incidents of crashing, but the initial problem still persists. What could be wrong? I read somewhere that Disabling CPU Parking was a thing I could try. I don't know anything about it but there is some utility floating around that let's you do that. I can't really think of a bottleneck here ... Ideas?





CPU: AMD FX 9370 4.4 GHz 8-cores

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 7950 IceQ 3GB Edition (x2 crossfired)

Memory: 16GB DDR3

Storage: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB and a Corsair 2Tb

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extereme9

PSU: Corsair CX750M 750W

Thank you.

1) first of all SLi and xfire both don't really work in this game at the moment. I guess they're working on it, but as of right now your xfire setup won't work.

2) the cinema scenes are framerate capped at 30fps. this was done to prevent bugs; apparently the game engine freaks out if the cinema scenes are played any higher. I can personally attest that you can override that cap, AND that you shouldn't. I did the override and suddenly your character gets stuck in whatever area he was in at the start of the cinema scene (which can be a problem if he's in a jail cell, the fade with no door... ect... as a result live with those scenes at 30fps. Cutscenes are also very choppy, they are on pretty much everyone's system, that's a bug they're working on, hopefully it will be resolved shortly.

3) I couldn't even play the game with dx11. i had to play with mantle.

4) if your system isn't "folding@home" stable then it will definitely crash with this game. in short you see all those posts about running prime95 for 24 hours to see if your overclock/system is stable? and other people saying "no prime95 only needs to be run for 1/4/8" whatever hours? well generally it's believed if your system can survive a 24 hour prime burn it's 100% stable under any situation. This game is sorta like that. it hits your cpu and gpu and ram very hard and if there is any stability issues in your system it will crash. I've sorta worked that out helping people out with getting this game running. simply put, unstable overclocks on the gpu, ram or cpu will be exposed big time by this game. I thought this game was nearly bug free at release so i've been surprised at all the people having issues, with a little digging there is almost always some technical issue causing it.

5) the game actually runs better at higher settings for me then it did at lower settings. not sure what caused it... but i ended up using AMD's suggested graphics settings for this title, for my GPU/CPU and overclock... and the game became much more stable for me (and all those settings were higher then i originally had them for the most part)
-you probably will be able to play the game at close to these settings

Ambient Occlusion - HBAO
Effects Quality - Ultra
Graphics Quality - Custom
Mesh Quality - Ultra
Multisample AA - 2xMSAA
Post-Processing AA- High
Post-Processing Quality - Ultra
Resolution - 1080p
Shadow Quality - Ultra
Terrain Quality - Ultra
Texture Quality - Ultra
Vegetation Quality - Ultra
Water Quality - UItra

~no promises that these settings will work perfectly mind you, but your system is probably within 15% of my system (when you take the xfire out of the equation) and it seems i have a little more then 15% headroom on how this game challenges my system (I probably would be alright at a little higher settings myself)

 

[sniper48]

I have a low end system and kept having issues with the game (stuttering, ctd's, etc). Using full screen windowed mode resolved these issues for the most part and also seemed to give me an fps boost. Try running it on full screen windowed mode and see if that helps. If it doesn't then it's up to the developers to release a patch that addresses issues like yours.

 

[cats_Paw]

Guys, the game is simply in beta stage. Untill more patches come out, many people will have issues with it. It is very common nowdays for companies to do that (Sim City, battlefield 4, etc).

Most likely its an issue that will be solved in the long run.

 

[rjlrjl]

i didnt hold much out for my computer fx4100 hd7870 2gb and 8gb ram somehow game was stuttery at mid high but playable got to the sword coast and wasnt happy with the water effects so saved and rammped it all up to ultra and ended up with a more playable game with no stuttering???

 

[Memhorder]

Bob must have got it going

 

[Memhorder]

I see many people on Geforce forums having problems with this game

 

[Toboz]

Runs fine for me.

i5 3570
STRIX GTX 970
8GB RAM
1,5TB HDD
550W PSU

Same settings i think except i put tessellation on medium.
Going at 60fps.(except the 30fps locked cutscenes)