- Jul 24, 2012
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I've been patiently waiting for 'Inquisition' to be released for such a long time now. I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited for a release. Yet after a disastrous time trying to sync Keep with my save games and a non-functional billing system on Origin, I still managed to finally pre-order the game and get Keep working. But that wasn’t the end of it. For the last two or three hours I have been trying to no avail to reach a playable state in ‘Inquisition’.
This is nothing short of bizarre. My computer meets the recommended requirements with ease and has never had such major issues running a game in its lifetime. My computer makes use of an AMD 6300 running at stock speeds and two overclocked AMD 7850s and 8GB of 1600Mhz RAM. In other demanding games such as ‘The Witcher II’, this set up runs with frame rates of 60 or higher consistently on medium to high settings and runs benchmarks such as 3DMark that compete with and often beat the same set ups on the leader boards. Yet for no apparent reason everything goes to hell when I try and run ‘Inquisition’. Admittedly ‘Inquisition’ is now the most demanding game I own in terms of recommended requirements, but there is absolutely no reason why it’s running so poorly on my computer. Even when the game boots the graphs in Task Manager rocket to levels I’ve never even seen before. CPU usage launches to 100% on all six cores and RAM usage goes to about 7.8GB. I’ve literally never seen so much RAM used at the one time. And that’s not even launching from the in game menu, that’s just booting the game itself. Besides the game massively draining the system, there are a multitude of audio glitches in the menu as the game loads, with the soundtrack skipping like a scratched CD, awkwardly replaying sections and at times cutting out entirely. I end up with a loading screen that lasts anywhere between two and three minutes with even the little inquisition symbol in the bottom right lagging.
That’s not even when the game actually gets in full swing. Throughout the introductory cutscene where my character is being interrogated, the game slows to nothing short of a picture slideshow that continues throughout the entire scene. Once I’m able to move around things don’t get much better either, with obvious lag and massive frame rate drops that go from about twenty to ten and below. This was on the recommended settings for my computer set by the game itself, which were essentially ‘high’ settings for pretty much everything. Even bumping the game down to ‘medium’ proved useless and only in low was the game actually playable, but even then the frame rate was so bizarrely low that it was completely noticeable. I tired looking up solutions on the internet and implemented the force 60+ frame rate in cutscenes fix, which didn’t improve the cutscenes at all, let alone the rest of the game. I disabled the Origin overlay and even tried playing offline to no avail either. I updated my AMD drivers to the very latest beta drivers that supposedly boost performance for ‘Inquisition’, and admittedly this did help considerably. But the frame rates are clearly still below sixty on AMD Raptr’s suggested settings for my computer. These settings are in fact even lower than the game’s own suggested settings, with Raptr utilising some ‘high’, ‘some’ ‘medium’ and even some ‘low’ settings.
To me this simply doesn’t make any sense. This scenario would be understandable if my specifications didn’t meet the minimum requirements, but for a computer that meets the recommended settings and partially exceeds them there are no excuses. I understand that I’m not going to play the game in ‘ultra’ or maybe even ‘high’ considering the rapid advance of computer technology, but my computer should have no trouble at all playing the game at ‘medium’ at the very least. Yet even on ‘medium’ settings the game is unplayable and unwatchable in both cutscenes and gameplay. Considering ‘The Witcher II’, a pretty demanding game to run even now, and modern benchmarks run on this computer with absolutely no problems whatsoever this situation is nothing short of bizarre.
Is this an issue on my end or is there something dreadfully wrong with the game itself? I’ve read quite a few people’s forum posts complaining of frame rate drops during cutscenes, but nobody seems to be having such major issues. I really would like to play the game as soon as possible, but I’m simply not going to settle for playing the game on the lowest settings possible and with ridiculously low frame rates when my computer should easily be able to run this game smoothly on much higher settings without any issues. Before I start blaming Bioware for anything, could somebody please help me out with this in case there is in fact something curious going on with my computer? If not there’s an extremely serious issue here that is literally making the game unplayable, perhaps for quite a number of players out there.
AMD FX 6300 CPU
8192MB Corsair Vengeance RAM
2x Gigabyte ATI AMD 7850 2GB GPU
Asus M5A99X EVO R2
This is nothing short of bizarre. My computer meets the recommended requirements with ease and has never had such major issues running a game in its lifetime. My computer makes use of an AMD 6300 running at stock speeds and two overclocked AMD 7850s and 8GB of 1600Mhz RAM. In other demanding games such as ‘The Witcher II’, this set up runs with frame rates of 60 or higher consistently on medium to high settings and runs benchmarks such as 3DMark that compete with and often beat the same set ups on the leader boards. Yet for no apparent reason everything goes to hell when I try and run ‘Inquisition’. Admittedly ‘Inquisition’ is now the most demanding game I own in terms of recommended requirements, but there is absolutely no reason why it’s running so poorly on my computer. Even when the game boots the graphs in Task Manager rocket to levels I’ve never even seen before. CPU usage launches to 100% on all six cores and RAM usage goes to about 7.8GB. I’ve literally never seen so much RAM used at the one time. And that’s not even launching from the in game menu, that’s just booting the game itself. Besides the game massively draining the system, there are a multitude of audio glitches in the menu as the game loads, with the soundtrack skipping like a scratched CD, awkwardly replaying sections and at times cutting out entirely. I end up with a loading screen that lasts anywhere between two and three minutes with even the little inquisition symbol in the bottom right lagging.
That’s not even when the game actually gets in full swing. Throughout the introductory cutscene where my character is being interrogated, the game slows to nothing short of a picture slideshow that continues throughout the entire scene. Once I’m able to move around things don’t get much better either, with obvious lag and massive frame rate drops that go from about twenty to ten and below. This was on the recommended settings for my computer set by the game itself, which were essentially ‘high’ settings for pretty much everything. Even bumping the game down to ‘medium’ proved useless and only in low was the game actually playable, but even then the frame rate was so bizarrely low that it was completely noticeable. I tired looking up solutions on the internet and implemented the force 60+ frame rate in cutscenes fix, which didn’t improve the cutscenes at all, let alone the rest of the game. I disabled the Origin overlay and even tried playing offline to no avail either. I updated my AMD drivers to the very latest beta drivers that supposedly boost performance for ‘Inquisition’, and admittedly this did help considerably. But the frame rates are clearly still below sixty on AMD Raptr’s suggested settings for my computer. These settings are in fact even lower than the game’s own suggested settings, with Raptr utilising some ‘high’, ‘some’ ‘medium’ and even some ‘low’ settings.
To me this simply doesn’t make any sense. This scenario would be understandable if my specifications didn’t meet the minimum requirements, but for a computer that meets the recommended settings and partially exceeds them there are no excuses. I understand that I’m not going to play the game in ‘ultra’ or maybe even ‘high’ considering the rapid advance of computer technology, but my computer should have no trouble at all playing the game at ‘medium’ at the very least. Yet even on ‘medium’ settings the game is unplayable and unwatchable in both cutscenes and gameplay. Considering ‘The Witcher II’, a pretty demanding game to run even now, and modern benchmarks run on this computer with absolutely no problems whatsoever this situation is nothing short of bizarre.
Is this an issue on my end or is there something dreadfully wrong with the game itself? I’ve read quite a few people’s forum posts complaining of frame rate drops during cutscenes, but nobody seems to be having such major issues. I really would like to play the game as soon as possible, but I’m simply not going to settle for playing the game on the lowest settings possible and with ridiculously low frame rates when my computer should easily be able to run this game smoothly on much higher settings without any issues. Before I start blaming Bioware for anything, could somebody please help me out with this in case there is in fact something curious going on with my computer? If not there’s an extremely serious issue here that is literally making the game unplayable, perhaps for quite a number of players out there.
AMD FX 6300 CPU
8192MB Corsair Vengeance RAM
2x Gigabyte ATI AMD 7850 2GB GPU
Asus M5A99X EVO R2
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