Dragon Age: Inquisition PC performance thread
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Lockjaw333
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I plan to play some MP man. I think my Origin name is Lockjaw311. Not sure if that's how we will find each other, or if its a Bioware account or something.
I'd buy it day 1 if it would support all cores of my 5820k. Good lord. Even with 8 it's just fantastic.
I'm glad I recently upgraded from my Phenom II X4 970 to a 5820k. The difference is night and day.
It's a per-game basis. Some games have seen massive improvements while others it's just a few FPS and judder reductions here and there.
Lockjaw333
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I would actually rather these games just remove MSAA as an AA option altogether. We could avoid a lot of the cries about bad ports and such. MSAA is an archaic form of AA at this point, the performance hit is huge and as you said it does not address all aliasing within a scene.
SMAA is the absolute best AA option out there right now, but I'm perfectly fine with quality implementations of FXAA (see Skyim for a poor implementation). For me I don't want my AA method using up more than say 5 frames really.
MSAA only if I'm getting well over 60fps and can afford the overhead.
Krauser Kat
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i cant wait for upgrade to my 290 fast enough. When is the 25th of december.
Nice, I'm _ysr or something like that on origin. I'll send you an invite on steam too.
UnrealEck
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Giant Bomb talks about PC performance. (around the 41 minute mark)
An i7 920 and GTX 770 runs the game 'pretty well'.
An i7 920 and GTX 770 runs the game 'pretty well'.
That's fantastic. I was surprised to see that DA:I was pushing hardware so much, given the recommended specs that were released.
Given the recommended specs were a quad core at 3GHz, which is at a i7 920, I'm thinking there's going to be some decent optimization when it hits next week.
Lockjaw333
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Dusktildawn48
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Is this game gonna support sli at launch?
The only good thing from that GB Quicklook (could Gerstmann be more of a curmudgeon?) is the fact that I too have a i7 920 still, though I've OC'd to 3.8ghz from stock 2.67, so I'm hoping to run DAI on mostly high, maybe a few things on Ultra since I do have 16gb ram, 7950 3gb and a new 500gb SSD.
molnizzle
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Dammit, I was thinking of getting this on PC to dial up the AA. I can't stand plain SMAA... need MSAA at a minimum, SGSSAA/downsampling preferred. I'm currently rocking an i5-4570 though (3.2 GHz Haswell).
Not sure what to do. PS4 version looks like it has some pretty horrendous aliasing too.
Not sure what to do. PS4 version looks like it has some pretty horrendous aliasing too.
Inkvoterad
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So do you guys think i'll survive this game? My friend says the specs for this are pretty reasonable, and that i shouldnt have much of a problem, but i just want to double check.
GPU: xfx radeon hd 7850 2gb gddr5
CPU: amd am3+ fx-8320 8-core 125w
Ram: 8GB
GPU: xfx radeon hd 7850 2gb gddr5
CPU: amd am3+ fx-8320 8-core 125w
Ram: 8GB
Duebrithil
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I guess the question that remains now is either PS4 or PC (i7-2600K@3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, GTX580 w 1.6GB). My PC meets the minimum requirements but I'm a bit wary. Time to wait until launch day for even more impressions I guess.
coughlanio
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I was thinking of upgrading to a GTX 980 from my 290x, for this and The Witcher 3, but I think I can hold off for the time being, thankfully.
loganclaws
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I think it means insane, as in better than ultra.
Ah, they're just throwing DA related terms into the graphics settings. Wasn't thinking about it like that.
Resident Guru
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plagiarize
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At some point, PC owners are going to realize that this is the new normal. A generation without high end PC exclusives have totally skewed everyone's expectations.
Resident Guru
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This is what I need to know. Going PC if that is the case. (GTX 770's).
UnrealEck
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You were going PC because of the prospects of using high quality anti aliasing, but if you can't, you are considering PS4?
I don't understand why.
880 is a mobile chip but I believe it is faster than the GTX 660 GPU.
Not sure about GTX 660 Ti though.
No. But that's because there is no card named 880.
780 is quite a bit better than 660 and 980 is another step above that.
Slackbladder
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Hmm. Should run pretty well on my PC.
i7 3770k@4.6ghz
780 3GB
8GB@2333mhz
Unfortunately my driver is out of date and because I have an issue with the intel HD4000 on my mobo I can't install a new driver until I work out how to fix it. Hope it does'nt hurt the game too much.
i7 3770k@4.6ghz
780 3GB
8GB@2333mhz
Unfortunately my driver is out of date and because I have an issue with the intel HD4000 on my mobo I can't install a new driver until I work out how to fix it. Hope it does'nt hurt the game too much.
My bad, it's 850. I heard the middle number is the most important, am I screwed if I have a 5 instead of a 6?
CyberPunked
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For relativity low hardware specs, you have quite high demands. SMAA is a great AA solution, having the greatest edge-smoothing to performance cost ratio of almost all solutions.
RickyRozay
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Im hoping to get a smooth 40 or 30 fps at 1080p from my rig and some decent AA settings with a proper optimized driver.
Phenom x4-955 @3.8ghz
8gb ram
660 ti
I know the cpu is definitely outdated but it served me well up till now, atleast with a few last gen games.
If not I'll go with the ps4.
Phenom x4-955 @3.8ghz
8gb ram
660 ti
I know the cpu is definitely outdated but it served me well up till now, atleast with a few last gen games.
If not I'll go with the ps4.
LumpOfCole
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There is a GTX 880 but it's for gaming laptops only. (880m)
Yep. Devs commented on the official forums that Xfire is working with mantle. not sure about SLI, but I belive they also said yes to that.
??? You might settle for that, but your 970 is going to go for 60 FPS. Set her freeeeeee!
You're looking at Ps4 levels of performance. So 1080p at highish settings should get you a locked 30 FPS.
If you want to push for 60 FPS, you're probably going to have to settle for mediumish settings.
Yeah, if the 750ti was getting 17 fps WITHOUT AA and at high or medium I'd be worried, but max and 4x MSAA? I bet just flipping the AA off will make the game very playable, dialing down a bit bringing to 60. Though given it's 30 on the new consoles I suspect a 560 Ti's only going to be pulling about that much.
Man, hearing that it is CPU-intensive is getting me worried. Been reasonably current on games and never have a reason to upgrade from my ancient q9450. However, I did upgrade my video card two years ago with one that have mantle support. Hopefully, that would still give me a better-than-PS4 quality graphics.
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Deleted member 17706
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The game looks absolutely gorgeous in my opinion.
If I can mostly max it out and keep the minimum FPS to around 40 with my i5 2500k @ 4.2 GHZ and GTX 970 4GB, then I'll be happy enough.
If I can mostly max it out and keep the minimum FPS to around 40 with my i5 2500k @ 4.2 GHZ and GTX 970 4GB, then I'll be happy enough.
You'll do 1080/30, without the MSAA enabled.
So everything maxed out without MSAA?
The Bad Guy
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Pre-ordered it for both PC and PS4. Want to see how well it runs on my PC, otherwise i'll use the origin return feature and just keep the PS4 version. But most of my friends will be playing on PS4, so that make it a tough decision. Play with friends or playing at better settings on PC?
Jibbajabbawockky
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Has there been any word on whether Nvidia will be releasing new drivers for Inquisition near launch?