Allnamestakenlol
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I've been wondering this, too.
Dragon Age: Inquisition PC performance thread
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I've been wondering this, too.
Yeah, I turn it on for all games as I can't stand tearing. Have the in engine triple buffering enabled in user.cfg too.
jim2point0
Banned
I'm perfectly happy with my performance at 2560x1440 + 2xMSAA, all other settings maxed. I have a single 980. I'll do some framerate tests later on tonight.
What's the clock on that 780? I'm getting pretty much same performance, but few dips into low 30's too. Only have a 2500K @ 4.5 though. Wonder if I should try to pick up a cheap 2700K or 3770K.
That fact hat my 670 OC can still do 30FPS in this game 2.5 years after release is amazing to me. The frame dropping in cutscenes is annoying, but I am seeing a stable 30FPS in gameplay with an stock i5-2500k, 8GB and an OC 670. Guess I won't be getting a new video card until the next nvidia card next year.
Stevey
Member
Runs at 1137MHZ
captainnapalm
Member
Performance is perfect for me with a 970 outside of the cutscenes. The command line fix I think helped but it still gets jittery. Hopefully they patch that soon.
Does turning down post process help as well? Does that setting only affect cutscenes?
Does turning down post process help as well? Does that setting only affect cutscenes?
That may be the case, but at least we will have something for the stuttering.
Hmmm, strange I'm getting worse performance at a higher clock.
Stevey
Member
Must be your CPU, maybe.
MaddenNFL64
Member
I'm playing on high settings with post processing on medium, and mesh at ultra. Looks nice, and no stuttering.
CypherSignal
Member
Yes, it's just motion blur and dof. If I recall correctly...
Low disables motion blur, and uses a low-quality dof solution (note that dof is only utilized in cutscenes and cinematics, not gameplay).
Medium flips on motion blur in gameplay.
High uses a higher quality dof solution that eliminates "bleeding" between elements that are in and out of focus.
Ultra increases the resolution on the dof even further, so the content that's in the depth-of-field suffers less aliasing, which is especially noticeable on shiny material that's out of focus.
Dictator93
Member
I dont own the game, but does the motionblur in the game work on objects too? Like in BF4?
MaddenNFL64
Member
Oh really. Ill turn that shit to ultra then. I thought I was cutting some waste during gameplay, but if dof is only for cutscenes. Ultra it is! I really haven't done a framerate test per option, so I don't really know what's taxing & what is not. I assume tesselation, and effects are the worst offenders.
Thank you!
CypherSignal
Member
I don't think there's object-based motion blur, so character animation doesn't invoke it. It's mostly from camera movement and rotation, e.g.:
I don't think there's object-based motion blur, so character animation doesn't invoke it. It's mostly from camera movement and rotation, e.g.:
It's a shame, too. Games with object motion blur look incredible.
Dictator93
Member
I don't think there's object-based motion blur, so character animation doesn't invoke it. It's mostly from camera movement and rotation, e.g.:
Damn, that is a shame. BF4 has a nice per object blur... this game must be using an older engine version or something.
CypherSignal
Member
No, it's definitely using the BF4 stuff as a minimum. I'll double-check, but generally speaking, there aren't a ton of things in DA that move around besides characters, like there is in BF, and I don't think characters could generate object-based motion blur in BF.
Made a small imgur album of the differences in DOF, by the way: http://imgur.com/a/i9nr7 The graph in the bottom left shows time-spent-processing in milliseconds, so you can get a sense of how it affects performance, as well (measured on GTX 680).
ItsTheNew
I believe any game made before 1997 is "essentially cave man art."
So the zeitgeist is getting to me and I'm trying to decide between the ps4 and PC version. Without more than 5 minutes of modifying and constantly fiddling with settings, will my PC be the better choice?
I7-3770k
16gb ram
R9 290
Thanks guys!
I7-3770k
16gb ram
R9 290
Thanks guys!
That's the exact card I'm using. Running at 1680x1050 with everything on high but shadows (medium), tesselation (medium), post-process (low because I dislike motion blur and DOF) and MSAA off I'm getting 100 fps or so except for in towns. That's with an i7 920.
veggiesaurus
Member
Yes. Just chose the "ultra" preset, and you'll be golden. Worst case scenario, it will be 30fps and look considersbly better than ps4.
Stevey
Member
Yes, much better than PS4
Static Jak
Member
Annoying how they put dof and motion blur blur together. I'm usually not a fan of motion blur.
Of course it's the better choice.....
ItsTheNew
I believe any game made before 1997 is "essentially cave man art."
Well I've seen a lot of posts regarding crashing or juddering framerates. I just want to make sure it's worth the potential headaches
Is anyone else getting frequent crashes? First I got a Dx error telling me my GPU ran out of memory. Now I just get inglorious dumps back to desktop or my whole PC locks up. I've tried lowering settings, running in windowed mode, but no luck. I've played 7 hours and I get crashes about every other cut scene.
What's your GPU? Are you running other programs at the same time?
I think I'm just going to end up locking everything at 30fps. I can hit 60 pretty often, but there's way too many drops and the judder is super annoying.
This just doesn't seem like the kind of game that was optimized with high framerates in mind. It's manageable when frostbite is doing single player corridors or less detailed mp environments in BF4, but not this...
This just doesn't seem like the kind of game that was optimized with high framerates in mind. It's manageable when frostbite is doing single player corridors or less detailed mp environments in BF4, but not this...
GPU is a 560 ti
i73770
16 gigs RAM
Just running IE and MSI Afterburner to monitor temps and memory usage. GPU Temps stay at around 70-73 degrees.
Try to update your drivers (if you haven't done this yet), set everything to the lowest settings (including resolution) and see if it's still crashing.
I've heard Afterburner is causing crashes.
Also, have you unlocked the cutscene framerate?
icecold1983
Member
Constantly getting this now:
What a mess.
isnt this typically a sign of an unstable gpu core clock/bad gpu?
Karak
Member
Brother get the PC. The PS4 and Xbox One versions have crashed on people. Including myself. Its not the cleanest game in the world but the PC is where the POWER IS
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Constantly getting this now:
What a mess.
I was getting a couple different directx errors, but after doing a clean reinstall of my drivers, installing the latest Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 update, and disabling all of Origin's in-game junk (overlay/notifications), I haven't had any since. Hope this helps!
CypherSignal
Member
Constantly getting this now:
What a mess.
For what it may be worth, they're working on a solution to that particular issue with nVidia: https://twitter.com/dragonage/status/535466004328230912
KCroxtonJr
Member
I ran into this same issue (660 ti) and after installing the Visual C++ update and disabling the overlay it seems to be gone. Not sure which actually fixed it, or if it was both together that fixed it. May be worth noting that the overlay would not even work at all for me, no matter what I tried.
It happened to me right after creating my character, before I could even play the game.
Deified Data
Banned
Here. First few days after launch I got the DirectX CTD twice (both times in the war room). Today alone I've gotten 7 individual CTDs with the same message. PC is more than recommended specs, drivers up-to-date, running in borderless windowed, but still I have to save before every cutscene because there's a good 75% chance of the game crashing. That percentage creeps another 10% in the war room for some reason. The game performs beautifully everywhere else.
Constantly getting this now:
What a mess.
Yep, this one here. I really need that fix. This is starting to effect my enjoyment of the game, holding my breath during every long cutscene, hoping I won't have to repeat it 3 times like the very long
intro to Skyhold