Dragon Age: Inquisition PC performance thread

So, I took a little test earlier. I still have this old 19" monitor so I guessed It's worth the try. I hoped I can get solid 60fps in all area in 720p, but I was wrong. The performance is almost similar to 1080p with the same settings.
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texhnolyze said:
So, I took a little test earlier. I still have this old 19" monitor so I guessed It's worth the try. I hoped I can get solid 60fps in all area in 720p, but I was wrong. The performance is almost similar to 1080p with the same settings.
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That particular area (won't give spoilers) is known to have lower framerate than most other parts of the game
 
The patch lost me about 20fps and caused a two second stutter every ten seconds or so

After updating to AMD Omega, doing a bunch of windows updates, and reinstalling the game completely (and checking between each step to see if it helped), the sum of all that managed to get it back to 60 and lose the stutter.

What a fucking shitshow, though.
 
SniperHunter said:
holy shit that sucks

the pc version was crashing a lot so i gave up. should have picked up the ps4 version :(
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I can say in complete honesty this is the most angry I've ever been at a PC game. My game ran pretty much flawlessly before the update and now my entire fucking game is gone. Everything I did just wiped out......

Fuck this game.
 
KePoW said:
That particular area (won't give spoilers) is known to have lower framerate than most other parts of the game
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I'm not talking about that particular area. My point is, there is no significant performance difference between 720p and 1080p. The game needs more optimization, I think.
 
Christ, that's a lot of horror stories in this thread.
Perosnally I'm at my second playthrough and the worst I experienced was a crash during some cutscene every... I don't know, ten hours of actual gameplay?
And I thought that was already quite annoying, too. But reading the thread I'm starting to feel lucky.

The Shogun said:
I'm sorry to bitch here guys but I need some empathy so I don't get too depressed I have to start over from scratch.(
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What about the cloudsaved copy of your save? Was that corrupted as well? Or you just didn't turn that option on?
 
gimel said:
Interesting to hear about all this Mantle magic. I remember reading how BF4 also favors AMD/Mantle.
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Yeah Mantle alongside omega and patch 2 gave me a huge FPS boost, now I'm getting solid 60fps in most places.

Too bad I finished the game before these came out <.< would have been nice if I had all dragon fights on Ultra.
 
TucoBenedictoPacifico said:
Christ, that's a lot of horror stories in this thread.
Perosnally I'm at my second playthrough and the worst I experienced was a crash during some cutscene every... I don't know, ten hours of actual gameplay?
And I thought that was already quite annoying, too. But reading the thread I'm starting to feel lucky.


What about the cloudsaved copy of your save? Was that corrupted as well? Or you just didn't turn that option on?
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I have no idea, I think it synced my corrupted save somehow. I am looking where it should be on Origin and there is no option to restore it, IDK what the hell happened. I was in the Exalted Plains just free roaming doing some side quests then my game crashed my entire PC hard. I rebooted into the game and then it just said my save is gone and corrupted, checked my cloud save and its not there now.....

Feels bad :-(
 
The Shogun said:
I have no idea, I think it synced my corrupted save somehow. I am looking where it should be on Origin and there is no option to restore it, IDK what the hell happened. I was in the Exalted Plains just free roaming doing some side quests then my game crashed my entire PC hard. I rebooted into the game and then it just said my save is gone and corrupted, checked my cloud save and its not there now.....
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I'm guessing it crashed while autosaving. Did you only have a single save?
 
The Shogun said:
I'm sorry to bitch here guys but I need some empathy so I don't get too depressed I have to start over from scratch.........

Why Bioware..........why? I was loving this game so much too :-(
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Did you try to restore a shadow copy/previous version of your save?

If you're on Windows 8, use this guide:

http://winhowto.blogspot.ca/2012/09/windows-8-how-to-recover-previous.html

(So basically, type \\localhost\drive letter$\Users\Username\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save into your address bar and then right click the folder and restore the saves from an earlier point.)
 
UnrealEck said:
In Windows 7 I was getting 47, 48 FPS in a scene and in Windows 8.1 I'm getting 60-62 FPS in the scene. Same graphics driver. Same sound driver.
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Yep same here. Just installed it a few hours ago and went to places I know for sure I was getting low to mid 40's and am getting 60, with higher settings than I was on Win 7. I can pretty much maintain solid 60 while roaming, unless I hit an area with lots of NPC's or grass/vegetation, then it dips into mid 40's again. This is with everything on Ultra except Tessellation and no MSAA, running a 2500K @ 4.36 / 780 Classy at 1267 on air. Thinking about going back to water so I can push the card harder and hopefully get min of 50 or higher most everywhere.
 
Barrow Roll said:
What's your hardware? My girlfriend is just starting this game but she only has a modest GTX 760 and a stock i5 3570k. If the difference is still huge on weaker hardware then she should definitely upgrade to Windows 8.1.
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I'm playing it on a GTX 770 2GB, 6GB of main memory and an overclocked i7 920. I'm not sure if it's down to better use of CPUs with DX11.1 or whatever but I think many people have experienced at least a little improvement in performance with Windows 8.1 in the new Frostbite games. I think loading in the game is also a touch quicker on an SSD between Win 7 and Win 8.1.
 
UnrealEck said:
I'm playing it on a GTX 770 2GB, 6GB of main memory and an overclocked i7 920. I'm not sure if it's down to better use of CPUs with DX11.1 or whatever but I think many people have experienced at least a little improvement in performance with Windows 8.1 in the new Frostbite games. I think loading in the game is also a touch quicker on an SSD between Win 7 and Win 8.1.
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I've noticed that too. Usually I could get through 3 tooltips before the black screen, now I can barely get through 1. Not sure if it's cause my SSD has much more free space now or what.
 
AMD 1100T @ 3.4Ghz
Nvidia 680 GTX 2GB @ 1175Mhz

Been lucky. Gotten 40ish to 60 fps with my set up on a good mix of high and ultra. Before and after the patch. Haven't noticed any stuttering. Keeping Tess on Medium or High though. Seems to be the biggest perf hog.

Windows 8.1, latest drivers.

No deferred AA though. My MSAA days are over until I get new parts lol.

Been loving the game too, especially as a couch PC gamer who plays with a pad whenever possible. ( I play Civ5 with a Pinnacle profile). WIsh EA would patch in 360 controller support to all their PC games that saw a console release.
 
The Shogun said:
I have no idea, I think it synced my corrupted save somehow. I am looking where it should be on Origin and there is no option to restore it, IDK what the hell happened. I was in the Exalted Plains just free roaming doing some side quests then my game crashed my entire PC hard. I rebooted into the game and then it just said my save is gone and corrupted, checked my cloud save and its not there now.....

Feels bad :-(
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How come you don't have multiple Autosaves in your list? On my game, every time I go to the Load screen I see multiple different Autosave files. I don't create any of them so it's just the game doing it on its own

kamspy said:
No deferred AA though. My MSAA days are over until I get new parts lol.
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MSAA is an outdated method and I don't know why some people still insist on using it. It's clear that Frostbite (and many new current engines) is not built for MSAA in mind
 
KePoW said:
How come you don't have multiple Autosaves in your list? On my game, every time I go to the Load screen I see multiple different Autosave files. I don't create any of them so it's just the game doing it on its own



MSAA is an outdated method and I don't know why some people still insist on using it. It's clear that Frostbite (and many new current engines) is not built for MSAA in mind
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Same here I had 1 normal save and 2 autosave files that were there at all times. Now when I click load save this all that appears as an option in the saves. Just one selection that says corrupted.

No idea what happened.
 
I really want this game but I hear so much bad about it on the technical side I just don't think I can risk £35, especially considering I'm really anal about performance. Hopefully by next year all the issues will be fixed and I can pick it up cheap.
 
KePoW said:
MSAA is an outdated method and I don't know why some people still insist on using it. It's clear that Frostbite (and many new current engines) is not built for MSAA in mind
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I agree, but thanks to the internet it's becoming harder to "unsee" bad PostAA. I've been using DSR (even in small amounts) with great success. I wonder if there's a future there. You can adjust it in smaller increments and add more Nvidia Smoothing (postAA) on game by game basis.

Haven't tried with DAI but have great success with DSR in Watch Dogs, ACIV and FC4. Much better perf than deferred AA and much better image that just post AA.

St3v3 said:
I really want this game but I hear so much bad about it on the technical side I just don't think I can risk £35, especially considering I'm really anal about performance. Hopefully by next year all the issues will be fixed and I can pick it up cheap.
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Is the stuttering Win7 or AMD (gpu) exclusive? Maybe I'm just lucky, but the game is performing how I expected it to. I'm actually impressed. If not for the internet, I would assume it ran great for everyone and scaled well. I get really good FPS scaling when I adjust settings. Doesn't seem like I'm hitting a wall of pure coding jank.
 
UnrealEck said:
I'm playing it on a GTX 770 2GB, 6GB of main memory and an overclocked i7 920. I'm not sure if it's down to better use of CPUs with DX11.1 or whatever but I think many people have experienced at least a little improvement in performance with Windows 8.1 in the new Frostbite games. I think loading in the game is also a touch quicker on an SSD between Win 7 and Win 8.1.
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Yeah, my girlfriend definitely needs to upgrade to Win 8.1. I need to do it too as soon as I get my hands on a 1TB external HDD to back up my User folder.
 
KePoW said:
Make manual saves from now on. 3 is good like gimel said
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Holy crap YES!

Ever since the very first time I lost 10+ hours in an RPG, I have a habit of keeping WAY too many save games so I feel safe! :)

My current philosophy is to keep one save for every hour of gameplay. So I am currently 50 hours into DAI and have 52 save game files!!!

That way I can only ever lose a few hours at most. And if I realise I messed something up within the last few hours I can go back.

Back in Dragon Age: Origins I realised I had managed to completely miss the chance to even meet Leliana some 10 hours after my chance had gone. Luckily, 1 save for every hour meant I could go back and fix that :D
 
This game seems super demanding.

How is the PS4 version? Is it any good?

I have a 6950 and a 2500k so I guess my PC would struggle to run this.
 
For a game like this, I'll typically rotate between three saves, making sure to keep one archive save every few hours. I eventually overwrite the archives as well. It's really not worth the trouble of keeping more than a handful of saves considering how difficult Bioware made it to know which save is which.
 
Hey, I was sort of out of the loop from gaming news because of my finals but is it true that the newest patch made the game run worse.

I was gonna pick this up for PC but now I am not so sure.
 
I'm having issues now where the game crashes to desktop (with the .exe still running in the background) when I went to Western Approach. Anyone else having issues there? I was walking around Skyloft just fine for almost an hour and as soon as I hit Western Approach, BAM...it's crashed 3 times in a row now. :(

EDIT: Now a 4th time while I was trying to close a rift. The game was running at 60fps each time it crashed so I don't think it's a performance thing.
 
Doctor Ninja said:
Hey, I was sort of out of the loop from gaming news because of my finals but is it true that the newest patch made the game run worse.

I was gonna pick this up for PC but now I am not so sure.
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It sees to var a lot by configuraitons.

I'm on an i7 3770k and a GTX 780ti. Playing at 1440p and have had no issues, other than two crashes so far, pre and post patch.

Performance has stayed about the same with most areas running at 50-60 FPS.

But others have had some issues with eprformance and stability.

On the other hand, the Xbone version of this game crashed no fewer than 5 times for me in the short 5 hours I played it.
 
velociraptor said:
This game seems super demanding.

How is the PS4 version? Is it any good?

I have a 6950 and a 2500k so I guess my PC would struggle to run this.
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You should actually get about the same type of performance on your PC as a PS4. Basically a mix of mostly medium and a couple of high options (nothing ultra) at 30 FPS 1080p.
 
Just an FYI for those with older processors: my i5-760 at 2.8GHz was having trouble with the war table scenes, and OC'ing it to 3.5GHz increased the general frequency of crashing. 3.2GHz seems to be the sweet spot. Haven't had any issues since making that adjustment. Textures set to Ultra with AO off.

Meager specs running the game just fine:

i5-760 @ 3.2 (OC)
GTX 760 SC w/ 2GB RAM
8GB DDR3 dual channel @ 1066MHz
 
Been a couple weeks since I have played this, I can't play the game without Origin being in offline mode due to it saying I need an update, but it never starts the download for it. Looked online and it seems that others have gotten around this by doing a repair install, but that option isn't available for this game in my Origin library. Anyone know how I can update?
 
Damian. said:
Been a couple weeks since I have played this, I can't play the game without Origin being in offline mode due to it saying I need an update, but it never starts the download for it. Looked online and it seems that others have gotten around this by doing a repair install, but that option isn't available for this game in my Origin library. Anyone know how I can update?
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Try these steps:

Close Origin.

Go to your 'Origin Games' folder.

Move your 'Dragon Age Inquisition' folder to the desktop.

Start Origin. It should now look like DAI isn't installed.

Close Origin again.

Move your 'Dragon Age Inquisition' folder back into your 'Origin Games' folder.

Start Origin again.
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This worked for me when I couldn't download an ME3 update on Origin.
 
Quick question:

When my team shoots a bunch of spells and a ton of stuff is going on, sometimes the game goes slow-mo for a second and there's usually an explosion noise before it returns to normal speed.

This means a skill combo just happened, right? I haven't looked too far into those with this game, but I remember them working similar in Mass Effect 2+3 with the slowmo and explosion noise. I don't think it's a glitch, but I just thought I'd check, haha.

They barely ever happened when for the first 20 hours, but then I respeced my mage to focus on group attacks like Chain lightning and Immolation.
 
Is there an in game fps counter?

I feel some hitching when I pull the cam all the way back but I'm in gsync which could mean the fps is dropping below 30
 
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