veggiesaurus
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Msaa kill performance in frostbite. I took some screenshots for comparison, and I could barely tell the difference between post-processing aa only and msaa
Dragon Age: Inquisition PC performance thread
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Msaa kill performance in frostbite. I took some screenshots for comparison, and I could barely tell the difference between post-processing aa only and msaa
Thanks, worth a shot for sure!
Yea, I took two screenshots of your character when you first get control of them and you have to get so close to the screen to tell a difference it's not worth the 10-15FPS difference.
luknotluck
Member
How is this setup going to run?
i5 3570K @ 3.6
gtx 660ti 3GB
8GB RAM
i5 3570K @ 3.6
gtx 660ti 3GB
8GB RAM
Noticed that too. Pretty annoying performance in this game.
Probably because of the 100 dudes right outside the door lol
So when I'm in places where there are multiple NPC's outside of the main city, I get really bad stutter in gameplay and big frame drops on my 970. No matter the settings, my graphics card will drop to 0% and stop for about 3 seconds before resuming again. I can audibly hear the fan start and stop again.
Currently have a 4690k and a 970. Card gets to about 85% usage but isn't overheating, 55C.
Currently have a 4690k and a 970. Card gets to about 85% usage but isn't overheating, 55C.
AngryPuppy
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coughlanio
Member
Just sold my 290x and ordered a GTX 970, temps were just too damn high for my taste, and it regularly throttled itself to stay within the 95 degree threshold.
GTX 970 should be enough to 'Max' this game right? Not expecting super high levels of AA, but I assume I should be able to turn everything else up? Running a 4670k @ 4.4ghz and 16GB DDR3-2400. The 970 is an EVGA SC ACX 2.0.
GTX 970 should be enough to 'Max' this game right? Not expecting super high levels of AA, but I assume I should be able to turn everything else up? Running a 4670k @ 4.4ghz and 16GB DDR3-2400. The 970 is an EVGA SC ACX 2.0.
I gotta say for a game with zero patches. It's running pretty great on my PC. I have to turn down some settings to low/medium to maintain a stable 60 fps in heavy areas. But the game look so amazing even at mixed medium/high settings that I don't even mind at all.
Textures is still on high so I'm happy.
Thank you Bioware for optimizing this a hell of a lot better than Unity. Can't wait for the new Nvidia driver and first patch.
Textures is still on high so I'm happy.
Thank you Bioware for optimizing this a hell of a lot better than Unity. Can't wait for the new Nvidia driver and first patch.
bigninja
Member
Really conflicted with this purchase because I played the X1 version and liked it but I have to admit, it didn't look so great.
SO glad I went for the PC version.
Ultra settings. Pretty much rock solid 60 on:
1080p (TV)
2500k@ 4.7Ghz
GTX 670 x2 SLI
Guess I can wait a little bit longer to upgrade.
SO glad I went for the PC version.
Ultra settings. Pretty much rock solid 60 on:
1080p (TV)
2500k@ 4.7Ghz
GTX 670 x2 SLI
Guess I can wait a little bit longer to upgrade.
Snapshot King
Member
That's bizarre as hell. Do you mean JUST outside of the main city, or do you mean way out in the wilderness?
veggiesaurus
Member
as much as I agree with you, I wish this wasn't a thing we had to be grateful for. Does Ubisoft even talk to AMD or nVidia?
Titireasca
Neo Member
I can't play it. I'm getting random Nvidia driver crashes!:
During cutscenes, but also outside, it's random. Game freezes and I get an Nvidia driver crash. I'm running a GTX660 and I've left all settings on auto, I haven't done any changes to graphics settings.
Jesus, Nvidia I hate you, I really do!
During cutscenes, but also outside, it's random. Game freezes and I get an Nvidia driver crash. I'm running a GTX660 and I've left all settings on auto, I haven't done any changes to graphics settings. Jesus, Nvidia I hate you, I really do!
blankempathy
Member
Man this next gen and my new 1440p monitor means my 680 gtx can't hang anymore.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Not getting a locked 60 very often, lots of graphical glitches, screen tearing, random crashes... Tried ultra, which is a step down from what the game recommended, to no avail. Running a 3570k @ 4.4 and gtx970 sli, so more than a little disappointed. Guessing I'll just wait for driver updates and patches.
veggiesaurus
Member
I can't play it. I'm getting random Nvidia driver crashes!:
Jesus, Nvidia I hate you, I really do!
I'd love to say the grass is truly greener (or redder) on the other side, but AMD drivers are also bugged in this game. And it's an AMD GE title.
halopower67
Member
My "Graphics API" option is locked to DX11 even though i have a 280x and the latest AMD beta drivers installed. Any help would be appreciated. I want to take advantage of Mantle.
veggiesaurus
Member
The current method of taking advantage of Mantle is staying away from it, from my experience. Getting lower FPS, higher vram usage and major loading time increases (20 s -> 45 s) when using mantle.
Cross posting from the OT as this seems like a PC issue.
God dammit, what the fuck! I've run into a game breaking bug literally 15 seconds into the game.
Created my character just fine, then during the intro cut scene it gave me control of my character. Now, I'm in some weird rocky swamp area with the green sky swirling above me. This happen to anybody else?
Here's some screens I just captured:
God dammit, what the fuck! I've run into a game breaking bug literally 15 seconds into the game.
Created my character just fine, then during the intro cut scene it gave me control of my character. Now, I'm in some weird rocky swamp area with the green sky swirling above me. This happen to anybody else?
Here's some screens I just captured:
veggiesaurus
Member
Yep, that happened to me too! I think it was because I skipped through the cutscene at the "wrong" time. Did that happen to you too? Really annoying, because I spent an hour making my character!
aDanByTheRiver
Member
are you both using the cutscene 60 fps fix? because I was having this same issue for an hour. took off the fix and game worked.
I don't remember skipping anything. It just took me to that place mid cut scene. I'm gonna have to restart the game huh?
I also spent an hour perfecting my characters looks. :/
Yes, I am!
Fuck me. That's the first thing I applied since everyone was saying how much better it makes the game.
So it safe to apply once I get past the intro or is it gonna mess with future cut scenes as well. Anyone using the fix care to chime in?
aDanByTheRiver
Member
yeah the thirty fps cut scenes really suck but taking off the fix should at least let you play for the night. hopefully when I wake up tomorrow someone smarter than me will have figured it out.
not sure if it is safe to put it back on. was sick of waiting and just wanted to play a bit before bed. please post in here if it's OK to put it back on.
not sure if it is safe to put it back on. was sick of waiting and just wanted to play a bit before bed. please post in here if it's OK to put it back on.
justsomeguy
Member
I7 920 stock. R9 270 overclocked
I should wait until I upgrade shouldn't I?
I should wait until I upgrade shouldn't I?
I have the same GPU - a better CPU, though (an i7-4770, not sure how much difference that makes for this game). With mostly high settings and a few ultra (and tessellation and MSAA off), I get an average FPS of 40 and a minimum of 32 in the benchmark. I'm using the 30 FPS limit trick posted earlier in this thread and getting a nice consistent 30fps in game, and it looks great!
icecold1983
Member
The msaa implementation in frostbite is far from great, but in bf3/4 its still a huge improvement over post aa. The difference in motion is massive
Alright, tooled around with all the settings and I think I have the settings I'll be playing with at least until they patch and potentially increase performance...
First off, my settings:
i7 4770k OC'd to 4.5 ghz
Sapphire HD 7970 3GB
8GB RAM
Settings:
Mesh Quality: Ultra
Tesselation Quality: High
Texture Quality: Ultra
Shadow Quality: High
Terrain Quality: Ultra
Vegetation Quality: Ultra
Water Quality: High
Post Process Quality: High
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO
Effects Quality: Ultra
Post Process Antialiasing: High
Multisample Antialiasing: Off
With these settings I'm at 60fps on the regular and it dips to 50-55fps when it does dip (which at this point is about 1/3 of the time...sometimes more, sometimes less).
I did the trick to make the cutscenes 60fps and they hover around the same as the actual game but with added stutter/judder to the movements that isn't there during gameplay. This was something that was even more obvious when it was capped at 30fps and although the stutter/judder is still there at 60fps, the cutscenes are smoother with at 60fps
It's not perfect but I'm happy with the performance, all things considered.
Here are some screens (and my character!):
Anyone know how to get it so the sceenshot counter doesn't appear when you take a screenshots? I'm using the in-game framerate counter via the games console command.
First off, my settings:
i7 4770k OC'd to 4.5 ghz
Sapphire HD 7970 3GB
8GB RAM
Settings:
Mesh Quality: Ultra
Tesselation Quality: High
Texture Quality: Ultra
Shadow Quality: High
Terrain Quality: Ultra
Vegetation Quality: Ultra
Water Quality: High
Post Process Quality: High
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO
Effects Quality: Ultra
Post Process Antialiasing: High
Multisample Antialiasing: Off
With these settings I'm at 60fps on the regular and it dips to 50-55fps when it does dip (which at this point is about 1/3 of the time...sometimes more, sometimes less).
I did the trick to make the cutscenes 60fps and they hover around the same as the actual game but with added stutter/judder to the movements that isn't there during gameplay. This was something that was even more obvious when it was capped at 30fps and although the stutter/judder is still there at 60fps, the cutscenes are smoother with at 60fps
It's not perfect but I'm happy with the performance, all things considered.
Here are some screens (and my character!):
Anyone know how to get it so the sceenshot counter doesn't appear when you take a screenshots? I'm using the in-game framerate counter via the games console command.
Nice. I have a slightly lower 4.4 GHz 2500K, but two GTX 680 in SLI. I guess that the extra bit of GPU power will make up for the lower-clocked CPU. And that's not counting official SLI support when the new drivers come out!
My 680s only have 2GB of VRAM, though. I'll set the texture quality to High, just to be on the safe side.
Sparrowhawk
Member
2GB GTX760 and an i5-4670 @ 3.40 GHz with 8 gigs of RAM.
Not very amazing, I know, but can I still run this 1080p and 60fps while still looking at least as good as the console versions?
Not very amazing, I know, but can I still run this 1080p and 60fps while still looking at least as good as the console versions?
Specifically, in the Crossroads area of the Hinterlands. NPCs just tend to seriously push my system for whatever reason, and I presume my CPU was just having issues. I turned off shadowplay and also found out that another profile was currently logged in on my machine (most likely the culprit as it was running a few things there). After fixing that, it mostly disappeared, but I do still get stuttering pretty bad when loading new areas. I presume it's sort of normal for something this size with my game on a HDD, but I still hope they can fix the loading in a new update.
So, that was probably my issue. Verified how CPU bound this seems to be, I guess. Nothing to worry about, most likely. Worst issue I've had is the game itself freezing on occasion to load stuff. I'm still able to move the camera and press buttons, but the game just hitches and then keeps going. Great fun so far.
So Mantle fucks loading times and worsens peformance?
I have a 280X a I'm at work, can't test the new Drivers that are optimized for DAI.
Can an AMD user say if I'm better off with DX11?
I'm running everything on Ultra at 1080p other than MSAA which is off. It's apparently steady other than microstutters from time to time.
I have a 280X a I'm at work, can't test the new Drivers that are optimized for DAI.
Can an AMD user say if I'm better off with DX11?
I'm running everything on Ultra at 1080p other than MSAA which is off. It's apparently steady other than microstutters from time to time.
bigninja
Member
I have 2GB 670s. Not gonna lie, they are on full blast with this game. I did the 60fps cutscene fix and it does drop. Hard. 45-ish. I can live with it.
Just did a test on my 1440p monitor though. Definitely going to have to crank some settings down to get it to 60. Maybe the new drivers will help. (c'mon, Nvidia)
Oh shit. Who put this 980 in my Amazon cart?
Mantle is EASILY inferior to good old DX11. It take 3 times longer to load, can't maintain a stable Framerate and hitches like there's no tomorrow. Stick with DX11...at least for now.
veggiesaurus
Member
I can only hope there's a patch on the way that fixes these issues. Mantle really seems like more trouble than it's worth
Aztechnology
Member
4670k 4.7 ghz
2xSLI 770 4gb
Getting 55 as average with a low of 38 during the benchmark.
I'm noticing the same thing during custscenes/conversations though, almost as though the speaking parts are in 30fps. It's throwing me off.
ok some updates now that I finished the prologue:
i5 4690k stock
16gb DDR3
2 x gtx970 SLI
all settings maxed, I changed textures to touched by the fade (had ultra yesterday) and I added the + to that command line to unlock the 60fps on cutscenes, not sure if it helped but its still working so thats fine
performance was pretty much the same I had yesterday on the prologue, 70-90fps, never dipped bellow 70. However, and here it comes, as soon as your character wakes up and theres the huge mob outside, it dropped
drops to around 45fps, I didnt really mess around anymore, I just wanted confirmation that it would indeed drop in bigger areas. Still seemed perfectly playable, but yeah, I want my 60 (speaking of, whatever I adjust, I have half a mind to play fullscreen / vsync instead of borderless window just to lock it at 60)
so, first thing should drop MSAA down from 4x to maybe 2x yes? and you guys said effects from ultra to high is a big boost aswell if that doesnt work?
whatever you suggest, ill try it later cause now I really need some sleep
i5 4690k stock
16gb DDR3
2 x gtx970 SLI
all settings maxed, I changed textures to touched by the fade (had ultra yesterday) and I added the + to that command line to unlock the 60fps on cutscenes, not sure if it helped but its still working so thats fine
performance was pretty much the same I had yesterday on the prologue, 70-90fps, never dipped bellow 70. However, and here it comes, as soon as your character wakes up and theres the huge mob outside, it dropped
drops to around 45fps, I didnt really mess around anymore, I just wanted confirmation that it would indeed drop in bigger areas. Still seemed perfectly playable, but yeah, I want my 60 (speaking of, whatever I adjust, I have half a mind to play fullscreen / vsync instead of borderless window just to lock it at 60)
so, first thing should drop MSAA down from 4x to maybe 2x yes? and you guys said effects from ultra to high is a big boost aswell if that doesnt work?
whatever you suggest, ill try it later cause now I really need some sleep
Chance Hale
Member
Anyone else with a gsync monitor unable to get it working?
Slackbladder
Member
After finally installing new drivers (horror story there) I got to play the game. Frame rate is odd. Never below 30 except for the part where all the NPC's are standing around (really low) and can hit 60 in the wilderness of the Hinterlands. But to do this I have msaa off and post AA to medium and AO to HBAO. Everything else is Ultra or the highest setting (pretty much what the game chose on start).
3770k@4.5ghz(or 4.6 can't remember)
3GB 780
8GB 2133mhz RAM
I'm expecting any new driver or patch will increase performance. Not sure where the issue is on losing FPS. Maybe Ultra settings in Geometry (I think it's called that). And I know the cut-scenes are 30fps. They were also juddery until I dropped the AA (game set it to 2xMSAA).
So it runs okay, but I was expecting a little better. That said the game looks really good.
3770k@4.5ghz(or 4.6 can't remember)
3GB 780
8GB 2133mhz RAM
I'm expecting any new driver or patch will increase performance. Not sure where the issue is on losing FPS. Maybe Ultra settings in Geometry (I think it's called that). And I know the cut-scenes are 30fps. They were also juddery until I dropped the AA (game set it to 2xMSAA).
So it runs okay, but I was expecting a little better. That said the game looks really good.
PhillipCostigan
Member
hope my i5 3570k @4.2GHz, GTX 670 and 16GB of RAM can get a solid 60, although it sounds like I'll have to wait for driver updates for that.
I can deal with 1080p30 as long as the image quality is better than what I'd get on my PS4, especially since I got it from Origin Mexico for 37 for the digital deluxe edition. It's 69.99 on PS4 in store and on PSN over here in Ireland, which is pretty disgusting. Almost double the price of what I got it for on PC.
I can deal with 1080p30 as long as the image quality is better than what I'd get on my PS4, especially since I got it from Origin Mexico for 37 for the digital deluxe edition. It's 69.99 on PS4 in store and on PSN over here in Ireland, which is pretty disgusting. Almost double the price of what I got it for on PC.