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11 years ago

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3 Problems that hinder or ruin my experience with Inquisition

1) The load times. Golly gee willikers, Batman, I know this game has a lot to load given it's frostbite 3 but I will literally be loading for 10-15 minutes per "area" that I travel to, not counting t...

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Merlando5
11 years ago
@mcsupersport wrote:
1) There is an issue with the game on your PC with this one. My load time on proabably a weaker computer all in all, is about 30sec to at most 1 min for almost all loads, and I am probably overestimating it some since I hate looking at loading screens.
2) Patch 3 was supposed to fix the banter issue, but reports are it has made it worse...stay tuned.
3) Another issue, maybe even related to #1.
I have heard issues of memory leaks, and that DAI loves to access virtual memory instead of using RAM....don't know how true this is, but you may want to investigate how your Virtual memory is set up, as well as watch memory use. Also if a background process may be interfering with the game too, so you may want to run Process viewer(from microsoft) and see if and what is going on with memory, processes, and cpu while playing game. Other than that, I would say upgrading drivers, maybe bios, and checking fragmentation of your HDDs. Something is greatly slowing down your machine whether it is a conflict between the game and you PC or just your PC has an issue I don't know.
Honestly, I don't know what was wrong. Could have been a problem with my video card drivers or could have been something along the line of my Windows being corrupted, but it's fixed. I got fed up with not being able to play the game, backed up all my important content, and reformatted.

Haven't run into anymore issues. In fact, I can run this game at a much higher setting than I did before reformatting at Default "High" and even "Ultra" settings with 1920x1080, although on Ultra I get ~25-30fps which isn't horrible.

I timed the load time Haven to Hinterlands and it only took roughly a minute, and tested from the main menu to Hinterlands at ~1:30. Much, Much faster compared to what I'm used to. Still no banter, but I'll check out the mod that was posted here. Thanks, guys!

mcsupersport

Hero+

11 years ago

I run Hard disk, I have 2x 1tb hds. I have only recently updated to patch 3 and 4, as in tonight, and it seems to have added an extra black screen before the taro cards and a bit of a pause in the middle of the load too, but still not too bad. Just ran a stopwatch on my load times.

Level 3 character hitting continue on main screen into Haven.......45 seconds.

Level 24 character from the Plains to Skyhold.........1 min 15 sec.

Level 24 character from Skyhold to Hinterlands........1 min

Level 24 character from Hinterlands to Crestwood.......45 sec

Honestly with an SSD, it cuts the time in half...but I would have expected faster actually.

Just ran another test this time with Origin offline....

Level 3 character hitting continue on main screen into Haven......40 seconds

Level 24 character from the plains to Skyhold.......45 seconds

Level 24 character from Skyhold to Hinterlands......41 seconds

Level 24 character from Hinterlands to Crestwood.....40 seconds

So it seems just by going offline, I was able to trim time, sometimes even a fair amount, so some of the loading time has to be Origin updaing Keep or something like that.

Fred_vdp

Hero+

11 years ago

@mcsupersport wrote:

So it seems just by going offline, I was able to trim time, sometimes even a fair amount, so some of the loading time has to be Origin updaing Keep or something like that.

That's interesting. I'll try this myself later today and report my findings.

Edit: I saved a few seconds. i'm not sure if it's related or not, but it might.