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Anonymous

11 years ago

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Adamant Fortress Crash

So last night I was playing Inquisition on my computer at work and was ready to attack Adamant Fortress. Every time I tried to begin, I would have the conversation at the War Table and then confirm ...

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INsaneyAC
11 years ago
To start with the Quadro card in that PC is not a gaming card, it is meant for professionals who work with graphics. As such, the drivers are not optimized for gaming and will never get upgrades meant for gaming.
From what I can see, the K600 is also a low end workstation card, meaning it is even lower end for gaming. Here is an article ranking the Quadro cards alongside gaming geforce cards (from 2013):
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425-14.html
Here is a website with a benchmarking for the K600:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Quadro+K600
I can't really pin down an exact comparative for the K600 in the tom's hardware article, but it is less than the K2000, and the K2000 is near the bottom. So your best bet is to crank all your graphic settings to minimum, and hope it will load the Adamant fortress level. If it does, you can start turning up settings and see where it starts crashing and avoid those settings. If it can't load on minimum settings then you are out of luck without installing a better GPU.

Anonymous

11 years ago

Thank you for the quick response. I hope I have performed the Dxdiag to hastebin properly...one way to find out...

http://hastebin.com/xabeyihuse.tex

INsaneyAC

11 years ago

To start with the Quadro card in that PC is not a gaming card, it is meant for professionals who work with graphics. As such, the drivers are not optimized for gaming and will never get upgrades meant for gaming.

From what I can see, the K600 is also a low end workstation card, meaning it is even lower end for gaming. Here is an article ranking the Quadro cards alongside gaming geforce cards (from 2013):

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425-14.html

Here is a website with a benchmarking for the K600:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Quadro+K600

I can't really pin down an exact comparative for the K600 in the tom's hardware article, but it is less than the K2000, and the K2000 is near the bottom. So your best bet is to crank all your graphic settings to minimum, and hope it will load the Adamant fortress level. If it does, you can start turning up settings and see where it starts crashing and avoid those settings. If it can't load on minimum settings then you are out of luck without installing a better GPU.

Anonymous
11 years ago
I was afraid it was something along those lines. I had tried turning the Graphics to Low and it still crashed on me. So now I will just have to play through on my home machine and hope that after I get through that the work machine once again plays the other locations. I have confirmed it currently will load other locations by loading some older saved games.
Thank you for your assistance and insights.