After an autosave, the game starts lagging

So it's only after an auto-save? And for how long?

We'll definitely need a detailed overview of your hardware specs. You should post a dxdiag report as detailed in this thread: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/How-to-post-the-relevant-info-when-you-create-a-question/m-p/4356255#U4356255

The game runs perfectly, when I start it, for about 5 minutes. No lags, very smooth. Than, usually after the second (sometimes even the first) autosave, it suddenly starts lagging or stuttering. Meaning that every third step the character makes is much much slower. And it's even worse during fights or when moving the camera. My CPU and memory levels are normal. I just don't understand what the issue is. Why did the game form a CD work, but mine from Origin doesn't, even tough it's patched?

Here is the link: http://hastebin.com/ijonefijaq.tex

Thank you in advance.

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@zalako wrote:
I have a brand new computer with the latest NVIDIA drivers and a very good graphics card . When I bought it, I made sure that all the games I like will be playable and according to the game specifications, my computer exceeds them by far.

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Your dxdiag says you have a Geforce GT 730. It's an entry level graphics card with performances similar to the Geforce 8800 GT, which is the absolute minimum for this game. It's not supposed to run the game smoothly.

Still, if you have worse performance after saving, I expect there may be a second underlying issue. The dxdiag is cut off at line 70. Could you post the full file?

Sorry about that 🙂

Here it is: http://hastebin.com/ugupazaley.tex

I see you have two identical hard drives. What happens if you install the game to your other drive? Or, since the issue is triggered by saving the game, if you just move the save folder to the other drive? This would rule out a hard drive issue.

To move the save folder, it's probably easiest just to move the entire Documents folder. Here's how you do that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/redirect-folder-new-location#1TC=windows-7

Well, I tried it, and unfortunately it made no difference ☹️

@zalako Do you actually have 2 separate hard drives, or do you have one which is partitioned into two? Not sure how that would show up on a dxdiag, but given their odd sizes and identical model, I thought it was worth checking. If you have one hard drive partitioned, moving the save folder unfortunately won't rule out an issue with the hard drive.

One drive, partitioned in two.

@zalako Then, as @Fred_vdp said, it's possibly an issue with your hard drive causing the lag, possibly combined with your GPU, which isn't really intended for games like this. Makes it a bit tricky to test, since you don't have another hard drive to try it out with.

Out of curiosity, the version of the game you tried earlier, your friends version on disk, was that on your computer? And did it include the Trespasser DLC? Trespasser does tend to increase the demand on hardware, so computers which could play the base game with no issues can have troubles running it with Trespasser installed (unlike the other DLCs, Trespasser influences the entire game, not just the DLC area). Have you tried lowering your graphics settings, to see if that makes any difference? 

The CD was just the base game, no DLC and I played it about a year ago. I tried installing only the base game without the DLCs, but it made no difference. I lowered the settings to off, low, very low - it didn't help.

What bothers me the most is that the game runs fine and smoothly without lags for about five minutes. And than suddenly after the second/third autosave - lag.

It makes no sense to me. If the GPU were the problem - wouldn't it be the problem since the beginning? And that happens every time I start the game. It doesn't matter how much I progressed or where I am.