I am getting some seriously conflicting information from various sources out on the net about this GPU.
Does it meet minimum system requirements? Some folks are saying that it does not and that THAT is the main reason for the problems some of us are having.
Anyone got info on this? I have been pulling my hair out trying to play this game and now I am wondering if I have been bashing BW unfairly and I just need to upgrade my GPU.
Any help is much appreciated!!
Your CPU meets minimum but not the recommended (which is 3 GHz)
System Ram is recommended 8 but 4 meets minimum
I think that graphics card is the same (meeting minimum but not recommended).
Hard Drive is a bit low.
Problem is that in order for this game to run smoothly, you need a system with well above recommended on all fronts. Minimum dosen't seem to cut it.
(- Personal experience)
@PokerC I want to keep bashing, lol, trust me....but I was in a debate with these snarky elitist jerks who were saying that the HD 6800 series GPU's were actually LESS powerful than the HD 4870...something about the last two numbers in the ID 68-00 and 48-70 having some designation. Now they have me scratching my head. I tried to search Tom's Hardware about the issue and I cannot even FIND my card in there...
I know the game is wonky but I am trying to eliminate anything on my end...also trying to help the gajillions of people with the same or similar set ups as mine to find some answers...
@8half...I have a 6 core 3.4 Ghz CPU so I am gtg there. I think Poker was just listing minimum specs. Mine are:
CPU: AMD FX 6100 6 core@ 3.4 Ghz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series ~1 GB
RAM: 8 GB
It isn't the best rig but it's not outdated enough to justify replacement yet. It plays everything else just fine, even on high settings in some cases, though the fps can get a little crappy.
I cannot for the life of me see why I can only play the game on the very lowest settings and then still crash regularly, like every 5 minutes.
I thought the 6800 was an NVidea card anyway... silly me
Check the benchmarks: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+6800M
You need a bettr GPU
nah not silly...not compared to me. I am lost on some tech specs lately. Thanks for trying to help....more than BW is doing. Thanks for the link too...
I am just hoping I can grab a better GPU w/o breaking the bank
Running the 6800 myself playing on high to med settings mainly high textures, meshes, effects etc. Everything else is med, in 1080p seems to run fine for me. Have 6 core amd cpu and 16gig of dd3. slightly overclocked the gpu and memory speeds on the card, running on 950mhz core and 1100mhz memory.
I Have a AMD Radeon HD 6800 series and I have been playing dragon age inquisition fine until I downloaded the DLC and it updated 28/03/2015 now for some reason its now saying I dont meet the Min requirements and my GPU doesn't support direct X 10 im running on Direct X 11 why is it now not letting me play when before the DLC and update it was running fine without any errors messages saying it doesn't meet the Min requirements??
Although generational improvements are usually small, AMD had been somewhat "behind the curve" with their HD 3850 / 3870 and 3870X2, as well as their HD 4850, 4870, and 4870X2, so their 5000s and 6000s did receive healthy generational improvements. Normally, between a 3870 and a 4870, the feature set improves, while overall performance barely goes up much, less than 10% or thereabouts. Normally, then, an HD 4850 might not be as powerful as a 3870 had been.
The very first number is the generation. The second number is the CLASS, and 800s are top of their line. The third number is differentiation within class. I think if we compared a 4870 with a 5850, the generation improvement would, or should, absorb the CLASS difference. Anyway, let's use GPU Boss to get a feel for your 6800 (there were at least two in the class, probably three, you may use any number of GPU inventory softwares to learn which you have.
Last I heard, GPU-z was free.
According to GPU Boss, your card HAS to be better, unless there is an oddball "6830" in that PC you have (there *was* one of those for the HD 4800s).
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-6850-vs-Radeon-HD-4870
The HD 6870 is better still, of course.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-6870-vs-Radeon-HD-6850
Laptops cannot actually be compared to their desktop cousins, because the chip producers have less ability to enforce any standards. There is an HD 6830, an "m" for Mobile, and it's comparatively terrible:
@VictoriaScarlet wrote:
I Have a AMD Radeon HD 6800 series and I have been playing dragon age inquisition fine until I downloaded the DLC and it updated 28/03/2015 now for some reason its now saying I dont meet the Min requirements and my GPU doesn't support direct X 10 im running on Direct X 11 why is it now not letting me play when before the DLC and update it was running fine without any errors messages saying it doesn't meet the Min requirements??
Now, I'm not saying it didn't happen that way, since AFAIK, no upgrade in minimum accompanied any new expansion type add-on, however, early this week, EA managed to screw up the Origin local client software. The in-Game Overlay component is royally screwed for quite a number of game players. Not a majority, I don't think, but many, for several games.
The people who are affected can obtain some relief by disabling that component, however, it is critical to making matches for multi-player modes, so if you don't enjoy playing alone, that's no real help. There has been no official advice offered that I have seen, about how soon this foolishness will be corrected. In order to make the change, if you are not already running Origin with Administrator Privileges enabled, you will probably have to engage that setting.
If it does help you, there may be other Inquisition players having some difficulties due to Oblivion, not necessarily because of the new content.
