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Anonymous

11 years ago

Approved

CPU 100% Usage on Dragon age Inquisition

Hey Guys, I'm running into a very frustrating issues with this game. I bought this game on the Dec 26th, and have been having issues getting it running. The main problem i run into is a issue where ...

dragon age inquisition

markuswestermoen

New Traveler

11 years ago

My system had 100% CPU all the time on all cores, even with low resolution and everything on low. For me the trick has been disabling some graphic functions using a user.cfg-file, and now the game is running flawlessly in full HD - allthough still on low.

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Inquisition#Performance_Issues

Performance Issues • Link[edit]

Create user.cfg

Open Notepad and paste the lines below
Save as user.cfg in the Installation directory which is by default C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age Inquisition

RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 0 
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0 
RenderDevice.VsyncEnable 0 
PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0 
WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0
WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapEnable 0 
WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapResolution 4
WorldRender.TransparencyShadowmapsEnable 0 
WorldRender.LightTileCsPathEnable 0

Notes

This fix causes a loss of some visual fidelity.

Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
Thanks a lot man!! The game worked perfectly for me for a long time, then suddenly started to go 100% CPU ALL THE TIME, even idling on the main menu.
Have to admit I skeptically did as you suggested, not believing it would work, but it solved it and now everything runs smoothly.
Thanks again!
- Anonymous
  10 years ago
  Approved
  Well.. It worked perfectly until suddenly the issue came back again and now the .cfg file doesn't help :/
  - Fred_vdp
    Hero+
    10 years ago
    In your control panel, is your power saving mode set to balanced or high performance? The high performance plan has a minimum CPU state of 100%. I've noticed this rule isn't followed consistently, but it was an issue I had on an older CPU way back when.
    
    As for DAI, I personally have a 100% CPU usage when the game is loading. Everywhere else it's in normal range. This is also true for other Frostbite 3 games. It's annoying, and I hope they fix this.