DA:I - Potentially huge memory leak - Not CPU usage problem.

(I was lookin for a similar post also)

I have a concern about the DAI CPU usage, my temperature of the Procesor CPU goes at  maximum when I play DAI with low-medium details, it goes around 70-74 C. While when playing FarCry4 with high details reaches 65-67 at most.

Why DAI is so bad optimiezed ??

CPU Specs:

Intel E5462

nVidia GT 640

5 GB DDR2

Thats no good, game is running fine for me, no memory leak here. And I have been playing for like 15 hours straight without any issues.

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@Axezor1 wrote:

(I was lookin for a similar post also)

I have a concern about the DAI CPU usage, my temperature of the Procesor CPU goes at  maximum when I play DAI with low-medium details, it goes around 70-74 C. While when playing FarCry4 with high details reaches 65-67 at most.

Why DAI is so bad optimiezed ??

CPU Specs:

Intel E5462

nVidia GT 640

5 GB DDR2

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First off, You seem to be having a different problem to what I am experiencing, but I will help you the best I can, to try and help you understand what I believe is the problem that you're experiencing.

What you seem to be experiencing is perfectly normal for your hardware setup, as its not a matter of optimization on Bioware/EA's end. Inquisition is very well CPU optimized as it has the ability to use up to 8 threads of your CPU at any one time, which in turn makes your CPU heat up more as basically most/all of it is being used while playing the game. I can't however speak for Far Cry 4, as I do not own it.

The problem you seem to be experiencing is the fact that you have a earlier architecture CPU, which handles information with less effect, and higher heat generation because of that. my suggestion would be to get a better CPU cooler, or even check/clean your current CPU cooler, or  have someone clean your CPU's thermal paste and re-apply a more effective paste.

Also, from what I can gather about the PC specifications your have provided, your PC should barely, if at all run Dragon Age: Inquisition on minimum settings, given that you only have 5GBs of DDR2 memory. Also, your GPU doesn't really hold up well in the specifications arena, either.

Basically, you need to update your system if you want to see the performance you're expecting out of it.

This is the best advice that I can give you, going on the information that you have provided.

Could this be a Windows 8.1 issue?

I haven't noticed any memory leak issues with DA:I in Windows 7.

I had this same issue.  DA:I ground to a halt, and did the same thing immediately after reboot, but for me it was only an issue in the multiplayer.  Single player worked fine.

I was able to fix it by adjusting graphics settings to the "medium" preset.  I was able to set it back to the settings I had previously, and the memory leak went away.  This has happened to me twice, and both times adjusting graphics quality resolved the issue.

Interestingly, our system specs are very similar.

WIn8.1 64-bit

R9 290

16GB RAM

Catalyst version: 14.9

I hope this helps!

I have windows 7 and this problem started for me recently and I'm using the lowest possible settings!

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@MaliceVampire666 wrote:

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@Axezor1 wrote:

(I was lookin for a similar post also)

I have a concern about the DAI CPU usage, my temperature of the Procesor CPU goes at  maximum when I play DAI with low-medium details, it goes around 70-74 C. While when playing FarCry4 with high details reaches 65-67 at most.

Why DAI is so bad optimiezed ??

CPU Specs:

Intel E5462

nVidia GT 640

5 GB DDR2

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First off, You seem to be having a different problem to what I am experiencing, but I will help you the best I can, to try and help you understand what I believe is the problem that you're experiencing.

What you seem to be experiencing is perfectly normal for your hardware setup, as its not a matter of optimization on Bioware/EA's end. Inquisition is very well CPU optimized as it has the ability to use up to 8 threads of your CPU at any one time, which in turn makes your CPU heat up more as basically most/all of it is being used while playing the game. I can't however speak for Far Cry 4, as I do not own it.

The problem you seem to be experiencing is the fact that you have a earlier architecture CPU, which handles information with less effect, and higher heat generation because of that. my suggestion would be to get a better CPU cooler, or even check/clean your current CPU cooler, or  have someone clean your CPU's thermal paste and re-apply a more effective paste.

Also, from what I can gather about the PC specifications your have provided, your PC should barely, if at all run Dragon Age: Inquisition on minimum settings, given that you only have 5GBs of DDR2 memory. Also, your GPU doesn't really hold up well in the specifications arena, either.

Basically, you need to update your system if you want to see the performance you're expecting out of it.

This is the best advice that I can give you, going on the information that you have provided.

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This game is NOT optimized for PCs. It is a straight port over from consoles.

It is misallocating/overallocating system resources.

Look at my thread "[PC] ongoing investigation" (sorry for not linking... too tired, and lazy)

and read the very first post.

The issue that you are having has been an issue since the game was released.

Overallocation and usage of memory. (I have 32GB of ram on my system and have seen it as high as 80% playing this game.)

overalloaction and usage of pagefile. (I have no active pagefiling on my system, and have seen as much as 16GB allocated to pagefile)

massive writes to SSDs due to pagefile usage. page file will write up to 20GB to SSDs if active on SSD. TURN PF OFF for that drive. 

The memory leak you are very possibly experiencing is due to bad/missing optimization code in the game.

Speed Tree (which is used in conjunction with the game engine) very poorly handles draw distances, 

which can cause resource usage to skyrocket, when trying to render objects at astronomically far, or

at negative distances.

I have. I'm running it on windows 7. It wasn't an issue until I downloaded the DLCs, and then I noticed the longer I played, the choppier the gameplay got until the game froze and shut itself down. The only thing that fixes it is if I reset my computer. This is the only game I have the issue on, and like I said it was never present until I installed the DLC