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9 years ago

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Dragon Age 2 Mac No Video

Dragon Age 2 on late 2015 iMac running OS X 10.11 has no video. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still no video.

ThandalNLyman
9 years ago
Last patch for DA2 was released in March 2012. There will NEVER be any more development or fixes by the studio

The game was also initially released in March 2011, which was before the "Retina display" was even available on a Macbook. The selection of resolutions was built to query the rig's hardware and present the responses. At the time, supporting 1920x1080 (16:9) was state-of-the-art. Complaining that a five year-old game doesn't behave completely correctly on more modern gear than it was designed for seems a bit... petulant.

EnderBeta

9 years ago

I deleted the entire game off my Mac. I'll download it again and try again but at this point the game needs to be patched. If the game is going to be sold it needs to be fixed!

Edit:

After reinstalling the game and the DLC I entered the game and was greeted with white and black squared artifacts that flicker.

I know it isn't my machine because I can open up Elder Scrolls Online and play that as well as Witcher 2 and Star Wars KOTOR I and II no problem.

EnderBeta

9 years ago

As a test I tried Dragon Age 2 on my 2012 Mac Mini and it doesn't have the same issue. I tired it on the iMac again and it still is having video issues.

As a test I launched World of Warcraft on my iMac and it works perfectly so I know it isn't my graphics card.

Looking at the settings file my video options are currently set to:

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[Video Options]
UseDirectX11Renderer=0
FullScreen=1
ResolutionWidth=5120
ResolutionHeight=2880
RefreshRate=60
PresentThreshold=5
UseVSync=1
UseTrilinearFiltering=0
UseTripleBuffering=0
UseDesktopGamma=0
Gamma=1
TexturePack=1
EnableShadows=1
AntialiasingLevel=8
EnableLatentQueries=0
EnableSSAO=0
EnableHighQualityBlur=0
EnableDiffusionDOF=0
AnisotropicFilteringLevel=0
EnablePerPixelSelection=1
GraphicsDetailLevel=1
ForceLowSettings=0
DisableMRT=0
DisableAspectRatioCorrection=0

Manually changing the resolution from 5120x2880 to 1920x1080 for testing purposes gets the video of the game back up.

ThandalNLyman
9 years ago
@EnderBeta; WoW is a completely different game, and its 3D graphics use elements of the proprietary graphics engine originally developed by Blizzard for use in Warcraft III. Being able to run WoW, or any of the other games you mentioned in your earlier post, says absolutely nothing about whether (or how well) your rig can run DA2.

(And as you discovered, exceeding the designed max resolution is a Bad Idea.)
- EnderBeta
  9 years ago
  It was about confirming that the graphics chip was not fried. The artifacts I was seeing was something you see when the computer is fried.
  
  Please don't make excuses for the developer. If 4GB video memory is not enough for for this game to render a 5K image then don't display the resolution as an available resolution and shocker if the resolution is changed make a confirmation screen so that in the event that the game has no video players are not stuck.
  
  What I found is that this game on the Mac needs to be patched.
  - ThandalNLyman
    9 years ago
    Last patch for DA2 was released in March 2012. There will NEVER be any more development or fixes by the studio
    
    The game was also initially released in March 2011, which was before the "Retina display" was even available on a Macbook. The selection of resolutions was built to query the rig's hardware and present the responses. At the time, supporting 1920x1080 (16:9) was state-of-the-art. Complaining that a five year-old game doesn't behave completely correctly on more modern gear than it was designed for seems a bit... petulant.