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5 years ago

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Dragon Age Inquisition Windows 10 Lag

I have played almost 9 full games and logged well over 1000 hours on my computer playing DA: Inquisition, and I've never had any problems. No lag, no stuttering, it's been perfect. I decided to revisit it again after I was (forcibly) upgraded to Windows 10, and now I'm lucky if I can even go 5 seconds without lag. I

've tried uninstalling & reinstalling the game, I'm not running any mods, and I even downloaded Razer Cortex to try and buy back some system resources but nothing works; without fail the game drops down to ridiculously slow fps. I can't even get through character creation without stuttering and freezes.

Is this happening to anyone else? Is there a way to fix this? This is my favorite game and this is situation is pretty brutal...

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mcsupersport
5 years ago
Considering your hardware on the DxDiag doesn't come anywhere min specs I am kinda surprised it runs at all. If it did run in the past on this rig, then color me shocked and maybe the options got turned up since the last time you played the game. You may try to turn down everything to really really low and see if it helps.

Other than that, if it did run, then maybe a clean boot....Discord has hooks in the game if it is on, and thus can cause issues. (an example of why a clean/diagnostics boot can help)

But honestly, doubt much will help due to the low Video chip specs.

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mcsupersport
Hero+
5 years ago
I would suggest you pull up a task manager and monitor your CPU usages. DAI has been, to my experience a resource hog, meaning when it came out it used 80+ percent of the CPUs. If any other program was trying to use the CPU and that amount added up to more than 15% of the CPU you would get lag and freezes. So it would be handy to see how much CPU and what is using it when your computer is having the issue. Don't use the total CPU usage screen because that will not tell you if DAI is using 100% or if DAI is using 45% and XXX program is using 55%.

If this doesn't shed light, then I would suggest a DxDiag file posted here so we can see what is going on your machine.
firelightmystic
5 years ago
Thanks for the assist!
I checked out the CPU usage during a freeze, and it runs between 31% and 32%, with DA:I taking up 26.9% to 29.3%. The only other two programs actively running are Chrome and Discord, and those don't even total a full 1%. The rest are background Windows processes, and each one of those don't even hit .5%.Origin runs at .2%, and I've also got Origin in-game turned off, so I'm pretty sure it's not that.
I attached the DxDiag file, however (thanks again!)
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mcsupersport
Hero+
5 years ago
Considering your hardware on the DxDiag doesn't come anywhere min specs I am kinda surprised it runs at all. If it did run in the past on this rig, then color me shocked and maybe the options got turned up since the last time you played the game. You may try to turn down everything to really really low and see if it helps.

Other than that, if it did run, then maybe a clean boot....Discord has hooks in the game if it is on, and thus can cause issues. (an example of why a clean/diagnostics boot can help)

But honestly, doubt much will help due to the low Video chip specs.