FPS Issues Despite Great Laptop Specs

From your hastebin I see you have an Nvidia Geforce 650M and Intel HD graphics.

It often happens in PCs with Nvidia hardware that the games launch on the integrated chipset to save energy. You have to change that in your Nvidia control panel.

Source of the thread I took that image from: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/DA-Inquisition-Fails-to-Start/td-p/3998841/highlight/false

Hi Fred,

Before, I actually went into Global Settings and changed the "preferred graphics processor" to the NVIDIA processor, but it was still giving me issues.

However, I will try your solution and let you know how it works out!

Thanks!

The Optimus products and the drivers for them seem generally substandard in every way, an opinion based on 30 years plus of desktop hardware experience.  Many of them NEVER work correctly in Bethesda's or in EA's games.  There are tens of thousands of messages on the Geforce forums complaining about the Optimus series.

So, I tried what Fred suggested, and I see no difference--still terrible FPS, pretty much rendering the game unplayable. :/

Any other suggestions or comments?

Thanks in advance.

set the nvidia control settings for:

Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration   -> SINGLE DISPLAY PERFORMANCE

Power management  mode                      -> prefer maximum performance

And if that doesn't work, see if you can disable integrated graphics in the BIOS (though I don't think all motherboards support this).

Because an Optimus is ONLY the back half of a real GPU, not a complete device, without any front end, it must have that Intel chip working. 

I tried changing the multi-display settings and that seemed to work at first--as soon as I opened DAI I was getting AMAZING FPS--but then less than 5 minutes later, it went right back to awful, unplayable FPS.

Additionally, I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but as I closed DAI, the program stopped responding and I had to force quit it.

Not sure what's going on here, but whatever it is, it sucks ☹️ I just want to play the game...