Nvidia's more recent graphics drivers are incompatible with Dragon Age II and cause all kinds of glitches in the DX11 renderer.
The last compatible driver version is 340.52 ( 32 bit | 64 bit ). If you encounter any graphical glitches, I suggest you install this driver version.
Special thanks to Redditor Emberwake.
Update
Drivers post 361.75 may now work better.
Still? This is kinda sad, really. In more ways than one. Just bought Inquisition when it was 50% off and forcing myself to play through the games chronologically before booting up Inquisition. Was really hoping something that has been happening for over a year would have had a fix. Or at least something that didn't regress every other update.
After a few hours of play, this fix by AntoninusXIII seems to have finally fixed the issue for me. Check it out: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-2/Missing-Textures-Graphical-Glitches/m-p/4687768#M4856
It seems the problem is with Windows 8... I just upgraded to Windows 10 and the bug is gone.
Okay, so I was kinda wrong. The bug happens with Win 10, it just happens less, and mostly with terrain, not characters. Still, yeah, bugged.
Still the same with 358.50 on GTX 960 OOC, well at least we have Dragon Keep to build up world states when we cant play anything released before DA Inquisition 😛
So god bless EA for that, we are speaking about Bioware games afterall, aren't we, glad to see someone trying to fix what BW screwed up, again :D
@shammancz wrote:
Still the same with 358.50 on GTX 960 OOC, well at least we have Dragon Keep to build up world states when we cant play anything released before DA Inquisition 😛
So god bless EA for that, we are speaking about Bioware games afterall, aren't we, glad to see someone trying to fix what BW screwed up, again :D
@shammancz The game used to work fine on Nvidia GPUs until Nvidia released faulty drivers and didn't bother fixing it. EA can't be held responsible for Nvidia's actions (or inaction).
I confirm that I have issues with this as well. However to get round it, the easiest thing to do is to go into the configuration utility, select the video settings and change them from DX11 to DX9
Using 359.0 using a 750Ti and bugs like mad. I really don't want to have to use DirectX 9, But what choice do I have?
I'm experiencing the same problems as well. I'm running a GTX 970 and when I use DirectX11 with max settings I get all kinds of graphical glitches that make the game literally unplayable.
Putting the settings down to high does remove some of the glitches but it gets worse over time. Especially complete character models that just start to disappear, totally ruining the immersion. The only way I can properly run the game is to put it on DirectX9 but that sets all the options back to medium. It feels wrong not to be able to play a game such as this when your hardware can easily handle it, especially in this day and age.
I really hope EA, Bioware or Nvidia for that matter fix these issues. I've played and completed the original Dragon Age Origins plenty of times without much problems, it would be great to be able to properly play Dragon Age 2 before moving on to Dragon Age Inquisition.
