I think I've traced down the issue (for me):
It seems to be triggered by font scaling in Windows 7 - at least in my case. I have a 4k monitor lately and I activated font scaling as the font was a tiny bit small 🙂 DA:I stopped working about that time. I've just tested and removing font scaling fixes it. Turning it back on triggers the bug.
So, try disabling the high DPI scaling from the app shortcut's compatibility settings. If for some reason you can't - you can do that from the registry - run regedit and navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
Create a new String key and as a name set the path to the Dragon Age executable - you can easily get that from the shortcut properties, just remove the quotes if any. Then, as a value of this key set:
HIGHDPIAWARE
This should get you running.
Now a message to Dragon Age: Inquisition devs - please create this registry key during installation 🙂
Hope this helps.
There are several workarounds like this, including teamviewer fix, this thing, laucnging with different compability modes, etc. Unfortunately this works for 5% of people, other 95% physically cant play due to the loss of fps without fullscreen
Thanks for posting this. Boo, unfortunately I must have made this change already since it's in my registry and I still have the issue.
Grrr, this really is a pain in the arse.
