Patch made performance MUCH worse
Prior to today's patch, the hitching was annoying, but the game was playable. Now, the game randomly pauses for about 3 seconds every few seconds. It does this at the title screen, while playing, i...
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Pre-patch the game was perfectly smooth for me. All settings Ultra, textures on Fade-Touched, no MSAA, the only setting that wasn't Ultra was post-processing which I had set at High.
With the new patch I obviously got the insanely shiny hair like everyone else. Applying the command line "fix" for the shaders in Origin seemed to sort that out.
However I'm still getting stuttering and hitching when I didn't before. Even zooming in and out of a war table marker to read the advisor suggestions results in a massive stutter about 80% of the time.
Pre-patch I had two CTDs, one random audio bug (everything went silent except background ambience) and one issue where the Inquisitor started walking around in a weird, bent-over posture. Oh and the cut-scenes could seem a little framey but that didn't bother me too much. All in all this was acceptable in nearly 70 hours of gameplay, especially compared to, say, Skyrim (where I encountered all sorts of annoying quest bugs but still loved the game).
My PC specs: i5 4670K overclocked to 4.3Ghz (stable at 48 hours P95 testing), 8GB RAM, DA:I installed on Crucial MX100 512Gb SSD to cut loading times as much as possible, GTX 970, Windows 7 64 bit, latest Nvidia Beta drivers installed via Nvidia Experience.
Now it's hitch hitch hitch shudder.
Big love to Bioware for making a game I'm enjoying so much though. Hopefully this gets sorted soon.
@sibarone80 wrote:Pre-patch the game was perfectly smooth for me. All settings Ultra, textures on Fade-Touched, no MSAA, the only setting that wasn't Ultra was post-processing which I had set at High.
With the new patch I obviously got the insanely shiny hair like everyone else. Applying the command line "fix" for the shaders in Origin seemed to sort that out.
However I'm still getting stuttering and hitching when I didn't before. Even zooming in and out of a war table marker to read the advisor suggestions results in a massive stutter about 80% of the time.
Pre-patch I had two CTDs, one random audio bug (everything went silent excepy background ambience) and one issue where the Inquisitior started walking around in a weird, bent-over posture. Oh and the cut-scenes could seem a little framey but that didn't bother me too much. All in all this was acceptable in nearly 70 hours of gameplay, especially compared to, say, Skyrim (where I encounted all sorts of annoying quest bugs but still loved the game).
My PC specs: i5 4670K overclocked to 4.3Ghz (stable at 48 hours P95 testing), 8GB RAM, DA:I installed on Crucial MX100 512Gb SSD to cut loading times as much as possible, GTX 970, Windows 7 64 bit, latest Nvidia Beta drivers installed via Nvidia Experience.
Now it's hitch hitch hitch shudder.
Big love to Bioware for making a game I'm enjoying so much though. Hopefully this gets sorted soon.
Have you taken a look at your CPU usage during gameplay? I'm curious if your reaches almost 100% as well. I have the same CPU but not overclocked and I'm wondering if yours fares any better.
@Haellborne wrote:Have you taken a look at your CPU usage during gameplay? I'm curious if your reaches almost 100% as well. I have the same CPU but not overclocked and I'm wondering if yours fares any better.
Yes, it's hovering nearly at 100% CPU when I checked in Task Manager.
Admittedly I hadn't looked at this before the patch as I wasn't having issues. Alt-tabbing out post patch also made Windows 7 pop up the "do you want to close Aero and go into Basic mode" moan which it didn't before. This does suggest higher CPU usage for whatever reason.
I didn't put this in my previous post but I did also check the game with my PC at normal, non-overclocked settings too using a standard BIOS profile. My computer is very stable - it's been tested with P95, IBT, memtest86, OCCT, Furmark + IBT simultaneously - and hasn't had issues with any other game due to overclocking, but it was worth checking to see if overclocking was affecting it nevertheless. This made no difference, in fact it seemed a tiny bit worse.
@sibarone80 wrote:
@Haellborne wrote:Have you taken a look at your CPU usage during gameplay? I'm curious if your reaches almost 100% as well. I have the same CPU but not overclocked and I'm wondering if yours fares any better.
Yes, it's hovering nearly at 100% CPU when I checked in Task Manager.
Admittedly I hadn't looked at this before the patch as I wasn't having issues. Alt-tabbing out post patch also made Windows 7 pop up the "do you want to close Aero and go into Basic mode" moan which it didn't before. This does suggest higher CPU usage for whatever reason.
I didn't put this in my previous post but I did also check the game with my PC at normal, non-overclocked settings too using a standard BIOS profile. My computer is very stable - it's been tested with P95, IBT, memtest86, OCCT, Furmark + IBT simultaneously - and hasn't had issues with any other game due to overclocking, but it was worth checking to see if overclocking was affecting it nevertheless. This made no difference, in fact it seemed a tiny bit worse.
Good to know. I was going to OC to see if it copes better.
