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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I had similar performance problems that were not there before the patch. I did three things and now the game seems te be running just fine again. Here's what I did:
First I did the graphics workaround (http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Patch-2-Graphics-Work-Around-TESTED/m-p/4101233#U4101233).
Second I disabled Origin In Game for this game (which can be done in Origin, I think I did it under Game Properties).
Third I changed the following display option in game: fullscreen mode was set on fullscreen and I changed it to windowed fullscreen.
I did some playthrough and a cutscene both of which were terrible after patch 2, but now with these 2 changes they're fine again!
Note: I also set Origin to offline mode, but I don't think that made a difference so I set it back to online mode. Seems fine that way.
Hopefully someone else can fix their similar problems this very easy way and continue to enjoy the game!
~ Wolfsoul
And whats REALLY wierd is that if i set the affinity in task mangaer to high, it gets worse and sometimes crashes.
its already using 100% and then when set to high it overloads and stutters completely... its like its using 100% for nothing and thats whats making it stutter..
Ive also noticed when playing after patch 2 without the injector the menu lags badly until you get in game where you have this half smooth half stutter gamplay.. and if you use the [Using third party game files is against our Terms of Service - Admin.]
In the forums someone Mentioned a nvidia driver hotfix http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80. i gave it a try, exxpecting nothing, but it works like a charm. Stuttering is completly gone.
running a gtx 580
Hope this will help other users too
@Rikimarius wrote:In the forums someone Mentioned a nvidia driver hotfix http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80. i gave it a try, exxpecting nothing, but it works like a charm. Stuttering is completly gone.
running a gtx 480
Hope this will help other users too
I am trying this as soon as I get home! Will let you know.
Tried it. Along with the other workarounds BW suggested regarding the issues Patch 2 introduced. My CPU usage is still at 100% all the time, which as I suspect is the reason for the serious lag and performance issues.
@iorveth1271 wrote:Tried it. Along with the other workarounds BW suggested regarding the issues Patch 2 introduced. My CPU usage is still at 100% all the time, which as I suspect is the reason for the serious lag and performance issues.
Have you checked your temps to see if your cpu is throttling back, that could be why your cpu is at 100%. Try running HWmonitor during the game.
@Rikimarius wrote:In the forums someone Mentioned a nvidia driver hotfix http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80. i gave it a try, exxpecting nothing, but it works like a charm. Stuttering is completly gone.
running a gtx 580
Hope this will help other users too
Well, it made it better for me, but the game is still unplayable. Freezes are shorter but still just as frequent (every 2-5 seconds) for anywhere from 2-8 seconds at a time. Using a GTX 980.
@777RockNRoll777 wrote:
@Rikimarius wrote:In the forums someone Mentioned a nvidia driver hotfix http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3607/~/geforce-hotfix-driver-344.80. i gave it a try, exxpecting nothing, but it works like a charm. Stuttering is completly gone.
running a gtx 580
Hope this will help other users too
Well, it made it better for me, but the game is still unplayable. Freezes are shorter but still just as frequent (every 2-5 seconds) for anywhere from 2-8 seconds at a time. Using a GTX 980.
Exact same with me. It's a little better but it's still freezing regularly during movement and conversations are painful, with audio ahead of video. I combined the Nvidia driver hotfix (also using 980) with the BW shader fix and changed to windowed view. In all, the stuttering is ruining my experience so I'm just going to leave it until I hear the issue has been fixed. To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement.
