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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The gameplay got even worse. But also the graphics. The hair looks horrible and they removed scars and freckles. Also my game keeps chrashing and freezing. And I too had no problems before. Well done bioware. You really **bleep** up. The game of the year award is'nt deserved anymore.
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ShaiThePanda, the hair/freckles issue should be resolved now. Check this post for more details: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/INFO-Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Patch-2-Update-Hotfix-now-live-for/m-p/4106778#U4106778
For those who are still reporting diminished performance after the patch, please take the steps Trooperr2 posted, to start.
@Trooperr2 wrote:
I just got finished with customer support and here is what we did to fix my game. I had the same issues you all were having which we narrowed down to being an origin update issue. You may have installed the patch but origin can have issues recognizing the changes and freak out.
Do all of these steps listed below in that order. When finished with each step re launch origin and accept the user agreement and when it has verified your games right click inquisition and check for updates. After that has finished right click again to repair your game. The repair will make sure origin recognizes the updates. It will take a few minutes to do everything but it got rid of my issues.
Run ccleaner on PC:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-use-ccleaner-to-fix-pc-issues/Clear origin cache:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/clearing-your-origin-temporary-files/Perform a clean boot:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/Edit: Several players have also reported that disabling Intel Rapid Storage Technology in Task Manager > services can help
After you have tried this, please check again. If the issue persists, please post a hastebin link to your dxdiag.
Please also include your graphics settings, including Mesh, Tesselation, Texure quality and so on, as well as whether you're playing in Windowed/Fullscreen.
@EA_David
Thank you for an official response David. As requested I have gone through all three of the fixes suggested from Trooperr2's post. No difference.
Tested with lastest AMD Beta drivers and the new Omega drivers.
Using Mantle not DirectX
Mesh Ultra
Tesselation Low
Texture Quality Fade Untouched
Shadow Quality Medium
Terrain Quality Ultra
Vegetation Quality Ultra
Water Quality Ultra
Post Process Quality Low
Ambient Occlusion SSAO
Effects Quality Ultra
Post Processing Off
Multisample Antialiasing Off
Windowed Full Screen
3840x2160 30.00Hz (Monitor set to 30.00Hz in Windows to sync)
V Sync On
PRE patch FPS 35
POST patch FPS 16
CPU
Intel core i5 2500k 3.3 GHz
Idle temperature 31c
Load temperature (running DAI) 51c
GPU AMD R9 290
Idle temperature 33c
Load 54c
CPU usage
Idle 10% and below
Load some spikes but nothing above 89%IAStorDataMgrSvc Stopped
@EA_David wrote:ShaiThePanda, the hair/freckles issue should be resolved now. Check this post for more details: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/INFO-Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Patch-2-Update-Hotfix-now-live-for/m-p/4106778#U4106778
For those who are still reporting diminished performance after the patch, please take the steps Trooperr2 posted, to start.
@Trooperr2 wrote:I just got finished with customer support and here is what we did to fix my game. I had the same issues you all were having which we narrowed down to being an origin update issue. You may have installed the patch but origin can have issues recognizing the changes and freak out.
Do all of these steps listed below in that order. When finished with each step re launch origin and accept the user agreement and when it has verified your games right click inquisition and check for updates. After that has finished right click again to repair your game. The repair will make sure origin recognizes the updates. It will take a few minutes to do everything but it got rid of my issues.
Run ccleaner on PC:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-use-ccleaner-to-fix-pc-issues/Clear origin cache:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/clearing-your-origin-temporary-files/Perform a clean boot:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/Edit: Several players have also reported that disabling Intel Rapid Storage Technology in Task Manager > services can help
After you have tried this, please check again. If the issue persists, please post a hastebin link to your dxdiag.
Please also include your graphics settings, including Mesh, Tesselation, Texure quality and so on, as well as whether you're playing in Windowed/Fullscreen.
Tried Trooper2 steps, in particular:did step 2 and 3, no effect, still CPU spikes.
Then tried step 1 (three times cause CCcleaner it kept finding something to be fixed in the registry) and, with my great surprise, now it seems to work!
Game is running from half an hour with CPU load sitting at 70-80% and no spikes, even at fullscreen.
Now, all that CCcleaner does is delete temp system temp folder and fix registry key.... so, either the game used to look at something in the temp system folder and got screwed with the new patch, or you guys at origin did something orrible to the registry during the installation of patch2.
Anyways, Thanks for the help, I'm off.
CD Projekt Red have delayed The Witcher 3 again because it doesn't want it to become the latest high profile game that isn't finished or has so many problems it makes the game unplayable. Can't help but admire them given most of the other big hitters are grabbing our cash and flushing their games and reputations down the toilet.
@EA_David wrote:
ShaiThePanda, the hair/freckles issue should be resolved now. Check this post for more details: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/INFO-Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Patch-2-Update-Hotfix-now-live-for/m-p/4106778#U4106778
For those who are still reporting diminished performance after the patch, please take the steps Trooperr2 posted, to start.
@Trooperr2 wrote:I just got finished with customer support and here is what we did to fix my game. I had the same issues you all were having which we narrowed down to being an origin update issue. You may have installed the patch but origin can have issues recognizing the changes and freak out.
Do all of these steps listed below in that order. When finished with each step re launch origin and accept the user agreement and when it has verified your games right click inquisition and check for updates. After that has finished right click again to repair your game. The repair will make sure origin recognizes the updates. It will take a few minutes to do everything but it got rid of my issues.
Run ccleaner on PC:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-use-ccleaner-to-fix-pc-issues/Clear origin cache:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/clearing-your-origin-temporary-files/Perform a clean boot:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/Edit: Several players have also reported that disabling Intel Rapid Storage Technology in Task Manager > services can help
After you have tried this, please check again. If the issue persists, please post a hastebin link to your dxdiag.
Please also include your graphics settings, including Mesh, Tesselation, Texure quality and so on, as well as whether you're playing in Windowed/Fullscreen.
Have tried all of the above. Disabling the Rapid Storage Technology worked for about 5 minutes until I entered the Skyhold War table room. None of the others worked.
My graphics settings are all on Ultra and I play Fullscreen. The game worked perfectly before the patch on these settings.
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