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.
EA_David
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Community AdminShaiThePanda, 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.
DA:I was working well for me too before patch 2, now the frame rate drop is so bad, I can't even play it. The mages and templars in the intro are constantantly stuttering, and once I get in game, it's just constant freezes.
I've reinstalled several times and even switched to windowed mode and everything on low. No change.
i'm running an i5 2500k, nvidia 970 g1 gaming, 12 gigs of ram
Will hold off on playing this anymore until it's fixed, which I hope is extremely soon.
@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.
Fixed issue for me: DISABLE Intel Rapid Storage Technology.
My issue was CPU usage spiking to 100% on all cores which caused near constant hitching in game. Prior to patch 2 I had no issues.
Specs:
CPU: 2500k quad core @3.3GHz
GPU: R9 270X 2gb
RAM: 8GB
OS: Win7 64
@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.
I've tried this twice now with no improvement. I also don't have anything under IRST in the Task Manager-Services. Other things I've tried:
Full system virus scans,
Repairing game multiple times,
Reinstalling multiple times,
Deleted patch and reinstalled twice,
Disk cleanup and defragment twice,
Updated every driver I can find on my PC, all up to date everything says.
Also my GPU usage stays well under 30% usage and under 40 degrees temperature, while running but my CPU is waaaaaay up around the 100% mark but under 50 degrees temperature
I've been trying all different graphics settings because my original settings were on high/ultra, at the moment they're all on the lowest settings and still have ridiculously low performance. I've also used fullscreen, borderless window, and windowed mode on low with no improvement.
My dxdiag again: http://hastebin.com/inipovofaq.tex
None of these things makes a single difference for me. During every cutscene there is horrible stuttering and after it ends, the game is a slideshow for about 20 seconds. The game runs more smoothly running around, but the texture popin is horrible to the point where everything is shifting and changing and the LOD is getting better as I ride by but it looks like a messy transformer world. Some flora does not show except for in a tiny ring around my character. Many cutscenes would downright lock up my computer if it wasn't overpowered brute forcing it's way through them.
Im not sure why we are forbidden from rolling back to an older version, the way it was at launch was great, I had 4 instances where the game closed with no warning no message but it wasn't that bad, and everything else worked perfectly, cutscenes and all. It ran great, no popin, I loved it. This patch was a major disappointment for me, for what that's worth.
(this is with everything maxed and no AA btw)
@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.
My problem like many is a maxed out 100% CPU. The game was perfect before the patch came out. Once that installed the game could not be played.
Following what EA_David posted I have tried the following and in order.
Run ccleaner on PC:
Clear origin cache:
Perform a clean boot:
I don't have the Intel Rapid Storage Technology in Task Manager to disable.
I have also uninstalled the game and reinstalled it by downloading it again as I have the Digital Deluxe, so no CD.
I have done the above twice and each time the results are the same, a maxed CPU at 100%.
My game settings are all set to low (was ultra before the patch) and I am playing full screen. Same results with windowed mode.
Here is my DxDiag information http://hastebin.com/lupetizexu.tex
I hope this helps you.
Launch msconfig and see if you have Intel Rapid Storage Technology listed in the Services. If so deselect it, save the new set and restart your PC and see if the game improves.
Dave_in_TX
@DaveinTX wrote:Launch msconfig and see if you have Intel Rapid Storage Technology listed in the Services. If so deselect it, save the new set and restart your PC and see if the game improves.
Dave_in_TX
This was stated by EA_David in one of his posts, I don't have it under my services .
I tried all the steps. I keep having things like rocks, grass, or textures flickering.It happens both during gameplay and during cutscenes. It's really distracting. I'm playing fullscreen 1920x1080 with all graphics settings at maximum.
UPDATE: Okay, I'm not very far into the game, but so far the flickering only seems to occur in Haven/Frostback Mountains. I've seen no issues in the Hinterlands. I wonder if it has something to do with the snow, as I don't think I've seen any flickering in the indoor areas of Haven. Also, I just went to Val Royeaux for the fist time and I noticed a lot of pop-in, especially during cutscenes, but no flickering.
Stuttering issues here too... My GPU seems to play to yo-yo during the issue :
See the graphic on my post on the BSN forum : http://forum.bioware.com/topic/532511-dragon-age-inquisition-patch-2/page-160#entry18154074
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