Patch made performance MUCH worse

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@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. 

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@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/

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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. 

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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.