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, in conversation, even in menus. When the pause happens, it sounds like the fan on my video card stops or slows down. I tried other games, and none are exhibiting this behavior. The game is not even playable for me, in its current state.
Can't confirm this from my side. Since the patch my game got an average of 10fps more on the same settings, loading times are shorter by about 3-5 seconds and I haven't experienced crashes yet. However, the hair of all characters are now shiny, despite using "High" mesh settings. Pre-Patch it was fine, but now they are... uhm... oily? xD
Holy **bleep** this game has lost all its luster in my eyes...nothing but problems from the start. Kinda ironic, this was the first game in a long time that I paid a full price for. Usually I buy from steam because of the frequent sales, but DA:I was a game I wanted to buy even if it cost 60 euros. Well, that was a cardinal mistake of a huge kind. Even if there will be a patch that fixes this game, I don't think I can enjoy this game to the fullest anymore. No more EA games for me.
Installed Patch #2 and now I can't play the game. It constantly pauses (During Loading, main menu, in game). Unbelievable, game was Playable for the most part except audio was really low, had two crashes in single player (one Direct X command error) and one in multiplayer with 15 hours played before patch #2. Acts like old games that didn't support multicore CPU's trying to run on both. But this is a multicore CPU required game.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
AMD 955 stock 3.2GHz (4-core)
RAM: 8GB 1600Hz 7-9-7
EVGA NVIDIA 460 super-clocked 1GB (driver 344.75)
Creative X-Fi PCIe Fatality Platinum Pro digital Toslink with logitech Z906 DTS 5.1 Surround Speakers (driver 6.0.1.1348)
Installed Patch #2 hot fix and still the same thing. Looks like somehow the multitasking is out-of-sync. It's not a graphics issue and you can see during load screens that the icon stops for several seconds and load times are much longer. That didn't happen before patch #2.
@Kinvarus wrote:
@BIO-AdmiralX wrote:Can people please post their CPU and the amount CPU usage they have without the game running? (press ctrl+shift+esc) for windows 7 it will be at the bottom of the window in process tab, for windows 8.1 it is at the top
I have a Core i5 3470 Quad Core at 3.2GHZ, without the game running my CPU usage is between 0-10% usage, with the game running it's always between 65-70% but I haven't seen it go higher than that so far.
without the game running i have 0% (maybe a bit more for a second). i have an i5-760 quad core and windows 7
I have a 3.6 GHz Quad core with 10 Gbyts Ram and an Invidia GeForce GTX 745. Without the game running it runs at 0-10% and with game seems to run between 23% and 38%.
Before the patch I have few graphics glitches. Now they are frequent: characters dropping from the sky, hands or other objects going through another. The hair/beards/clothing became shiny and 'plasticy' although they hadn't been. I upped the Mesh Quality from High to Ultra which helped but they're still more so than before.
I forgot to mention the 'fight freezes' which NEVER happened before the patch. In fact, with Mesh Quality on high (the only adjustment I had to make) it ran almost perfectly, as well as I've ever seen a brand new game run. Why did you have to break it?
@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.
