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.
@NoctuaOne wrote:Still no official word on this?
Maybe if we listen closely......nope nothing.
I had a sinking feeling last night. I remembered that although I have been a Bioware fan forever, I had a similar negative experience when the Star Wars mmorpg launched. I was a collector edition owner and invested a lot of money into that product only for it to be an absolute shambles of an engine for a long time after the launch.
Granted DAI looks fantastic but it doesn't work as intended does it. It is broken and unplayable in the current state for a huge amount of people. I feel completely let down by Bioware once again.
Can we have an update as to what is being done to solve this and an eta on a patch for the broken patch?
@Pegazus777 wrote:Hi!
I managed to solve my stuttering with windows task manager. I just wathced my notebooks processor performance with and without DA:I running in windowed mode, I discovered something must be wrong because cpu usage without any program running was 25% and with DA:I the usage was
97 -100%. I clicked on the processes tab, ... I saw nothing unusual, but then I discovered an option in the lower left corner (show all users processes) and then I was surprised. Windows Media Player online sharing ran in the background eating up almost 25% processing power and something like 2GB of ram. I disabled the process structure immediately (when DA:I run in the background!!!) and then DA:I started to run perfectly smooth and cpu usage went back to 75 - 80% and stayed that way until I played the game. (I hope it will stay that way. I dont have time now to test it properly with Windows restarts, etc.. 😕mileyfrustrated: )
Anyway here is the hastebin link to my notebook's (64 bit) dxdiag just in case if you or the Devs are interested:
http://hastebin.com/obixodezoz.tex
I hope it helps to some of you. 😕mileywink:
PS: Sorry for my english, I'm from Hungary and its 3:41AM now and I'm sleepy.
You sir have saved me!
Its exactly like you stated. I also found a way to disable it since it runs on startup.
Im using win 7, go to start menu and search for SERVICES.MSC and Run it
Scroll down and find Window media player network sharing and double click it
click the dropdown menu by startup type and select disable
Restart Computer.
As a follow up to what I just wrote
I am running an Phenom II x4 965 BE mildy OC'd and a R9 280 I have most settings on Ultra with the rest on high and no MSAA
The game is currently like silk. ( you know cause silk is smooth )...
anyhow even if you dont have wmpnetwork running in the background I would check for another process eating your resources....
I can finally play again
For everyone who is having performance problems, and you're new to the forums, please go to the first post of this thread, make sure to click the "Me too" button under "___ people had this problem".
OK, so after 4 hours with tech support on the phone and many many tests (thanks guys!) it is indeed a conflict between Inquisition and some other program on Windows, from what I can tell audio related.
I ran Task Manager (ctrl +shift+ esc) and went to process tab and the System (NT Kernel & System) started using processes when Inquisition booted up and at no other time. Task Manager isnt specific, and so I finally had to download a program from microsoft to monito all usage, and narrowed down an audio driver that was trying to be used, even though it shouldnt be.
In an effort to see if I could fix it I deleted my old audio drivers completely and lo and behold Inquisition is now working perfectly, and there is no freezing or stuttering.
Note: If you just delete your audio drivers, you will have no sound, unless you have a USB sound card just laying around like I did.
So in conclusion:
Check Task Manager for a non critical program conflict with DAI
If it is a critical program conflict (system), check your audio drivers.
