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.
i'v had perfomance problems since launch
i get 60fps everywhere except in one direction, if i look that way my fps goes down to around 8fps. Dosn't matter what is there or where i am.
gtx 770 4gb
i7 quadcore 3ghz
8gb ram
win7
been like almost 3 months since i got the game, and i can't even play it.
Before this patch my game worked okay, it had its problems but it wasn't bad or anything.
Now I cant even load the game. For a couple seconds I see a black screen and then poof its gone like nothing happend.
not happy about that 😕mileyfrustrated:
Yep add me to the list, started out pre-patch with the occasional stutter or momentary freeze mostly only happed to me in Haven and Skyhold. Now when loading my music will go haywire can if i alt tab my CPU is at 100% when before it didnt used to go above 60%.
just downloaded another 90mg patch now so hopefully that fixes it.
I did notice 1 thing, :
First of all i had no crashes that were not my own doing. (Alt tabbing/running movies/websites/running other programs while playing DAI).
Sys specs :
i7 4770K
32GB ram
250GB SSD OS
64GB SSD DAI (testing purposes)
3 x 2TB WD (DAI installed on 1 of em)
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
2 x 290x running on Mantle (latest Omega drivers) - Fullscreen uses crossfire, windowed mode running on a single card.
Maximum settings. (Ultra/fade touched/HBAO full/4 x MSAA)
When i was transferring some files from the HDD i got DAI installed on to another drive the game got laggy as hell, no interactions/conversations/sound went bonkers. It feels like the game requires a lot of 'disk use' to run. I had to click the NPC 10 or so times and nothing happened it was as if the game paused with me able to run around but not interact (like lagging out in a MMO) Once the copying was finished the game went into a 'fast forward mode' skipping the entire conversation.
I tested this and DAI runs much smoother from a SSD (used a cheap 64GB SSD just for DAI) Also loading times were lots faster, it loaded in the world much faster and i didn't encounter the 'Skyhold missing npc's' bug'.
I can easely tell the difference when running from HDD, when i enter the tavern in Skyhold the game 'hangs' and you see Krem 'appearing' and other NPC's in the tavern. When running from HDD i had the 'Skyhold NPC's gone' bug several times, fast travel to val royaux and back and it's solved.
However on a friends system he's got an identical system except he has 1 780TI and 16GB ram, he's getting DX errors and such, random CTD's and other issues.
Seeing where most problems occur:
-Nvidia cards/drivers? (My friend tried several - even did a complete reinstall)
-Older series AMD cards, 7950/70 - 280/x (6990/7990).
-DAI installed on OS drive causing more 'unable to load NPC' bugs.
- I did not encounter the stuttering/hang issue some people encounter, but that could be related to 'drive use' since i do notice this in Skyhold tavern when running from HDD.
I am getting a GTX980 soon to build a different system so i will test it on that to see if i can reproduce errors/CTD's.
Weird, the recent patch just fixed my perfomance troubles.. mostly atleast. I can actually play now :o
One thing I've noticed with all the people having performance issues (stuttering etc.) is that most of you aren't posting what OS you are running. Those that do, are all on Windows 7.
I was having all the same issues as you guys, tried all the tricks/tweaks etc. that people have been posting and only got marginal improvements. Then I stumbled across a thread on another site (can't remember where, nor who posted it to give them credit), that showed a brief comparison between running the game with the same system and settings, on Win7 and then on Win8.1. Win7 had bad stuttering issues, FPS jumping from 40-90 all over the place. Win8.1 was buttery smooth averaging 75-85 FPS (or thereabouts).
So I went and upgraded my OS to Win8.1, which I had been putting off since I didn't like some of the new changes/features, and I have not had a problem since. I realise it's not a cheap fix by any standard, but it appears this issue is not just nvidia related, but more Win7 related.
Hopefully this helps someone...
Well expecting people to buy a whole new operating system to play a game is not really a fix
Sorry but to fix it your saying people should purchase a new OS to play a game that clearly states Win 7 on the requirements... .... What?
Thats insane. If you want to spend £100+ on an OS just to play this piece of garbage be my guest.
READ THIS
Please tell me where in my post I stated that you should all go out and buy Win8?
All I was trying to say was that the problem appears to be more linked to Win7 than anything else, and that if one of the devs or whoever happens to read these posts, maybe it will help shed some light on what the real issue is and how to fix it.
The game itself isn't broken, it just doesn't want to play nice on Win7.
Count me as another one with an unplayable game because the most recent patch ruined it. I'm now getting FOUR fps, and that's absolutely ridiculous. It is absolutely not a hardware issue, because I have a brand new 6-core CPU, plenty of RAM, and a fine video card. This is a software failure. I really want to play the game, but I can't with the performance tanking like this.
