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.
Dear Bioware,
I was getting close to the end of my playthrough. I was just about to take on the final battle with
I have spent alot of time chasing down all the odds and ends, helping my companions, making sets of armor, even knocked heads with
a few dragons. It has been good fun.
I have a PC I purchased 2 years ago and I was not only relieved but surprised on how amazingly well the game looked and
ran on my system.
i5 chipset
GTX 670 2GB
8GB RAM
Sure the game has odd animation glitches, sometimes froze on start-up, occasional voice dropout. but these things were forgivable because
the 99% of the other parts were amazing. I really loved that you put ridable yaks in as mounts. Even with 4 characters onscreen, the gameplay was solid and the framerate didn`t flinch.
I saw the release notes for patch 2 and thought it couldn`t hurt. The map markings for the locator search could be handy. And why not? Patches make games better, don`t they?
Really wish that I hadn`t.
Nothing works anymore. It wasn`t broken before, but now I cannot even play your game.
This is not a game now. Its a slide-show. The lag is soo bad, the buttons sometimes don`t respond to input for over 10 seconds.
I cannot even confirm whether or not my inquisitor`s scars have disappeared or not because the lag and framerate is soo bad.
I`ve downloaded new drivers.... No effect. I`ve tried the command line workaround... no effect.
I know you will fix this, but when? It wasn`t broken to start with... I find it difficult to believe that a game company that (hell, by comparison to others released this year) was comparatively smooth and unbuggy, would make a patch that is fundamentally broken. Its disappointing to realise how little you clearly value your customers time. Game of the Year, maybe. But does Bioware win new longterm customers by getting them to beta-test your patches for free?
I know you are a company and companies need to make money. Sure, it might be only 5-10% of PC users who are affected in the way that I am.
So allow me to respond in a way you may understand. I cannot believe that you would release this patch (which we are unable to manually remove of refuse) without knowing how users would be affected. So you`ve obviously calculated that the backlash whilst vocal wouldn`t affect enough players to actually warrant spending the time and money to test it. It was probably useful, huh? Make sure those bugs didn`t make it into the Xbox One release?
But can you as a company afford to lose 5-10% of your business income? This is a product I paid 6000 yen for.
And its not good enough. That simple. I am not your Beta Tester and I don`t want to be. Until you can prove this is not the way your company will do business in the future you will not receive my money for future titles.
Good luck and Kind Regards,
Long-time but disappointed Bioware Customer
The loading times seem to be much longer now.
I also run an AMD and this patch has not only failied to fix my crash bugs but the game has dropped from a smooth 60+ fps to ~15, and that's ignoring the camera jitter I'm getting as well. War table previous was slow for me, now the UI jumps about so much that none of the text in the operations window is readable.
I am experiencing similar issues with gameplay. Pre-patch things were okay. Post-patch I've had trouble starting the game; it would frequently crash before the game even had a chance to open to full-screen. In-game I'm experiencing frequent stuttering of both graphics and audio in both game-play and cut-scenes (even when I'm idling in a menu).
Pre-patch the game was perfectly smooth for me. All settings Ultra, textures on Fade-Touched, no MSAA, the only setting that wasn't Ultra was post-processing which I had set at High.
With the new patch I obviously got the insanely shiny hair like everyone else. Applying the command line "fix" for the shaders in Origin seemed to sort that out.
However I'm still getting stuttering and hitching when I didn't before. Even zooming in and out of a war table marker to read the advisor suggestions results in a massive stutter about 80% of the time.
Pre-patch I had two CTDs, one random audio bug (everything went silent except background ambience) and one issue where the Inquisitor started walking around in a weird, bent-over posture. Oh and the cut-scenes could seem a little framey but that didn't bother me too much. All in all this was acceptable in nearly 70 hours of gameplay, especially compared to, say, Skyrim (where I encountered all sorts of annoying quest bugs but still loved the game).
My PC specs: i5 4670K overclocked to 4.3Ghz (stable at 48 hours P95 testing), 8GB RAM, DA:I installed on Crucial MX100 512Gb SSD to cut loading times as much as possible, GTX 970, Windows 7 64 bit, latest Nvidia Beta drivers installed via Nvidia Experience.
Now it's hitch hitch hitch shudder.
Big love to Bioware for making a game I'm enjoying so much though. Hopefully this gets sorted soon.
@sibarone80 wrote:Pre-patch the game was perfectly smooth for me. All settings Ultra, textures on Fade-Touched, no MSAA, the only setting that wasn't Ultra was post-processing which I had set at High.
With the new patch I obviously got the insanely shiny hair like everyone else. Applying the command line "fix" for the shaders in Origin seemed to sort that out.
However I'm still getting stuttering and hitching when I didn't before. Even zooming in and out of a war table marker to read the advisor suggestions results in a massive stutter about 80% of the time.
Pre-patch I had two CTDs, one random audio bug (everything went silent excepy background ambience) and one issue where the Inquisitior started walking around in a weird, bent-over posture. Oh and the cut-scenes could seem a little framey but that didn't bother me too much. All in all this was acceptable in nearly 70 hours of gameplay, especially compared to, say, Skyrim (where I encounted all sorts of annoying quest bugs but still loved the game).
My PC specs: i5 4670K overclocked to 4.3Ghz (stable at 48 hours P95 testing), 8GB RAM, DA:I installed on Crucial MX100 512Gb SSD to cut loading times as much as possible, GTX 970, Windows 7 64 bit, latest Nvidia Beta drivers installed via Nvidia Experience.
Now it's hitch hitch hitch shudder.
Big love to Bioware for making a game I'm enjoying so much though. Hopefully this gets sorted soon.
Have you taken a look at your CPU usage during gameplay? I'm curious if your reaches almost 100% as well. I have the same CPU but not overclocked and I'm wondering if yours fares any better.
