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.
The game now looks better for me (shinny hair aside) but stuttering & pauses have increased significantly.
Load times have gone from Origin slow to torturous, I litteraly went to the kitchen got a glass of water & cleaned up a little & took out the trash, returned to my PC & the menu hadn't loaded yet, i initally thought the game had frozen but then the Bioware logo apeared and the menu loaded. I then clicked Continue & waited several more minutes to get into the game.
I've had zero crashes since the patch though, could be conicidence the pre patch crashes were pretty speratic.
@Haellborne wrote: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.
Yes, it's hovering nearly at 100% CPU when I checked in Task Manager.
Admittedly I hadn't looked at this before the patch as I wasn't having issues. Alt-tabbing out post patch also made Windows 7 pop up the "do you want to close Aero and go into Basic mode" moan which it didn't before. This does suggest higher CPU usage for whatever reason.
I didn't put this in my previous post but I did also check the game with my PC at normal, non-overclocked settings too using a standard BIOS profile. My computer is very stable - it's been tested with P95, IBT, memtest86, OCCT, Furmark + IBT simultaneously - and hasn't had issues with any other game due to overclocking, but it was worth checking to see if overclocking was affecting it nevertheless. This made no difference, in fact it seemed a tiny bit worse.
@sibarone80 wrote:
@Haellborne wrote: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.Yes, it's hovering nearly at 100% CPU when I checked in Task Manager.
Admittedly I hadn't looked at this before the patch as I wasn't having issues. Alt-tabbing out post patch also made Windows 7 pop up the "do you want to close Aero and go into Basic mode" moan which it didn't before. This does suggest higher CPU usage for whatever reason.
I didn't put this in my previous post but I did also check the game with my PC at normal, non-overclocked settings too using a standard BIOS profile. My computer is very stable - it's been tested with P95, IBT, memtest86, OCCT, Furmark + IBT simultaneously - and hasn't had issues with any other game due to overclocking, but it was worth checking to see if overclocking was affecting it nevertheless. This made no difference, in fact it seemed a tiny bit worse.
Good to know. I was going to OC to see if it copes better.
Add me to the growing list of hitch hitch stutter freeze players. Everything was working beautifully before the patch, but now it's the aforementioned problem around every 4 or 5 minutes.
Also, my CPU is getting near 100% useage at these times, and it cretainly wasn't before.
Specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
i5-3570K quad core @ 3.40 GHz
8 GB RAM
GTX 660ti 2 GB VRAM
Did they bring out something just before the patch itself? Like many people my game was working fine then day before the patched was released I started having issues with crashing to desktop and the actual patch itself has made matters worse...
This is my first dragon age game I got it because it looked so great despite being apprehensive about purchasing anything affiliated with EA. I expect this game to be fixed and operational so I can continue to enjoy playing it but even then I wont be playing anymore games by Bioware and continue to avoid anything published by EA as best I can.
Also I would like to add that I think the developers sould be ashamed of themselves. Don't you take pride in your work?
Nice post, Axel.=) I feel the same way. I'm just so disappointed, DA:I has been all over the place from the moment it launched, and they patched it to a worse condition. I'm even considering asking for a refund.
@Axel2Shot wrote:Did they bring out something just before the patch itself? Like many people my game was working fine then day before the patched was released I started having issues with crashing to desktop and the actual patch itself has made matters worse...
This is my first dragon age game I got it because it looked so great despite being apprehensive about purchasing anything affiliated with EA. I expect this game to be fixed and operational so I can continue to enjoy playing it but even then I wont be playing anymore games by Bioware and continue to avoid anything published by EA as best I can.
Also I would like to add that I think the developers sould be ashamed of themselves. Don't you take pride in your work?
Bioware make excellent games; this is a fluke in terms of instability and resource hogging. But it is the most ambitious game I've ever seen.
I posted this somewhere else too, but before this patch I at least was able to play this game normally, despite low settings, enduring shiny hair and all that. (I'm a PC gamer).
After this patch I have (so far) come across these issues:
* I cannot summon my mount anymore, despite being out of combat and in an area where it should be summonable.
* The second I enter combat, ALL of my characters including my own seem to be running, but they aren't able to go anywhere. They stay in their spot while trying to go to the enemy they should kill. This means I can't run anywhere, not even to safety, or to come closer to put an AOE spell under their feet.
When the combat is over and my characters relax, I can run normally again with them all.
* The animals/critters in the game have the same issue as previously mentioned. They barely move forward while they appear to be running fast.
Sigh, Just hoping it will be fixed very quickly. It's not great to have a game you can't play normally while you could before, despite other issues.
Well, let's hope they fix this meager fluke that affects so many players games and makes the game pretty much unplayable for many. I can get over this patch 2- circus if they give us a hotfix ASAP. A hotfix that FIXES this game for good.
