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.
@Rhayne420 wrote:Just adding my 2 cents.
win 7 64bit
16gigs Ram
eVGA GTX 780 SC
@i5 3570k @ 4.2ghz stable for 2 years
soundblaster recon PCI-E card
This game had its performance issues before the patch, but i had found a nice comfrotable spot with settings on "High" with Textures set to Ultra, MSAA Off, Tesselation Off, Post Process Medium, Shadows Medium, SSAO.
Got 60 FPS except in Skyhold or other cities/villages/camps/keeps. I could handle that. The game was fine for me at least.
Now the game stutters every 5 minutes, whether I'm in a cutscene or battle or roaming around. Its a jittery, graphic interrupting stutter that just wasnt there before. The audio distorts sometimes when this happens as well. I have 70 hours played, I would have noticed! Its not game-breaking for myself but it is quite... bad.
I've done the usual, checked for background processes, not using any Overlays even for FPS measures, Anti-Virus disabled while playing. But now that I've found this thread, it appears it is NOT my system (phew!)
You have a similar enough set up/spec to myself and it's definitely not our systems. This problem is being largely ignored over in News and Announcements, with some users blaming our computers for the drop in performance. It has absolutely nothing to do with us, we were working fine before this patch. This patch essentially broke the game for me.
I had the hitching and freezing after the patch also. Using the work around didn't work at first but after restarting the game 3 or 4 times using the same settings and the same workaround I am now able to play without the freezing.
I use medium mesh settings and the command line argument I use is -ShaderSystem.ShaderQualityLevel Medium
Maybe something to do with the cache?
I personally never had a hitching or freezing issue before the patch, however since the patch I get the whole game freezing for several seconds too. Didn't really notice it on the menu at first, mostly in game when running around my Inquisitor would just freeze in place for a few seconds then started moving again, it was like the old gaming days when your game would stop because it was loading things without a loading screen, but this is just a freeze.
At first I thought it was just when running around but it also froze when I was working on an astrarium puzzle too, really hope this gets fixed, all Bioware currently seem to be talking about is the graphics issues, not the performance one.
I am posting my DXConfig for the developers to investigate. I would like an official response to this issue where post patch performance has drastically decreased making the game completely unplayable.
A reminder:
PRE patch FPS 35
POST patch FPS 16
AMD R9290 (Beta drivers and new Omega drivers tested same results)
Apart from the huge disappointment and frustration of the customer it must be completely demoralising for the developers to have all their hard work impacted in such a negative way. I have been a fan of Bioware forever which is why I am so shocked at the state this game is in. Who is responsible for what is now becoming a default in releasing games in this state? They should be ashamed of themselves.
my problem is not the stuttering, the patch seems to have fixed that for me
but now the game is crashing every 15 minutes! we have to wait almost a month for another fix?
by the way I meet the minimum requirements for the game and it was running with no crashes until I got 80 hours in it
I havent played this game since before the patch.
I really enjoyed the game, despite the frustrating bugs it has it was actually playable for me.
However juding from this thread, and other posts like it, I'm reluctant to try to play the game now, and think it might be better to wait for a while (6-12 months?) before I try playing it again.
Not that this comes as a surprise to me, EA dont exactly have a reputation for releasing games in anything more than a beta state at best.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see if this hotfix today helps us out at all, since we haven't received any official word from EA acknowledging the problem. If it doesn't well, I'll just give up because I can't play it at all as things stand.
Have you guys tried the Bioware shader fix, it has helped a few people with their crashes.
Right-click on DA:I in your Origin library, select game properties, and paste, -ShaderSystem.ShaderQualityLevel Medium ,into the command line box.
In the game video settings set 'Mesh Quality' to 'Medium' to match the shader level.
Bioware are working on a hotfix, when it is released you will need to remove the command line.
