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 gameplay got even worse. But also the graphics. The hair looks horrible and they removed scars and freckles. Also my game keeps chrashing and freezing. And I too had no problems before. Well done bioware. You really **bleep** up. The game of the year award is'nt deserved anymore.
Community AdminShaiThePanda, the hair/freckles issue should be resolved now. Check this post for more details: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/INFO-Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Patch-2-Update-Hotfix-now-live-for/m-p/4106778#U4106778
For those who are still reporting diminished performance after the patch, please take the steps Trooperr2 posted, to start.
@Trooperr2 wrote:
I just got finished with customer support and here is what we did to fix my game. I had the same issues you all were having which we narrowed down to being an origin update issue. You may have installed the patch but origin can have issues recognizing the changes and freak out.
Do all of these steps listed below in that order. When finished with each step re launch origin and accept the user agreement and when it has verified your games right click inquisition and check for updates. After that has finished right click again to repair your game. The repair will make sure origin recognizes the updates. It will take a few minutes to do everything but it got rid of my issues.
Run ccleaner on PC:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-use-ccleaner-to-fix-pc-issues/Clear origin cache:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/clearing-your-origin-temporary-files/Perform a clean boot:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
Edit: Several players have also reported that disabling Intel Rapid Storage Technology in Task Manager > services can help
After you have tried this, please check again. If the issue persists, please post a hastebin link to your dxdiag.
Please also include your graphics settings, including Mesh, Tesselation, Texure quality and so on, as well as whether you're playing in Windowed/Fullscreen.
@EA_David
Thank you for an official response David. As requested I have gone through all three of the fixes suggested from Trooperr2's post. No difference.
Tested with lastest AMD Beta drivers and the new Omega drivers.
Using Mantle not DirectX
Mesh Ultra
Tesselation Low
Texture Quality Fade Untouched
Shadow Quality Medium
Terrain Quality Ultra
Vegetation Quality Ultra
Water Quality Ultra
Post Process Quality Low
Ambient Occlusion SSAO
Effects Quality Ultra
Post Processing Off
Multisample Antialiasing Off
Windowed Full Screen
3840x2160 30.00Hz (Monitor set to 30.00Hz in Windows to sync)
V Sync On
PRE patch FPS 35
POST patch FPS 16
CPU
Intel core i5 2500k 3.3 GHz
Idle temperature 31c
Load temperature (running DAI) 51c
GPU AMD R9 290
Idle temperature 33c
Load 54c
CPU usage
Idle 10% and below
Load some spikes but nothing above 89%
IAStorDataMgrSvc Stopped
@Trooperr2 wrote:I just got finished with customer support and here is what we did to fix my game. I had the same issues you all were having which we narrowed down to being an origin update issue. You may have installed the patch but origin can have issues recognizing the changes and freak out.
Do all of these steps listed below in that order. When finished with each step re launch origin and accept the user agreement and when it has verified your games right click inquisition and check for updates. After that has finished right click again to repair your game. The repair will make sure origin recognizes the updates. It will take a few minutes to do everything but it got rid of my issues.
Run ccleaner on PC:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-use-ccleaner-to-fix-pc-issues/Clear origin cache:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/clearing-your-origin-temporary-files/Perform a clean boot:
http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
After the initial hotfix installation, game didn't start. The repair function fixed this.
I also followed your tip, Trooperr2, thanks a LOT for posting it!
I don't know if it was this or the hotfix (or both together), but now the stuttering is gone. It worked!
So, one happy gamer jumping back into Thedas now :D
I had issues with stuttering and freezing, but I tried disabling the Intel Rapid Storage Technology in services (IAStorDataMgrSvc.exe) on someone's advice this morning and that seems to have done the trick for me at least.
Community AdminThanks for the additional confirmation on that, SoZaded
I can confirm it. Ending the IRST really works.
Is disabling that going to mess with anything? I know nothing about PCs lol
Also add me to the list of "the patch broke everything" hehe
Prior to the patchs I was running it perfectly, seriously not an issue, with the settings the Nvidia program set for me - all ultra basically.
Last night and today things started going a little funny.
Last night weird flashing in caves and the occasionaly flashy textures. Performance was ok though
Today playing it .. its slowing down each time I get on. Stuttering, characters zooming all over the place for a second.
Using one of my assassin skills freezes the fight for a second.
The worst was right before I posted this where every time I got into combat the party was almost running on the spot and not firing off skills.
This isnt the greatest PC, got it last year in July.
i7 4770
GTX 770
16gig ram
Normal 2tb drive (not SSD)
For the first time since I got the PC I ran my scanner and disk checker and it came up with a disk error twice, and I run that daily. So now I am a little worried about my PC :/
So it's really strange because before the patchs, like I said, everything was perfect.
(EDIT: Thought I should let you guys know the fixes of clearing the cache etc and having origin check/install everything again seems to have fixed the problem. I will keep pplaying for an hour or so to see if it slows down again. Thanks to the person that posted it (sorry can't remember who lol)
My game was perfectly fine before Patch 2, no crashes at all, superb performance... Now it stutters like hell, sometimes it freezes for a few seconds before picking up the pace.
Was playing on Ultra settings with ~55-60 FPS all the time, now it dips as low as 12 FPS for a few seconds.
i7 4770k @ 4.0GHz
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Core Edition with latest 14.12 Omega Drivers
8Gb DDR3 1600 MHZ
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD7 TH
Windows 8.1 Update with latest updates
So, I'm in the club too... Patch 2 made my game completely unplayable.
I've already tried: Ccleaner, cleaning origin cache, clean boot, latest nVidia drivers (both 344.75 and 344.80), all screen modes, origin repair - and I still have freezes and stuttering. Before patch 2 game worked flawlessly.
My dxdiag here
