PC: Low FPS, making game unplayable

Your GPU is less powerful than the official minimum.  You need to lower your visual quality settings and yourt screen resilution to run with that card. 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GT-8800-vs-GeForce-GT-650M

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@Gorath_the_Elder wrote:

Your GPU is less powerful than the official minimum.  You need to lower your visual quality settings and yourt screen resilution to run with that card. 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GT-8800-vs-GeForce-GT-650M

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You and your false information all over the forums just to increase your post count.   How do you even manage to figure out how to turn on your computer?  The OP's GPU is ABOVE the minimum requirement.  The minimum requirement is a GeForce GT 8800 which is quite old and the 650m is a superior card.

Just because 8800 is a greater number than 650, does not mean which is more powerful that only goes for same-gen GPUs.  Did you even see your own link?  The 8800 is from 2008 while the 650M is from 2012 and that base model they list has 2x the VRAM.  Not to mention there is another version of it that has 2gb of VRAM --- either way it surpasses the minimum by fairly a lot.

To the OP:

There are several threads on this and some fixes that work for SOME people however Bioware has acknolwedged there is indeed an issue with FPS right now and they are working with NVIDIA to correct this.

System specs are here:  http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/pc-systems-requirements-revealed   As you can see you are above the minimum and not too far from the recommended so you should be fine.   

What seems helpful for some people is:   Run the .exe as admin, run it in compatiability mode for Windows 7 (if you are on Windows 8.1), run it in full screen, use a program like Razer Cortex which has a built in optimizer that can help keep processes to a minimum, and toy with your settings to find a nice balance as being the best way to go about it at the moment.   Depending on some other specifics there may be other things you can do however do a search through the forums and you'll find several threads on it.

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OP, you should ignore the inexperienced interference there, unable to read benchmarks.  

Gorath, you don't know what you are talking about.   Stop doing a quick search and thinking you have solved it when indeed all you did was post the opposite of what the link, YOU LINKED points out.

OP look for yourself.  Gorath has no clue what he's talking about and spends more time on the forums than actually tweaking systems for gaming.  🙂

NonyoBizness, Gorath may not be so utterly wrong as you may think.

The worst problem is the most laptop owner think they might have a gaming machine... they absolutely don't have - never ever.

No  laptop is capable of performing well if the game demands power and lots of functions of the graphic unit. It is a sad truth and I always hear complaints from many laptop owners trying to play actual games (perfomance, crashes, lags)

This is because:

* laptops always lacking the ability to cool down the graphic card/housing efficently

* decreased pixel pipelines and shader functions on the mobile graphic cards built in narrow laptop housings

* not so well balanced drivers/game code due to not so broad or relevant customer base

3qfds may have all the problems at once. The model "650M" shows exactly that he has a low end 600-er series with a "M"obile modification. Even if this graphic card is virtually capable of bringing enough power for minimum requirements, heat and also missing core functions is slowing everything horribly down. More than a comparable GT 650 for desktop PC would usually would do.

Sorry, 3qfds, I can't give a solution for that other than not to rely on laptops for gaming.

Try to set every graphic settings to minimum. Try to update all relevant drivers. Hope that NVIDIA will deliver a proper driver soon. Hope that EA will fix there game code that it might run a little better with mobile graphic cards.

Having started playing electronic games on desktop computers before animation was adapted to that platform, 36 years ago, and having begun building computers slightly fewer years ago, in 1987 (27 years ago, I believe),  my experience goes back farther than the age of the average participant here.  The kibitizer is merely woefuly inexperienced.