Either wait until next year for a patch or pick up a retail DVD copy, install it, and not patch it. Recent patches for games have been so bad that Battlefield 4 is currently the only PC game in existence to receive a safe patch since October.
Hi,
I have i5 4670K CPU and GPU GTX 970. I have DA:I for few days and I had only few crashed caused by DirectX error. But from yesterday - after launching a game my CPU has 100% usage and game sttuter hard and it's unplayable. What could cause this problem? Is it on the list that future patch will repair?
@Etholt wrote:Hi,
I have i5 4670K CPU and GPU GTX 970. I have DA:I for few days and I had only few crashed caused by DirectX error. But from yesterday - after launching a game my CPU has 100% usage and game sttuter hard and it's unplayable. What could cause this problem? Is it on the list that future patch will repair?
Please read the original post. That should (in some part) answer some of your questions.
@Etholt wrote:Hi,
I have i5 4670K CPU and GPU GTX 970. I have DA:I for few days and I had only few crashed caused by DirectX error. But from yesterday - after launching a game my CPU has 100% usage and game sttuter hard and it's unplayable. What could cause this problem? Is it on the list that future patch will repair?
as he said about reading the original post. it's why you generally crash in zones that aren't the cities, especially the longer you stay in them without rezoning and refreshing. I literally stood in place once for about 10 minutes and watched the memory usage slowly but surely continue climbing steadily while staring at the gorund for ten minutes LOL. I think that's what caused the crashes for me since the patch. unfortunately, I am new to Origin, so i didn't realize the puzzle icon in the launcher meant I didn't have the broken patch and reinstalled the game mistakingly assuming i did out of fear when reading about these issues. I only had a few crashes before that ina lmost a week of play, now i get a few a night on a good night even with lower settings. I suggest NOT updating and disabling the auto login and data options from the main menu, or playing in offline mode for now also. Turning off Vsync is all you may need to do to alleviate much of that cpu drain, about 10% of it maybe. and use mantle if you have an amd card. doing both of those things before falsely assuming I had the broken patch and reinstalling the game to attempt a reroll I didn't need to do which auto updated me by some wicked irony would have spared me these crashes within an hour and a half to 2 hours of playing unless I'm in the cities. use these tweaks in a custom custom file named 'user.cfg' placed in the folder the .exe is in:
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0
RenderDevice.VsyncEnable 0
and DO NOT update the game if you haven't made the mistake already.
@Etholt wrote:Hi,
I have i5 4670K CPU and GPU GTX 970. I have DA:I for few days and I had only few crashed caused by DirectX error. But from yesterday - after launching a game my CPU has 100% usage and game sttuter hard and it's unplayable. What could cause this problem? Is it on the list that future patch will repair?
If it was occurring since launch, then as strange as it sounds, your CPU is actually bottlenecking the GTX 970 in this game! Sounds like a joke, but my i7-4790k only runs at up to 60% load on ultra settings and I get a minimum of 45 fps with little or no stutter. Can anyone else with i7s confirm that the game is running OK for them as well? Just trying to investigate the issue.
I thought everything was okay, until Origin decided to force an update on me last night. I had noticed some stuttering and high CPU usage prior to that point (70%-75%,) but I really didn't think much of it at first. The game did have some stuttering and other issues, largely resolved by the AMD 14.12 drivers. It wasn't going away though, despite my tweaking of the user.cfg.
Then last night, out of nowhere, I get a message: "Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition failed to install. Please reinstall the game."
I was extremely puzzled, as I had auto-updates off and hadn't touched the game since about April or so. So I figured something went weird and got the game reinstalled. When I tried to repair, it hung at 48%. I watched it for about 5 minutes; the timer stopped moving all together, as well as the progress bar. Frustrated, I went to shut down my computer. It logged out of Windows just fine, but it was stuck in shutting down. After some digging, I found out that a pagefile had somehow still been active.
Once I got back into Windows, I decided to do a disk analyzer to see if there was any defragmented sectors. Sure enough, on the drive which I had the game installed (not my main drive and a SATA) had some defragmentation. When I went to try to get a defrag going, it got hung up on the first pass at 42%. I was able to cancel the process with no issues.
I have made no program changes in the last 48 hours. The only thing that changed was that forced update.
Here's my specs:
Win 7 x64 (have not gotten the latest update)
16 gig
AMD Radeon R9 2XX (up to date w/ driver 14.12)
AMD A10-7850K APU 4GHz
I think the above poster maybe getting a little mixed up 🙂 We are talking Dragon Age Inquisition and not DA-O. I think you probably would be best posting in the forums related to DA-O.
