Re: How I fixed my dragon age (stuttering, max cpu usage) PC

Go to start menu and click on run...   If its not there type Run in the search box on the start menu .  

In the run command box type Services.msc

Find this  http://i.imgur.com/rf7FKKn.jpg

Right click the services and change it from Startup or startup delayed  to Disabled

Restart your cpu

Hmm I wonder if Windows Media Player Netstreaming Service doing on the fly remux, re-encodes?

I think some 3rd party software uses that service also like Samsung Allshare, Mezzmo etc...

I wonder if DAI is using that service to upload data back to Bioware and EA....which you can disable in the Optioins page bottom option......

something to ck...lol, now I have to go look.

Just curious if this worked for anyone else.

I had previously disabled data sharing, but that didn't help.

Thanks for the post, it's great. I hope it helps other seeing this issue too. 

While you're here, can you post a hastebin link to your dxdiag, I'm wondering if this only affects certain hardware configs. 

I tried enabling the service on my test pc here(which runs the game fine normally) with no effect, so it would be very interesting to see what setups are affected by this. As Herethos mentions, seeing if there's other 3rd party programs utilising this at the time would also be helpful. 

It's also interesting that the standard step of running with a Clean Boot wouldn't have helped with this, as this is a Windows service and would be made to run on startup anyway. 

Thanks again. 

Well it didn't work for me either back to crossing fingers.