Re: Order a patch for CPU 2 cores

If you don't meet all of the minimum requirements there is no guarantee any game will run. That is what the minimum requirements means and why game developers make sure they are posted long before the game is available for purchase. You just can't necessarily make up for a systems weakness in one area by overcompensating in another (ie. no matter how much memory you have if you don't have enough HDD space the game won't install, etc)... in this case if you don't have a processor capable of handling 4 parallel threads the game will not work. Period. The minmum requirmements clearly indicate that a quad core is required. 

The only exception to the rule are the "dual core" chips from Intel (with hyperthreading)... they have 2 logic processors per core so they are actually able to run 4 threads in parallel.

i pay for DA: I  , and i have core 2 duo so i need to play because i pay it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the game doesnt start!!!!!!! is my problem if a have to play in low quality but de game doesnt start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dont stole our money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@abc349617369 wrote:

i pay for DA: I  , and i have core 2 duo so i need to play because i pay it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the game doesnt start!!!!!!! is my problem if a have to play in low quality but de game doesnt start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dont stole our money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Why does intelligence always seem to be linked to income? Wow....

The minimum requirements are clear.

CPU: AMD quad core CPU @ 2.5 GHz; Intel quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz

Those who have obsolete hardware need to upgrade. A gaming PC can be very cheap nowadays. This budget build will run Dragon Age Inquisition quite well: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jjvZjX

No matter how you look at it it's a cheap marketing trick .
 The game would be perfectly playable on c2d -were they supported- they just chose not to (about 2 times out of 20-30 my game would boot up with normal frames on high settings but crash after 10 minutes or so, like the rest of the times) .
I doubt that optimizing the game for c2d would cost the company that much that their budget didn't allow it, especially with the sales they managed to get, even presales.
Minimum requirements rarely represent the actual minimum specs you need to run a game, so it's just a typicality . Also don't forget about games that have only been optimized for one of amd or nvidia specifically and ends up being unplayable on the other till it gets patched,  even if they say it's supported.

If you tell me to go along with it and look the other way when it happens so boldly, then no i won't. Same thing happened with crisis and oblivion if I remember correctly but they offered significantly better graphics than the other games in their age, not just because they chose not to include older specs deliberately by making them unplayable.
A patch and optimization is not something unreasonable especially after they shut off everyone using c2d for no good reason.

This poor horse is so dead that there is nothing but a heap of bones left.  It's not going to get up and run.  The race is over, you lost, you waited far too long to join the second decade of the 21st century, sorry about that. 

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@tremble112 wrote:

No matter how you look at it it's a cheap marketing trick .

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I have absolutely no idea how this can be considered a cheap marketing trick.

Marketing is the creation of demand in order to sell products. How does the lack of dual core support manage that? If anything, they sell less copies of the game this way. EA doesn't have shares in Intel or AMD, so they have nothing to gain by excluding dual core processors.

BioWare did not choose to exclude dual core owners, it's just that the technology is severely outdated. Even the Xbox 360 has a tri-core CPU, and the game doesn't look good on that system. If supporting outdated technology were as simple as just flicking a switch, they could support Nintendo 64. It just doesn't work that way. Frostbite 3 is a modern graphics engine and requires a decent PC.