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Re: [PC] Nivida Graphics Card fix/update?

@mikehald125 wrote:
Hello, this may be a dumb question, but are there any updates to the Nividia graphics card incompatibilities? I've got a fully-updated NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, but cannot play the game with it. The only way I can get Inquisition to launch at all is by forcing the program to use my Intel HD Graphics 4000. =/
Hopefully this is the right place to post a question like this! Thanks for any updates you may have.

Ongoing investigation on high resource allocation/usage

read the orange post in this thread (by me).

bioware is aware of the issue and is working on it, from what I have been told.

also you are playing on a laptop. they game tries to run on the systems default hardware (your integrated hardware)

trying to get it to work on your nvida card, is causing it to crash (i assume).

you may have to wait for another patch or update before your laptop can play the game on the nvidia hardware.

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Screamer-RSA
11 years ago
While your at it, please also have them look at the nVidia GPU usage. Ive noticed its the only game where the usgae never reaches 100%. I always have MSI afterburner open, and with VSync on or off, the usage peaks at 98%, never goes over 95% at Skyhold and all the while looking like a hart monitor. I guess thats due to the stuttering, which I can only get ridd of when enabling vsync in game and ALT-Tabbing to windows and back. Then after next loadingh screen stutter is back....
It really smacks at poor optimisation for nVidia cards and that we are missing out on a lot of extra perfromance. My FPS will sit at a stuttery awfull 45 FPS and I'd look at afterburner and see that the usage is only at 96% or wehatever, and I'd go wtf....
My sysetm spec:
Intel i7 3770K
16 GB 2133Mhz DDR3
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Gigabyt GTX 970 G1 4G
Anonymous
11 years ago
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@middlefngrsalute wrote:
also you are playing on a laptop. they game tries to run on the systems default hardware (your integrated hardware)
trying to get it to work on your nvida card, is causing it to crash (i assume).
you may have to wait for another patch or update before your laptop can play the game on the nvidia hardware.
Yeah it is a laptop, which I guess is unfortunate. I have tried setting the NVIDIA card as the defaut for the game through the NVIDIA control panel, but that doesn't seem to help. Is it that the NVIDIA is simply unable to work with DA:I at all (like with the rendering distances your orange post describes), or is it the "switch" from my integrated hardware to the NVIDIA when the game launches that causes a crash? If it is the switch, is there a way to just use my NVIDIA for everything and avoid a switch?
I'm fairly computer-illiterate, so please forgive me if these are ignorant questions. I'm just curious.