Shuttering low fps crashes.

Make sure that the CPU's built in GPU(Intel® HD Graphics 4600) isn't being used for the game instead of the 780's..

How do I check that?

You need to have these 2 services running:
1. NVIDIA Driver Helper Service
2. NVIDIA Update Service Daemon

If you've disabled them manually, restart them, or uninstall and reinstall your nvidia drivers.

You should be able to check in Nvidia Control panel. Should be a option to select graphics processor to use with this program, it might be set to use integrated graphics but you'll want to switch it to use nvidia high-performance NVIDIA processor.

It might autodetect wrong depending where you have your monitor or monitors plugged in. I.e make sure the monitor is plugged into your graphics card.

I only have an NVidia external GPU and my FPS is simply appalling. What advice could you offer me?

The GPU is not being utilised by the game and I have ensured that everything to make it do it is in place.

Game running on 780's still no joy. Same problems as listed before ☹️ Dont want to play this on ps4 or xbox 1

I've tried that and I have a 760. It makes ZERO difference.

The FPS is appalling and the game is simply unplayable under any graphics setup - totally unplayable.

I have tried disableing orgin overly. with sli or without GTX 780 still game play cut sceans and multyplayer run in super slow motion. Have updated drivers. No other gacem i play has this problem

If you've installed the game on a mechanical hd and not an ssd, download Contig at Technet, and power defragmenter front-end for it. Then do a folder defrag on the game folder, this will hopefully make those large data files in one continious file and not spread out all over the hd in 300+ fragments.

Another suggestion is try the game without the overclocking apps like FireStorm, MSI Afterburner, EVGA Precision etc. that you get with your graphics card, I noticed I got a lot more stuttering by simply having FireStorm running even without using any of the options.

I use an old version of EVGA Precision X 4.2.1xxx to control the fan, I tried the Precision X 5.2 something but it glitches in Diablo 3 which causes the mouse cursor dissapear, so I went back to the old version, which seems to work best for me. I didn't notice any noticeable detrimental effects in DA:I except from not being able to view the OSD statistics which I assume is due to Direct x 11 or DA:I being a x64 app.

Also see this thread It could only be a 970 issue though or general issue I don't know.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/791910/geforce-900-series/dualmonitor-problem-main-monitor-turns-into-60hz-whenever-flash-is-on-secondary-monitor-970-sli/

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Whenever I run a game such as World of Warcraft (or any game) and I have a flash video present (or html5) on secondary monitor. The main monitor runs at 60hz and I get a frameloss of up to 50fps!

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