Title says it all. Game stutters like crazy due to 100% CPU Usage. It's the only game that does this for me, and apparently I'm not the only one. Lots of people with beast computers are getting this.
I've tried most of the methods that people have mentioned on these forums, none have worked. I'm running the game at 20-40 FPS on medium/low settings.
If I posted a dxdiag, I'd get the usual ''Your PC is old'' answer. But the thing is, my PC is 5 years old, it runs at 20-30 FPS, only thing that ruins my gameplay is the 100% CPU usage stuttering.
People with 3000$ PCs and beast specs run this game at 60 FPS, their gameplay is ruined by the 100% CPU Usage also. This bug isn't on our end, it's up to Bioware. I know this because a friend of mine has bought a new PC a month or two ago, i7, 16 GB RAM and stuff. He has the same problem as I do, except my PC is 5 years older.
go to the very first post in this thread, it may help.
there are other "fixes" mentioned throughout the thread as well.
What you choose to ignore is where you are. This is Answer HQ, it is not EA Help. We do peer to peer community discussion here. If you do not wish our help, you should not start a message thread here than is unanswerable of the basis of this forum. If you want our help, you include our desired diagnostic information. Period.
A DxDiag is a very limited, incomplete tool mostly only useful for graphics problems, but it's better than nothing. So: you want to have the thread locked as a total dead end or what?
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5400 2.70 GHz
4096MB RAM
DX, software 11 but hardware is DX10 capable only.
ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
Happy? As I mentioned earlier, this is a really old PC and Bioware said Dual Core PCs won't run this game. But I'm running it at 20-30 FPS on medium settings.. If Bioware managed to fix this CPU Usage problem, I'd be able to play this next gen game on a 5 years old PC smoothly.
The game requires a quad core. 100% CPU usage is normal for a game. Most of the time PC gamers wonder why 100% CPU on all cores isn't used.
Your attitude needs to change. We are all just gamers like you.
If you manage to get it to run on a dual core, good job.
In Graphic Settings turn off tessallation, msaa, post process aa, poss process fx and ambient occlusion. Set everything else to low.
My computer is not $3000 and i run it fine at 60 fps with a mix of high/ultra settings, ambient occlusion on hbao full, post process aa and post process fx to medium. Upgrade your computer or stick to consoles, you should be so lucky that your rig lasted 5 years. If you make a new rig, you most likely won't have to upgrade again for many years, or until the next consoles come out.
My specs:
i5 3570
gtx670
8g ram
Good luck.
Compare your medium (in its day) performance GPU to the HIGH performance (in that same era) old minimum GPU. Complaining that it is slow, cannot be blamed on Inquisition, unless you have a GPU BETTER than a 4870, such as a 6870 {the differences between a 4870 and 5870 are comparatively small this long after they were new (six and a half years ago for the HD 4nnn generation)}. GPU Review still has data on file for the HD 46nn GPUs, although almost no other site will have much on that one any more.
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=579&card2=564
Do not overlook the MEANING of "minimum". With a 4870, you aren't supposed to expect much at all. It's supposed to be no better than the LOW graphics setting, and only a Medium screen resolution, on which setting it only can offer 40-45 FPS worth of animation speed.
Bioware is under no constraints whatever about denying such a very old and very slow machine any access to official support at all.
See, I told you guys will blame this on my PC.
Did you even read what I said before? My friend has i7 with 16GB RAM, he bought it one or two months ago. He plays Far Cry 4 and Shadow of Mordor maxed out smoothly, DA:I is stuttering because of 100% CPU Usage, just as I am.
Ive played BF3 and BF4, I can play them both smoothly.
TBH the guy is RIGHT i got a GOOD pc and i have the same problem, this all happen after patch 2 screw up the all bloody game and i use to run everithing to ULTRA, so the BAD CODING of this useless people in Bioware shouldnt be blame on people that have spend 50 quid for a piece of bug ridden game that cant even play.
I dont have Direct X problem as the poster just high ammount of CPU usage and it shouldnt do it.
THE BRILLIANT PATCH 2 FROM BIOUSELESS TEAM :
Patch 2 is focused on stability, but does include numerous improvements and fixes across the board. Full patch notes will be available soon, but generally Patch 2 includes fixes to:
Stability my **bleep** !!!
