Terrible FPS

I have an AMD 6-Core processor. 6100 Athlon, 8GB DDR3 RAM, but my video card (nVidia 550Ti, 1GB) is above minumum spec but below recommended. At High things are sluggish and it takes forever to load between screens. At a mix of Medium/High for somethings the FPS is better, but benchmarking at all Medium gives me maybe 14-20 FPS.

So it's not just me, and maybe I should hold off on running out to get a new card. I did update my drivers and it didn't make a bit of difference. 

Im having the same problem, im playing on the absolut lowest settings possible. And im having around 20-50 FPS. Very pending. 

Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570  
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM

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Looks like EA decided the minimum specs by trying to start the game. Not play it.  

I get a big bug: if i go to inventory (equi, craft,.. something ) then return main game, fps will drop ~ 10-20 frames all time ( from 4x-60 to 2x -4x). This issue will be gone after returning to main menu then reloading the save

I can confirm that the new beta driver from AMD when installed with optimization from Gaming Evolved doubled my framerate to 48 avg on an R9 290

Uploaded AMD drives, with mantle, I got ten extra frames.

so from 18 to 28 on ultra. 45fps on Medium.

Cpu - 8350 4.2ghz
Gpu-295x2
ram 8

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GTX 770 4GB

I7 QuadCore 3Ghz

8GB Ram

Win7

My audio stutters in the cutscenes, if i apply the 60fps cutscene "fix" the audio works but my game goes into slow motion. The framerate drops to a crawl.

If this isn't solved by 6 days, i will have to use the Origin Great Game Guarantee or other methods to get a refund.

Sorry for my bad english - im from germany but listened alot to this thread  since i bought the game before ~7 Hours, the 3 Hours after the purchase i just get used to maximate my FPS - i tryed every variation and also the tips of this thread.

My System is not the best, but its "enough" for games these days, also here.

I5 3300k
Geforce GTX 560 TI
8GB Ram

I found a way out of this lagging hell - try to get through the Prolog - after the Inquisition Base everything went better for me at same settings - even the cutscenes that had microlags before were fine now! I hope this works for more of you!

I play with a mix out of low - mid and highsettings (most low - the first option on top is on high because the Light Bug on the Hair is then gone!)

PS: Im playing now like 3 Hours and have to say - every minute i spent to get this game to work atlest "acceptable" was worth it - hope they get everything better now because i love this game even yet! This is what i liked in the last Version of "Fable" - to plan everything around your organisation / kingdom - a dream come true! 😕mileyvery-happy:

I'm having the same problem:  severe framedrops both during gameplay and during cutscenes. My pc specs are:

AMD Phenom II X6

8 GB Ram

650 GTX TI -Driver up to date: 344.75

I can't play the game like this, so I will wait until you have fixed it. I'm really looking forward to it

GPU: GTX Titan @ 344.75 drivers

CPU: Core i5 3570k

RAM: 8GB

Resolution: 1440p

I just finished the tutorial with everything set as high as possible except for MSAA, which was turned off.  I was getting around 30 - 40 FPS in combat and anywhere from 10 -  35 FPS during cutscenes (I have -GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+ set).

I don't mind the 40 FPS in combat, but the cutscene FPS is pretty unbearable.  The lowest parts seemed to be during cutscenes invloving fire and/or fade rifts.  However, as soon as I excited the cut scene, my FPS climed back up.

Turning any of the settings that don't require a restart from Ultra to Low barely affected things, and I didn't have the patience to keep relogging to try others.  I did set it to automatic, but that did nothing to help.  Going down to 1080p did nothing, either.  Fullscreen, windowed, fullscreen windowed, no change.  Vsync, no change on or off.

Now that I'm done with the tutorial, I'm in an area where there are about 60 NPCs all in a row (literally the first thing you see after the tutorial).  My FPS drops to about 23 here, though this might not be the best place to judge performance.  Where should I go to start trying to mess with settings for a good "average" load?

So it appears that EA thinks that this is an issue with NVIDIA drivers. But from my experience with you all, I really doubt that. Since alot of you have different cards.

Lets hope that this new patch is universal to all drivers and we can all play it then