In both cutscenes and gameplay my game has awful fps. It doesn't matter if the graphics are on high or low it's just terrible. It's making me really mad because I just got this computer in August and it fits all the spec perfectly. If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it.
Have AMD Gpu, im struggling to keep stable frames above 30, on medium.
Most of the framerate drops that I've noticed for me are house area's with alot of NPC's (Haven), or camps in hinterlands with the NPC's and the god awful FPS killer sunrays.
This is great game, but I am not going to play it with the performance issues it is having for me right now.
As it stands the game is not running my CPU at even half capacity and my GPU doesn't get above the low 80's (i.e. 80-83%) in load. My rig can run BF4 with Ultra Settings @ 1080p no problem - on DAI I have to use Medium. Now, I accept that there is significantly more to be rendered withe the much greater depth of view than you get in a first-person shooter, so even if I had to run it on High instead of Ultra I would be perfectly happy. But when you see quite clearly that the game itself is not making use of the available hardware this is a significant problem.
To sum up:
Not all CPU cores are being used, nearly half the logical cores are at 0% load.
Of the logical cores that are being used, they are mostly under 50% load.
The GPU load hovers around 80% load.
The resulting poor framerates is all to predictable.
Specs:
i7-3930k @ 4.33Ghz (OC)
16GB RAM
GTX770 OC 4GB VRAM
Win 7 x64
That said, however, I'm loving the game and I can see what an amazing effort it has been. I don't have any buyers remorse, I just expect the correct performance out of the game which is a perfectly reasonable assumption as a customer.
If anyone requires more specific info including screencaps, reports, logging, etc, please ask.
I wish bioware would at least acknowledge that this is a problem, and that it will be looked into.
Exactly, I want them to fix it. But I also want to know when. The game is unplayable at these frame rates.
There's an [INFO] thread pinned at the top here where they've acknowleged SOME of the problems, but not all. Sadly, I thought the Great Game guarnetee was longer than 24 fraking hours. Wish they'd address that. 24 hours when a game releases in the middle of the week...great if you're a teenager or college student, not so much if you're working in the real world.
I also message this here to make EA aware of the issue to fix instead of improve the Performance only and miss the issue specially on 900 Cards
As provided above Vsync no matter if ingame or Nvidia Control Panels Vsync is used, Vsync doesnt work as it normally should because it doesnt Sync.
Default Case: Vsync should cap the Framerate on the Screens refresh rate like 60 or 120 if goes below that it caps at the half like 30 or 60 as long as only the Default Buffering is used. Thats how Vsync works, always capped, no Tearing and no variable Framerates.
Dragon Age Inquisition: With enabled Vsync, it provides a variable Framerate when getting below the Screens refresh rate. Framerates like 37, 43 or 54 and so on. The Tearing is gone so Vsync does work at least for this Part but the Sync doesnt work.
The Issue: A variable Framerate below the Screens Refresh rate without a proper Gsync Monitor causes terrible Frame Stuttering an Issue what People describe over many Forums in many Performance issue Threads. The Stuttering is present in each attempt the System tries to Sync the Framerate so in a Render process what makes it clear that this isnt caused by the Games Engine. It only happens when there is something to Render like when you look around and every 0,5 Seconds you get a Sync issue cause a Stutter as soon as you are below the Screens Default Refresh Rate.
I tested this on different GPUs, 680, 770 and a 980 with their actual latest Drivers. The issue is only present on the 900 Series at least for the three Cards i have only the 980 shows that Issue. On the 680 and 770 the Framerate is still a bit variable sometimes but on the 980 its "only" variable below the Screens Refreshrate. Because of that issue on the 980, there are also serious Performance issues in any of the open Areas like the HInterlands or Redcliff special with this random variable Framerate, the Game is unplayable.
I cant tell you if the Engines use Vsync technology isnt good or doesnt work, or uses Gsync Technology presets even without a Screen. Or that the Drivers from Nvidia doesnt work as they should with the Game, i still dont know it. But what i know is that this needs to be fixed because its the cause of main Performance issues with the Game that many People have on Nvidia Gpus and the People arent aware of this. I read about that Nvidia and EA are about to work together to fix issues with Nvida GPUs and DAI but instead of improvements you should fix this issue asap.
Why i tell you this ? in all Forums i am present People arent aware of this, many of them get variable Framerates with enable Vsync and no one starts to wonder about this as if no one know how Vsync should work. Most of them get stuttering, start to wonder why and think of Performance issues and bad optimisations for PC where the real issue is the not working properbly Vsyncs Sync to cap the Framerate to the Screens full, half or tripple Refresh rate.
Main System:
Intel I7 4930k @4,3 Ghz
MSI GTX 980 4G @ 1354 Mhz
Corsair DDR3 8GB @ 1866 Mhz
Rog Rampage Formula Mainboard
2x 120GB Samsung SSDs
Windows 7 64 Bit
Nvidia 344.75 Driver
What i think ? It looks like the Game or Driver using the GPU output to Sync the Framerate with the Screen what cause variable Framerates and Vsync tries to match the Refresh rate what disables Tearing but cause Stuttering. Normally you need Gsync to make this work properbly so maybe yeah its maybe really the Driver what causes this issues.
PS: dont tell me that you dont have issues on certain GPUs, as soon as you have Vsync enabled and get Framerates like 43 or 54 you also have this issue.
Update: This issue i caused by the Driver i think, i tested now Far Cry 4 and Ac Unity aswell and both of em have variable Framerates even with Triple Buffering dont get capped at 45 or 30 Fps only the max Refresh rate of 60 is the only Cap and i really really dont think my GPU is damaged because of variable Framerates.
