ongoing investigation into high resource allocation/usage and poor performance.
just go here and read the entire first post of this thread.
Actually, it's possible you've read the game requirements wrong. Your cpu shows as "slow", barely at the minimum, 2.0 GHz, per the report, and your GPU isn't super fast, being not much above minimum; however, at Low settings and medium screen resolutions, the GPU ought to be doing a lot better than it is. Are you certain you have the correct settings in Control Panel to force the 840m to work when it is supposed to do so?
Never having had any interest in cramping my games, I never confine any to only a mere laptop. However, many mobile CPUs have "Turbo" core speeds that allow the processor to work harder. If 2.0 is an UN-accellerated core speed, maybe you did read the requirements I've attached here.
From the official Dragon Age website, the requirements are:
Minimum PC Specs
OS: Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD quad-core CUP @2.5 GHz / Intel quad-core CPU @2.0 GHz
System RAM: 4 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 4870 / NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB
Hard Drive Space: 26 GB
DirectX 10
that laptop cpu is fine, but the gpu is pretty rough at this point. I would be concerned about optimus switching and turn that off etc.
