Working solution for Intel dual core CPUs!

You know...

Bioware thinks:

DA:I runs on PS3... PS3... this is Monster... but Pentium Haswell... no... it's weak creepy processor :P

Pentium is bad, because have enough power to handle titles from 2014... and it's cheap...  We must blocked Pentium, because poeple must buy i3.

Could you please share your options for the Injector? I selected the .exe file from Processes, and selected the 3 dlls in the DAI folder. I click inject and says it injected successfuly, but I still can't play. :womanfrustrated: Help please! :womansad:

Turtle,

this message thread has too many participants for a question like that.  You needed to address the author of the comment you were responding to, and you did not do so. 

Censurely is a fool. Don't waste your time, scuev.  He'd rather point to abstractions and definitions rather than understand the history of material practice, specifically game marketing and program optimization.  He might as well go to ferguson and claim that racial equality exists because the definition of democracy says so.

2, my is a core 2 duo, but when i have the chance ill look for a quadcore.... but im playing the game, with lag but im playing :P

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@sanityscraps wrote:

This one didn't work for me. It says my hardware can't handle the driver. UGH. Bioware said this would be able to run on your PC if it could run DA2. Patch this. It's horribly optimized around the board, from what I've heard.

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Same for me.  Dual core and running Vista-64, all other requirements met.  I think I'm screwed out of the game completely til I can upgrade.

@Gorath_the_Elder wrote:

First, you have to figure out how Vista can pretend to be Windows 7 or 8. 

Actually, just about the time that I answered that -- responding to someone with Vista, instead of what the game is supposed to look for, another Vista user commented that a newer version of Dx11 for Vista had allowed him / her to run this game on that OS.  ....

I am not able to find a newer version of Dx11 for Vista.  11.1 and 11.2 are only Win7 and 8.  Can you elaborate on where someone can find a newer version of Dx11 installable on Vista?  My Dxdiag64 shows Dx11 and up to date Direct3D etc.

Then I still also have the dual core problem of course, but still holding out hope I guess.  Maybe there's a workaround for Vista, and a separate workaround for dual cores, but not both at the same time!  Or maybe it's just that my cores are simply not workaroundable -- the hyperthreaded-thing or whatever.  Anyway, big fan of the series, and DAI won't even load to the menu, any advice appreciated, short of buying a new computer!  😕mileyembarrassed:

I do have a PC that has a new copy of Vista, SP 2, installed, it was still running XP a couple of weeks ago.  It's my general workhorse, and Internet activity desktop, not a game playing box.  It still has Dx10 on it, not Dx11.  Even at the time I added the two comments you quoted, it wasn't necessarily about a Dual Core CPU, and I hadn't made any note that would get me back to the member playing this game on Vista.  Sorry. 

Eh...?

Guys, the link in the first post redirects to a Intel HD Graphics driver. I don't need to do any experiment to be 100% sure that that driver has nothing to do with lack for 2 cores support in the DAI game engine. HD Graphics is Intel GPU on CPU (replacement for what was previously known as Onboard Graphics, today the GPU comes in the same die than the CPU, not more soldered to the motherboard. Equivalent technology from AMD is called APU, APUs are AMD processors with integrated GPU, usually some slow version of an HD Radeon, slower than dedicated ones).

The issue here is how the game engine handles processor cores. I don't sure why they designed things that way, but the game engine requires 4 cores to properly sync things. In my opinion, this was done to reuse the same engine built for modern consoles (PS4, XBox One), they have many cores, same number in all sold units, then the need to handle varying number of cores simply doesn't exist.

My CPU is Intel E7400 (2 cores, google for "E7400" it if you want more specs). While the game is running the system is still very responsive, as if the game does not really stress it at all, but in the game window cut scenes and dialogues are very laggy, menus too, while character creation and walking the world are ok and playable. This denunces a synchronization problem more than lack of CPU power.

My graphic card is GT630, before you jump saying that that card is a joke let me say that it is easy to confirm that the card runs this game. To be in the safe side I using lowest settings, but people reported to run it on medium settings. The problem here is engine design. The Game Engine requires 4 cores, I don't know why. Why they could not simply design things to adapt to any number of cores as any other game, any other software in general?

Conclusion. Update Intel HD graphcis won't do any good, specially if you are not using the GPU provided with modern Intel CPUs. Socket LGA775 processors like my E7400 don't even have any GPU, the onboard GPU comes with the motherboard and may not even be from Intel.

If this driver worked for the posting user, then He is using a i3/i5/i7 processor with Intel HD Graphics. The peformance problems He found was due to the Intel HD Graphics, lucky that a driver update solved them, but His processor has enough cores to run the game. The solution may work for you only if you are in the same boat than the posting user.