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Dragon Age: Inquisition PC performance thread
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Glass Shark
Banned
My i3 is crying. I guess this might have to be a console purchase.
I always put in setting manually in-game.
And tweak them until where I want Look to FPS ratio to be or go for pure FPS.
Teletraan1
Banned
I will drop a few more taxing settings and enjoy 60, im pretty confident in that. Why I love PC gaming.
Well it is a cross gen game. We have to wait for DA:I 2, to be blown away.
Fortunately ME4 will be current gen only.
Wait for Nvidia drivers, set AA to 2x MSAA and you'll be at 60+ fps easily. Also don't forget this is an AMD title.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Why? If your I3 has hyper threading everything is ok.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Hmm well BF4 ran pretty damn well on my 7850, I know I'm below recommended but wondering how my machine is gonna fare with this. Have a 3570k @ 3.4 and 8gb. Can't be as bad as unity 
It should be solid, since it doesn't have nearly as much crap going on in one scene as BF4.Hmm well BF4 ran pretty damn well on my 7850, I know I'm below recommended but wondering how my machine is gonna fare with this. Have a 3570k @ 3.4 and 8gb. Can't be as bad as unity
Low versus Ultra
Yup I think modest old rigs will still get a decent-looking game.
Pretty much my game plan with my 680.
neurosisxeno
Member
The engine and API are what I was mentioning, and they determine what goes to the screen. If there is anything in there that heavily favors a specific architecture it's kind of shiesty. I believe it was Star Citizen which made it so the DX11 version was identical across cards but when you used Mantle it removed a Motion Blur effect that added a good chunk of fps by itself. I'm wondering why there is a huge disparity between 2 GPU's using the same engine and API. There no real reason why at the same settings, using DX11, at the same resolution, a 290X would outperform a GTX980.
In the charts I linked to all are running DX11 to give a fair comparison. Obviously Mantle favors AMD cards much like PhysX favors Nvidia setups. In the chart posted in the OP it shows the Mantle numbers and DX11 numbers for AMD cards and the DX11 numbers for Nvidia cards.
It scales up to 8 threads, possibly more. I know BF3 which uses an older version (2.5?) of the engine scaled up to 8, so for all I know full blown FB3 could use up to 10 or 12.
texhnolyze
Banned
I wonder how well will my PC fare?
AMD PhenomII x4 955 BE
AMD HD 7870 OC
8gigs of RAM
I heard good reviews on performance, and I hope I can at least get smooth gameplay on high. I might sacrifice shadow to med, if I have to.
AMD PhenomII x4 955 BE
AMD HD 7870 OC
8gigs of RAM
I heard good reviews on performance, and I hope I can at least get smooth gameplay on high. I might sacrifice shadow to med, if I have to.
neurosisxeno
Member
You need a new CPU. Phenom II's are pretty dated at this point and even with a healthy OC even a Sandy Bridge or later i3 is better in most games.
texhnolyze
Banned
Well, yeah. My PC is already 5-year-old, not including the GPU (it was 5770 when I built it). I'm planning to buy a new CPU in February (for the Witcher 3).
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
Haha- sounds a lot like my original PC that I built at the end of 2009- Phenom II X3 720 that I unlocked the 4th core (basically making it a 955) and a 5770.
Pretty much gutted the thing last fall and put in a GTX 760 and an i5 4670k and the processor change alone helped games tremendously.
ISee
Member
your i5 is enough.
Objectively Bad Opinion
Member
4xMSAA is a 40% performance hit in BF4. A 290X should approach 100FPS at 1080p without MSAA. That's reasonable performance.
PS4 for you unless you're planning to upgrade that GPU.
PS4 for you unless you're planning to upgrade that GPU.
ISee
Member
Go PS4. Both your CPU and your GPU aren't up for the task to be honest.
Askherserenity
Member
I have an Ivy Bridge i3 and a GTX 650ti...I am most likely fucked. Although, I WAS able to run Shadow of Mordor at pretty high settings at ok frame rates. Ugh. Not sure if I should buy Dragon Age now.
That looks surprisingly good for low settings, well except the jaggies, which can be fixed with post-processing AA. I'll probably have to use a mix of Low, Medium and High to gain a stable 30 FPS with my HD6950 2GB (8GB RAM and i5 2500K @ 4.4GHz).
Reading the System Requirements for this game, what defines a "Quad Core Intel CPU"? At a certain point, they have to be so old not to work, right? Currently running an i5 750 clocked at 3.2, but that thing is really old compared to a lot of processors. I'm thinking of grabbing a new Video Card to get a couple more years out of this build, but if I can't even run it at low/medium settings at 1080p, I guess it wouldn't be worth it.
I guess what I'm asking, could my processor with a reasonable video card upgrade (Thinking 270x given my budget) run this thing at 1080 with low/medium settings ~30 FPS or should I be looking PS4? Really don't want to use a controller on this and I don't have a budget for a full PC rebuild.
EDIT: Well, reading up and seeing that DA:I's M+K controls aren't that amazing anyway. Will probably just take the money I would've spent on that GC and put it aside until I can do a full rebuild. Just grab it on PS4.
I guess what I'm asking, could my processor with a reasonable video card upgrade (Thinking 270x given my budget) run this thing at 1080 with low/medium settings ~30 FPS or should I be looking PS4? Really don't want to use a controller on this and I don't have a budget for a full PC rebuild.
EDIT: Well, reading up and seeing that DA:I's M+K controls aren't that amazing anyway. Will probably just take the money I would've spent on that GC and put it aside until I can do a full rebuild. Just grab it on PS4.
I have the same CPU and you don't have to worry. For gaming the difference between an i5 and an i7 the difference is minimal, because the multi-threading of an i7 doesn't get used in games, only with stuff like video-editing.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The only Mantle game I've tried was Thief and I experienced a huge performance boost on my current setup. (I own BF4 but I haven't booted it up since before Mantle was released.)
I'm planning to move to an Nvidia card but I'm glad AMD forced the issue.
I have 460 sli, if they did sli correctly I would be just on the recommended specs as it is better then a 660 by a smudge. If they didn't
Also validates my decision to get the i7 when nothing was even stressing out the i5.
Edit:Anyone used EA refund? May have to use it if this doesn't pan out, not ready for gpu upgrade yet. Maybe next year.
Also validates my decision to get the i7 when nothing was even stressing out the i5.
Edit:Anyone used EA refund? May have to use it if this doesn't pan out, not ready for gpu upgrade yet. Maybe next year.
Griffevent
Member
Q6600. Aaaaaand... I'll try anyway !
Let's hope it'll be tolerable with Mantle and some optimized drivers.
Let's hope it'll be tolerable with Mantle and some optimized drivers.
RazorbackDB
Member
Considering those benchmarks are made with an i7 and give a good performance boost i guess we'll finally see how good mantle is when people start using their FXs and i3/i5
Why do benchmakrs always turn on MSAA? Who seriously uses that AA method in deferred engines anymore?
It does nothing for shader, temporal and transparency aliasing and it's a DOG to run on these engines.
The game offers SMAA, which is going to achieve way better results and it's MUCH cheaper to run, it's what most people are going to use (with FXAA as a secondary option), and you'll likely see those frame rates double.
Makes no sense.
It does nothing for shader, temporal and transparency aliasing and it's a DOG to run on these engines.
The game offers SMAA, which is going to achieve way better results and it's MUCH cheaper to run, it's what most people are going to use (with FXAA as a secondary option), and you'll likely see those frame rates double.
Makes no sense.
Gumbie
Member
I know it's frustrating. I really want to see some benches with 2xMSAA and SMAA. Also does anyone know if this is for sure a DirectX 11.2 game? If it is and (I think it is) I suspect it will run a little bit better in Windows 8/8.1 similar to Battlefield 4.
I'm glad they mention the i7 920 in the benchmark - so many performance comparisons use only top-of-the-line CPUs. I have a i7 950 with a GTX 970, and it sounds like I can run at high-ish settings and still get fps in the 30s.
I really need to upgrade my CPU. Damn if reloading Windows wasn't so much of a chore...
I really need to upgrade my CPU. Damn if reloading Windows wasn't so much of a chore...
ScepticMatt
Member
Will my 2.7GHz i7-3740QM (quad core notebook CPU) handle this?
(With an overclocked Quadro K2000M 2 GB)
my goal is 720p@30fps
(With an overclocked Quadro K2000M 2 GB)
my goal is 720p@30fps
Nah, get it on 360
UnrealEck
Member
The only person that'll have any idea would likely be Andy from nVidia who posts here regularly.