isn't frostbite 3 more CPU bound in general?
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Dragon Age: Inquisition PC performance thread
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isn't frostbite 3 more CPU bound in general?
mugurumakensei
Member
unless there is some secret sauce in amd gpus, going by the post above of drops to 24fps, id say the answer is no.
Ah, that's too bad. I was hoping that turning MSAA off would leave my could-be-better setup of GTX 760 & i5-760 (which I've at least got overclocked to 3.5GHz) able to handle the game on high settings, but it looks like I'll have to settle for mostly medium quality performance.
24FPS? Do you have an HDTV?
Fantastic, this works great. Regardless of the animations, the game doesn't stutter when going from gameplay -> dialogue.
Oh man, I'm jealous of how cinematic your game is.
Denton
Member
That sounds good. Mantle or DX?
DX, for whatever reason Mantle is greyed out
aranth
Member
Yes to both, so I decided to go back to DX11 for the time being.
Runs well on my rig in SLI, but sadly it flickers like a mofo. Top men should look into that. Mostly 60, with small stutters here and there, probably loading.
i7 5820K@4.4Ghz
2x MSI GTX 970 @ 1300 base / 1529 boost
16GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz
Samsung 840 EVO
Windows 7
1080p@Ultra (manually configured) 2XMSAA
Cutscene judder is BAD as others have said, and the M&K controls are so far pretty much horrible. Hopefully we can fix the former and I can get used to the latter.
i7 5820K@4.4Ghz
2x MSI GTX 970 @ 1300 base / 1529 boost
16GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz
Samsung 840 EVO
Windows 7
1080p@Ultra (manually configured) 2XMSAA
Cutscene judder is BAD as others have said, and the M&K controls are so far pretty much horrible. Hopefully we can fix the former and I can get used to the latter.
Dick Justice
Banned
Would the cutscenes be less juddery if I was to set my refresh rate to 30, or are they just poorly done in general?
Biggest performance killer for me is effects. The difference between effects ultra and effects high is massive in terms of FPS, and yet I can barely see a difference.
Felix Lighter
Member
Your GPU is your bottleneck, your CPU is quite capable. It's hard to know how playable it will be but keep your eye out for benchmarks. Your settings will likely need to be low. I've seen low graphics footage though and it doesn't look too bad if it performs for you.
Coolbgdog12
Member
I have an Intel Pentium G3258 running at 4.4GHZ
8GB DDR3
3GB Radeon 280
Windows 8.1
Think my CPU may cause an issue?
Most of my games play absolutely fine except for Watchdogs.
8GB DDR3
3GB Radeon 280
Windows 8.1
Think my CPU may cause an issue?
Most of my games play absolutely fine except for Watchdogs.
Entropy912
Neo Member
Thank you sir. Hopefully I won't have to buy a new card
The 24fps was an anomaly, I was just just standing in a small town and my framerate would jump from anywhere in that range of 24-46fps.
Out in the Hinterlands it never goes below 30 but the fluctuations are still huge. One second I can have 75 fps, the next 33. I've capped it at 30 and plugged a pad in (mouse and keyboard at 30 does my head in) and it's going fine.
I just genuinely don't understand why a rather enclosed area was performing so poorly. You have to do something in a cave that's pretty much in the same area, big fight with lots of effects etc 80+fps. Go back into the small area prior, framerate never goes over 50 and is all over the place.
yeah I agree. it still sucks that its a little jittery (sometimes more than others) but the transition from gameplay to cuscene was REALLY bothering me at 30, I think i'd rather have it this way
anyway, even war prisioners have time for makeup!
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
You have GOT to be kidding me?
A 980 is only giving 48 FPS at 1080P?
This is the most powerful variant of this latest state-of-the-art GPU series and it can't even maintain a seemless 60 FPS on regular HD resolution?
The game isn't even that graphically intensive.
A 980 is only giving 48 FPS at 1080P?
This is the most powerful variant of this latest state-of-the-art GPU series and it can't even maintain a seemless 60 FPS on regular HD resolution?
The game isn't even that graphically intensive.
almost same rig as me (you have a better CPU) and Im getting the same performance, loving it. when you say flickering, do you mean this:
if so I have it too, pretty much the only thing thats bothering me now that I uncloked the cutscenes. Some have said it might be a SLI thing (since youre also using 970s SLIed like me) and that BF4 had the same until it was patched. Not sure I want to wait for a patch tho
If you have something like a Nostromo them you need to unplug it or disable it in device manager. frostbite games can only use 1 controller at a time and it sees things like Nostronos as a controller. I've got my X1 pad working that way.
This is exactly why Ultra ("Max") settings in 90% of games is pointless.
I don't know why some of you still insist on everything "Max". There's hardly ever a visible difference from High/Very High
If I don't see a visible change in a graphics setting, then I don't give a shit about max'ing it.
Yeah, I'm hoping that new drivers will be out to address 970/980 performance. I have a 970, and when I'm anywhere with more than a few NPC characters, like towns, I get drops down to 38 fps at the lowest. I turned tesselation on medium and shadows on high, which fixed it with minimal changes. No multisampling enabled at 1080p, with an i5 4690k at 4.3 ghz. So, I'll test more tonight. For some reason, mantle was enabled in options even though I don't have proper hardware, and I couldn't disable it in game. Could be my issue, I'll mess with it more tonight
The 360 pad is the only controller device listed in Windows. Same results on both my laptop and desktop. Setting gamepad in options gives me an inoperable game until I delete my config and start fresh with M&KB turned on. So odd.
How do you do this? I pick any VPN to unlock it? I really want to try my rig on it now. Scary of how it's going to perform now.
Thanks!
anyway, even war prisioners have time for makeup!
Thanks for posting that picture. Is it just me, or does this game really suffer from a pretty pronounced "black crush"? I had to set the gamma a few notches higher to recover some of the details lost in the shadows. I understand that scene is meant to be dark, but in my opinion it shouldn't be quite that dark.
pretty sure its supposed to be that dark dude, its a drk room with Cassandra drilling you
random outside pic
CyberPunked
Member
Games should be designed so that their Ultra (highest) settings are too demanding for any single GPU. It's called future proofing.
UnrealEck
Member
Do you think the graphics of DAI maxed justify the performance on that card?
martino
Member
i7 950@3.8
6go ram
crossfire 7870xt with overdirve activated (they can't handle static oc)
catalyst 14.9
everything high but tesselation ultra, hbao + and no supersampled aa
most of the time in the 30-40
gpu usage between 40-55%
this is in the first zone
edit: did restart the game
6go ram
crossfire 7870xt with overdirve activated (they can't handle static oc)
catalyst 14.9
everything high but tesselation ultra, hbao + and no supersampled aa
most of the time in the 30-40
gpu usage between 40-55%
this is in the first zone
edit: did restart the game
pretty sure its supposed to be that dark dude, its a drk room with Cassandra drilling you
random outside pic
Yeah, that pic looks just about right. In any case, my first impression while viewing the interrogation scene on a Panasonic ZT60 was that it was "darker than near total darkness in Outlast." Well, apparently it was a conscious decision by the devs, so I'll shut up and take it.
Toothless Spoon
Member
What settings are people having the most success in increasing FPS? Obviously MSAA is a big one, but I'd be keen to know if there's big differences being seen visually and frames wise by decreasing different settings?
mugurumakensei
Member
massive juddering in this game.
how is it possible that this game runs worse than ac: unity?
edit: okay it doesnt happen in gameplay. good enough for now.
how is it possible that this game runs worse than ac: unity?
edit: okay it doesnt happen in gameplay. good enough for now.
Cross-Section
Member
Anyone else unable to access the Mantle API (option is grayed out)? On a 290x with the latest beta drivers.
Also, it seems like the cutscene stuttering disappears after the prologue, which is obviously a good thing but at the same time, I have no idea why it occurred in the first place. Oh well, won't look a gift horse in the mouth!
Also, it seems like the cutscene stuttering disappears after the prologue, which is obviously a good thing but at the same time, I have no idea why it occurred in the first place. Oh well, won't look a gift horse in the mouth!
veggiesaurus
Member
crossfire is working nicely... stock 280x crossfire runs @ 60fps flawlessly maxed at 1080p. Anyone know what the different texture quality settings do?
This is me exactly. If I can't see a lick of fucking difference but my fps takes a giant hit you best believe I am turning that shit off. The difference between high and ultra is usually a louder and hotter gpu.
shacklesmcgee
Member
Did you look into why your HDD stats are so strange?
HDD stats after 40mins of playing.
Left - before, right - after 40mins.
Game transfers absurd amounts of data. That Denuvo...
Seems like you might have a pagefile being used?
yeah seems its a SLI thing. what is AFR2? is that the thing on the control panel? (mine is in portuguese so its called something else)
basically instead of using the nvidia recomended SLI setting there is one that is something something 1 and one that is something something 2? is that it?