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[Darth_SHOT]

hi there. i've bought dragon age for the xbox but since i can only play on the weekends i've asked for a mate of mine to loan me the game on the pc so i could try it out first. my pc is 4 years old and meets the minimum requirements exactly... the game runs fairly smooth on low and i'm loving it. i have the textures on high. the first problem is the fact that the eyes of the characters are all black... i can't see green or blue eyes for example. every single one of them is black. the other problem is that, despite hacking the enemies to bits, my characters don't get the blood spatter on them. does any of you have this kind of problems? the graphics card is an ati x850 btw.

[JironGhrad]

sounds like you need updated drivers

[Darth_SHOT]

well i've tried installing the 9.10 drivers but pc just crashed. i believe that is because ati has stopped supporting the x850 a few months back. i've got the newest for that card (9.8). anyone has any other sugestions?

[Gorath Alpha]

Look up the "Omega" drivers for ATI's Radeons, and try the latest of those.   (I'm using Omega 3.8.442 with my X850, myself, although I've not tested this game with that particular PC yet -- I want to upgrade that one from 1 GB to 2 GBs of RAM first.) 

P. S. The eye colors and the blood spatter are only enabled with Medium and large texture file sizes, and those are only offered in an SM-3 {"c") version, which the X850 cannot handle.  It stopped at SM-3 ("b").  Incidentally, Morrigan's blue eyes were colored in another manner and aren't affected by the texture file size limitation.

Darkspawnbane111 wrote...

well im using a 1 year old pc and it does exactly the same

The relative "newness" is meaningless as long as people will look at the price first, and graphics second.  The game's launcher has decided your graphics are too weak to have better than the low setting, although you can probably select the lowest and coarsest screen resolution, and then try the Medium Settings.

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 30 janvier 2011 - 02:01 .

[Darkspawnbane111]

well im using a 1 year old pc and it does exactly the same

[JironGhrad]

this results from using "low" textures

[hekheler]

i have the same problem i still play the game its great but still would like some blood here and there


note that gore is on and blood still spills out of men when i gut them:bandit:

Modifié par hekheler, 15 décembre 2009 - 11:05 .

[JironGhrad]

It's because of the low texture/graphics setting... the low textures aren't sufficient to render the eyes and the graphics setting on low eliminates the persistent blood spatter to better maintain framerates.

[TheChildOfMalkav]

i whish there where a way to fix this... and i have a question to. if you can't see the normal eye colors, why can you see Morrigans eye color? i know, i'm kinda nooby, but i'm still confused by this =/

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

... The eye colors and the blood spatter are only enabled with Medium and large texture file sizes, and those are only offered in an SM-3 {"c") version, which the X850 cannot handle.  It stopped at SM-3 ("b").  Incidentally, Morrigan's blue eyes were colored in another manner and aren't affected by the texture file size limitation.
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As above.  I don't think you could have learned that though any archival search that wasn't very meticulous, since Morrigan isn't mentioned in the vast majority of the very many threads that have been started on the subject. 

What I do not understand is why people just complain, instead of remedying the problem.  It's not like Dragon Age has high requirements, as it does not.  Most of the better games require an actual game-playing graphics system, and when shopping for cards, the difference in price between a low end card and a Mainline Game Card is only a very few dollars, while the performance difference is quite often more than twice as good, which makes the Mainline card a far better value.

PC Hardware* Basics for Gaming (and inventory of Components):
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/509580

Admittedly, various mobile systems have some sort of special cachet these days that desktops do not, and the difference between an ordinary laptop and a game-capable one is a larger step costwise, since the cooling must be better, the screen should be better, and the power supply (brick) needs to be better.  AMD has been working on the "Fusion" line of APUs for a couple of years that may overturn all of the portable computing paradigms when available.

However, neither Global nor TMSD could get their "next refinement" fab process working in the forecast time frame, so only the small form factor products are available for Netbooks and NetTops, but those are very promising. 

Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 30 janvier 2011 - 10:16 .