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[Gorath Alpha]

It's too early to be sure of anything, especially with any hardware from nVIDIA, given their current drastic ineptitude with drivers.

[dinria]

Calin Pandurescu wrote...

So there are threads in the pc technical support in dragon age 2 section, people are experiencing slow performance in Dragon Age 2 in DX11, so that sticky thread saying that the demo has issues in DX11, is a lie ? I cannot post in that section, i don't have yet the game registered.

There is no lie about the demo, DX11 had a few issues in the demo and some DX11 fetures were dissabled. I can't say anything about the game itself (annoying tradition to have releasedates on fridays in europe) but the only thing I can come up with is that DX11 takes more performence then DX9/Dx10/DX10.1 and therefore some complains about it. However I have no facts only my own reflection so don't take this as the final truth.

[Franpa]

I have 3 guesses about the HDD space requirements differences.

Both DA1 and DA2 are possibly around the same size, the extreme amount of HDD space the games consume AFTER installation is likely caused by the game storing textures converted to a format suitable for your video card on the HDD so you have the original textures+converted textures. (I believe GTA III does this)

Or Dragon Age 1 was stored on the disc compressed and installed in an uncompressed fashion (though they use a container format to keep the files bundled together like a ZIP with no compression) while DA2 files will remain in a compressed fashion after install.

Another possibility is the potential lack of CGI video's and more in-game scripted sequences being used in DA2.

Modifié par Franpa, 08 mars 2011 - 02:00 .

[basdoorn]

Franpa wrote...
I have 3 guesses about the HDD space requirements differences.

Chris Priestly from Bioware has 3 facts about the HDD space requirement differences:

1 - We used a different compression scheme in DA II than DAO (something called "ogg" I am told).
2 - 2 less fully VOed langauages
3 - Optimized mesh data, physics and lighting (which I am told reduces the footprint of environments by close to 75%)

http://social.biowar...73672/4#5479280

You were dead on about the compression of environment data.

Modifié par basdoorn, 08 mars 2011 - 08:26 .

[Franpa]

Ah, cool. "ogg" obviously refers to the format audio is stored in which might mean that DA:O used WAV files.

[Gnaeus.Silvanus]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It's too early to be sure of anything, especially with any hardware from nVIDIA, given their current drastic ineptitude with drivers.

I thought AMD was the usual suspect when it comes to poor driver performance and reliability?

[Franpa]

Apparently the just released ATI drivers fix support for DA2 on ATI 5800 series.

[Gorath Alpha]

Gnaeus.Silvanus wrote...

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It's too early to be sure of anything, especially with any hardware from nVIDIA, given their current drastic ineptitude with drivers.

I thought AMD was the usual suspect when it comes to poor driver performance and reliability?

That was the case just a very few years ago, true, and they certainly aren't close to "perffect" these days, but now, it's nVIDIA that can't seem to get their driver act together on a consistent basis. 

[vonman]

i have a question, if the demo works for my pc then the full game will work? cuz the only part of my pc that does not reach minimum req is my processor w/c is dual core 2.0 ghz

[Gorath Alpha]

Sorry, but in my personal opinion, the Demo is not proving to have been at all successful about predicting how well a minimum performance system may work in the full game.

[vonman]

so the full game won't work? too bad, i really wanted to play da2...

[ValentineMSmith]

vonman wrote...

i have a question, if the demo works for my pc then the full game will work? cuz the only part of my pc that does not reach minimum req is my processor w/c is dual core 2.0 ghz

If you're running that processor under XP, and everything else meets the minimum, then the game *should* work acceptably but you will see some slowdown in larger combat scenes or if you try to enable more detailed graphics.  Vista and Windows 7 may work okay as well, but you may also be dissatisfied.  Good luck.

[Gorath Alpha]

The official requirements, except for the odd disparity in performance between the named Geforce and Radeon minimums, should provide a better guide than the Demo has offered. Before you give up, be patient and watch to see whether anyone with similar gear shows up to say how well or how poorly the full game performs for them.

Graphics cards are so much more important in giving a better feel for game performance than anyting else, and you can get such really good cards for such really great prices, that were I you, I'd get one now, anyway.

Here is an HD 5670 for just $60 after rebate, plus $5 shipping:

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150504

[vonman]

ok I'll consider it, anyway thanks for the advice..

[Eladamri]

I hope that this work on my imac

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8335 2,93GHz
4.00 GB of Ram
Nvidia GeForce GT130 512Mb
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

[Eladamri]

I hope that this work on my imac

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8335 2,93GHz
4.00 GB of Ram
Nvidia GeForce GT130 512Mb
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

[DownyTif]

My laptop:
Asus G51Jx-A1
i7 G720 1.60GHz
nVidia GTS 360M (1GB of RAM)
6GB of RAM
Windows Home 64bits
I have the latest beta video drivers

With DirectX 11 settings: Not really playable at MEDIUM, needed to play at LOW and even then it's not 100% fluid. After reading some of the replies here, I tried under DirectX9 and it's definitely better. I can play at MEDIUM (not 100%) but LOW is perfect so far.

Please note that I was playing with everything maxed out in Origins and even with HD Textures (JBTextures mode) without a problem (Deep Roads were a little hard on my machine though)

Modifié par DownyTif, 10 mars 2011 - 01:50 .

[wildcat7717]

I purchased dragon age II today. My CPU meets the requirements. I have windows Vista with SP2. There were no problems installing the game. However, it will not play. When I hit the play button, I keep getting a message saying that Dragon Age II is not responding and that Windows will check for a solution. What is going wrong???

[dereckbartlett]

i purchased dragon age II yesterday and i am having same problem i have done a directx diagnostic and sent that in to support bc i was asked yesterday after i made my question bc i could not get through to bioware support via phone or chat, backlogged im guessing now im playing the waiting game i knew i should have waited to buy the game that way all the kinks were worked out but to late for that

[Illthar]

My game unlocked midnight today and it works MUCH better then the demo at DX11 (wich were unplayabe for me on the demo).
My settings ingame right now is:

Very high details, dx11
AA x4
AF x4
Motion depth blur thingy enabled
VSync on
High res texture pack enabled

The game runs smoothly for me so far. Now Im NOT an "FPS nerd" in any means but no lag during gameplay or cutscenes thats enough for me!

Setup:
AMD 955 x4 Black Edition @ 3.2 Ghz
4 gig RAM
HIS Radeon 5850 1gig
Windows Home 7 x64
Resolution: 1920x1080

[dinria]

wildcat7717 wrote...

I purchased dragon age II today. My CPU meets the requirements. I have windows Vista with SP2. There were no problems installing the game. However, it will not play. When I hit the play button, I keep getting a message saying that Dragon Age II is not responding and that Windows will check for a solution. What is going wrong???

The game might try to auto config, haven't tried yet since I'm at school and the game in my loocker. However if the game is trying to autoconfig itself you'll have to run it as administartor, if that doesn't work try to reinstall other components, like DX and the drivers for your graphic card, that DAII uses. Otherwise I can't think of whats wrong but I'm sure someone else does.

As mentioned in the post under mine; there is a forum for this issue http://social.biowar...0/index/6442590
However it seams like it's a common issue and I didn't see a fix on the first page except for one. By defult the game was set as DX11 and that might cause a crash if your graphic card don't support the DX11 so you might wanna check in the config tab if it's set as DX11 or DX9. I can't promies anything will work since it haven't read trough the whole tread and I recomend you to do so if you still have problems.

Modifié par dinria, 10 mars 2011 - 11:10 .

[Illthar]

wildcat7717 wrote...

I purchased dragon age II today. My CPU meets the requirements. I have windows Vista with SP2. There were no problems installing the game. However, it will not play. When I hit the play button, I keep getting a message saying that Dragon Age II is not responding and that Windows will check for a solution. What is going wrong???

Try finding a solution in the tech support forum instead. Greater chance finding a solution over there!
 
http://social.biowar...egory/300/index

Modifié par Illthar, 10 mars 2011 - 11:03 .

[james1976]

I am so glad the game runs so much smoother than the demo. Load times are really fast and no pausing while in a cutscene for "loading" in small print.

I'm running the following with no problems.
core2duo 3.33ghz 1333fsb
GTX 460 768mb Superclocked (266.58 drivers)
8gb ram
Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP2
X-FI Xtreme Gamer audio card
680i motherboard

Game settings
DX11 renderer
High (very high is available but laggy)
AAx8
AFx16
Vsync on

Graphics look great and gameplay is smooth. Game will crash if you mess with options much while playing though.