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[starrider1026]

Hello,

I bought DAO on release day, and have had nothing but problems that have been well documented here, crashes and memory leaks etc. This left the game to be totally unplayable but luckily I the 1.04 patch allowed it to be 'good enough' for me to finally finish the last bit of the game. Today I picked up DAO:A, remembering that I was able to finish DAO and hoping that with 1.04 installed there wouldn't be any more issues with playability; unfortunately it seems that I was wrong.  

My problem is that the game 'Lags' at nearly all times. It lags walking around any area, in conversation it is a little bit better, only lagging at the end of each sentence and before it gives me conversation options; it lags espescially in combat horrendously, and lags each time I bring up a menu (inventory etc).

I have tried everything I can think of, from setting all graphics to all lowest settings and resolution, running in windowed mode, etc, and nothing I have tried makes any sort of impact on my preformance.

My setup is as follows:

AMD Phenom 9600 x4 running at 2.3ghz
ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 512mb VRAM
8gb of DDR2 RAM
SB Audigy 2 soundcard

running Windows 7 Professional

Any help would be GREATLY appericiated, at this point I am considering just tossing the game into a To Do pile and waiting a year or two until I can buy a new rig and try my luck when my specs can greatly out rank the game.

[starrider1026]

Bump.

[SSV Enterprise]

Try updating to the latest ATI drivers here. The December 2010 release included a performance fix for Dragon Age.

[SSV Enterprise]

Try updating to the latest ATI drivers here. The December 2010 release included a performance fix for Dragon Age.

[SSV Enterprise]

Try updating to the latest ATI drivers here. The December 2010 release included a performance fix for Dragon Age.

[SSV Enterprise]

Try updating to the latest ATI drivers here. The December 2010 release included a performance fix for Dragon Age.

[SSV Enterprise]

 How'd that happen?   It's like a symphony of double-posts.

Modifié par SSV Enterprise, 03 février 2011 - 05:07 .

[starrider1026]

I just updated to the newest drivers, and while it did help noticeably, after an hour or so things begin to slow down to a grinding crawl. I have noticed that this is especially apparent when my part decides to not follow me around things get really ridiculous.



Any thoughts?

[Vizkos]

I've had relatively the same issue after about 2 hours of gameplay. Likely memory leaks still exist. Running Win7 Pro could also be a factor, as Win7 Pro is more suited to businesses, whereas Win7 HP is more suited for home users/gamers.

[starrider1026]

Possibly unrelated,



But after beating awakening, after viewing the epilogue, the last cut-scene before the end sequence replays endlessly and I never return to the main menu, and no epilogue save is produced. Any fix for this? It would really blow to not be able to import awakening + origins to DA2

[SSV Enterprise]

I don't know about the cutscene playing endlessly, but no post-game save is made after Awakening. You can import any save, so if you have a save right before confronting the Mother that should work (no decision is made in that final confrontation; the last big decision TTBOMK is whether or not to let the Architect live)

[ransompendragon]

I have noticed this too; started playing again after many months. Previously I was using XP and now I am using W7 pro. Don't know whether to blame W7 or the patch or something else altogether. So far it is only annoying. For me it seems to lag most frequently at the start of battle.

[starrider1026]

Well, just to update: updating drivers increased the ammount of time I can go without massive slow downs, but all in all they are still very much present.



There is no fix, is there?

[SSV Enterprise]

Unfortunately no.   The only things that can be done to try to alleviate the issue is reduce the graphics settings (obviously not a optimal solution) and make sure that Windows is running as few memory-consuming applications and processes in the background as possible.  But I see you have 8 GB of RAM, so that won't be of much help.

The idea behind the slowdown is that there is a memory leak somewhere in the game that was introduced by patch 1.03.  BioWare tried to fix it with patch 1.04, but it's still there.  It gradually increases the memory usage of the game until it becomes as slow as molasses, and also unstable. 

Modifié par SSV Enterprise, 08 février 2011 - 09:51 .

[starrider1026]

I've seen some people mention they've had better preformance on XP or vista, is this just playing with older versions of the game, or is it worth giving the game a go on my old XP system?

[SSV Enterprise]

What are the specs of your old XP system? If they're too low I don't see the point. You could try playing DA: O in XP Compatibility Mode.

[RaenImrahl]

starrider1026 wrote...

I've seen some people mention they've had better preformance on XP or vista, is this just playing with older versions of the game, or is it worth giving the game a go on my old XP system?

XP might give the game a bit of an edge on an older system, but I doubt it would make too much of a difference in your case.  Vista is just the bastard middle child between XP and Win7, and it should be avoided like the plague, IMHO.

I think the big question is, what graphics settings are you playing at?   I am more familiar with Nvidia graphcis cards, but if you're using the Catalyst software to force things like a higher anti-ailiasing or ambient occulsion, you'll take a big hit to performace regardless of operating system.  

Another thing to consider is what else is running in the background... see the section on pagefiles at this link:
http://social.biowar...8/index/5970531

[RaenImrahl]

ransompendragon wrote...

I have noticed this too; started playing again after many months. Previously I was using XP and now I am using W7 pro. Don't know whether to blame W7 or the patch or something else altogether. So far it is only annoying. For me it seems to lag most frequently at the start of battle.

Same question for you... what graphics settings are you using, both in game and in the Nvidia drivers.  I just upgraded to an SLI scheme this week with two GTS450... but even with that, and a four core AMD running at 3.4 GHZ, I'll get noticable lag when I crank up some settings like ambient occusion or use the SLI AA functions set too high.

[kirkonacid]

I suffer from this problem from time to time. It can stutter so bad it is virtually unplayable. I find that restarting my laptop helps. Recently I've starting running my laptop on power saver mode and oddly, I haven't had stuttering since.

[starrider1026]

RaenImrahl wrote...
I think the big question is, what graphics settings are you playing at?   I am more familiar with Nvidia graphcis cards, but if you're using the Catalyst software to force things like a higher anti-ailiasing or ambient occulsion, you'll take a big hit to performace regardless of operating system.  

I have tried playing at every possible graphics settings configuration from all low settings with no AA to all high with max AA and have found that I get virtually no meaningful difference in preformance or the ammount of time I can go before the slowdowns begin to occur unless i have the game set to max AA, regardless of other settings. As for your concern that I may be unknowingly forcing AA or somesuch, I am not. Catalyst is set to use only application settings; its not forcing anything on its own.

As for the earlier question about my XP systems specs, it easily beats recomended as well. its not quite as good as the rig I have posted above, but should be able to run at least medium settings with easy; barring this memory leak non-sense.