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[voteDC]

I'm playing the Dalish Elf recruitment mission at the moment and in the forest the game keeps freezing with the screen distorting.

Now the problem does go away if I upgrade my graphics drivers. The problem is that when I do that the game runs like hell, with constant stutter, even at the lowest settings.

So it seems as if I have the choice of a game that locks up constantly or one that runs extremely poorly.

Very annoyed as the game as run without a problem before now.

[Moondoggie]

What are your hardware specs and OS?

Is your copy retail or download? how long has the problem been happening? Have you managed a full playthrough of the game with no problems?

[Gorath Alpha]

voteDC wrote...

I'm playing the Dalish Elf recruitment mission at the moment and in the forest the game keeps freezing with the screen distorting.

Now the problem does go away if I upgrade my graphics drivers. The problem is that when I do that the game runs like hell, with constant stutter, even at the lowest settings.

So it seems as if I have the choice of a game that locks up constantly or one that runs extremely poorly.

Very annoyed as the game as run without a problem before now.

Seems to me you had to do something to screw it up, like allowing Microsoft total freedom to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and you have no control at all.  That's really the sucker's way.  With proper Administrator control, you set a restore point first, for those times that they will screw stuff up. 

Be that as it may, Moondoggie is right, it you aren't interested enough in an answer to invest any personal time into it, you must not actually need an answer very badly. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 03 mars 2011 - 02:02 .

[voteDC]

Sorry for not getting back sooner but I do have other demands on my time I'm afraid, so please forgive the lack of detail orginally.

Specs of my PC are Pentium-D 2.8ghz, 2gb of RAM and a GeForce 86000GTS, running on Windows XP SP3. I originally played the game back when it first came out but didn't get too far as I also had the 360 version, so choose to go with that.

This is a recently purchased copy of the Ultimate Edition on disc.

I've just recently started playing again on the PC, so this is the first time I have encountered the problem and I've yet to complete a full play through of the game.

I successfully completed The Circle of Magi, Redcliffe and the Urn of Sacred Ashes all without incident. This freezing only occurs in Brecilian Forest at the Grand Oak.

As I said I've been running on older graphics drivers without issue up until this point. Upgrading to the latest nvidia drivers enables me to get past that, as I now have, but the game runs extremely poorly on the new drivers, whereas it was very smooth on the old.

@Gorath Alpha. Why would I use the broken mess that is System Restore when Acronis True Image is a more elegant solution.

Modifié par voteDC, 03 mars 2011 - 04:27 .

[voteDC]

An update.

The old drivers are 169.21 and these run the game fine but of course have the freezing at the Grand Oak.

The latest drivers, 266.58 run the game with a constant stutter even on the on the lowest settings but do let me play past the Grand Oak.

[CrustyCat]

The newer drivers don't work well with older hardware. The 196.21 are a decent set. One question, is your gpu/cpu overheating? What are the temps? Have you cleaned out your pc lately?

[RaenImrahl]

I'm curious... exactly what graphics settings did you play with before? Also, could you clarify... is your CPU a Pentium D or a Pentium Dual Core?

[voteDC]

CrustyCat wrote...

The newer drivers don't work well with older hardware. The 196.21 are a decent set. One question, is your gpu/cpu overheating? What are the temps? Have you cleaned out your pc lately?

Well that would certainly explain why they let me get past the trouble point but run poorly.

I clean out my PC regularly, taking each individual part out and making sure there is no dust build up. My friends say I am OCD about it but I'd say prevention is better than cure

Not sure of the actual temps to be honest but after being on for a while things feel warm but certinally not hot to the touch.

RaenImrahl wrote...
I'm curious... exactly what graphics
settings did you play with before? Also, could you clarify... is your
CPU a Pentium D or a Pentium Dual Core?

Graphics setting are 1280x800 resolution, 2x AA and medium on Graphics and Texture Detail. Vsynch on and Frame-Buffer Effects off.

These were what the game picked for me and as they ran perfectly well I never questioned them, at least until now. Even with everything on low and Vsynch and FBE off, the game still ran poorly with the latest drivers.

I have a Pentium-D. In simple terms it is a dual-core processor made from whacking two pentium-4s together.

[RaenImrahl]

voteDC wrote...

Not sure of the actual temps to be honest but after being on for a while things feel warm but certinally not hot to the touch.

There's free software out there to monitor system temps... CPUID HW Monitor will track your max temps during gameplay.  http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html

voteDC wrote...
Graphics setting are 1280x800 resolution, 2x AA and medium on Graphics and Texture Detail. Vsynch on and Frame-Buffer Effects off.

These were what the game picked for me and as they ran perfectly well I never questioned them, at least until now. Even with everything on low and Vsynch and FBE off, the game still ran poorly with the latest drivers.

I have a Pentium-D. In simple terms it is a dual-core processor made from whacking two pentium-4s together.

Yeah... the Pentium-D was sort of the first... followed by the Pentium Dual Core, which was, if I recall correctly, a bargain version of the Core Duo chip-- which the game requires.  At least, I think that's the lineage... I am an AMD chip user, myself.

So I suspect you're running into a wall with the CPU you have....  it's one (possibly two, depending on how you look at it) generations behind what the game calls for.  If that's the case... I am not surprised the forest gave you problems... there's a lot of objects to render there.  I found my own system performance got iffy there when I was on an Ahtlon X2 CPU.  Keep in mind that DAO uses its own game engine, which is CPU-piggish, so where some other games may run fine, it will find fault. 

Not sure what, if any solution there might be, other than finding a balance between system optimization (including graphics drivers) and graphics settings.

Modifié par RaenImrahl, 04 mars 2011 - 03:38 .

[voteDC]

Thanks for the reply and that temp monitoring prgram will come in handy.

I know the hardware in my PC is coming near the end of its useful life, especially compared to what I get asked to build for others, but this is the only game that gives me this sort of trouble. It'll even run Crysis at a decent lick as long as I sacrifce detail for resolution (which is always my preference anyway if it needs to be made.)

The reason I am edging toward a graphics card issue is that the game runs fine with those old drivers but sluggish with the new.

The weird thing is that the forest does not give me a problem until I talk to the Grand Oak, for some reason that poet tree causes the issue.

Of course the ideal would be to head on up and get a card that supports PhysX but unemployment means that isn't possible at the moment.

[twigsnapper]

Better graphics card wont help if the game is running your cpu into the wall...