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[Anderspoon]

Getting 20fps on all max, about 40 on high and 60 on medium.

Intel i7 870
nVidia GTX 470 SOC
4GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit.

[LordFess]

Here are the problems I am experiencing running everything on max using the High Definition Pack and DX11 with the latest beta drivers from Nvidia.................

1) Every time I start the game up when I hit press any key to continue to the Main menu I get a windows error stating I do not have the game disk in the drive......... I have never taken the game disk out of the drive since i installed the game......... I thought we were supposed to be able to play without the CD in the CDROM ...
anyway after pressing continue about 4-5 times I can get back to the game. ..............  I also get this every tim I log into the servers from the game menu.. This is very annoying..... I read somewhere that it will not do this when using  DX9 so I tryed it and low and beholfd  no more error nessage...... Chris I hope they are looking into fixing this issue as well.

2) My game play has been running  pretty smooth except I am still sometimes getting dark squares in the top left hand hand corner of my screen in some areas...mostly happens when in combat...... I also started some color flashes last night when I was headed up  the mountain to complete Flemeth's  quest... My FPS ranges from very low to high (20-60) never steady.....but it does nt semm to effect the smoothness of my gameplay ...I have experienced zero studdering.....

Modifié par LordFess, 10 mars 2011 - 08:05 .

[rainmaker4]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Hello Dragon Age II PC users.

We are aware that some people are having problems with running DX11 and Dragon Age II. We are investigating all issues, but before reporting your issues here please try the following:

• Shut Down Dragon Age II
• Nvidia Card users, download the new Nvidia drivers here: Nvidia Drivers
• ATI Card users, download the new ATI drivers here: ATI Drivers
• Restart Dragon Age II

We’re currently working with AMD and nVidia on the following issues:

#1 Severe slowdowns on very high details on nVidia (game running at less than 10 FPS). *Note: Some users are still reporting “low framerates” in the 30’s, assuming it should run better on their PC. The very high detail is very demanding from the hardware, especially when running at a very high resolution. Any of the following can be tried to improve performance:

• Use a lower antialiasing setting or turn antialiasing off completely
• Disable v-sync
• Use lower anisotropic filtering levels
• Disable the diffusion depth of field effect
• Disable the screen space ambient occlusion effect
• Reduce screen resolution
• Reduce graphics detail.

#2 Game hangs on ATI cards. This is the specific driver that is needed. Going to the AMD site to search for a driver may not give them this early preview driver they need.

#3 When trying to improve performance, make sure there are no custom options set in your video card control panel (NVIDIA control panel or Catalyst Control Center) and everything is set to defaults. Some of the options there may severely affect performance.  Anti-aliasing transparency specifically has been seen to affect performance heavily.

If none of the above help resolve your issues, please post any information you can in this thread.

Hi Chris, Thanks for taking the time to report back with an update.  Have you any updates on the issues with the periodic game freezes every few minutes?  It seems a lot of users are having common issues with that. 

[vortican]

darkshadow136 wrote...

I agree with what some others have wrote, Direct X 11 is broken in this game. I played for over 3 hours on Direct X 9 and had no crashes.

This.  I am strongly considering getting a DirectX 11 video card specifically for this game but right now, running it in DirectX9 with a 8800GT, I've had absolutely no problems, even with high-res textures installed, turned on and graphics details at Very High, 2X AA at 1680x1050.  It looks a lot better than the demo too, heh.

Even if I do get a new card, if there are problems running DX11, I'll just run DX9 until they are resolved.  I probably couldn't see the difference anyway but I'd like higher resolution.

The Bioware folks have acknowledged the problems and are working with the video card designers to correct them.  I'm sure they will come through.  It's obvious they know that DX11 is not working correctly.

Thanks again, Bioware!  Dragon Age 2 rules!

[ForceXev]

Chris Priestly wrote...

We’re currently working with AMD and nVidia on the following issues:

#1 Severe slowdowns on very high details on nVidia (game running at less than 10 FPS). *Note: Some users are still reporting “low framerates” in the 30’s, assuming it should run better on their PC. The very high detail is very demanding from the hardware, especially when running at a very high resolution. Any of the following can be tried to improve performance:

• Use a lower antialiasing setting or turn antialiasing off completely
• Disable v-sync
• Use lower anisotropic filtering levels
• Disable the diffusion depth of field effect
• Disable the screen space ambient occlusion effect
• Reduce screen resolution
• Reduce graphics detail.

After some further testing, I am editing this post --

My framerate is OK with DX11 enabled (tested using Fraps) - it is around 50-60 fps.  However the graphics don't appear smooth like they should with this frame rate.  There is a sort of "hitching" that happens when I'm moving... it's like the scenery kinda skips and jitters passed while I'm moving, even though my framerate is holding steady around 50-60fps.  This doesn't happen when I use DX9.  Settings do not matter -- I get this hitching regardless of the settings I use.

specs:
i7 960 @ 3.20GHz
6 GB Ram
GeForce GTX 275 – 1792MB
Win 7 64

Modifié par ForceXev, 10 mars 2011 - 09:08 .

[J-PV]

Yes, my first 1 hour into the game and gotta say I'm unimpressed by dx11 performance. I'm only using high detail, 1680x1050 resolution, 4xAA, 8xAF, no extra graphics options. Hires texture pack is installed, but NOT in use.

Especially smoke and fire effects kill frame rate, to the point of it becoming a slide show...

My system isn't low end either (i7 860 cpu, Nvidia GTX 570 gpu, 8gig mem, Win7 x64).

The dx11 renderer in this game needs a lot of optimizing.

[PT.Vohnsen]

Having problems running on Very high with my GTX580.

[TheAxeMurderer7]

High
1080p
V-sync on
4x AA
2x AF
fancy shadows on
HI res on

The game still looks fantastic on high and runs at a min 40 to 61 max fps. It bugs me that it's constantly jumping around though.

Bioware, is there a way to set max fps. I would set it to 40 for myself. I'm also going to see what this game looks like in 720p. That might help a lot. I just hope that the official 11.4 driver from AMD works better than the beta.

[HasperoN]

Chris Priestly wrote...

We’re currently working with AMD and nVidia on the following issues:

1)    Severe slowdowns on very high details on nVidia (game running at less than 10 FPS). **Note: Some users are still reporting “low framerates” in the 30’s, assuming it should run better on their PC. The very high detail is very demanding from the hardware, especially when running at a very high resolution. Any of the following can be tried to improve performance:

• Use a lower antialiasing setting or turn antialiasing off completely
• Disable v-sync
•  Use lower anisotropic filtering levels
• Disable the diffusion depth of field effect
• Disable the screen space ambient occlusion effect
• Reduce screen resolution
• Reduce graphics detail.

2)    Game hangs on ATI cards. This is the specific driver that is needed. Going to the AMD site to search for a driver may not give them this early preview driver they need.

3)    When trying to improve performance, make sure there are no custom options set in your video card control panel (NVIDIA control panel or Catalyst Control Center) and everything is set to defaults. Some of the options there may severely affect performance.  Anti-aliasing transparency specifically has been seen to affect performance heavily

If none of the above help resolve your issues, please post any information you can in this thread.

I play the  game at 1920x1080 (my monitor's native resolution, it's silly to recommend setting it lower) with AA and Anisotropic turned off, Very High and the 3 check boxes.

Like I said in my earlier post, cutscenes are fairly smooth at 50 fps but combat comes to a crawl around 10-20 fps, to the point where my character walks like Gumby. I don't know where that would be considered playable, it's simply low framerates, not "low framefrates".

And if I have to disable all the PC specific features when I have the requirements, then why are they there in the first place?

Intel Core i7 930 @ 3.6ghz
6gb DDR3 PC3 12800 Triple Channel
SLI GTX 460 1gb (each) OC'd

You gotta be kididng me if you're implying that myself or half the people reporting in needs to turn down the settings in order to play.

[xfinrodx]

ForceXev wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

We’re currently working with AMD and nVidia on the following issues:

#1 Severe slowdowns on very high details on nVidia (game running at less than 10 FPS). *Note: Some users are still reporting “low framerates” in the 30’s, assuming it should run better on their PC. The very high detail is very demanding from the hardware, especially when running at a very high resolution. Any of the following can be tried to improve performance:

• Use a lower antialiasing setting or turn antialiasing off completely
• Disable v-sync
• Use lower anisotropic filtering levels
• Disable the diffusion depth of field effect
• Disable the screen space ambient occlusion effect
• Reduce screen resolution
• Reduce graphics detail.

I am getting low framerates in the 20s or 30s if I enable DX11 regardless of settings.  To test this, I used the lowest possible settings across the board.  Low detail, no anti-aliasing, all optional eye-candy disabled, and even disabled sound and lowered the resolution.  The lower settings didn't seem to have any affect at all on the problem.

I will try to record a video later to demonstrate if I can.

specs:
i7 960 @ 3.20GHz
6 GB Ram
GeForce GTX 275 – 1792MB
Win 7 64

That actually makes no sense at all!  Your 275 does not support DX11.  Why would your performance suffer while selecting this setting?  Something in DA2 is broken elsewhere, not necessarily in the implementation of DX11, if your performance drops considerably when enabling this one option.  What do you get with all settings at minimum without DX11?

Modifié par xfinrodx, 10 mars 2011 - 08:53 .

[Brygard2009]

TheAxeMurderer7 wrote...

High
1080p
V-sync on
4x AA
2x AF
fancy shadows on
HI res on

The game still looks fantastic on high and runs at a min 40 to 61 max fps. It bugs me that it's constantly jumping around though.

Bioware, is there a way to set max fps. I would set it to 40 for myself. I'm also going to see what this game looks like in 720p. That might help a lot. I just hope that the official 11.4 driver from AMD works better than the beta.

Make sure you have triple buffering on in your driver panel since you have Vsync on.

[Evaline]

ok, so i can play the game perfectly fine right up to the point when i get past the introduction part, talk with the witch and what not and then varric tells the story about them travelling to kirkwall, it kicks to the loading screen and never leaves, Numerous times now and it sits on that loading screen without changing FOREVER. I let it sit for 20 min just to test it out last night, plz tell me how to fix this?

[TheAxeMurderer7]

xiper wrote...

TheAxeMurderer7 wrote...

High
1080p
V-sync on
4x AA
2x AF
fancy shadows on
HI res on

The game still looks fantastic on high and runs at a min 40 to 61 max fps. It bugs me that it's constantly jumping around though.

Bioware, is there a way to set max fps. I would set it to 40 for myself. I'm also going to see what this game looks like in 720p. That might help a lot. I just hope that the official 11.4 driver from AMD works better than the beta.

Make sure you have triple buffering on in your driver panel since you have Vsync on.

Thanks for the tip!  I'll check that out when I get home. 

I'm curious if anyone has tried it on 720p and noticed a difference?  BTW I have an ATI HD 5850.

[PadaDMD]

I did a few tests, changing the settings around and these are my results...

Settings in BOLD signal a difference with Test 1.

Rig

AMD Phenom II 1100T (3.3 Ghz)
Gigabyte GTX570 1280Mb
4GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX 1600

Test1

Resolution: 1920x1080
Renderer: DirectX 11
Vertical Sync: Yes
Graphics Details: Very High
AA: 8x
AF: 16x
SSAO: Yes
DDOF: Yes
HQB: Yes
High-Res Textures: Yes
Results: 17~23

NOTE: With this configuration, I notice that the image "stutters" but for whatever reason, if I leave my right mouse button clicked, it stops. 

Test 2

Resolution: 1920x1080
Renderer: DirectX 11
Vertical Sync: Yes
Graphics Details: Very High
AA: 0x
AF: 0x
SSAO: No
DDOF: No
HQB: No
High-Res Textures: Yes
Results: 31~44

Test 3

Resolution: 1920x1080
Renderer: DirectX 11
Vertical Sync: Yes
Graphics Details: High
AA: 0x
AF: 0x
SSAO: No
DDOF: No
HQB: No
High-Res Textures: Yes
Results: 55~62

Test 4

Resolution: 1920x1080
Renderer: DirectX 11
Vertical Sync: Yes
Graphics Details: High
AA: 8x
AF: 16x
SSAO: Yes
DDOF: N/A
HQB: N/A
High-Res Textures: Yes
Results: 32~45

THOUGHTS: Perhaps I'm wrong, but I would have thought that with the Rig I have, I would be able to play comfortably with all the settings in MAX. 

Anyway, I hope these results help!

Modifié par PadaDMD, 10 mars 2011 - 09:35 .

[PT.Vohnsen]

Going from very high to high, gives me the best boost.

[Hilsin]

My Solution on the problem:

http://social.biowar...0/index/6457702

[Jaspe84]

I am currently having no performance problems running the game except some random hiccups in cutscenes, the screen freezes but the audio still plays and after 1 oto 3 seconds the screen is back to normal.

Very High
Hi Res enabled
1280x1024
DX11
v-sync off
aa off
af 8x
High quality blur on
full screen

Also i have to force stereo sound or else i have to crank all possible volumes to 100% to have some decent sounds.

Amd Phenom x6 1055t @3.3ghz
AsRock 890GX Extreme3 mobo
ATI radeon 6850 1gb OC edition
4gb ram
win 7 64-bit

[kingjamesjr1]

igoror wrote...

Specs-
Intel® Core™ i7 CPU         860  @ 2.80GHz
4GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 v267.31
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

Game Runs but mouse is unable to click on menu items due to offset of some kind.
Moving the mouse around the lower right highlights menu items in middle but can't get to click confirm
Running in DX9 all is fine...

Strike that... DX9 the mouse clicks fine with the left mouse click but right clicking causes cursor to jump to the lower right by about 4 inches. which makes targeting something impossible...

Game unplayable.

FIx. please.

I'm having the same problem as this guy spec ati 5870 card 9Gb Intel i7 930    280 ghz  windows 7 premuim 64 bit

[kingjamesjr1]

Once i save kirkwall the mouse can move but won't click on anything period

[Dan26TN]

Intel® Core™ i7 CPU         960  @ 3.20GHz
Ram 6GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 \\ 267.24
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

All tests done with high resolution texture pack installed and enabled btw

Running on dx9 ... FPS is easily 200 FPS + on average , maybe saw it hit 150 at the lowest

Running on dx11 , very high
AO OFF
Depth of field OFF
All other check box's OFF
AF attempted on 2X and 16X just to note
AA completely OFF

My FPS gets as low as 20-25 fps in battles

With dx11 and all those other options ON , it can get below 20's sometimes


With DX11 on and graphics set to HIGH, the game is very playable
FPS averages around 50-60, drops to 35 at the worst in battles

This is a direct issue w/ some kind of code relating to tessalation I am almost positive

Once a new driver comes out for nvidia cards I think we will see massive performance gains as far as tessalation is concerned, IMO I recommend anyone having issues to simply run in DX11 mode and set graphics to HIGH , very high is the killer here. Tessalation ftw (it's a nice feature but not at 70% performance loss )

for those with earlier cards obviously you can run in dx9 and this will most likely result in a very smooth and playable game, I just mean't anyone w/ DX11 capable cards ... run the game on High for now, untill DA2-patch/drivers are updated.

Modifié par Dan26TN, 10 mars 2011 - 10:16 .

[Voods07]

Game runs fine for me on very high; aside from when moving around fire or flames it dips me into the 20fps range and also the occasional driver crash.

8x AA
8X ASF

[walltribe]

I think I wasted my money on DA2. I won't make the same mistake again, with Bioware.

[Emperor Iaius I]

I don't have a DX11 card, so I'm sticking with "high." Performance is generally good as long as I keep AA down to 4x or something. I've decided to turn AA off completely, which helps--but I occasionally get random bouts of horrid FPS: I'm talking 2-5 here. This is generally fixed by going to the escape menu, unless I'm in dialogue. It never lasts more than a few seconds and is pretty rare, but it's annoying.

[Hilsin]

Emperor Iaius I wrote...

I don't have a DX11 card, so I'm sticking with "high." Performance is generally good as long as I keep AA down to 4x or something. I've decided to turn AA off completely, which helps--but I occasionally get random bouts of horrid FPS: I'm talking 2-5 here. This is generally fixed by going to the escape menu, unless I'm in dialogue. It never lasts more than a few seconds and is pretty rare, but it's annoying.

http://social.biowar...6457702#6457702

[rednass]

Got a QuadCore Intel Core i7 860, OC'ed to 3300 MHz
Asus Sabertooth 55i
4x2 = 8 GB Kingston Ram
Ati HD 5870 1 GB
I currently got the 10.10 drivers installed.

Well what i actually encounter isn't any game freeze or crash, but the game slightly stutters all the time when just walking around, and in the conversations the stutters are the worst, sometimes i can't even see the interaction films (Cinametics) of the conversation (Interaction) due to too heavily stutter, and i still got a pretty decent FPS, i get with everything on high maxxed out, at 1650x1024 res, 60-70 FPS.

Modifié par rednass, 11 mars 2011 - 08:00 .