JamesX wrote...
Actually xnoxiousx is correct. The game is not optimized for Nvidia the way it is for ATI. Nvidia cards haev lower performance across the board in Dragon Age 2.Moondoggie wrote...
xnoxiousx wrote...
Or bioware optimzation
If that were the case all cards would be having the same problem. Nvidia will get a driver out that works with this game eventually i'm sure.
Video cards these days are pretty different. Eventhough directX suppose to make it all the same, it does not. Optimization have some dramatic difference in performance. Drivers only help so much, but if a game engine isn't coded correctly no amount of driver updates will make that much of a difference.
I am incline to think that the problem maybe both. Dragon Age 2 engine might be coded for ATI and not as well done for Nvidia, and Nvidia driver might have some error in the tessellation effects. Because that seems the major performance killer. I can run the game 70+ fps but as soon as I turn on DirectX11 (which adds Tessellation) no amount of adjusting of settings will get me over 28 fps (even with the beta driver)
This is the correct line of thinking. Sadly, as much as I'd like to deny it, Bioware has dropped the ball on this one. After extensive playtime and testing, the "very high" settings, which includes tessalation, as well as features such as maximum anti-aliasing, are simply impossible to play well with an NVIDIA card, no matter how nice your system is right now.
The coding, as many have pointed out, was designed better for ATI cards. Looking at the hardware boost of NVIDIA to ATI right now; any enthusiast or even smart buyer would invest in NVIDIA, considering that the price:performance ratio is simply better. Hands down. No questions.
In other words NVIDIA people: here is your solution:
Download the high resolution textures pack. Download the NVIDIA beta driver. Turn the game on Directx11 renderer. Turn the settings to High. Enable both the checkboxes below the sliders for AA and AF. Turn your antistropic filtering up to max. Make sure your anti-aliasing is at 0.
These are the best performance and quality settings you are going to get right now. What you'll need to be checking, about every week or so, is whether Bioware has released a patch for the game that is targeting the coding around DirectX11 rendering, specifically tessalation and anti-aliasing. Also check in on NVidia for when they release the official version of this driver update, as it will likely improve some of the rendering slightly.
On a final note, as an enthusiast myself, I am sure you are dissapointed with this answer. Get over it. We enthusiasts have a problem of not even enjoying the content of a game unless it is perfectly rendered and flashy/sparkly all the time. Granted, that's why we spend so much money on these rigs, but there is so much more to games, especially Dragon Age II, to explore and enjoy. A couple of hours in, you'll hardly remember what settings you're on, and if you do, you'll grin and bear it.
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Shame.
