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[JacksLament]

Processor Manufacturer: AMD
Processor Name / Type: Athlon 64 3800+
Processor Speed: 2.4Ghz
Operating System: Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
System RAM: 2.0gb
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: Nvidia
Video Card Model: NVIDIA Gforce 7100 gs
Video Card Driver Version: Nforce 191.07
Video Card onboard RAM: don't know how to find

Ok no matter what I'm doing in Dragon age there is a serious lagging issue. Attacks are slowed and even dialog and character movement is a sec or two behind. Also the Character Icons are black with only pieces of them showing up from time totiem. I've tried everything I've found on this forum even relatively related and nothing has helped. If this has been answered please don't be rude just point me in the right direction. Oh and is there way to get help from bioware or do we have to everything this way? is there a number to call?

Modifié par JacksLament, 16 novembre 2009 - 10:10 .

[JironGhrad]

I see three things that you could do to help here.



1)upgrade the GPU. The GeForce 7100 is well below the minimum required to run the game in Vista/Win 7



2)upgrade the system RAM, more RAM is better and you have a 64bit OS that can make use of it



3)should you still experience issues after both of the above fixes, try setting the processor affinity to only run on CPU 1

[JacksLament]

They say to use NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater. What am I not getting that makes the 7100 below that? is there a GPU you recomend that wont break me?

[JironGhrad]

look below that it says "Vista:ATI Radeon x1550 256mb - NVidia GeForce 7600 GT 256mb

Win 7 is actually the equivalent  of (or perhaps a little bit more resource intensive than) Vista.  So those are the minimum specifications you need to be looking at. 

To recommend a graphics card we need to know whether it's AGP or PCIe. One way to determine that is to open your device manager and go to "system devices" and look for a "Processor to AGP" listing.  IF you have one, it's probably an AGP card.

Modifié par JironGhrad, 16 novembre 2009 - 10:48 .

[ZootCadillac]

The main problem, as stated by Jiron above is your graphics card which is the absolure bottom end of the DX9 based 7 series cards and never intended for 3d gaming. It's simply a 2d business display.
It onlly likely has 128mb which is not enough even if the card had the pixel shaders to handle this game. To compound matters if it is the turbocache model it will be using system ram on top of it's on-board ram which takes it away from the operating system and the game.
You really need to get a gaming card ( look on ebay for 8800 cards which are a bargain right now )

Modifié par ZootCadillac, 16 novembre 2009 - 10:49 .

[JacksLament]

Thanks Very much!!!

[ZootCadillac]

JacksLament wrote...

They say to use NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater. What am I not getting that makes the 7100 below that? is there a GPU you recomend that wont break me?

The 6600 cards were also awful and I expect them to struggle on this game regardless of what EA tell us.

The 6600 is a generation 6 card 600 series ( which is the bottom end gaming series ) what you have is a generation 7/100 series which was a budget 2d display card released in 2006. 600 is better than 100 see? it's like how an 8800 GT is a much better card than a 9600GT regardless of the fact the 9600 is a newer card.

[katt2001]

actually the 6600 would be faster then your 7100. your 7100 is a newer generation of card, but performance wise is slower. the 2nd number of the card X1XX in your case is the measure of speed and performamce of any given generation.



also, running windows 7 says the recommend at least 3GB ram.



i also wouldnt recommend spending any money on upgrading that system as your running a single core CPU with AGP graphics.



save up for a now low end dual core cpu with a PCI-e video card. will be worlds different then your older system.

[JacksLament]

would this work? EVGA 512-P2-N738-LR GeForce 8400 GS 512MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Card

[ZootCadillac]

JacksLament wrote...

would this work? EVGA 512-P2-N738-LR GeForce 8400 GS 512MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Card

no. You have there a generation 8, 400 series which is again, not a gaming card. The minimum you should look at is an X600 series ( and never one suffixed by LE, you want GT or GTS/X )
The 600 series is again bottom end for gaming so to be sure you really want an 8800 or 9800 (or a newer card if you want to spend the money )


Edit: Oh and also don't buy an 8xxx series from a manufacturer or shop as it's old, superceded and you'll pay too much.

I only mention the 8800 because you can find a GTS model for under £40 on ebay and that was a £250 card not too long ago )

Modifié par ZootCadillac, 16 novembre 2009 - 10:58 .

[JironGhrad]

JacksLament wrote...

would this work? EVGA 512-P2-N738-LR GeForce 8400 GS 512MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Card

You want to do better than that.... you want a card with either a 600 or 800 designation.  The 8400 suffers from the same shortcomings as your current card (only a little less so)

Edit: and Zoot beat me to it this time

Modifié par JironGhrad, 16 novembre 2009 - 11:01 .

[JacksLament]

Ok I'm totally confused... by 600 series you mean like an 9600? I don't know much about this I just wanna play... and don't know what i'm looking for... lol I feel like an idiot

[JironGhrad]

correct... here is an excellent deal

[JacksLament]

awesome thanx you guys have been great! And I'll bookmark that so I can get it Friday!!!

[Gorath Alpha]

The system requirements do not appear to have been created with much in the way of carefully selecting and testing video card minimums.  The Geforce 6600 GT was barely able to handle medium quality chores when new, while the 6200 was the bottom end of the 6000 generation.  If I recall correctly, quite a large number of the really awful 6200A chips were left over when all the rest of the 6000s were used up, and if what I recall is accurate, the 7100 amounts to nothing more than a renamed 6200. 

Personally, I believe the least capable Geforce for the game would be the Vanilla 6800 with 256 MBs of RAM, not the slower and less capable 128 MB card sold for the AGP video bus.  Mainline gaming cards will have an "n600" part in their names, such as 9600 and 4670 have. 

Look at this:  social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/128343

Almost anything with a number of 300 or less, these days, is just an onboard video chip, and incapable of playing a game such as this one at all as it was designed.  I am surprised you even got anything beyond the Character Creator to halfway work with a 7100. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 17 novembre 2009 - 12:20 .

[JacksLament]

actually what I am experiencing so far with the 7100 is only annoying. nothing serious. no crashes or anything like that... yet anyways lol