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[Morey89]

So, first of all, hi there. I'm a long time admirer of bioware games and have played all of the NwN/Jade Empire/ME games so far, and i found Dragon Age to be an awsome game, with the quality i've been expecting from bioware games.

There is one thing though, which is the known increased loading times, which it seems i had the missfortune of getting.

Quick edit since i should elaborate: Basicly i play normally for about half an hour untill the loadings start to take considerably long time, up to a point where the game just starts to get choppy, takes its sweet time to exit conversations, etc... A save and restart of the game fixes the issue for the time beeing, but after 30m, i just to back to the same thing.

I searched around the forums and tried the solutions i found, such as the TLB disable patch, though i don't think i needed it in the first place and didn't notice any changes in performance.

This specific bug doesn't make much sense to me, to be honest, most of all because it doesn't seem to be the lack of power from my computer. I also have Modern Warfare 2 and Borderlands on my computer, both run fine at high and very high settings, with few to no slow downs in the busiest sections of the game.

My computer specs are as follows:

HP 9370
Windows Vista Home Premium 32bits
AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core 2.2Ghz
4Gb Ram
Nvidia 9600GS 768mb

Well there it is, so far i havn't been able to figure out a way to fix it with the suggestions from this board but, here's to hopping someone helps me get it right this time.

I'm no computer savvy so if i missed anything in the pc specs or you need any aditional info just say so.

Thanks for your time.

Modifié par Morey89, 18 novembre 2009 - 09:02 .

[Morey89]

shameless bump

[GibbBoy]

I'm not sure if I'm just imagining things, but it does seem like the loading times get longer and longer the farther along you are in the game. I'm 50 hours into the game with my level 18 rogue, and I sometimes get 2 minute long wait times between areas, even things like going between Wade's shop and the Denerim Market takes this long. I figure it's because the game seems to keep track of every enemy I've ever killed, since I can go back to an area I cleared 10 hours ago and have the loot still be sitting on a corpse. I also have almost 2 GBs worth of save file because I create a new save every time. Whatever the case, the load times are excruciating.

[Arto]

here is another bump for further discussion. oh, and where are the save files?

Modifié par Arto, 18 novembre 2009 - 09:59 .

[Morey89]

Username -> Documents -> Bioware -> Dragon Age -> Characters (I suppose)



And bump.



Anyone has any other probably solution for this thing?

[Wintermist]

If you restart the game the load times will reset again.

[Morey89]

Yes, i made a reference to that in my post, but what i was looking for was an actual fix, if anyone has actually managed to fix it that is, or some input into it at least.

[faerinor]

Morey89 wrote...

Yes, i made a reference to that in my post, but what i was looking for was an actual fix, if anyone has actually managed to fix it that is, or some input into it at least.

Like you, I have been a longtime fan of Bioware games.  Have you not noticed this before in BioWare games though, friend?  I had the same increasing load times issue back in Neverwinter Nights and NWN2 days.  I quite recall even KOTOR doing the same thing.  Try to think back.  While a fix would be nice, my guess is the developers at BioWare have wrangled with this issue for at least a decade and might actually be hoping that the quality of the content is of such a level that we consumers overlook this issue.  I am completely content with restarting the game from time to time if that is the trade-off for the excellent content quality they deliver.  However, if they were to miraculously fix this issue, I would be overjoyed indeed .

[Morey89]

Well, actually i never did have this problem with past bioware games, or if i did not to the magnitude that i'm having now, in which it actually becomes noticable. My loading times can usually go on to 30s or 1min if i choose to stick with it, i never had anything like this happening with any other game, bioware or not.



Obviously the game is still great and i'm still playing it, even though with the annoyance of constant restarts to fix this issue, but the point to the post was to try and find a fix to it, rather than accept the flaw that it is.

[Morey89]

bump



Anyone can offer any insight into this pretty please?

[kipchan]

The insight is a memory leak. Bad programming in the game that causes the increased loading times. Restarting the game or computer is a temporary fix. There are as of yet - no longterm fixes.

[Vipr278]

Yes. It's a memory leak causing the problem. Bioware has stated they are looking into it. But I was hoping to see a fix for it by now.

[faerinor]

When the load times are short, do an ALT-TAB and check the process list in task manager. Look at how much memory the DAOrigins process is using. Then play the game for 4 hours straight or until load times are terrible. Now, ALT-TAB and check the memory usage. You should notice that it has gone through the roof. At least that is the case on my system. I realize a process will utilize more resources the longer it runs. However, as the previous posts alluded to, good memory management/garbage collection can prevent this extreme resource hogging condition. Very difficult to track these kinds of bugs down though.

[Morey89]

Allright, thank you for the info, i was hoping for some sort of homebrew solution but i guess i'll have to wait untill bioware wips out a patch for it.



Anyway, thanks for taking the time to reply.

[edwardecl]

Same issue for me also, the loading times get progressively worse. It has nothing to do with the amount of time you are playing. Do this test, keep walking between areas on the world map. About 20 times in you begin to notice it getting worse. The game although memory leaking still only used between 700MB and 1.1GB and just assumed it cached some stuff, when I have 4GB of ram why should that be a problem?



I think the new 1.1b patch has fixed this slightly, although I need to play it more to find out for definite...

[Torroth]

Well things have changed for me. Used to be that I could play for a few hours before the load times got bad. Now I play a half hour to an hour and they start getting longer.

[DeadlyVortex]

i noticed longer loading times primarily in Orzamar (i know it's misspelled )

There, it seemed to be 30-45 seconds minimum.

[Aeschylus08]

usually 2-3 hours into it a restart is needed, memory seems to bottleneck and longer load times persist (even simply entering a house), waiting for decent patch.

[Sebiale]

I don't notice, but then, I play Battle.net, a 30 second load time in that place is lightning fast...

Modifié par Sebiale, 19 novembre 2009 - 08:43 .

[coolair74]

In windows Vista or Windows 7 you can start the game, launch the task manager and go to the processes tab, find daorigins.exe and right click and select Set Affinity, it will show you all your cores on your CPU, set that process to use 2 and 3 only and exit, go back to the game...profit.



I have seen very little issues since I did this, I hope that Bioware does patch it however.

[Torroth]

I'm not using cores and I've done this "fix" once before

[Morey89]

And i've tried the core issue too. In anyway it's not the performance of my PC per se that's causing this, of that i'm sure, otherwise i wouldn't be able to play it perfectly at very high settings without slowdowns. As some user above described, and i have indeed noticed once i payed more attention to it, it starts once i've got through X area transitions and maybe dialogues, if i just stay in one area and go on about my bussiness i don't have any problem at all.



And regarding the Core fix sugested above, in what way does that impact on the performance? Wouldn't restricting it to half the existing cores reduce it?

[xMinimalism]

Morey89; the problem is a simple memory leak. If you watch the processes in Task Manager, Dragon Age: Origins will steadily rise. (Mine has started at 400K, and risen up as far as 1,350K until I couldn't bear the slowness anymore and had to restart.)

Patch 1.1b has fixed this issue slightly, but not nearly well enough.

As for coolair74 - I have tried this on several occasions. Sadly this has had no positive impact on the gameplay or loading time issues. If anything, I believe it has hindered my FPS.

Numerous people have been experiencing this problem. Hopefully they will release a new patch/fix very soon, but as already stated; all anyone can do right now for a temporary quick-fix is restart their game every couple of hours.

My System Specifications:
[Custom Built]
Processor: AMD Phenom™ 9600 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM (8GB)
Hard Drive: 500GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB (Microsoft Corporation WDDM 1.1)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Motherboard: ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard
Computer Case: Antec 900 Ultimate Gamer Case
(Other specifications available upon request if necessary.)

I don't believe it has anything to do with a hardware issue (PCs being too underpowered). I know for a fact that nothing of mine is overheating. (All hardware has a fan or a heatsink, or a combination of both along with the special computer case case with quad+ cooling.) Heat is not an issue here.

[coolair74]

Have to retract my earlier comment, seems the problems has reared its ugly head again. So messing with the cores does nothing.

[Apex Sammoth]

/Bumping for a Bioware Update