first time poster long time dragon age player.
anyway like alot of dragon age players i've experianced my share of problems with the game, it got so bad at one point the i uninstalled the game, and turned in my ps3 version thinking that the game was harmful.
i've heard things like memory burn, memory leak, lag, crashing like crazy and other problems like that.
the first time i had the game installed i did like every other person does when they get a game, i played on the highest graphics i could, on fullscreen, downloaded a ton of dlc and mods, the result is it played like crap.
now i have reinstalled the game after having to reset my hardrive back to defaults because of a virus. this time around i started off running it on the lowest settings avalible, and on a 800\\600 size screen. and with no dlc and only a few mods.
i also have only 60 some processes running at all time, compared to the 86 of before.
and i have the worst possible computer for dragon age, i have win 7 64bit, with phenom procesessers, and the ati radeon graphics card.
but this time around i don't have many of the head aches i did before, my cpu get's to about 50% on average even in a heated battle with the high dragon. the game runs smoothly even when i have 3 templar's in my party spamming holy smite all at once at times.
the only time it does carsh is when it hogs to much memory and that's really about it.
and's i've noticed something that the game does, and that other games do better.
dragon age seems to reflect the computer it runs on, if you have a slow computer like my laptop, it's going to run very slowly, if it runs fast and looks good at the same time then you must have a fast gaming computer or an over-clocked machine, then the game reflects that.
i've come to this asumption after i downloaded fallout 3. when i first got fallout it had no dlc in it, no mods it was just the default game. and i was running it the highest settings avallible. after a while though i loaded it up with a ton of mods i had about 50 to 80 at some point. and i was forced to run the game on lower settings, but one day i started to filter out the mods i used and the ones i didn't use, and i managed to drop about 30 or 40 mods and because of that i was able to get my game back to high settings.
so what i'm saying here is to not overwork or overload your computer, if the game can get 60 fps with high settings, 50+ mods, and and 86+ programs running in the background, them more power to you, but if you have an average computer like me then your probably not going to be able to do that.
cause alot of people seem to overlook what mods really are, mods are basicly a program of sorts that a game runs in the background and the more mods you have the more the game has to run other then itself.
well i'm not sure if this will help everyone or anyone but i thought i'd just put it out there.
just some advice about dragon age
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Posté 27 avril 2011 - 03:25
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Very well-thought advice. While it's hard to compare Dragon Age with other games, because it uses its own engine, your assumptions ring true. I experienced the biggest increase in performance and stability with high graphics settings when I upgraded from an Athlon X2 6000+ (dual core) to a faster Phenom II X4.
DAO *will* run on slower CPUs, but adding a faster graphics card may not always help, or may not always help significantly. The same goes for RAM, as Gorath Alpha has posted in this forum recently. Players need to mitigate their expectations depending on their hardware, even if other games seem to run better on the same equipment.
Of course, keep in mind, too, that laptops add another factor to the equation-- laptop hardware, even when using a "mobile" version of a powerful desktop processor, will not have the inherent power of their desktop counterparts. We sacrifice some power for mobility, pure and simple.
Thanks for your insight!
DAO *will* run on slower CPUs, but adding a faster graphics card may not always help, or may not always help significantly. The same goes for RAM, as Gorath Alpha has posted in this forum recently. Players need to mitigate their expectations depending on their hardware, even if other games seem to run better on the same equipment.
Of course, keep in mind, too, that laptops add another factor to the equation-- laptop hardware, even when using a "mobile" version of a powerful desktop processor, will not have the inherent power of their desktop counterparts. We sacrifice some power for mobility, pure and simple.
Thanks for your insight!
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Posté 27 avril 2011 - 04:26
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RaenImrahl wrote...
Very well-thought advice. While it's hard to compare Dragon Age with other games, because it uses its own engine, your assumptions ring true. I experienced the biggest increase in performance and stability with high graphics settings when I upgraded from an Athlon X2 6000+ (dual core) to a faster Phenom II X4.
DAO *will* run on slower CPUs, but adding a faster graphics card may not always help, or may not always help significantly. The same goes for RAM, as Gorath Alpha has posted in this forum recently. Players need to mitigate their expectations depending on their hardware, even if other games seem to run better on the same equipment.
Of course, keep in mind, too, that laptops add another factor to the equation-- laptop hardware, even when using a "mobile" version of a powerful desktop processor, will not have the inherent power of their desktop counterparts. We sacrifice some power for mobility, pure and simple.
Thanks for your insight!
thanks i pretty much learned that from trial and error. yes i know it's a different game then fallout 3, but i really had nothing else to compare it to. but still both games have a ton of dlc and mods that you can get so similar but different.
i have a phenom II X4, and mine can't run DAO very well on anything but low settings. but mine is different from yours as are all computers, so basicly i had to tailor the game to my computer.
yes i know laptops are different, but it was the only other computer i had that could maybe run the game, my 3rd one is to old and not online and my copy of DAO was bought through steam.
anyway your welcome i hope this helps some people.
