I pre-ordered Dragon Age II, received it in the mail on launch day, and was playing it fine on medium-ish settings on my computer, which at that point was an old eVGA 680i motherboard with a Core 2 Quad Q6600, and a pair of nVidia 9800GTX+ cards in an SLI configuration with 8GBs of RAM. It was pretty old hardware by this time, but it worked well, and I had held off on upgrading in order to save up some cash to make sure that it was a good upgrade.
Fast forward to a week ago, and I was upgrading hardware in my computer from the ground up, keeping my old hard drives but completely changing out my motherboard, processor, RAM, and graphics card.
I'm now running:
AsRock P67 motherboard (newer model, some of the earlier problems this board has have been fixed)
Core i7 2600k
8GB RAM
GTX 570
When I tried to run DA2 for the first time using the new hardware, it quickly crashed randomly, but the computer was having no trouble rendering anything and the framerates were excellent up until the point where everything crashed with no warning. Wondering if it was some specific glitch casuing this issue, I tried getting it to crash several more times. Nothing of notice in the game was happening, and the spot where it would crash was different every time, but I could never play more than three minutes without having the game crash. I reinstalled the game and repatched it and still ran into these issues. On a hunch, I switched the renderer from new, shiny DX11 back to DX9. Viola, no problems. This concerns me, as my two other most graphically challenging games are Bad Company 2 and Bulletstorm, both of which run without a hitch on maximum settings for my PC and take significantly more out of my processor and RAM while running (and thus probably are also challenging my graphics card more), but neither of which render in DX11. Having no other DX11 games to test with my system, and having no way to determine if my bug is a hardware issue with my new components, or a software issue with the DA2 client, I'm sort of at an impasse. I need some way to find out if my card is defective and will not run DX11 or if the issue lies with Dragon Age. Preferably, I'd like to be able to run DA2 in its new, shiny DX11 glory by the end of this process. Any suggestions for how to proceed?
EDIT: I realize that there is another topic farther back dealing with the same DX11 issue, but it is outdated by both a full game patch and two sets of geforce drivers and was supposedly fixed according to many, so I figured I'd repost.
Also, I forgot to mention that I am currently running the drivers released in April, the second most current drivers (the most current are still in beta).
Double EDIT: Also just realized that in the five or six months that I didn't play Bad Company II they updated to DX11 support. So I suppose it's unlikely that the nature of my problem lies there.
Modifié par UnstableMongoose, 24 mai 2011 - 07:50 .
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