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[sevalaricgirl]

I did a major gaming laptop upgrade, sandy bridge chip, gtx460 1.5 gig video card, 8 gigs of ram, plenty of hard drive space, and a fresh download of this game.  Installed the latest patch and the computer freezes anytime I use DX11 during cutscenes.  It's good any other time but man that freezing any time you have a cut scene is terrible.  I thought the problem was fixed.  I had to go back to DX9 which sucks because you can only get medium quality.  My rig can run on Very High with no problems and it does on every other game, but of course not this one.  Anyone else having this problem and or is there something else I need to change.  I started replaying the game so I'll be ready for the DLC tomorrow.  Not to mention all the mods out that redesigned the game (love them, thanks modding community.)

[Bapawaka]

You can try DX 11 with "High" settings, that should work fine without frequent crashes. Apparently there is an issue with Nvidia driver 275.33 with patch 1.03.

[Dubya75]

CPU: Intel Q6600
GPU: Radeon HD6950
8 Gig RAM

With the game settings on Very High (everything maxed out) I occasionally get cutscenes freezing.

They really need to get this sorted out!

[sevalaricgirl]

Well I thought I was free and clear, made it through the first cutscenes but then Kirkwall, first cut scene crash. I guess I'll just continue to play it with DX9. It still looks great but there's so much more depth with DX11.

[Dubya75]

sevalaricgirl wrote...

Well I thought I was free and clear, made it through the first cutscenes but then Kirkwall, first cut scene crash. I guess I'll just continue to play it with DX9. It still looks great but there's so much more depth with DX11.

Probably not something you want to hear, but why is it that whenever someone report problems with DX11 it is almost 100% guaranteed they are using NVidia cards? 

Modifié par Dubya75, 25 juillet 2011 - 01:35 .

[sevalaricgirl]

Well then it's something that Bioware needs to fix because I wouldn't trade my nVidia cards. They are so much better at most of the games I play than ATI. There's a reason many games play the nVidia logo. I've never seen a game that played an ATI logo.

[IRMcGhee]

It's not the patch. You need to roll back to the 270.61 Nvidia drivers or run DX11 on High settings (DX10.1) instead, it's a known problem and Nvidia have said they'll sort it out in their 280 series driver release.

Modifié par IRMcGhee, 25 juillet 2011 - 01:56 .

[Dubya75]

IRMcGhee wrote...

It's not the patch. You need to roll back to the 270.61 Nvidia drivers or run DX11 on High settings (DX10.1) instead, it's a known problem and Nvidia have said they'll sort it out in their 280 series driver release.

I rest my case.

[Sutekh]

Dubya75 wrote...

IRMcGhee wrote...

It's not the patch. You need to roll back to the 270.61 Nvidia drivers or run DX11 on High settings (DX10.1) instead, it's a known problem and Nvidia have said they'll sort it out in their 280 series driver release.

I rest my case.

NVidia 570 on 270.61 here. DX 11 on Very High, hires textures and all settings maxed / on and not a single crash / freezing or whatever. 

[PnXMarcin1PL]

I can run Very High mode very well with all settings maxed out (I have crashes until I change settings to High). I have those 275.xx drivers

Q8200 @ 3GHz
8GB DDR2 860MHz 5-4-4-12
Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB OC 790/1580/3900

Modifié par PnXMarcin1PL, 25 juillet 2011 - 02:54 .

[Frek]

You don't need to roll back the drivers.

Open the configure utility from the launcher. Go to the video tab. Put a check mark in the following two boxes:

- Disable Multiple Render Targets
- Disable Aspect-Ratio Correction

If you still have crashes then set the Graphics Detail to "High" but leave the "use hi-res textures" box checked. You'll probably want to do this anyways because with DX11 the "very high" will draw some really strange shadows on the ground at certain places in the game.

[sevalaricgirl]

Frek, thanks. I'll take care of those changes when I get home. I'm not rolling back drivers when every other game I have and I have many play beautifully with the 275 driver.

[Rick Dangerous]

Those DX11 issues might not be Bioware fault; I had the same crashes to desktop on 3 different games (DA2, Crysis 2 DX11, and Two worlds 2 DX10). The only common factor was the graphic API, >=DX10. I finally fixed them today with the last BIOS update for my Asus ENGTX570. If you can find an update for your graphic card BIOS, try it.

[Belhawk]

it is the nvdia driver, not da2 and patch 1.02. I re-installed da2 from orgins, and it was patched to 1.02 and i crasshed. The game froze early on where the dragon drops the dark spawn every time i tried playing.
I then pathced to 1.03, and it still crashed. I came to the tech forums and saw the thread on the problem with the latest driver. I switched back to the recommended driver and i had no problems. This reminds me of the driver problem with mass effect 1 where blue boxes were around chairs where npcs were sitting.
SO, this is another fub by Nvdia.

[sami jo]

There is already a thread about the nVidia drivers pinned to the top of this forum. The issue is on their end, not BioWare's. They can't seem to get stable drivers that play nice with both The Witcher 2 and DA2. The game runs beautifully at the highest detail on the 270.61 beta drivers. The 275.xx drivers break both DA2 and DAO. Sadly, the 270.61 drivers do not work with TW2 at all.

[Belhawk]

I haven't re-installed the witcher 2 yet, whenever they patched the game, i had to re-install the game. So, i have been waiting for them to finish all the patching. Lucky for me, because i would have been frustrated, crash on da2 or crash on tw2.

[AnubisOnly]

sevalaricgirl wrote...

Well then it's something that Bioware needs to fix because I wouldn't trade my nVidia cards. They are so much better at most of the games I play than ATI. There's a reason many games play the nVidia logo. I've never seen a game that played an ATI logo.

Try STALKER: Clear Sky, it haves ATI/AMD Logo ;-), and nVidia is not better than ATI in games, (i have HD6950+GTX570 so...) Also nVidia releases it's drivers one (WHQL) of three months now! Scandal! And Why nVidia can't fix issues with DA2+ DX11 for so long?? Drivers (275.33) with that 'dangerous' bugs can't have WHQL certificate... So please be ''truthful''.
And for the topic, i have still problems with DX11 with nVidia GTX570 (275.33+ new beta), but not even one single problem with HD6950 2GB (11.6 drivers).

[Gorath Alpha]

During a large part of the past eight or nine years, it's been ATI's Radeons that had the best engineering, the better features, the more significant improvements, but simply couldn't release two drivers in a row that really worked.  back then, nVIDIA trailed behind in everything other than basic raw speed at the very bleeding edge high end, but their drivers always worked as expected. 

However, the handwriting is already on the wall with AMD's Fusion and Intel's Sandy Bridge.  The most profitable part of the graphics business is about to be gobbled up by CPUs that have GPUs included, such as the "Llano".  nVIDIA is going in opposite directions to have any future.  At the bottom, they have partnered with Smartphone CPUs (ARM) to get a part of that business, and at the high end, they are trying to sell their best GPUs as massively parallel CPUs. 

Their longtime private customers for graphics cards are getting less attention than previously, and the best / brightest of nVIDIA;s software engineers are not working on drivers any more.  Now it's nVIDIA for whom half or more of their drivers just aren't good enough. 

Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 25 juillet 2011 - 10:33 .

[Chief_Suspect_75]

I'm running ATI Radeon 6970, DX11, no problem. I know it's not the helpful kind of comment, but at least I can help to eliminate ATI card from problem.

Regarding the fanboism, after purchasing a 5600 ATI card after being on NVidia since the TNT, I have switched to ATI fulltime - and what it comes down to is image quality. Performance is fine, and better IQ, simple really.

[Homer_S]

Dubya75 wrote...

CPU: Intel Q6600
GPU: Radeon HD6950
8 Gig RAM

With the game settings on Very High (everything maxed out) I occasionally get cutscenes freezing.

They really need to get this sorted out!

If this is freezing on ATI also, this sounds like a bigger issue than just Nvidia's drivers.

Homer

[Gorath Alpha]

Without a comparison of systems running totally clean, that report cannot be taken at face value. There is probably more to it than Dubya's comment here actually involves.

[sevalaricgirl]

I had ATI cards is crossfire on an Alienware computer. Again I'll say that I won't go back but that's besides the point, they need to fix the freezing issue since it's happening on both nVidia and ATI cards.

[Gorath Alpha]

It's not. Only nVIDIA. The horse is dead. Quit beating on it. nVIDIA can't write drivers properly any more. Simple.

[SSV Enterprise]

It's Nvidia's problem, not BioWare's. If previous drivers worked fine, BioWare didn't change anything and the game crashes with new drivers, that means Nvidia changed something and that causes the problem.

With that said, DirectX 11 mode still seems rough around the edges. I have an ATI Radeon HD 5770, and I can get ~30 frames per second on High in DirectX 11 normally. However, there are odd, repeatable frame rate drops down to 10 frames per sec in certain areas during conversations. The only reason I can think of is that it's when a flickering light source like a candle or a torch is on screen -- but it also sometimes happens when no such thing is on screen.

Modifié par SSV Enterprise, 27 juillet 2011 - 02:03 .

[ErichHartmann]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It's not. Only nVIDIA. The horse is dead. Quit beating on it. nVIDIA can't write drivers properly any more. Simple.

Wrong, stop spreading worthless information.