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[JonnieR]

When I first got Dragon Age the game played fine all the time. Now it seems to slow down after about 5 - 10 minutes of game time. The players don't walk properly, thjey glide instead and the fights are in slow motion. I have a fast computer, with 8 GB of ram, and 2 GB on on my video card (Nviadia 9500GS). The problem appears to build up over time. The game wasn't doing this until just recently. Could I have accidently changed something? Or, should I adjust my video settings? Or is it a bug?

[XxLawlerxX]

I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but back in the day (the 486 days.. yeah, i know) games used to come standard with memory leaks that consumed your RAM until you eventually crashed. For a while, these went away, but I have a sneaking suspicion that DA:O has one. I get the same problem with mine and it goes away once I exit the game and the cached data is purged.

[Gorath Alpha]

JonnieR wrote...

When I first got Dragon Age the game played fine all the time. Now it seems to slow down after about 5 - 10 minutes of game time. The players don't walk properly, thjey glide instead and the fights are in slow motion. I have a fast computer, with 8 GB of ram, and 2 GB on on my video card (Nviadia 9500GS). The problem appears to build up over time. The game wasn't doing this until just recently. Could I have accidently changed something? Or, should I adjust my video settings? Or is it a bug?

You really got ripped off, and probably don't realize it yet.  That 9500 will never pass across a quarter part of the VRAM total attached to it and sucking current from the system.. ecological crime there!  Wasted use of a limited resource! 

It has too narrow of a memory bandwidth, and too slow of a core speed to even put 512 MBs of VRAM into use with any current games.  Based on that card, my bet is that the rest of your PC is equally unsuitable for gaming with.  The video device is literally the heart and lungs of a PC Gaming system, and the most important part.  You got something cheap, instead of a proper card, such as a GTX260 or HD 4870, and the digestive system (power supply) is likely to be equally bypassed. 

In case you have misunderstood how to evaluate your PC compared to its game box label, we have to start from here.  Fill it all in.  

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon 64 / Pentium / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed:  ?.? Ghz (or AMD Performance Number)
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Vista ? (Oh, no!)
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024)
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 3650 / Geforce 8600 GT
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.?? (use numbers, not the word "latest")
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Model:

Gorath
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[incog007]

I've been having the same issue as well. DAO is eating up all of my system RAM, and the issue seems to be worse with the latest patch.

[JonnieR]

Those are my symptoms exactly. Since the latest patch this has been a real problem. When I exit the game and start it back up it runs fine again for while than gradually slows down and gets worse and worse until I turn it off again.

[JonnieR]

Gorath, The card came with the system. Would you recommend a HD4870? If not what would you recommend?

[PiPbOy_RaYnE]

im running 2 4870s and im hitting the same roblem came here to check it out...
ok checked out a few other things if u haave a AMD processor that might be the issue too go to bioware and they should have a thing u can download that helps the issue...

Modifié par PiPbOy_RaYnE, 27 janvier 2010 - 02:16 .

[joelfabiani]

The same problem here, I never had this kind of problem before but since the last update (1.03) I have 15 minutes of gameplay and then crash. The worse is that sometime I'm on a battle and can not save. This problem is really annoying me. I even switch between from a 64 bits W7 to a 32 bits W7 thinking that could be some kind of incompatibility but is just the same.



Really sad. Maybe I should just stop playing, looks that Bioware is to busy to fix so critical issue.



Dell Studio XPS 1640

4 GB DDR3 RAM

1 GB ATI Radeon 4670

Centrino 2 - P9600 2.8Ghz - 6MB Cache

[Gorath Alpha]

incog007 wrote...

I've been having the same issue as well. DAO is eating up all of my system RAM, and the issue seems to be worse with the latest patch.

The only gamers who cannot avoid the patch are those with Digital Download copies, for which the patching is totally automatic.   It's not necessary to have the Awakening expansion to enjoy the game.  You can wait intil a vailid patch that actually works in a fully proper manner is released before jumping in on Awakenings. 

I always wait on favorable reports to add any patch for anything. 

In your case, you will have to uninstall, then only use the 1.02 patch when you reinstall.

(OK, true, that reply of Incog's to the thread was old, but I seem to have missed seeing most of the comments that were added while the thread was still young, and now that someone is rooting around and digging up long-dead items, I'll just bring everything up to date!  )

JonnieR wrote...

Gorath, The card came with the system.
Would you recommend a HD4870? If not, what would you recommend?

If you aren't committed to either Red or Green, the range is a wide one.  The HD 4870 was an excellent video card, and has come way down in price now that the HD 5n00 cards are available in good quantities.  If you do have a large display that offers very high resolutions, you will want a High End video card on which the memory bandwidth allows the card to put a lot of VRAM into use. 

We need to know your budget, your preferred image quality settings, your planned screen resolution, and the full readout on your power supply, especially the brand. 

PiPbOy_RaYnE wrote...

im running 2 4870s and im hitting the same roblem came here to check it out...

ok checked out a few other things if u haave a AMD processor that might be the issue too go to bioware and they should have a thing u can download that helps the issue...

We would have preferred much better details than that, which didn't prove to be helpful as posted. 

Joel Fabiani : 

Look at the top item, what I would've told Incog if I hadn't missed the further evolutions of this thread.  You never have to patch just because some sort of patch exists, unless you have Steam, and cannot avoid it. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 04 avril 2010 - 10:32 .

[joelfabiani]

Gorath,



I patched with the last patch (1.03) because of the enhancements that every patch brings. If the patch came with errors, it was not tested enouth by the developers team and shouldn't have been released,