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[Allyahnah]

This question has probably already been answered but I'm not sure how to search for it so I apologize for repeating it...

When I first started playing the game, it ran really well and quickly. Lately it's been running slower and it takes FOREVER to load during the parchment background with the swirling thingy. I've run a disk clean, disk defragment, and have deleted unused programs on my comp. Is there anything else I can do to make the game run quicker and take less time loading without having to sacrifice graphic quality?

[Allyahnah]

The loading screens usually pause for 2-5 minutes at a time. It's 'pulling my hair out' irritating.

[Allyahnah]

*poke poke*

[Tosheroon]

Firstly, what is your PCs hardware? Specifically its processor, RAM, graphics card and OS.



Secondly, are you running any anti-malware software in the background and, if so, which type?

[The_Dougster]

The loading screens will get slower and slower the longer you play, usually I just exit the game and restart it and that fixes things up again for an hour or two. This problem usually happens on quad core machines from what I understand.

[The Autarch]

Yep, seems to happen to me. It's extremely annoying when I'm trying to travel somewhere and get an encounter (usually the dwarf merchant or a wolf ambush) that takes about 4 minutes to load.

[Allyahnah]

Lobsang1979 wrote...

Firstly, what is your PCs hardware? Specifically its processor, RAM, graphics card and OS.

Secondly, are you running any anti-malware software in the background and, if so, which type?

So I clicked on the properties from the My Computer icon. Is this what you're asking about?

Intel®
Pentium® D CPU 3.20GHz
3.9GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

I think the graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

I'm running Windows XP

AVG Anti Virus is running in the background

Is that everything or did I miss something?

[Midnight Reyn]

Is AVG running any scans while you are playing? If so I'd definitely stop the scan as I know that Dragon Age crawls on my computer when AVG is running.



My setup is almost exactly the same as yours (except I have a 7800GTX nvidia card) and I have no problems running the game either, unless AVG decides to initiate a scan mid playthrough - then the game stalls.

[Allyahnah]

Nope. I usually cancel scans before the game starts because I know that will slow it down. The game starts running slower after about half an hour of use. My computer is about 3 years old. Maybe it's just time for a new one...

[Tosheroon]

Allyahnah wrote...

Nope. I usually cancel scans before the game starts because I know that will slow it down. The game starts running slower after about half an hour of use. My computer is about 3 years old. Maybe it's just time for a new one...

Do you actually disable AVG or just cancel any running scans? The difference being that if AVG is not disabled, it will be scanning every file the game accesses while you are playing and thus will quickly slow things down to a grind on an older system such as yours.

Another issue could be the size of your page file and speed/age of your hard drive. Your PC only has 2GB of RAM which, although respectable, will probably be saturated quite quickly by DA:O and force your PC to use the page file instead. This will slow the game down quite quickly, and could possibly be a cause of the loading slowdowns that you and a sizeable number of others are having.

Try disabling AVG first and we'll see where we go from there. If you feel that doing so is a high security risk, disable your internet connection beforehand. 

[Allyahnah]

So if disabling AVG doesn't work, then the next best option is to get more RAM?

[Tosheroon]

Getting more RAM would certainly benefit anyway, although I don't know how much of an improvement you will see. And it if you are unlucky enough to be running on a motherboard that only supports DDR RAM (as opposed to newer DDR2, and newest DDR3) then the price really would not be worth it in my opinion.



Also, you could check the size of your pagefile by:

1) Select Start Menu and click on Control Panel.

2) Click on System, then select the Advanced settings tab.

3) Click on the Settings... button in the Performance box.

4) Select the Advanced tab and, where it says Virtual Memory, post the value here.



Increasing your pagefile if it is too low might lessen any memory bottleneck, although it is no real substitute for RAM.

[BanditGR]

Try temporarily disabling Persistent Gore and see if it has any impact. A lot of people reported success in terms of faster loading times.

[Allyahnah]

Lobsang1979 wrote...

Getting more RAM would certainly benefit anyway, although I don't know how much of an improvement you will see. And it if you are unlucky enough to be running on a motherboard that only supports DDR RAM (as opposed to newer DDR2, and newest DDR3) then the price really would not be worth it in my opinion.

Also, you could check the size of your pagefile by:
1) Select Start Menu and click on Control Panel.
2) Click on System, then select the Advanced settings tab.
3) Click on the Settings... button in the Performance box.
4) Select the Advanced tab and, where it says Virtual Memory, post the value here.

Increasing your pagefile if it is too low might lessen any memory bottleneck, although it is no real substitute for RAM.

2046 MB is what it says for total paging file size.

[Allyahnah]

BanditGR wrote...

Try temporarily disabling Persistent Gore and see if it has any impact. A lot of people reported success in terms of faster loading times.

Is the persistent gore feature where the armor is bloody for an extended period of time after killing things? If so, I can live without that...

[BanditGR]

Yes, supposedly it does make a small difference in terms of loading times.

[Allyahnah]

*bump in hopes that Lobsang will see this thread and respond to my pagefile comment*