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[Rosery99]

I am running A:

System Model: Acer Aspire M5100
OS: Windows XP
Processors: Quad Core 2.2 Ghz
Ram: 4 Gigabytes
Ram Type: DDR2
Physical Memory: 500 Gigabytes
Video Card: Nvida GEforce 9800 GT
Physical Video Memory: 512 Megabytes

Dragon Age runs smoothly at some points but during any battles and random points within towns or environments of any kind, espicially the Undead Assault at Redcliffe, My frame rate drops to between 5-15 frames and the game becomes unplayable. I would appreciate any help that I can be given I have attempted to put the graphics at lowest and the resolution at 640-480 instead of the normal 1400-900 Wide Screen which is what my monitor is. 

[rastamanphan]

A few quick suggestions. Do you have anti-virus running or other programs running in the background? If so those could place additional strain on the hardware. Temporarily disable them while you play. Also, have you updated the graphics card drivers from nVidia.com? If not I'd recommend them.



I would run the DAO config when you first launch the game and let it set the presets for video options. That way you know that you're running spec. Just as an aside, before you play, start Task Manager and open the performance tab. While you're playing and enter a battle, alt-tab out of it and check out the Task Manager to see what your perfomance tab looks like. You should have plenty of memory left as available and your CPU should be tapped at 100% while you were playing.

[Atilac]

update drivers for video card and disable misc background programs.

[Aruthos]

i have the same issue just walking around it gets a bit smoother but any battles and it lags terribly and i have the settings down low

[darkshadow136]

Yep I agree with rastamanphan update your graphics drivers via nvidia's website, and disable all unnecessary back-round programs you don't need. I'm not sure about acer but I know hp and dell pre-bundle their pre-configured systems with a lot of unnecessary programs that bog systems down. Really the best systems in my opinion for pc gaming is custom built though. Also a quick and cheap upgrade would be if you have a extra pci-e slot and the motherboard is sli compatible is too get another 9800 gt card of the same make and model and install it in sli to give you a boost in your performance.

If you do go SLI make sure you have a SLI bridge to connect the 2 cards.

Everything else you state you have seems good to go.

Modifié par darkshadow136, 27 décembre 2009 - 05:15 .

[Aruthos]

you cpu DOES NOT need to be fully in use :/ if its at 100% then its using all the resources and will likely get laggy if it wants more resources and its already using them all

[Rosery99]

Drivers are fully updated, My computer can only hold the one graphics card and I forgot to post my audio card, which is a Reltek High Definition Audio card or that's what it lists it as. It turns out as soon as I turn the sound off in game, it runs fine...Anyone know how to fix this so I can keep my sound..? It'd be nice to not have spent 60 dollars on a crappy paper weight.

[darkshadow136]

Rosery99 wrote...

Drivers are fully updated, My computer can only hold the one graphics card and I forgot to post my audio card, which is a Reltek High Definition Audio card or that's what it lists it as. It turns out as soon as I turn the sound off in game, it runs fine...Anyone know how to fix this so I can keep my sound..? It'd be nice to not have spent 60 dollars on a crappy paper weight.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by it turns out. But you could go to acer website and type in your computer model and see if there are any new drivers for the sound card and such. Updating drivers always helps with performance . Other than that if you want sound in game go to options and go to audion and see if it is disabled. Another thing when you lauch the game you can click on the configure option to auto detect all your hardware and get the optimal settings for your system.

[darkshadow136]

The last thing you want to do is start messing with settings and such unless you know exactly what you are doing. I build and have repaired computers so I feel comfortable messing with systems. But in the end what I've told you is the safest route for someone new to this stuff. Just don't install motherboard drivers and bios drivers unless you really know what you are doing sound and video drivers though are pretty self explanatory.

[Dasos]

okay this is freaky. Really freaky. My PC is almost the exact same spec, 2.2ghz AMD quad cores, 4gb (OCZ 1066mhz) RAM and an Nvidia 9800GTX+ and I have the EXACT same problem.
When you mentioned the undead fight I actually went D: with my mouth lol.
I have exactally the same problem and no idea what causes it.
-edit; The first thing I did was update all my drivers, no change there...

Modifié par Dasos, 27 décembre 2009 - 07:18 .

[Dasos]

also, the graphical settings make absoloutely no hit on the fps and my temps are fine o.o

[-Zippi-]

If you have an AMD desktop this will probably fix the problem:

http://social.biowar...58/index/421782

[Dasos]

yeah it'd be handy if I had an AMD desktop

I'm seeing a lot of problems with memory leaks and stuff, my game's totally stable in the crash department it just starts to slow down so quickly after loading it up...

It is definately not my hardware because I'll save it in an area where I am getting say... 5-10fps and then close and load straight away and it'll be back up to 50+fps

then 10-20 minutes later I'll have to do the same thing again?

what the hell is this?

It also includes the loading screens.I actually always quicksave just before activating one so if the loading screen takes more than a minute it works out faster to close and re-open and re-do the loading screen!

What's happening!? D:

[Rosery99]

So...it turns out I no longer have an issue, I went to install Windows 7 last night and the bios finally died, no more computer of my own but it runs fine on my brothers. If you have XP that may be the issue if you do not have SP3. As for what I meant by "Turns Out" I meant, when I shut off all audio IN game, as in went to the opitions and turned it off, the game ran fine no more Frame rate issue. Also my brother also builds and repairs computers for a living, I'm using his desktop now and it runs perfectly with everything on high and he has almost the exact same thing as I do except he has 3.3 Ghz quad core not 2.2. I am unsure of what is going on but Dasos if your not running SP3 (And your running XP) Update and try again...if not try shutting off just the music and see if that helps, if not...well if you turn off all the audio stuff that'll help for sure but you won't have any sound.

Darkshadow, I run the auto detect and it sets everything to highest! Or it used to rather I need a new mother board now...*Sigh* If anyone figures out how to fix this I'd love for you to post it, not just for me but for anyone else having issues..it would suck for such a great game to gain a horrible rep.

Modifié par Rosery99, 27 décembre 2009 - 11:15 .

[Dasos]

not an audio issue, found another post on this forum which suggested disabling all the audio enhancement and that hasn't helped either...

I'm running Vista Home Basic SP2.