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[evilded777]

I'd dearly love to finish this game that I have had for a while, but the game performance is so frustrating.  Wait 10 minutes to load an area, try to have a fight with a group and wait 30 seconds for a spell to fire -- and have it fire after the mage has moved and be cast on your party member instead of the bad guy.

I mean, really.

I even went so far as to install the 1.05 patch that everyone was screaming broke things.  So far it hasn't broken anything for me, but its no improvement either.

I have tried all the suggestions: changing CPU afinity, using dragon launcher app, etc, etc, etc.

Nothing works.

 Win 7 64, DX11 video card with 2gb ram, 6gb of physical ram, more than 50% free before launching DA.

Works great for a few minutes, then if I get in a few fights or do a lot of moving around, bang: everything slows to a crawl and mem usage peaks over a gb.

This happened before I modded anything.  Found mods recently as I tried desperately to find a way to be able to PLAY.   I notice no significant difference with mods loaded. 

Anyone?

Modifié par evilded777, 15 février 2013 - 04:14 .

[Just-Me]

1.  You do not have access to any official support through this forum. 

2.  Official Support is now, and always has been, on the EA Help Center's site. 

3.  There isn't any Gamer to Gamer self-help offered here on the Social Network site any longer.

4.  The amount of physical RAM attached to a video card (beyond 512 MBs) is meaningless in a game this old.  Core (GPU) speed, VRAM speed, and memory system bandwidth are what is required: 

Recommended Specifications
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual-Core 2.7 GHz or greater
RAM: 2 GB (XP) or 3 GB (Windows Vista/Windows 7)
Video: ATI HD 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

[Jeffonl1]

Maybe your AV?
Try this thread...
http://social.biowar...8/index/6265850

Modifié par Jeffonl1, 16 février 2013 - 05:00 .

[fkirenicus]

First off, make sure game is patched. Personally I stick with 1.04, but 1.05 is out.

Second, this game on my computer runs better using 2 processors rather than 4. So go the process, right-click and choose "set affinity". Uncheck all but two processors (as I've said, I have four. I generally let the game use processors 0 and 1, disabling 2 and 3).

Third, it may well be that the game has problems with brand new drivers. Perhaps an older graphics card driver may work better for you. Note that in-built graphics cards (such as intel) officially are not supported (as far as I know, anyway...).

Fourth, see Jeffonl1's post above mine.

Hope you're able to sort it out, good luck :-)

[sea-]

This problem has never been fixed and the matter was quietly swept under the rug by BioWare. So no, you are going to have to live with it.

[torchburner]

holy hell, finally someone else with the same problem. memory leak that is absurd. i bought my current machine, a new graphics card, and learned how to make a partition just to remedy the issues this game has. it's now isolated on a seperate partition with my other more unstable games. dao is the worst by far. and i'm not bothering with ea they didn't make this game.

and bioware to me is a seperate company. the creaters by default should know about their creation. otherwise it makes no sense to me. the new card and partition only slowed the memory leak. i partitioned it after finding out about half of my programs that i can't do without cannot play nice with dao. the partition helped almost every other game very well but dao, even the new graphics card doesn't do much. and i know it isn't a bioware game but skyrim ran better on my **** card, without the partition etc... skyrim was a bug ridden mess on release day, and it ran better then dao for the 2 years i searched for anything that could remedy the problem.

hell most people i ran across not just here don't even believe the game has memory leak. i can watch it eat my ram as i run it.

i think i have tried every fix out there, and ran around the nexus my mod hub for months with almost no progress.

[keeneaow]

Yes, one reason why i don't finish any campaign, combat lag.
Anyway Spellforce 1 beats this game in every aspect except graphics,
much recommended

[torchburner]

sea- wrote...

This problem has never been fixed and the matter was quietly swept under the rug by BioWare. So no, you are going to have to live with it.

i figured that, since the ultimate edition for the ps3 is almost no differant from the first copy i got. almost no support, i am not surprised at all. even beth is better in support, not perfect but at least they try and fix issues.

[Canned Bullets]

Yeah I've noticed that also. I have 8 GBs of RAM, an HD 7850 with 2 GBs of vRAM, and an AMD FX-6300. That should be more than enough to run the game but I get lag and long loading times after a few hours of gameplay. At least Bethesda tries to fix its stability issues.

[Jeffonl1]

On how to ensure DAO uses dx9 (as it was designed to do)
http://social.biowar...index/1269766/1

For memory optimization: Well there's this patch at:
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
DAO is a 32bit application but in x64 OS you must force it use the full 4g of address space.
Non-Steam versions only! And 64bit OS only.
BACKUP your game executable (daorigins.exe) before you do this. Only this file is affected.
....you could try it...

And this forum:
http://social.biowar...index/1269766/1
On how to ensure DAO uses dx9 (as it was designed to do).

[Canned Bullets]

Jeffonl1 wrote...

On how to ensure DAO uses dx9 (as it was designed to do)
http://social.biowar...index/1269766/1

For memory optimization: Well there's this patch at:
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
DAO is a 32bit application but in x64 OS you must force it use the full 4g of address space.
Non-Steam versions only! And 64bit OS only.
BACKUP your game executable (daorigins.exe) before you do this. Only this file is affected.
....you could try it...

And this forum:
http://social.biowar...index/1269766/1
On how to ensure DAO uses dx9 (as it was designed to do).

So when you say Non-Steam versions only does that mean I can't use this patch?

[Jeffonl1]

Its only tested with a non-steam retail version.
The steam exe is in //Steam//steamapps//common//dragon age origins//bin_ship
Please back it up before any changes.
This is a solution, but doesn't always work. The DX9 switch is also a solution.

A lot of the "memory leaks" are CPU affinity issues; check the troubleshooting FAQ:
http://social.biowar...6198716#6269919
Also
Disable frame buffer: Launch DAOriginsConfig.exe, select Video, and uncheck "Frame-Buffer effects" This can improve things.

And Persistent Gore can be a drag...

Modifié par Jeffonl1, 01 avril 2013 - 05:46 .

[torchburner]

Jeffonl1 wrote...

On how to ensure DAO uses dx9 (as it was designed to do)
http://social.biowar...index/1269766/1

For memory optimization: Well there's this patch at:
http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
DAO is a 32bit application but in x64 OS you must force it use the full 4g of address space.
Non-Steam versions only! And 64bit OS only.
BACKUP your game executable (daorigins.exe) before you do this. Only this file is affected.
....you could try it...

And this forum:
http://social.biowar...index/1269766/1
On how to ensure DAO uses dx9 (as it was designed to do).

already tried both of those. didn't help hardly at all. giving it more ram just allows it to eat ram like crazy. out of all the things i tried the only thing that made any difference at all, was a guy on youtube told me about a program steam mover, once i used that to put it on a partition i got a bit of relief. but the problem is still there, it just is prolonged. i get a few hours before hideous stutter and crash rather then a few minutes like before.

[torchburner]

Jeffonl1 wrote...

Its only tested with a non-steam retail version.
The steam exe is in //Steam//steamapps//common//dragon age origins//bin_ship
Please back it up before any changes.
This is a solution, but doesn't always work. The DX9 switch is also a solution.

A lot of the "memory leaks" are CPU affinity issues; check the troubleshooting FAQ:
http://social.biowar...6198716#6269919
Also
Disable frame buffer: Launch DAOriginsConfig.exe, select Video, and uncheck "Frame-Buffer effects" This can improve things.

And Persistent Gore can be a drag...

yep tried that as well. have a quad core machine. the game is worse on limited cores. frame buffer is off i don't like the lighting effects it makes. and gore is off as well, looks stupid to me.

[Jeffonl1]

Make sure your dx9 install is good.  Run "dxdiag" and see what it has to say
(you can download from:
http://www.microsoft...ails.aspx?id=35
or
http://www.microsoft...ails.aspx?id=35

How about a clean re-install of your graphics drivers:
http://social.biowar...484/blog/13857/

And if you're over-clocking - graphics card and/or motherboard, try backing off.

If you can: make sure there's a minimum of 'bloat-ware'

Modifié par Jeffonl1, 02 avril 2013 - 11:39 .

[torchburner]

Jeffonl1 wrote...

Make sure your dx9 install is good.  Run "dxdiag" and see what it has to say
(you can download from:
http://www.microsoft...ails.aspx?id=35
or
http://www.microsoft...ails.aspx?id=35

How about a clean re-install of your graphics drivers:
http://social.biowar...484/blog/13857/

And if you're over-clocking - graphics card and/or motherboard, try backing off.

If you can: make sure there's a minimum of 'bloat-ware'

i have dx9 and up to 11, borderlands 2 a dx9 game runs on dx9 no problems, heck it runs better then on my ps3. i don't over-clock, i don't know how, and i see it as being to hard on the machine itself, i'm not taking the risk.

i tried redoing the drivers, big mistake never going to do it again, thank god steam can fix graphics driver problems. the whole thing when crazy half my programs wouldn't load, i'm not doing that again and besides after that no changes.

i have removed alot of unwanted crap, some i don't touch. i have a bad history of causing pc problems by screwing with to many files.

the only thing that could be a possiblitiy at this rate is my old graphics card drivers are still installed, i'm just not sure where. when upgrading i was to afraid to screw with any drivers. i've check device manager and nothing the only one listed is my new card ati hd 5670, it also has a mirage driver, i have no clue what it is. my old card was an ati hd5450, it sucked and was a media server, my ps3 kept showing glados my pc as a media server. my thought was i don't have a server, most of my game issues came from that card. so maybe the drivers may be the fix i've been waiting for. but i have serious doubts.

other then the new card hardware wise my pc is stock, and it has the same setting for the ram cpu... etc since i got it. as for software yeah i've made it my own in that respect.

Modifié par torchburner, 09 avril 2013 - 06:23 .

[Jeffonl1]

Wow, the graphics driver re-install is normally pain-free (though a bit long). All it does is ensure that all the files associated with the graphics driver are at the same revision level. I'm sorry to hear it went so badly. I assume this is windows 7?
Remember system restore is your friend! You can always go back to the windows state before you made changes.

[BounceDK]

While it should have been fixed in the latest patch, the fact of the matter is that it still isn't fixed.

[torchburner]

Jeffonl1 wrote...

Wow, the graphics driver re-install is normally pain-free (though a bit long). All it does is ensure that all the files associated with the graphics driver are at the same revision level. I'm sorry to hear it went so badly. I assume this is windows 7?
Remember system restore is your friend! You can always go back to the windows state before you made changes.

yeah win 7 64bit. for the most part the new card installed fine. but every so often i see some games regisitoring the old card drivers. and no restoring, i've been through that enough, it is my enemy. and if you mean restore points, the few times i have used them helped nothing.

but the upgrade was so far back i don't remember.

but if nothing i'm grasping at straws, thinking of any possible thing that can effect a game in any way, because nothing works as a true permenat fix.