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[Ariella]

Yes, I promise this DOES have to do with Dragon Age Inquisition, it's just that the background needs to be explained in full before I actually ask the question.

 

Okay, was playing WoW on my new computer (yes you can boo and hiss all you like, I earned it), and discovered I was having graphic distortion problems. Turned out to be that my advanced graphic was set for DirectX 11 not DirectX 9, running it with 9 cleared everything up.

Now this is the info from DXDiag
 

Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130531-1504)

           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard

       System Model: HP ENVY TS m6 Sleekbook

               BIOS: F.12

          Processor: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics   (4 CPUs), ~2.1GHz

             Memory: 6144MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 5336MB RAM

          Page File: 2155MB used, 4076MB available

        Windows Dir: C:\Windows

    DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

     DxDiag Version: 6.02.9200.16384 64bit Unicode

It seems to say I should be able to run DirectX 11 without issue, and the recommended setting in game say the computer can handle high end.

Now that I've annoyed the crud out of most of you, and you're thinking tl;dr, I ask this, will it be a problem for DAI, which was the main reason I bought this new system in the first place. Please, I'd really like a serious answer as it's going to decide if I buy for 360 or PC, and honestly I'm worried about the obsolescence issues of 360 even with the Keep.

[Kantr]

Hmm the game specs haven't been released yet and it's only April.

 

I had a problem with DA2 with DX11, but other games are fine with it and my computer isnt as powerful as yours. All I can suggest is update your graphic drivers to the latest version (if they arent already).

 

Does it have its own separate card or is it dedicated (on the motherboard)?

[Ariella]

It's a laptop so I'm pretty sure it's dedicated. I've been keeping my drivers up to date pretty religiously after a couple of oops with certain games. If things keep the way they are for fall I should be able to run the darn thing one way or the other, which makes me learn heavily toward the PC version. I feel guilty though, can't download from a brick and mortar store.

Thank you.

[The Antagonist]

You shoulda got a desktop instead

[Ariella]

I need the laptop for my business as well, so It the most sense financially rather than buy two separate systems

[Thandal N'Lyman]

The "integrated graphics" (of either AMD or Intel) are, by definition, an inferior approach to producing the image you see compared to using a dedicated card.  The gpu is (as the name implies) integrated with the cpu into a single chipset package, and it shares system memory and cache with all the other processes.

 

Here's a pretty good summary of the capabilities of the gpu in the A10-5745M (emphasis added).  Remember, this was written almost a year ago, so the "modern" games to which it refers were the 2012-2013 crop:

 

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Radeon HD 8610G Review
Radeon HD 8610G is an integrated mobile GPU, first seen on the ultra low-voltage APU A10-5745M, based on the 32nm, Terascale 3 architecture.
It offers 384 Shader Processing Units, 24 TMUs and 8 ROPs, on a DDR3 memory interface of either a 128-bit bus width, if the laptop system RAM's is dual-channelled, or a 64-bit bus width, if not. The central units runs at 533MHz and goes up to 626MHz, in Turbo Mode. The memory clock can operate up to 667MHz, as the max memory supported by the CPU is DDR3-1333.
Its performance depends heavily on whether or not the memory is dual-channelled. Benchmarks put its performance on level with today's middle-class GPUs such as GeForce GT 540M-GeForce GT 630M or Radeon HD 7650M/7670M. Therefore, modern demanding games can be played with medium detail.

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So I'd say that you'd be hard pressed to run any graphics-intensive game at the highest levels of detail regardless of the renderer.  And using DX11 only makes the problems worse because of the more complex calculations and instruction set.

 

DA:I will probably play alright for you, just not with DX11 and not at the "High" graphics settings.

 

P.S.  The DXDiag report entry "DirectX Version: DirectX 11" simply means that the test found DX11 support code in the OS.  Any Win7 or Win8 machine will return the same info for that test.  (Vista machines need an add-on graphics package from Microsoft to render DX11.)  But it tells you nothing about whether your gpu is capable of rendering DX11 instructions, and if so... how well. 

[EkhidnaDrakaina]

I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but wouldn't the best thing to do would be to test your system against a game that also uses Frostbite? (battlefield 4 I think) srtest.com can do that for you I think.

[Ariella]

I'm running Diablo 3 w/ Reaper well enough on high with Dx 9. Still going to be better that the 360 I figure, unless something happens. (Just keep thinking how Shadows of Mordor is supposedly getting downgraded for the 360 and PS3) I'll be happy if it runs nine and go from there