OKAY. So yesterday I posted in here saying that I too suffer from low FPS in the Hinterlands. As a reminder, my rig:
i7 4790 3.6 GHz + MSI Z97 Gaming 5
Nvidia GTX 980 4GB (latest driver)
16GB ram
I played with all the graphics settings set to High, 2x MSAA, SSAO, regular fullscreen with a 1680 x 1050 resolution, and I also had a bunch of stuff running in the background (fraps, skype, steam, windows live mail and two more, these programs run all the time).
I fiddled with the settings somewhat today and I got the following results:
With all background programs mentioned turned off, and
- windowed borderless
- mesh ultra
- tesselation off
- texture fade touched
- shadow, vegetation, water etc high
- post processing quality low
- effects ultra
- post processor antialiasing low
- multi sampling off (with FXAA forced through the control panel)
I did a benchmark test and it gave me an average of 100.3 and a minimum of 74.3.
I left the game, turned on Fraps and did the 60FPS fix for cutscenes. Ran another benchmark and got an average of 93.7 and a minimum of 73.1.
I ran around the Hinterlands like this for a minute and my FPS remained steady at 60 instead of the dreadful 30/35 I had before.
Soooooo... gonna play for a bit and HOPE that this also solved my random crashing issues. Turning off a lot of background programs definitely helped, as did running in a borderless window. I'll let you guys know how it went.
EDIT: forgot to mention that in I have the Origin overlay turned off, today and yesterday, and I'm in no way connected to the servers either.
EDIT2: well I lasted a grand total of 10 to 15 minutes before it crashed again
I'm not sure if it has anything to do with directx though, as I'm not getting any actual errors. It just closes the game and poofs me back to desktop.