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[Tookah45]

So the mods/devs ARE present, they're just more interested in editing thread titles than responding with anything useful/responding at all.

 

Edit: typo ftw

[Bogeypro73]

Just a question, i get an error on startup up saying my vid card does not support directx10 which is required but i am using directx 11? anyone know what this is about as I have w7 and 10 was released for server and vista exclusively if I remember right.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Oh is that what that was?.. the doctors were woried back then.

[Battlebloodmage]

Just a question, i get an error on startup up saying my vid card does not support directx10 which is required but i am using directx 11? anyone know what this is about as I have w7 and 10 was released for server and vista exclusively if I remember right.

Are you sure you're using the dedicated graphic and not Intel HD?

[AdamJames]

The question would be: why does DA:I require 4 cores, while Battlefield 4 (which also runs on the Frostbite 3 Engine) only requires 2 cores as minimum?

 

Why does Bioware or EA not want a significant portion of PC owners to play their game?

 

I'm sure if you stopped to think about it for a second, you'd realize it's kinda silly to suggest that, were it the case that it was possible to run DA:I on dual-core CPUs, EA would still deliberately cut off dual-core CPU users from the possibility of playing their game. If there's anything we know about EA, it's that they want your money.

 

So it almost certainly is the case that there is something about Inquisition that makes it ill-suited to CPUs with less than four cores. You argue that since Battlefield 4 runs on CPUs with less than 4 cores, so should DA:I. First off all, I don't know how well BF4 runs on dual-core CPUs. More importantly, despite being built on the same engine base, DA:I is still a fairly different sort of game. I don't know all the technical details of DA:I, but with everything going on in the world (multiple companion AI, enemy AI, textures streaming from your HDD, physics calculations, etc.) this game probably makes heavy use of multi-threading to handle all of it. And thus a dual-core CPU would probably have a very hard time running it.

[Incunabulum]

1. If I am on a bioware forum posting about a video game, I am technically not poor. However, that ignores the situation that those with inferior hardware are generally not as wealthy as those with superior hardware.

 

2. It doesn't really matter the developer's reasoning, when the end result is to alienate nearly 50% of PC users from their game. The generally poorer 50%.

 

3. I doubt graphics are the reason multiple cores and threads are required. Battlefield 4 runs on the same engine and arguably has similar graphical quality. Something else (probably the DRM) is the cause for the CPU requirement.

 

2.  Is the the *most* important part.  They didn't make this game for kicks, they made it for *money*.  They didn't say 'screw those guys' lightly.  You can bet that a lot of thought was put into the hardware decisions, with a strong eye on the bottom line.  And in the end they decided that designing the game to run on two cores instead of 4 was going to cost more than they would make back from those without quad-core machines buying the game. 

 

Keep in mind - they made a version for the last-gen consoles - they knew *those* guys would by this game in large numbers. 

 

People do things for money and if you can't afford to pay a guy for his work then he's not going to do the work.

 

 

And finally - it wouldn't surprise me that a good part of the decision is based on the *future* where they use this engine in new games.  Dual-cores are already being pushed out and will continue to lose hardware share as people upgrade.  They most likely felt that any work accomodating dual-core PC CPU's would have minimal *immediate* financial effect, and would nearly irrelevant by the time their next title is released.

[AdamJames]

Just a question, i get an error on startup up saying my vid card does not support directx10 which is required but i am using directx 11? anyone know what this is about as I have w7 and 10 was released for server and vista exclusively if I remember right.

 

... but i am using directx 11?

 

I don't know, are you using DirectX 11? You sound unsure.

 

Do you know your GPU model? That might help in figuring out what's going wrong.

[Bugsie]

Look up the fallacy of relative privation.

Whataboutit?  

 

Just kidding.  Using that as an excuse to ignore the valid concerns of the OP is a bit off.  Bit like 'first world problems' which assumes that everyone in the first world is rich and everyone in the developing world is poor.  Having said that - the thread needed a better title than 'the poor'.

 

I've been hearing mixed things about running the game - I have a fairly high end machine - thanks to a tech savvy partner but thats not to say the game wont have issues.

[Coyote X Starrk]

So the mods/devs ARE present, they're just more interested in editing thread titles than responding with anything useful/responding at all.

 

Edit: typo ftw

 

Yes exactly. 

 

Its FAR more important to them to micromanage the site than it is to be fixing the game. 

 

Completely had nothing to do with the fact that the title was "F*** The Poor" 

 

 

 

(In case you didn't realize that is called sarcasm)

[Jaron Oberyn]

Yes, Bioware intentionally screwed over dual core users not because it was insufficient hardware to run the game, but because they got a laugh out of it and anticipated threads such as this.

[Tookah45]

Yes exactly. 

 

Its FAR more important to them to micromanage the site than it is to be fixing the game. 

 

Completely had nothing to do with the fact that the title was "F*** The Poor" 

 

 

 

(In case you didn't realize that is called sarcasm)

 

I'm picking up what you're putting down. It almost went over my head, but I jumped for it. And you're right, the title was VERBATIM "F*** The Poor." Last I checked, "F***" isn't really in censorship territory. So I'm gonna have to go with "your sarcasm actually made my point for me." Why are they bleeping pre-bleeped words instead of fixing the issues at hand? That IS a good question.

[Coyote X Starrk]

I'm picking up what you're putting down. It almost went over my head, but I jumped for it. And you're right, the title was VERBATIM "F*** The Poor." Last I checked, "F***" isn't really in censorship territory. So I'm gonna have to go with "your sarcasm actually made my point for me." Why are they bleeping pre-bleeped words instead of fixing the issues at hand? That IS a good question.

 

 

You mean other than the fact that having a thread titled "F*** the poor" on the front page of their site could be seen as bad? Not to mention the fact that I'm pretty sure there are some rules somewhere on what is and is not acceptable for a thread title?

 

Could it possibly be that your thread was so poorly worded and put it together that they purposefully moved past it? Your entire thread follows the idea that there is some evil plan for EA (of all companies) to somehow limit the amount of money they are making just for the hell of it. The game would not require the specs that it does.....if it was not required. That would serve no purpose whatsoever and limit the customer base which is the LAST thing that any company wants to do.