I've already posted before elsewhere in the forums, but I'd like to reiterate my issues here in this thread for the purpose hopefully getting them read officially and fixed! For about the last week I have been trying to no avail to reach a playable state in ‘Inquisition’. This is nothing short of bizarre. My computer meets the recommended requirements with ease and has never had such major issues running a game in its lifetime. My computer makes use of an AMD FX 6300 overclocked to 4.3Ghz, two overclocked AMD 7850s at and 8GB of 1600Mhz RAM. In other demanding games such as ‘The Witcher II’, this set up runs with frame rates of 60 or higher consistently on medium to high settings and runs benchmarks such as 3DMark that compete with and often beat the same set ups on the leader boards. Yet for no apparent reason everything goes to hell when I try and run ‘Inquisition’. Admittedly ‘Inquisition’ is now the most demanding game I own in terms of recommended requirements, but there is absolutely no reason why it’s running so poorly on my computer.
Before I updated my drivers to the most recent and even before I overclocked my CPU, when the game booted the graphs in Task Manager rocketed to levels I’ve never even seen before. CPU usage launched to 100% on all six cores and RAM usage went to about 7.8GB. I’ve literally never seen so much RAM used at the one time. And that’s not even launching from the in game menu, that’s just booting the game itself. Besides the game massively draining the system, there are a multitude of audio glitches in the menu as the game loads, with the soundtrack skipping like a scratched CD, awkwardly replaying sections and at times cutting out entirely. I end up with a loading screen that lasts anywhere between two and three minutes with even the little inquisition symbol in the bottom right lagging.
That’s not even when the game actually gets in full swing. Throughout the introductory cutscene where my character is being interrogated, the game slows to nothing short of a picture slideshow which continues throughout the entire scene. Once I’m able to move around things don’t get much better either, with obvious lag and massive frame rate drops that go from about twenty to ten and below. This was on the recommended settings for my computer set by the game itself, which were essentially ‘high’ settings for pretty much everything. Even bumping the game down to ‘medium’ proved useless and only in low was the game actually playable, but even then the frame rate was so bizarrely low that it was no doubt noticeable. I tired looking up solutions on the internet and implemented the force 60+ frame rate in cutscenes fix, which didn’t improve the cutscenes at all, let alone the rest of the game. This is probably because the game isn’t even reaching above thirty frames at all on any combination of settings. I disabled the Origin overlay and even tried playing offline to no avail either. I turned off Crossfire and resorted to using a single card. I overclocked my CPU to 4.3Ghz from 3.5Ghz stock speeds. I updated my AMD drivers to the very latest beta drivers that supposedly boost performance for ‘Inquisition’, and admittedly this did help considerably. But the frame rates are clearly still below sixty, maybe even below thirty, on AMD Raptr’s suggested settings for my computer. These settings are in fact even lower than the game’s own suggested settings, with Raptr utilising some ‘high’, ‘some’ ‘medium’ and even some ‘low’ settings.
Even now when I try to play on low settings with a lot of graphical options switched completely off not only does the game look craggy but it still runs with major performance deficiencies and frame rates that are clearly still below thirty. No matter what combination I use – No Crossfire or Crossfire, overclocked CPU or stock CPU, DirectX11 or Mantle, ‘low’ settings, ‘medium’ settings or ‘high settings’ – Nothing is solving the massive performance degradation. I don’t even want to think about how low the frame rates would be in combat, this is all occurring simply running around Haven after sealing the rift. There is no way I am leaving Haven until these issues are resolved one way or the other. To me this simply doesn’t make any sense. This scenario would be understandable if my specifications didn’t meet the minimum requirements, but for a computer that meets the recommended settings and partially exceeds them there are no excuses. I understand that I’m not going to play the game in ‘ultra’ or maybe even ‘high’ considering the rapid advance of computer technology, but my computer should have no trouble at all playing the game at ‘medium’ at the very least. Yet even on ‘medium’ and disgracefully low settings the game is unplayable and unwatchable in both cutscenes and gameplay. Considering ‘The Witcher II’, a pretty demanding game to run even now, and modern benchmarks run on this computer with absolutely no problems whatsoever this situation is nothing short of bizarre.
When I contacted EA support, the operator claimed that my computer is perfectly fine and insisted there’s absolutely nothing wrong on my end. They apologised profusely and claimed there were a number of PC issues and that Bioware was working on a patch to resolve some of them. I sure as hell hope so because I literally can’t play the game, it is impossible in it’s current state. I’ve read quite a few people’s forum posts complaining of low frame rates when they've met and exceeded recommended requirements. But nobody seems to be having such major, game breaking issues as I am. I really would like to play the game as soon as possible, but I’m simply not going to settle for playing the game on the lowest settings possible and with unplayable low frame rates when my computer should easily be able to run this game smoothly on much higher settings without any issue. There’s an extremely serious issue here that is literally making the game unplayable, perhaps for quite a number of players out there. It just makes me wonder if the game was properly beta tested on AMD computers using Crossfire, and if the game was tested on lower end gaming PCs. For a beta to miss issues as massive as these is once again simply bizarre.
Hopefully there’s some information amongst all of this that can be used to help identify some of the PC issues. All I can say is that I’m hankering for this patch and I'm hoping it'll be released within the next few weeks, because otherwise I’ll be sitting here for the next couple of months waiting for ‘The Witcher III’ and seeking a refund for my copy of 'Inquisition'
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