See THIS HERE makes me think there is clearly an issue with the Origin client and bandwidth times.
@smoking, can you try playing while logged out of Origin and see if the problems persist?
well ... i don't know about you but there is clearly a problem with origin. that's right off the bat with any kind of service like origin
) ( steam included ) ..
i did make a switch to mantle earlier today when i started my session ... from directx. wanted to see if anything changes ( though the game runs incredibly well considering my machine, minor frame drops in cutscenes but in game it runs perfect, or it ran ) ...
anyway ... gave mantle a try and played for about an hour or so ... while it didn't do nothing for the cutscenes and i couldn't tell if the game ran better since it ran great before ... it did increase my load times ridiculously high ... at one point i smoked an entire cigarette while it loaded a damn inn in redcliff ( the first mission when you open up redcliff ).
after that i switched back to directx 11 and restarted the game ... oh ... and i also disabled all the online options i could in the game settings ( i had been meaning to do that for some time now since i noticed it messed with my game whenever it was loading stuff to the keep/origin ).
and when i started the game ... all of a sudden it felt sluggish and issues started happening and the rest ...
so ...
1: either the game is punishing me for disabling the online connection ( as much as i could anyway )
2: either the game is buggy because i opened up redcliff and for some reason some resource there messes with the entire game.
3: either mantle messed up the game somehow ... some setting or whatever left in the registry or i just can't figure it out .. i'm not that smart when it comes to this stuff ...
as for your suggestion ... i will give it a try though not sure you can play without origin ... i assume you meant offline mode.