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[prosthetic soul]

PC player here.  I answered the poll.  I thought I was playing Dragon Age Inquisition but instead, what I got was...

 

 

Bugs.....bugs as far as the eye can see.  My Qunari archer still has broken arms.  My Qunari warrior still has broken arms.  Cassandra is missing some body meshes with her armor equips.  Game crashes more often then not and the amount of stuttering that I have to put up with, even on my outrageously powerful computer is unacceptable.  My computer could run a small country in Africa and this game runs like I'm using pre-built from 1999. 

[Caja]

I'm on a PC and I had very little bugs. I played about 160 hours. There were 3 random crashes when I started the game. In some areas I don't have background music and I believe that my party banter isn't always firing. There were some glitches, like a character's arm goes right through a chair or something like that.

[Gileadan]

I'm on PC. The only instability I experience is that there is a small to moderate chance for the game to crash with a graphics driver/Mantle error whenever Josephine completes a war table mission and I accept the report.  All my other problems with the game come from weird design choices and coding... occasional cutscene stutter, for example, and some wonky melee gameplay (pommel strike!).  I had a set of armor with missing mesh parts in my first playthrough, but it didn't happen again.

[Verfallen]

PC player.  359 hours and aside from a few minor glitches (one small side quest that won't trigger and about three randomly occuring CTDs that caused no lasting damage since I save frequently), no problems at all.

[SofaJockey]

Survey responses are dropping off now, that's fine, it's an unscientific survey.

Time to wrap this one up.

 

370 people have voted,

if we can get it up to a nice round 400 - another 30 votes,

then I'll pdf the findings.

 

https://www.surveymo...com/r/daistable

[Seraphael]

It will be interesting to see the results!

 

Not really. It's a given that a volunteer poll like this will attract people with issues skewing the results considerably. Not saying the game is without issues (I have dozens of CTD's to prove otherwise), just stating facts.

[SofaJockey]

Not really. It's a given that a volunteer poll like this will attract people with issues skewing the results considerably. Not saying the game is without issues (I have dozens of CTD's to prove otherwise), just stating facts.

 

It's certainly not the world's most statistically rigorous survey I agree (as advertised).

 

Do you think BSN will judge stability & bugs more or less critically that the general DAI playing population?

[Zatche]

PC. No 3rd party fixes. Minor bugs that annoy.

 

After 209 hours, between on my Nvidia laptop and and my AMD desktop, I think I've had about 3 or 4 CTDs. Had a few quick pauses before patching. Some quarter second environment texture delays when Re-loading a Save. No real stuttering. FPS performance has been what is to be expected for my mid to high-ish level graphics cards.

 

Most recently, I ran into a funny glitch where certain pants for Cole render inside out.

[Kelwing]

I've temporarily abandoned the game until a new AMD driver or a Bioware patch improves stability.

Should be using the Omega 14.12 drivers if you have an AMD card. Otherwise the PC port has some tweaking that still needs done to run smoothly from Bioware's end.

[Lupus Canivus]

Done.

[SofaJockey]

Should be using the Omega 14.12 drivers if you have an AMD card. Otherwise the PC port has some tweaking that still needs done to run smoothly from Bioware's end.

 

Does BioWare list these things?
Are these on EA Answers?

 

If the game was 'unplayable' but I didn't know about some driver I should have had that would make it work fine,

that's a crazy situation, or is it assumed that PC players just have to find this stuff on the internet?

 

As a console casual I'm accustomed to the complexity of:

1. Switch on
2. Play

Are there PC players upset waiting for a patch (that won't come or fix their issue),
that could be resolved simply if they knew how?

[Seraphael]

It's certainly not the world's most statistically rigorous survey I agree (as advertised).

 

Do you think BSN will judge stability & bugs more or less critically that the general DAI playing population?

 

Definitely more. People with an axe to grind tend to grind it, where as people who are content will tend to be much less active. Secondly, the emotionally vested nature of fans will play in since a significant number of them tend to have a strong and rather rigid opinion on how a Dragon Age game should be.

[SofaJockey]

I've just noticed we hit the 400.

Survey locked, just takes a few minutes to link the results.

 

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Results

 

This is what 400 BSNers think, surveyed over the last three days about DAI stability/buggyness:

• The 'average' response from BSN is that it's a game with 'minor issues that occasionally annoy'.
• About a third find the game 'Pretty much bug free'
• About a quarter have concerns, mostly about 'moderate issues that frustrate', the remainder find 'continual problems' or that the game is 'unplayable'.

This is the overall breakdown for all platforms (though three-quarters of the feedback is for PC):

And the full results are here, linked straight off Survey Monkey:

 

https://www.surveymo...ts/SM-QCLGZ6ZV/

[ev76]

I've just noticed we hit the 400.
Survey locked, just takes a few minutes to link the results.

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Results

This is what 400 BSNers think, surveyed over the last three days about DAI stability/buggyness:

• The 'average' response from BSN is that it's a game with 'minor issues that occasionally annoy'.
• About a third find the game 'Pretty much bug free'
• About a quarter have concerns, mostly about 'moderate issues that frustrate', the remainder find 'continual problems' or that the game is 'unplayable'.

This is the overall breakdown for all platforms (though three-quarters of the feedback is for PC):

And the full results are here, linked straight off Survey Monkey:

https://www.surveymo...ts/SM-QCLGZ6ZV/

Thanks for taking the time to do this, I voted by the way.

[AutumnWitch]

I have played on PS3, PS4 and PC and have no issues since the first patch and then the only issues I had then was some cut seen lagging, Other than that its all been pretty smooth.

[SofaJockey]

Thanks for taking the time to do this, I voted by the way.

 

Thanks and you're welcome.

 

I had no idea how this would turn out, but with all the posts talking about the game being really broken, I was getting really curious about whether that experience was typical. We all experience our own game, and our own platform. My experience on Xbox One is pretty bug free excluding the key glitch.

 

This poll indicates that most people are pretty much fine, or having occasional annoying bugs, on PC and next-gen, with some, but very much the minority, having a worse experience.

 

I'm certainly not minimising the experience someone has if it's bad, but then one must look at other factors, their system, their expectations, their playing preferences, their internet, to explain why their experience is so significantly broken, vs. the ~70% who have exactly the same game on their machine.

 

Some of the frustration people express appears to be as much about communication flow about bugs, patches and so on than the actual bug or issue itself.

 

Last gen gets more concern on a small vote number, and I have read that concern on threads very passionately and often very constructively expressed. From the BSN feedback it's a little inconclusive I'm sad to say because such a small proportion of BSN regulars appear to be on those platforms and so the vote there is very low.

 

And to be honest, the PC feedback is a lot more positive than I expected it would be, given the threads I've read recently.

 

Anyway, it was just an unscientific poll to add a little perspective to the discussion...

 

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EDIT: to recognise Dreamer's point below.

[Dreamer]

Thanks and you're welcome.

 

I had no idea how this would turn out, but with all the posts talking about the game being really broken, I was getting really curious about whether that experience was typical. We all experience our own game, and our own platform. My experience on Xbox One is pretty bug free excluding the key glitch.

 

This poll indicates that most people are also fine, or having occasional annoying bugs, on PC and next-gen, with some, but very much the minority, having a worse experience.

 

I'm certainly not minimising the experience someone has if it's bad, but then one must look at other factors, their system, their expectations, their playing preferences, their internet, to explain why their experience is so significantly broken, vs. the ~70% who have exactly the same game on their machine.

 

Some of the frustration people express appears to be as much about communication flow about bugs, patches and so on than the actual bug or issue itself.

 

Last gen gets more concern on a small vote number, and I have read that concern on threads very passionately and often very constructively expressed. From the BSN feedback it's a little inconclusive I'm sad to say because such a small proportion of BSN regulars appear to be on those platforms and so the vote there is very low.

 

And to be honest, the PC feedback is a lot more positive than I expected it would be, given the threads I've read recently.

 

Anyway, it was just an unscientific poll to add a little perspective to the discussion...

 

I'm not certain that's the conclusion we can reach, given that your "no problems" option was qualified with "pretty much," leaving room for someone to think the experience is fine, but still has bugs. Further, if you tallied up all of the "there are problems" answers, they far out number those that say "pretty much bug free," suggesting that most users (at least represented by the 400) are experiencing issues.

 

Thanks for the survey. Very interesting.

[SofaJockey]

I'm not certain that's the conclusion we can reach, given that your "no problems" option was qualified with "pretty much," leaving room for someone to think the experience is fine, but still has bugs. Further, if you tallied up all of the "there are problems" answers, they far out number those that say "pretty much bug free," suggesting that most users (at least represented by the 400) are experiencing issues.

 

Thanks for the survey. Very interesting.

 

That's fair, I'm certainly not wishing to claim the definitive interpretation,

that was just my reaction.

[In Exile]

I'm not certain that's the conclusion we can reach, given that your "no problems" option was qualified with "pretty much," leaving room for someone to think the experience is fine, but still has bugs. Further, if you tallied up all of the "there are problems" answers, they far out number those that say "pretty much bug free," suggesting that most users (at least represented by the 400) are experiencing issues.

 

Thanks for the survey. Very interesting.

 

"Pretty much" was qualified with "annoyances", which is a general enough category that it's hard to even say whether or not something is really a bug or not. In any kind of survey of this sort you can do nothing more than get a subjective assessment for how much difficulty/frustration people are experiencing.

 

What we have is a scale of - no frustration - minor annoyance - some frustration - a great deal of frustration - the highest possible level of frustration. 

[atlantico]

1/3 thinks it's working fine

1/3 thinks is't kinda buggy

1/3 thinks it's a buggy mess

 

Yeah, I'd say there's plenty of room for improvement. 

[daveliam]

I think it's interesting that it seems as if current gen consoles seem to be the most stable; then PC is about 1/3, 1/3, 1/3; and the last gen consoles seem to be the most buggy.  Of course, the numbers are pretty low for consoles.  Still, an interesting trend. 

[Dreamer]

"Pretty much" was qualified with "annoyances", which is a general enough category that it's hard to even say whether or not something is really a bug or not. In any kind of survey of this sort you can do nothing more than get a subjective assessment for how much difficulty/frustration people are experiencing.

 

What we have is a scale of - no frustration - minor annoyance - some frustration - a great deal of frustration - the highest possible level of frustration. 

 

No matter how general you want to interpret "annoyances," there's no connotation which implies "good."

[In Exile]

No matter how general you want to interpret "annoyances," there's no connotation which implies "good."

There's no connotation that implies bad, either. At most you could say it means tolerable, but you'd have to rely on a colloquial use of the term that's very unlike it's dictionary meaning.

It's like saying - I find what my spouse or best friend does in regards to X annoying.

[Dreamer]

There's no connotation that implies bad, either. At most you could say it means tolerable, but you'd have to rely on a colloquial use of the term that's very unlike it's dictionary meaning.

It's like saying - I find what my spouse or best friend does in regards to X annoying.

 

I don't know which connotation of "annoyance" you're using which doesn't imply "bad." Annoyances certainly aren't positive. But are you really trying this hard to spin it? Really? The vast majority of respondents are of the opinion that the game has issues--even if you disregard 4% as being "haters."

 

It's clear there are issues--even if only as a matter of perception.

[Unlucky 13]

I think it's interesting that it seems as if current gen consoles seem to be the most stable; then PC is about 1/3, 1/3, 1/3; and the last gen consoles seem to be the most buggy.  Of course, the numbers are pretty low for consoles.  Still, an interesting trend. 

 

You're correct, for sure.  I think that this comes from the fact that the game was designed for the newest consoles in mind, and the older ones were more of a throw in.  If the game runs well and is well thought of on the current machines, players will be more likely to continue with the series into the future, IMO.

 

As to the PC, I'm unable to really put myself into their shoes, but from what I read around here (and the very fact that 75% of poll respondents are PC gamers vs about 20% of total games sold), I think that those folks just tend to be more demanding and have a higher and/or different set of expectations than console gamers do.  It also seems that there are simply more things that can go wrong playing a game on a PC, and I base that in part on my older experiences playing PC games in the past.  Heck, one of the reasons I quit PC gaming in the first place is how unstable and frustrating it can be, and I never played games that would push a system tot he limit like this one would.