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[maldread]

Hello, I'm new to the forums here and I have some quick questions.  For the first 20 or so hours of gameplay on my first filesave the game ran beautifully with all ultra settings, aside from a few shadow settings that were set to high.  

 

MN-168-116      ASUS VS247H-P  24" WIDE LED BLACK LCD      

CU-210-104      OEM INTEL CORE I7-4790K 4.0 GHZ 8MB INTEL SMART CACHE

HD-504-710      256GB ADATA SP610 SATA III 6.0Gb/s SSD   

RM-317-713      8GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE 1866MHZ DDR3        

FA-104-301      CORSAIR AIR SERIES AF120 PERFORMANCE EDITION 120MM HI

MB-429-106      ASUS Z97-P ATX W/ GBLAN 4X SATA 6GB    

PS-121-121      CORSAIR RM850 80PLUS 850W FULLY MODULAR POWER SUPPLY  

VC-249-103      NVIDIA GTX970 4GB GDDR5 PCI-E   

windows 10

 

These are my computer specs, and after checking every available forum I've yet to find a reason for the constant screen splitting, lag, and general unplayability.  I used to log into this game, and only this game, using the monitor above, and it was engrossing enough to keep my attention. However, after roughly 20 hours of flawless gameplay I've been experiencing a very subpar quality of gameplay. I dropped the graphics settings to high, then medium, then low in an attempt to play the game without these issues.  

 

TLDR: Comp sets settings at ultra automatically. I set them at low to curb poor performance. I'm still experiencing too many lag errors, screen splits, and various other nonsense. What can I do to fix this problem?

[nightscrawl]

So... this setup is what you played the game on for those 20 great hours. Then you stopped playing for a while and when you started again you have performance issues?

 

I'm going to suggest that it's nothing to do with your rig itself, since, as you said, you previously played for 20 hours on mostly ultra.

 

So the usual questions...

1 Are you fully patched to current patch 11?

2 Have you tried to repair the game through Origin?

3 Are you running any mods?

4 Did you accidentally allow Windows 10 to upgrade your NVIDIA drivers through Windows Update?

5 Did you change anything between when the game ran well and now?

[PapaCharlie9]

When a similar problem happened to me, it was because my stupid virus scanner decided that was the best time to a) download updates, or 2) do a full scan. After disabling both of those, back to smooth gaming.
 
Another culprit is Nvidia's GeForce Experience app. On every boot, it does a full scan of all of your disks trying to figure out which games you have, so it can tell you what your best video settings should be (which, for my rig, are always too conservative). Disabling that feature also stopped the lag and stutter.

[maldread]

So... this setup is what you played the game on for those 20 great hours. Then you stopped playing for a while and when you started again you have performance issues?

 

I'm going to suggest that it's nothing to do with your rig itself, since, as you said, you previously played for 20 hours on mostly ultra.

 

So the usual questions...

1 Are you fully patched to current patch 11?

2 Have you tried to repair the game through Origin?

3 Are you running any mods?

4 Did you accidentally allow Windows 10 to upgrade your NVIDIA drivers through Windows Update?

5 Did you change anything between when the game ran well and now?

1) I'm not sure how to check that. 

2) I don't know how to do that, I'm new to the whole origin engine. I'll look into that.

3) nope

4) No, my NVIDIA drivers are all set to go through GeForce, and I've disable the option for graphics updates via windows update.

5) No, and there wasn't any length of time between an awesome experience and a dreadful one. It just gradually deteriorated over the course of maybe 3 days. And I played the game all three days. That's why I was dropping the settings down one notch at a time. The only thing I can think of is a recent power outage, but I'm not sure what could've been fried in my computer, or how to check if that's the issue. Any suggestions?

[jonmoore86]

1) I'm not sure how to check that. 

2) I don't know how to do that, I'm new to the whole origin engine. I'll look into that.

3) nope

4) No, my NVIDIA drivers are all set to go through GeForce, and I've disable the option for graphics updates via windows update.

5) No, and there wasn't any length of time between an awesome experience and a dreadful one. It just gradually deteriorated over the course of maybe 3 days. And I played the game all three days. That's why I was dropping the settings down one notch at a time. The only thing I can think of is a recent power outage, but I'm not sure what could've been fried in my computer, or how to check if that's the issue. Any suggestions?

Go into origin and right click on inquisition select both check for update and repair game, in that order. Then, go into Geforce experience and re-download the latest driver. During its initial setup windows 10 messes with your driver settings, no matter if you turned off the setting in update or not.

 

Also, if you have a mouse or keyboard that keeps track of statistics (ie keystrokes or mouse acceleration speed) disable that option before starting the game. Bioware doesn't like them, and lets you know they don't.

 

Only other thing I can suggest is disabling your anti-virus before playing.

 

Your computer as a whole is more than capable. I have a i4 cpu and gtx 760 driver and play on a mix of ultra and high settings.

[maldread]

Go into origin and right click on inquisition select both check for update and repair game, in that order. Then, go into Geforce experience and re-download the latest driver. During its initial setup windows 10 messes with your driver settings, no matter if you turned off the setting in update or not.

 

Also, if you have a mouse or keyboard that keeps track of statistics (ie keystrokes or mouse acceleration speed) disable that option before starting the game. Bioware doesn't like them, and lets you know they don't.

 

Only other thing I can suggest is disabling your anti-virus before playing.

 

Your computer as a whole is more than capable. I have a i4 cpu and gtx 760 driver and play on a mix of ultra and high settings.

Thank you for the help, I'll give this a shot. So far I just reinstalled windows 10 (i.e. fresh PC) to see if it was a drive issue. I think that a recent random power outage may have fried my graphics card, since I replaced the SSD and the RAM.  I don't think I have a keyboard or mouse that logs keystokes/ MAS, but I'll check into that as well.

 

Again, thanks for the help!

 

Side note: could a poor internet connection be the culprit? At the start of the game, when fewer areas are accessible and there are fewer options a high bandwidth might not be noticeable. However, as the game progresses (and the game is possibly trying to pull more data from a server) a low bandwidth would severely throttle the game.

[jonmoore86]

 

Side note: could a poor internet connection be the culprit? At the start of the game, when fewer areas are accessible and there are fewer options a high bandwidth might not be noticeable. However, as the game progresses (and the game is possibly trying to pull more data from a server) a low bandwidth would severely throttle the game.

 The game is mostly offline, unless youre trying to do multiplayer. Like I said, my specs are lower than yours and i went two weeks without internet last month, and the game still ran smoothly.

 

Yeah the more I think of it, it might be your graphics card. Either fried, or it doesnt recognize the card and is trying to run it on the windows built in graphics, which would explain the lagging.

[maldread]

 The game is mostly offline, unless youre trying to do multiplayer. Like I said, my specs are lower than yours and i went two weeks without internet last month, and the game still ran smoothly.

 

Yeah the more I think of it, it might be your graphics card. Either fried, or it doesnt recognize the card and is trying to run it on the windows built in graphics, which would explain the lagging.

Thanks for all the help, I found out what the issue was.  I started replacing hardware, one piece at a time, to see what might be causing the issue.  The RAM was fried in the outage, so thankfully it was actually a rather cheap fix.  Just bought two new sticks and it's running like new again!  Now I can finally get back to some awesome gameplay.

[Sriep]

When a similar problem happened to me, it was because my stupid virus scanne

 

Me2! Stupid McAfee.