Dragon Age: Inquisition PC Specs

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Butt kicking for goodness!!

Wait.. Wrong series..

 

765m pulls off High 720p.. 900p is a bit too sloppy. I gotta get new laptop

Only negative so far is kinda the beginning story, I was hoping it wouldn't do "Here is your inquisition, you are the chosen one, go kill demons", but sadly it did, people really do not know what character development means these days... Still it is fun, combat is really rewarding experience, mage seems a bit more fun though even at 720p and high game looks amazing! f*** AssCreed:Unity!

 

No no no, you do it like this:
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Which settings and how fast is your avg frame rate?

 

720p for a 765m?you should play with high on 1080p?with 30+ ...do you have a i5?its a game that scales well with multiple cores/threads?

 

Alright so I have a 680m 4gig. All graphics on high, AA turned off in game/FXAA enable via control panel, HBAO; and I'm avg. 31.8 fps on the benchmark. Good enough for me. I'll probably play with other settings as time goes on

 

1080p? Is there a big boost in fps decreasing the quality from high to medium or low, or is it only 3-5 fps difference?

 

idk i didnt try - i went from ultra to high but i imagine you'll get an extra 5+ fps

 

Running on my 780M, everything on High, HBAO, no MSAA. I'm impressed because it's a good looking game.

Framerate is always over 40fps so far, and I haven't installed the new Game Ready Nvidia driver yet..

Btw, if you want to stop the cutscenes from dropping to 30fps, add this to the launch properties in Origin:

-GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60

 

That seems low, have you played BF4 with the same laptop?

 

Yeah seems low.. I get 40fps+ easily on ultra with BF4... never seen any lagg on my 7970M equal to a 680M tbh..

 

No, not much of an FPS guy. For what its worth, its a 680M on a NP8170.

 

Is this game worth buying?

 

Must be the AMD GPU optimizations in Frostbite 3 and Mantle.

 

Quite a few people I know who used mantle complained of stuttering and colour differences. I don't know how good it is right now, but a good bit of them went right back to DirectX 11 XD.

 

Everything maxed at at 1080p with 4xAA on my 970m. Plays nice and smooth, but there's still that AA movement shimmer. Any way to get rid of that?

 

Increase resolution scale to 200%.

 

Is this something I can do? Where is it in the options?

On a side note, it also seems that I can't get it to go fullscreen unless it's fullscreen windowed. Newest drivers (as of yesterday).

 

It's on the bottom left of the graphics menu. It'll run the game at 4k though, so prepare for low performance >=D

 

Hmm, I'm not using Mantle and whenever I have its lagged like hell even though I have a 3940XM.. Been stuck on DX11.. Whichever way, BF4 has been quite good for me..

 

anyone able to get the game to run at 60fps on a 780m via tweaking the game settings?

 

Here's the port report. Finally TB has put some usage statistics of his PC on-screen.

Your system's 780M is basically a GTX 680 at this point; just google benchmarks for a 680 with any i7 and that should be your answer.

 

the game essentially runs FB3, same as BF4, and I managed to tweak the settings to get a decent 50-60fps at 1080p on mixed settings so I am hoping for the same....though I had the same feeling for FC4 because it's also running the same engine as FC3 and that didn't turn out so well.

 

What specifically did you tweak?

 

resolution scale, post-fx quality, model quality, terrain quality, no MSAA, medium to low post-AA. I have a few BF4 vids that show my settings.

but that's with BF4, i merely extrapolating based on the fact that DA:I runs the same engine BF4.

 

Well I'll tell you that DA:I runs far far worse than BF4 according to TB's video. Under 60fps at max on two 980s with a 5820K? Lol excuse me? I can play BF4 at ultra preset with 200% resolution scale with 950/6000 on my cards and my FPS is between 35 and 50, in 64-man golmud railway conquest large. If I had two 980Ms I'd never drop below 60 I bet, especially with a hexacore like he does. And that's at 4K res with 4x MSAA. Yeah. 4k res with 4x MSAA. And 1080p 2x MSAA he drops below 60 now and then? Yeah no.

Anyway, the game looks nice, and it could get better with drivers & patches too. It apparently looks pretty good on high as well from what I hear, so that should be okay.

 

i mostly run BF4 on a mix of medium and high settings and i get my 1080p, my 60fps, and the game still looks damn good IMO.

 

Got a link to those vids ;D

I'm trying to get an idea of what settings in the game has the biggest impact in FPS besides AA

 

Oh yeah, for sure. Frostbite 3 and Cryengine 3 have the beautiful feature where low graphics runs amazing and still looks fantastic.

 

Battlefield 4 USS Titan Mission on the Alienware 17 (780M) - YouTube - the USS Titan mission

settings are at the start of the video.

 

I want to like this game so badly... but the game is heavily "consoled".
Granted, it is better than DA2... but it is not anywhere near as good as DA:O.

-Stat system very badly simplified (this isn't even a Skyrim... this is a Diablo3 simplification)

-staggeringly awful camera angles, especially when fighting larger creatures (please tell me they are patching this it completely ruins fights)

-Tactical mode is a bad joke... why can't I just click what I want to control? Why is lclick attack even when I have nothing to attack?
(I get why control is nerfed so badly on a console... why would a PC need these limitations with a mouse/kb available? Why can't we choose a DA:O-like tactical mode?)

-Why do I have to click constantly to auto-attack? (special kind of stupid)

-Why do DA:O animations look more fluid? (The DA:I characters look better when they don't move, but when they do its so... weird.)

-Am I the only one who has more desire to kill everyone I am supposed to work with than adventure next to them?
(nevermind anything else)

 

the only concern i have is the KBM controls for the tactical view. i watched TB's vid on this and he said for KBM it's terrible as it is really meant for a controller.

 

TB has a 5930K.

 

Thanks for the settings! Avg. 39/40 fps now!

 

Ah yeah you're right. He's also "down" to 16GB of RAM now. I remember hearing him (or maybe it was someone else?) discussing in a video that whoever was advising them on hardware said that for what he needed the 5820K was just the best choice money-wise as the 5930K didn't have many benefits that made it worthwhile enough (I.E. they don't care about the extra PCI/e lanes etc).

I didn't realize he went ahead with the 5930K.

Oh well.

 

Well DDR4 is still expensive as sin, so I'm not surprised he downgraded to 16GB, which is more sensible but still overkill for gaming. At least this means people can stop making fun of him for having 32GB RAM in a gaming-only rig.

And yeah, absolutely no point in getting a 5930K over a 5820K unless you're doing quad-GPU. For 3 or fewer cards, 5820K has more than enough PCIe lanes.

 

Well, specs aside, this game is insanely hard! (or I am trying stuff I shouldn't) I am level 8 atm, playing on Hard difficulty, and some rifts in hinterlands (especially 2nd farm one, in the middle of river) is ridiculous! I am playing an archer atm, and I have a single tank (Cassandra) so this is pretty much expected, but holy hell did anyone try the dragon at hinterlands at hard? I can barely chip away 10% of his hp before dying

 

I don't think you are supposed to kill it at level 8. I remember a video where the devs said that some encounters you weren't supposed to try until later. (and you are supposed to lose if you try them too early)

 

I guess... unless you're running like three m.2 SSDs, then you can't put in 3 GPUs on a 5820K (unless I'm mistaken; I was informed that m.2 use PCI/e x2, so three of em would leave less than 24 PCI/e lanes open)

 

That sounds about right to me, DA:O was a bit like that too IIRC. There was no level barrier to all content, but some was definitely balanced for higher level characters. I personally had problems with one rift in the hinterlands so far, waited till I got a level higher and changed the way I approached finishing the rift and that fixed it.

I also ran into the dragon, a single fireball knocked a decent chunk of Cassandra's HP, so I promptly retreated and will get to it when I have access to fire resistant gear as well as a higher level.

By the way, I went the dirty console peasant route with DA:I, just like I did with DA:2. It felt like the game was going to be geared towards consoles anyways.

 

Game runs well - opening stages got me close to 60FPS maxed out with MSAA 2x and a simple 10% overclock to my GPU.

Now I'm into the Hinterlands though, and I get closer to 45FPS. Might drop some settings to see if they don't affect the visuals too much. Then again, it's hardly an action game so the need for a locked 60 isn't quite as necessary.

 

Is this about the same as your performance with BF4? What is the VRAM usage like? Also interested to know what kind of frame rates you get with 0xMSAA.

 

Haven't tried BF4. On my old 880m, BF4 would yo-yo like made between 60 and 30FPS. Wasn't a V-Sync issue - GPU utilization would tank for no reason. Never bothered to install it on my current PC.

I'll check VRAM usage later and turn down the MSAA. Annoying that some settings require a full game restart but I don't think that is one of them.

Not sure if I should stick to max settings and just lock the game at 30 (same as the cutscenes) or lower things to medium/high and play at 60. With something like Far Cry 4, the choice is obvious. Here not so much.

 

Anybody managed to get inside Redcliffe??

 

standard or deluxe? is the stuff in the deluxe worth the extra $$$?

 

standard big time, in terms of items, you drop them as soon as you finish your first adventure. Btw I am really liking the game, its DA:O meets Elder Scrolls (drop the magnificent story though, however we still didn't finish the game, maybe it will turn out to be just as epic the start was a bit lackluster though, here is your inquisition, go kill demons, gluck! )

 

Btw I think the Storm Coast in this game is the most beautiful looking environment since some of the environments I have seen in Icewind Dale.. Artwork in this game is truly phenomenal...