Performance help

[chaosfox60]

Just bought the game in the sale and really struggling to get the game running without major slowdowns.

20fps dips in battles


6400+ x2 AMD
GTX260
2 Gig Ram

Medium
AA off
Medium textures
1400x900


One big slider is useless and even then nothing really seems to affect it.

Any ideas guys?

[NekoSamaSensei]

Check your drivers and your running programs. Ram usage seems to be key with the game.

[chaosfox60]

Drivers are all upto date.


Cant imagine what this could be as I can run mass effect 2 with no problems. Its more or less the same engine isn't it?

[Jito463]

Just looked it up online. ME2 uses Unreal Engine 3.5, while Dragon Age uses Eclipse, an in-house developed engine.

http://dragonage.bioware.com/game/faq/#7.01

[marsson]

I'd guess that it's your cpu that's to "weak" to run the game on higher settings since the game is insanely cpu-hungry.

[ClipSet]

Dragon Age is cpu intensive.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,698761/Dragon-Age-Origins-CPU-benchmarks-75-percent-boost-for-quad-cores/Practice/

[jacket13]

nobody is giving real advice are they?

with my inferior hardware setting I can run the game at a constant 40 fps unless in heavy battle then it tends to drop a bit, with max settings.

cpu : 4600+ amd 64 x2
vid : 7800GTO
Ram : 2gb
os : w7

but your problem most likely resides with the screen resolution you are using, if you really can not be bothered to fix it just lower it a notch or two to increase fps. I am stuck with 1024x786 as my screen can not support any higher :P

also try to download the latest drivers or search for similar problems with the same graphics card on the internet because I have seen other users reporting bad fps with the specific Nvidea card.

[RavN]

I would expect the game to run maxed out with a good framerate on that setup if the processor was updated. The processor is a little old and might be a bit of a bottleneck. I would think you might need a dual core to really run this game correctly. Trust me, I have the 260 videocard also and I am running the game maxed with 16xAA and AF with no framerate issues. However, I have an i7 processor. So probably the cpu is too outdated or there is something wrong with the PC.