Since 10.3 was released , I expected better performance.. Playing Dragon age @ Medium graphics , 4x AA 1920x1200 It gives 40-50 fps. I like to run games at 60fps and my Sapphire Vapor-X 5770 should be able to run this at 60+. My older nvidia 9800gt 512 even ran it better Rest of spec : 4gb ram Intel Duo Core E8400 @ 3.2 Ghz Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Hmm, could this be the AF being fixed? I haven't really noticed it myself, possibly because I'm on a 4k-series card, but several posters have mentioned AF being broken in the game for quite a few releases of the drivers. If that's been fixed, so that AF is once more applied, I can only assume it would lower your average FPS. As far as GeForce vs. Radeon preferences goes for the game I cannot say, I haven't done any comparisons on my own. It's feasible the game could favor the GeForce architecture I suppose, it does rely on PhysX. Whether or not that means anything I cannot say. *shrug* Overall my impression is that the CPU is the real bottleneck in this game, whenever the FPS really dips it's very much a spike in CPU usage. I should get myself a quad-core someday I guess, from looking at the reviews this game seems to really love them.
I'm playing at 1680x1050 max detail and 4xAA (10.3 pre), is pretty much 60fps with slight dips if the action gets busy, overall performance wise it's been great for me. I've tried forcing AF through the ini and control panel, i don't think it's working :/
mmm I expected that much. I put my 5770 in my buddys rig temprorarily to test out something and Dragon Age. He has an E7200, 2GB of RAM and an ATI 4850. With the 4850 it would play roughly between 30-45FPS at 1920x1080. With the 5770 it hung around in the upper 50's but the minimum was now 40's. You could oc the 5770 easily to 1000 core and 1300 memory without any heat problems even on stock cooler. It then acts like a 4890 supposedly.
Faster than a stock 4890 if that heavily OCed. But of course an OCed 5770 can't beat an equally OCed 4890 by any means
Dragon age's recommended specs do specify a quad core. He has an e8400, but it's at stock. It's possible.
did you remove all of the old nvidia drivers? As I get way better performance than what you are getting. I run everything maxed out and get 50+. Try driver cleaner.
C2D could be a big drawback. Noticed that both cores where randomly fully loaded and fps dropping while gaming on an E8500, moving to quad core fixed that, plus the GPU itself ends up with higher loads now.
Case in point, you have a quad core of similar speed to his dual core. Could likely explain the differences.
I agree with the driver sweeper/cleaner bit as I think the op's performance does seem a tad low. I think overclocking his cpu might add some more fps but nothing spectacular. well he should hit 3.6ghz with that cpu with not 2 much hassle. how are other games running? (if other games are sub par and u havent a fresh os install after changing from green to red i would consider it). p/s thats a hefty res for a 5770. right on the cusp as it were... oh and vsync ofc is disabled op?
1200p res is high and x4 aa is intensive. the 5770 isnt a top end card its a decent dx11 card at the mid-low end and dragon age is a decent gfx game.
Heh, maybe not on your rig, but on mine it looks pretty darn nice. It is made using a custom engine, not some bought one like most other games. With mods and such it can easily cripple a high end rig. Know what your talking about, not just here to bash a great game.
I get low 50s to mid 60s with DA:O, very high graphics detail, 2xAA, high texture detail, JB textures (not very high), X4@2.9GHz, 1600x1200 (~83.3% of pixels as 1920x1200 or ~108.8% of 1680x1050), 2x2GB DDR2-800-4-4-4-12-2, 5770@875MHz.
