Low GPU usage Dragon Age II

Con1750 wtf do u want? Very High is rubbish. I tried same driver and it gave me 20-30fps. Playable, but not really. I don't feel like explaining, but DX11 looks worse then DX10 codepath (High).

Just set it on High, and crank everything up.

EDIT: Oh u want SS AA? Not possible :nerd:

 

I am playing on high yes, i just wanted to ask about Super sampling as the above poster and another in this thread claims to have got it working?

 

Lol performance is bad enough without SSAA.

 

2 words.
Console. Port.

 

I believe that the 270.24 was an earlier developer driver than the 270.32 which got leaked.

 

Has anyone tested the beta patch for the game yet? Does it help performance with nvidia cards?

http://social.bioware.com/forum/Dra...ragon-Age-II-PC-beta-patch-101-6482838-1.html


What are the patch notes?
GENERAL

• Fixed save game issues on single core machines
• Fixed game asking for non-existent drives
• Fixed release control issues where some players were unable to unlock correctly
• Fixed a Steam-specific issue related to VO not playing after switching languages**

What does BETA mean?
BETA means:

• Users apply this patch at their own risk. In general, we recommend you only download and apply it if you are affected by the specific issues listed in the patch notes.
• **Steam does not support BETA patches. Steam users will have to wait for the final non-BETA patch before they can take advantage of these fixes. We're working on it but, unfortunately, this will not occur in time for the weekend.

 

The beta patch does NOTHING to improve performance; it doesn't even fix the log in error that I've experienced twice (the game tells me it can't run in guest mode or that I don't have full administrator rights despite the fact I'm using the full (previously hidden) administrator account). I suspect the latter issue is a bug with the SecuROM online validation as a restart of my PC fixes it once I've (again!) typed in my email address and password for the account I'm using to play the game. Annoying but not as much as the abysmal DX11 performance.

I was playing around with the settings this morning and here's my findings for the main ground floor room of the Hawke mansion in Act 2 (all at 1920x1200, v-synced and triple buffered with 4xAA and 16xAF plus the hi-res texture pack installed):

1. With DX11 and Very High settings plus depth of field and motion blur enabled, I get an average of 32-35 fps;
2. With DX11 and High settings, which disables depth of field and motion blur, I get an average of 60 fps;
3. With DX11 and Very High settings without depth of field and motion blur, I get an average of 32-35 fps. In other words they have a negligible impact on the framerate.

The only visual difference between High and Very High is the use of tessellation for the latter but in the room I was in there is NO tessellation so why is the framerate halved???

I guess you could tell me to just play the game at DX11 High settings but that's not the point; the card I have should be able to run the game at maximum settings. That's why I bought the card so I didn't have to compromise on games' settings, certainly not for multiformat console ports anyway.

 

been messing about the same as you Darren and seeing similar results, seems to me having a single modern card is now as much driver dependant as sli xfire is these days.

 

Bioware better move there arses..i'm focking tired of waiting for that stupid performance patch..Bioware lost so much rep whit this game.

 

Sadly for me (and it'll be this way for most people) that I'm almost done completing the first play through of the game w/ this ****ty LOW GPU performance.

I didn't pay 60 dollars to EA/BIOWARE to experience this kind of performance on my 580 SLI.

 

Well Bioware didnt totally screw up, as the game runs beautifully on AMD hardware. Nvidia have been sloppy as well, and I bet it has to do with that Fermi is a very complicated GPU to code for, or atleast make it use all of its power in an effecient way. So this is a Nvidia/Bioware screw up.

 

Here is an answer from someone on the bioware forums:

The file was found under user(me)/Documents/Bioware/DragonAge 2/Settings

Normally if you have the graphical settings set to High in the in-game menu (which I do because of the Very High issues with nvidia cards), DoF and Motion Blur are blocked out. But look for them in the .ini and set them from 0 to 1 and they wil be enabled even if your setting is still at High.

Change these to 1:
EnableHighQualityBlur=0
EnableDiffusionDOF=0


DoF works with no performance hit, though I can't tell the difference with motion blur. Either it's subtle or doesn't work with this. You can mess around with the other mysterious graphical options in the ini but I didn't notice a difference.

Also, just a few lines down you'll see DisableIntroMovies=0. Change that to 1 and you won't have to sit through that annoying unskippable intro.

I don't know all the effects that Very High allows, but looks like it might be Tesselation that's causing the biggest problem. And to be quite honest, it doesn't look good. It makes the ground look cushiony, and my characters' feet sink in about an inch into the ground w/ tesselation on. So I wish there was a way to turn on Very High but disable Tesselation.

I hope bioware or nvidia hurry up and fix the DX11 issues, though I'd put priority on fixing all the quest bugs.

 

Thanks for that. I think I'll drop down to High then for now until the patch comes out. I was wandering across Sundermount this morning and getting rather depressed at the 20 fps framerate I was seeing with no NPCs onscreen. Presumably the tessellated mountainsides were the cause of that?

I never did the edit yet I've always been able to hit Escape during the initial load to skip straight to the title screen. :3eyes:

 

@Darren Hodgson

The difference between high and very high from what i understood is minor!
So i think u will be just fine!
When u do the modifications please report your fps,because i was thinking the moment i change to gtx 590 next week i will immediately start Dragon Age 2

 

it's just tessellation, but some of us, like me, want tessellation, i think it looks stunning.

EDIT: with the .ini modification the performance is the same, 40-50 fps..Advance DOF is visible and looks great, also i enabled Triple Buffering and Trilinear Filtering from the .ini

 

So good job?
What do u think?
Thnx very much for the fps report

 

Well, while i agree that they need to fix this problem as soon as possible, i however have been able to get it relatively playable, but i will rejoice when they fix the performance issues.

I do not know what fps i get, haven't got fraps installed, which i plan to do now.

 

Very high plays just fine for me, but I can't use blur etc. Not that I want to anyway, I enabled it and I personally think it looked crap.

I can't run AA without slowdowns either, but I can run 4xAF turned on in game fine. I can run with Vsync and get 44-60FPS with these settings.

I can't wait for the driver to fix this crap.

If anybody is curious about the drivers I'm running it's the 267.46. They hold the current optimization for DA2 as the 267.24/31 did.

 

You guys should just stop playing Dragon Age... what an overrated game that is... point and click? how fun!





NOT

 

yeah, the advanced dof is great..i knew this settings didn't effect the fps, cause i tried every combination possible to play the game on very high, it seems that tessellation is the only thing that ruins the framerate, how ironic for nvidia high-end gpu's don't you think?