@Unkindled
You aren't alone in terms of weirdness - far from it. I've been on the forums a fair bit and tracking patch releases, running framerate tests, overclocking, declocking, etc.
I've also seen a lot of weirdness - drops to 5 fps in a quiet zone, for example. Menu locks. Total freezes. I'm running a fairly robust system and all sorts of parameters - the framesim rate adjusted, MSAA both on and off, Origin on and off in the background, you name it. Windowed, fullscreen, borderless, etc.
I rarely crash out hard, but I get a lot of oddball framedrops and occasional sound issues.
This is typically running Mantle, but not always.
So, yeah. DAI...lots of issues.
Lord, same here. Went through all the tests, tweaks and fixes. Oddly enough, I can't even do borderless window fullscreen anymore. I changed that once, and crash crash crash, pretty much immediately.... Dunno why, that actually helped fix my game once. Now, I pretty much can't mess with the settings at all or something will fuck up. I was afraid to even turn off the vsync thing, but that evidently was a part of the issue.
I occasionally get an fps drop still, though it's random and not frequent. I keep thinking the game's about to freeze then, lol. I only finally got used to the game being ok enough that I can once again truly enjoy playing.
I think too many different things corrupt the game saves, especially altering graphics settings. Problem is, unlike in the good old days, the game doesn't say the save is corrupted. It just throws you in.
I also think there's a coding problem in the main menu. I noticed that my cpu temp stays the same, but the usage skyrockets to 100 percent when the game starts up, and occasionally when it loads. And oddly enough, decreases drastically when the actual game starts... ??? I think a noob coding issue is the problem with the majority of Dragon Age's issues. It's not surprising given the lazy console port that this is. And even the console versions are having issues. Obvious result of a game stretched over generations and platforms as well.
And top that off with lame ass DRM stuff and being unable to turn Origin off, even though everything I've seen shows that overlays of any kind mess with the game on some level, and it's no wonder the game's so unstable when you try to do basic shit PC gamers do on it.
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Is anyone else annoyed that Bioware hasn't updated the game even once since release (on PC)? They know a lot of bugs since the day of release or since even before but fixing them ASAP? No way...
Actually, EA and Bioware are still much, much worse than Ubisoft. Unity got three patches that fixed a lot of big and small issues in the very same time Bioware wasn't able to fix even most basic issues. Very disappointing... :/
Very much annoyed, yes. BUT, if the reason there isn't an update yet is because they're being thorough in their tests for fixes, then I'm fine. If not, then it's BS and annoying. Even if my game is running fine now, I should be able to tweak the game and run other programs on it without worry of fucking crashes. That's ridiculous and completely unacceptable.
If it IS because they're just being thorough, then they need to say that and be vocal with the goddamn people that paid full price for their damn game. I paid an extra ten by accident, and I'm not even sure what exactly came with the damn extra ten dollars, lol. Don't decide to buy anything at 2 in the morning.