So, Dragon Age: Inquisition is completely unplayable for me.
It launches fine, I play for a bit, maybe 10 minutes or so and then at some point I run into apparent graphical corruption.
One time, I saw white bits over the screen, another time a portion of the floor was missing and there were huge pillars where there should have presumably been a castle or something.
Some times it just crashes with no errors at all, graphical or otherwise, and sometimes I get the "dxgi_device_hung" error, after which I get corruption in other games too which disappears as soon as I restart and doesn't happen again unless I get that same error.
(I should add that this only happened while using DirectX 11, not Mantle. With Mantle it just quits with no error message of any kind.)
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Now, I know this seems to point strongly to a combination of game issues plus a definite bad graphics card, BUT:
I've run other games with no problems, namely, Serious Sam 3 on all ultra settings and Fallout 3, also ultra.
I've run Furmark a bit, no problems.
I've run Unigine Heaven benchmark several times consecutively. Tessellation, anti-aliasing and all. Runs reasonably smoothly, up to 55-85 FPS, GPU temperature maxes out at around 64C. No problems whatsoever.
So, is it really the GPU?
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My specs are:
MBO: ABIT AB9 QuadGT
CPU: Intel Q9400 2.66 Ghz - Clocked at 3 Ghz (massive cooler, no temp problems)
RAM: 7 GB (DDR2-800)
GPU: ASUS R9270X-DCU2-TOP (Factory OC'd)
PSU: Perhaps a bit shifty (550W - CCT)
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What do you reckon?
It launches fine, I play for a bit, maybe 10 minutes or so and then at some point I run into apparent graphical corruption.
One time, I saw white bits over the screen, another time a portion of the floor was missing and there were huge pillars where there should have presumably been a castle or something.
Some times it just crashes with no errors at all, graphical or otherwise, and sometimes I get the "dxgi_device_hung" error, after which I get corruption in other games too which disappears as soon as I restart and doesn't happen again unless I get that same error.
(I should add that this only happened while using DirectX 11, not Mantle. With Mantle it just quits with no error message of any kind.)
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Now, I know this seems to point strongly to a combination of game issues plus a definite bad graphics card, BUT:
I've run other games with no problems, namely, Serious Sam 3 on all ultra settings and Fallout 3, also ultra.
I've run Furmark a bit, no problems.
I've run Unigine Heaven benchmark several times consecutively. Tessellation, anti-aliasing and all. Runs reasonably smoothly, up to 55-85 FPS, GPU temperature maxes out at around 64C. No problems whatsoever.
So, is it really the GPU?
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My specs are:
MBO: ABIT AB9 QuadGT
CPU: Intel Q9400 2.66 Ghz - Clocked at 3 Ghz (massive cooler, no temp problems)
RAM: 7 GB (DDR2-800)
GPU: ASUS R9270X-DCU2-TOP (Factory OC'd)
PSU: Perhaps a bit shifty (550W - CCT)
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What do you reckon?
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