Dragon Age Inquisition: What kind of performance am I supposed to get?

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

I recently got my hands on a second GTX 780 to sli with my current 780. I thought I would finally be able to push Dragon Age inquisition to get 60fps but I'm still getting bad framerates. The game randomly jumps from the 20s to 50s. I rarely get 60fps. I have turned off anti-aliasing and turned the settings down from the ones recommended by Geforce experience. Is the performance I am getting normal? I haven't seen benchmarks with 780s in sli but I assume it's supposed to be slightly less than 970s in sli.

Dunlop0078 · Feb 28, 2015

What are the rest of your specs. No that does not sound normal if you have a decent cpu, with no AA i would think two 780s would be giving you VERY high frame rates i can almost max it out on my 760 with no AA at 1080p 60fps.

Joseph DeGarmo · Feb 28, 2015

You need a high-end CPU, such as an i7-4790k, to run the game at 60 fps maxed out with two 780s in SLI.

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

I can never get used to how fast people respond on here. Thanks for responding.

I run the game at 1080p

My specs are:
cpu: i7-4770k @stock
ram: 2x8gb g.skill ares @1866MHz
gpu: 2x ASUS GTX 780 poseidon
psu: corsair ax860
hdd: seagate 2Tb
mbd: maximus vi formula
windows 8.1

Dunlop0078 · Feb 28, 2015

Arebiter :

Yah you have plenty of power. Is this the only game your having problems with? I would try re installing the game and re installing the graphics drivers using the "clean install" option.

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

Now that I think about, I did have a lot of trouble with sleeping dogs(even when i only had one 780). I haven't been playing a lot of games recently. Splinter cell: blacklist sometimes drops below 60. I keep my other games locked at 60fps so I don't really notice if they're not performing correctly. Assassins creed 4 performs ok-ish at ~60fps. I will try a clean install of the graphics drivers and get back to you.

st3v30 · Feb 28, 2015

Try to reinstall drivers and reset BIOS settings. Also try to OC CPU to see will you get any better performance

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

Reinstalling the game and the graphics drivers didn't change anything. I'm still getting random fps drops.

st3v30 · Feb 28, 2015

Did you try to reset BIOS settings or update BIOS??

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

st3v30 :

Not yet, I'm trying it now.

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

I am also noticing that my gpus aren't under that heavy of a load. They stick around 40-60% and aren't that hot either ~50-60C. Even my cpu is pretty cool at the temps in the low to mid 40s with 3 cores at 30-50% and one at 70%. Is this important to know?

st3v30 · Feb 28, 2015

Did you lock your game to 60 fps? If you did then when GPU reach that 60 fps it will stay at that usage same thing with CPU but if you unlock fps GPU will try to give you best performance it can,try to OC CPU to see if you can get better performance. I think that on 4ghz you will see improvement over stock clock so try to do it you can get that OC even with voltage set at Auto.

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

st3v30 :

Yes, i do have V-sync on. Turning it off got me much higher fps (130), but I'm still seeing drops to the 20s every time I turn around. I also overclocked to 4ghz and I didn't see a noticeable improvement.

st3v30 · Feb 28, 2015

Then it is just game if only happens in dragon age or does it happen in every other game??Try to set Power Profile to High Performance in Control Panel>Power Options and same in Nvidia Control Center and Turn off Physx.

Arebiter · Feb 28, 2015

st3v30 :

I guess it's just the game. I played the game for about 15 minutes. It definitely performs better after I turned v-sync off. I suppose I can just live with it. Thanks for your help.

Joseph DeGarmo · Feb 28, 2015

It's weird. Even with my CPU running at stock, the game remains smooth even after at least two hours of playing. Have you tried disabling Origin in-game? Also try playing the game offline by not signing into the Dragon Age servers.

-Lone- · Mar 1, 2015

Does your fps drop "every time" you turn? Or is it in specific situations like maybe cutscenes or some other areas? There's problems on AMD side too, I had to do some tweaking in the catalyst to get it to run a bit better, so maybe try to tweak your Nvidia control panel. Right now I only get fps drops in deserts, other places are good during game play, but cutscenes are the worse, can't stand 1-2 fps cutscenes (Only sometimes)

And btw, how much would you guys rate the game for

coolcole01 · Mar 1, 2015

something is up im playing on crossfire 290x and its super smooth except for cut scenes but im playing at 1440p can you use dsr to set it to the higher resolution and see how it runs 780 sli is extremely powerful

-Lone- · Mar 1, 2015

coolcole01 :

Does your game load slower in loading screens with CFX on? Like maybe 30 sec to 5 min? Or have you even tried with CFX off?

coolcole01 · Mar 1, 2015

no it loads crazy fast i have an 800 gb 37000 intel it literally runs perfect 60 until cut scene drops to 30 then after scene goes back to 60

coolcole01 · Mar 1, 2015

like the first load is maybe 10-15 sec

-Lone- · Mar 1, 2015

coolcole01 :

Hmm, weird, I have top of the line CPU and GPU and everything else and with CFX on, my game loads like 10 times slower, so I disabled CFX, maybe it has to do with 4k, although I would think loading would have to do with my SSDs. But as for the 30 fps cutscenes, go to your desktop>right click on the shortcut of the game>properties>target> go to the very end to the right and press space after the "> Then paste the characters I pasted below into it and hit Ok and it'll increase to 60 fps. You can just make a shortcut on desktop if you don't have one.

-GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+

coolcole01 · Mar 1, 2015

-Lone- :

coolcole01 :

Hmm, weird, I have top of the line CPU and GPU and everything else and with CFX on, my game loads like 10 times slower, so I disabled CFX, maybe it has to do with 4k, although I would think loading would have to do with my SSDs. But as for the 30 fps cutscenes, go to your desktop>right click on the shortcut of the game>properties>target> go to the very end to the right and press space after the "> Then paste the characters I pasted below into it and hit Ok and it'll increase to 60 fps. You can just make a shortcut on desktop if you don't have one.

-GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+

Thanks bud worked like charm no drops it is a very demanding game the cut scenes at 4x msaa max out my two cards

coolcole01 · Mar 1, 2015

I got this ssd as a gift a while back anything on it runs like a champ
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167142&cm_re=800gb_intel_ssd-_-20-167-142-_-Product

-Lone- · Mar 1, 2015

The only place I have fps drops/lag is the western approach, I really hate deserts...lol, it felt endless the first time I played it, nothing but space and more space, and that was when I didn't even know you can use the horses, so I took like 2/3 hrs walking.

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