Patch Notes and PC System Specs

Uhm the game is not capped at 30 on pc, is it? The wording on that site is a bit unclear. I mean there is no reason it should be seeing as DA:I was not.

There is no FPS cap on PC (confirmed by devs).

These Nvidia benchmarks are ridiculous. Either everything is set to ultra and not high or this game is unoptimized to hell and back.

On one hand I want to say its part of a "go buy new PC stuff yo" thing that most games push when they launch PC specs.

On the other hand, I go "yikes, DAI was shit optimized on PC" and I have a feeling that unless you have a $3000 rig its gonna be poor again.

Did BF1 had same help.ea page with System specs and expected frame-rate ?? Both games have the same System requirements...

EDIT Here it is! Strangely enough they don't mention resolution and framerate..... help.ea.com/en-us/help/battlefield/battlefield-1/are-you-ready-for-battlefield-1/#pc

For comparison, here's a pretty substantial list of Battlefield 1 benchmarks running on Ultra at 1080p. It doesn't have the 660 or 7750 listed, unfortunately, but it does have some pretty low-end cards (R7 370, RX 460) featured. When we compare those to DA:I benchmarks, we see the majority of listed cards running at a 20FPS+ deficit compared to BF1, despite BF1 being more graphically intensive. Just goes to show the strides Dice made with optimization, and hopefully Bioware has been able to emulate their success.

Let's hope that's an error, it would be pretty terrible if I have to lower it to medium just to hit 60FPS.

Sorry, stupid question here.

Can I run MEA if I have Windows 10 with DirectX12? ( I am very new for Windows 10)

Ok, I just booted up Inquisition.

Tesselation and shadow quality are on medium, water and vegetation are on ultra, SSAO is own, PPAA is on medium, and everything else is on high. Booting up in 1080p gets me 60fps roughly, bouncing between 58-60, but that's marginal and I'm sure dropping AA down to low and forcing it through my drivers or dropping water and vegetation to high could net me rock solid 60fps.

1440p drops me down to 45. I'm using an overclocked 7970. This same cardd with a more recent, more graphically intensive game can hit 60fps on ultra. Even if Andromeda is more in line with Inquisition than Battlefield graphics wise, there's no reason why they're recommending so much power for merely 30fps. These are either pre-patch, pre-game ready driver results, or this is another Crysis/GTA4.

I'm not much of PC spec expert, but I feel like these values are highly inflated. Plus I don't believe they tested out every single CPU+GPU configuration there is. Andromeda looks like a demanding game, but no way is it THAT demanding. I feel like NVIDIA is playing off the hype trying to push their bank buster GPU's. If not Andromeda must've had some side polishing by Ubisoft, because if 60 fps on non sub-par settings is only achievable with 1080's and the like, this game is highly unoptimized. My current setup is above the recommended requirements, and I upgraded my 8gb RAM to 16 gb RAM to play the game on Ultra settings, with no problems. Now with this new information, my eyebrows are raised, cause this isn't making much sense to me.

If you're able try the early access before freaking out we'll see in a week what is needed to get 60fps on ultra.

So, I want to ask my silly question and am prepared for a silly answer since my situation is a bit silly, but…

My specs are AMD FX 8320, 32 GB RAM and a Nvidia GTX 660 with 2GB RAM.

Obviously my GPU is the biggest issue here and it’s the minimum required one judging from the game info. However somehow my rig manages to squeeze about 40+ framerate from DAI at 1920x1080 resolution if I tone down AA and Shadows and put the rest mostly on Ultra settings with some stuff on High. I wish I could do the same with MEA, but I know it won’t happen.

So I am pondering if will I be able to run the game with things like Textures on High and the other demanding stuff at least on Medium (quite willing to put AA to Off and Shadows to Low). I don’t want to play it with most settings on Low (I mean I will, but don’t want to…kinda will play it against my will).

Now I can easily grab a GTX 1080, but here is the thing – my tech guy, a.k.a “my brother”, left for another country 2 years ago. And I am not superstitious or anything but I swear my rig doesn’t like anyone else to tinker with it. Doesn’t matter how small the change or upgrade is, if it’s not done by my brother, 90 % of the time things just don’t work well after. Maybe I got a hidden AI with a temper in there…or bad luck with lousy techs. And from my limited knowledge on the subject I believe that a new GPU requires not only to just be plugged in, but other stuff as power supply, compatibility, etc., need to be factored in.

So the dilemma is will I run the game on Medium-High until my bro comes in a couple of months and we upgrade the rig? Or should I risk bringing Judgement Day by awaking Skynet with a new GTX 1080?