Patch Notes and PC System Specs

I thought I'd somehow gotten dumber, but after watching some youtube videos.


It turns out my planet scanner doesn't work.

I can launch probe after probe and nothing happens.


Why me?

Seems restarting did the trick.

*prays*

Laptops are not the best for gaming, you are always limited by available power and thermals, so a lot of the time both your GPU and CPU will throttle their speed to keep inside the limits.

The game uses everything it can, but if it's that low it probably means it's not using your hardware to the fullest, or the GPU can't keep up with your CPU. On my system I am at 100% CPU and 92% GPU.

Did you replace your laptop drive with the SSD? Or are you using it externally? I haven't seen any performance issues in game, and I'm loading it off of a mechanical hard drive.



Not stupid at all, this setting is unique to the Frostbite engine as far as I know. Basically resolution scaling makes it possible to render the game at higher or lower resolutions than your monitor, and resize them to match your monitor's native resolution. If you lower the scale it should give you better performance (up to a point), and if you rise it you will have better quality (also up to a point). Since you have a 1080p monitor and a GTX 1070 you can probably go higher, maybe 1.5 (should be halfway to 4K resolution).

Replaced the CD-Rom bay with a disk caddy with SSD drive. Basically attached a second harddisk with SATA speed. I'm using an eGPU module with RX480 4GB unit, so it VGA shouldn't be an issue. I got TW3 running on ultra with this spec.

I've been monitoring my CPU and GPU load during the playtime, and got my GPU @100% and all CPU cores at 70-90%. I forgot the GPU temp, but the CPU temp is around 70'.. For thermal issue, I already opened my laptop bottom case and use a cooling pad.

I just hate the lag spikes

Any idea if Bioware going to fix the game?

Right now it feels about 50% finished.

I seem to have caught the minimal/no conversation bug. My squaddies rarely speak. When they do it's usually after a fast travel and they say a word or two then get cut off. Only time I got a full thing when Cora grumped about Ryder driving.

Who would want to play on a lower resolution than the native one? It looks like shit because it means its time for a new GPU. Yours is far beyond the minimum requirements, you could at least get a 7870 for 35 € here, I can recommend you to look at your local market. Why do you run a 1440p screen with such a shit GPU? Has your real one died?
I guess your CPU is clocked very low which causes those problems. Unfortunately you can't do anything, its not overclockable. The i7 itself would be fine if it was on 3+ GHz.
Unfortunately true, it looks great but feels like Early Access performance wise. I can't believe I won't get near 60 FPS even on 2160p "Low". I run BF1 on "Ultra" (except Postprocessing) which barely keeps but does keep stable 60 FPS. Not a single drop.

Any idea when the next patch (the one after patch 1.04) will be coming?

Hey, does anyone have any advice on how to run the game on my computer? Every solution I found on Google was irrelevant or useless, and the official support has not responded. Every time I boot up the game, it loads for roughly 20 minutes before continuing, and then works fine on the menus. I have eventually made it into the game, but was far too slow to actually play it. I set every graphic option and resolution down to the lowest possible setting, and not sure what else I could do. My specs are:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz

Video Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

RAM: 8.0 GB

I don't know if this is below the required specs, as I know almost nothing about computers. If anyone could help, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you.

This computer is far under the requirement, you can be glad it does even open.

Intel IGPs aren't officially supported and not fast enough. You need at least a Pascal based gaming notebook or a high-end Maxwell one (GTX 980M). A 970M is already close to the bare minimum (HD 7850).

You can try and lower ambient occlusion (SSAO is less demanding than HBAO), or mesh and terrain quality.

Unfortunately your CPU is clocked very low and limited to 35W TDP, meaning it's likely not even going above base clock on full load because of power limitations (70°C is fine, mobile chips usually go higher). Check out how each core is loaded with HWMonitor or similar applications that show you detailed usage (per core, cache, etc).

For comparison my i5 is one generation behind yours, but it's overclocked to turbo up to 4.2GHz (twice your base clock) on all four cores under load.