Dragon Age: Inquisition and the AMD R9 280X
So I bought this nifty new video card to replace my ~four year old card so I could turn the knobs up to 11 in DA:I for maximum pretty. This means going from an nVidia GeForce 570 GTX to an AMD Radeon R9 280X.
After some fun and games getting the new card working (it wasn't obvious to me that it needs three power cables connected and the documentation was impressively lacking in useful information) and then the usual device driver dance it was all working nicely. I could set Warcrack to "all effects at maximum" and wander about Frostfire Ridge with all the snow and fire effects going nuts and it was lovely.
But Dragon Age: Inquisition, not so much.
Get some spell effects on-screen and it'd bomb out with a DirectX error. Switch it to use the Mantle rendering API and it'd get a little further, but eventually bomb out anyway. Just without an error dialog.
Tried a bunch of things as per numerous forum threads. What I've concluded is that it seems to be okay for about 30-45 minutes after a cold (as in temperature) system boot but after that good luck.
It's only DA:I that seems to be affected so I don't think it's a problem with the card.
At this stage all I really want to do is play the sodding game so I've switched back to the 570GTX, turned the pretties down, and am now enjoying DA:I. Will hang on to the new card and with any luck at some point either AMD or Bioware or DICE or whoever will fix the fucking software so the game will run properly, at which point I'll swap back to it and go for maximum pretties again.
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After some fun and games getting the new card working (it wasn't obvious to me that it needs three power cables connected and the documentation was impressively lacking in useful information) and then the usual device driver dance it was all working nicely. I could set Warcrack to "all effects at maximum" and wander about Frostfire Ridge with all the snow and fire effects going nuts and it was lovely.
But Dragon Age: Inquisition, not so much.
Get some spell effects on-screen and it'd bomb out with a DirectX error. Switch it to use the Mantle rendering API and it'd get a little further, but eventually bomb out anyway. Just without an error dialog.
Tried a bunch of things as per numerous forum threads. What I've concluded is that it seems to be okay for about 30-45 minutes after a cold (as in temperature) system boot but after that good luck.
It's only DA:I that seems to be affected so I don't think it's a problem with the card.
At this stage all I really want to do is play the sodding game so I've switched back to the 570GTX, turned the pretties down, and am now enjoying DA:I. Will hang on to the new card and with any luck at some point either AMD or Bioware or DICE or whoever will fix the fucking software so the game will run properly, at which point I'll swap back to it and go for maximum pretties again.
The original is over at Dreamwidth, there are
comments.