DA:I Lag spikes Fix

[Highlander89]

So after 45 hours of playtime in Dragon Age: Inquisition I started to get, in some areas, massive lag spikes. FPS dropping to around 5, making it completely unplayable.

Luckily I found a very easy fix (better late than ever). Simply disable Origin overlay in game.

You can do this by selecting Origin (up in the right corner) -> Application Settings -> Origin in Game and untick the box "Enable Origin in Game"

And what a difference. I got an extra 5-10 FPS making it very smooth gameplay overall and no more random massive lagspikes and gamefreezes.

Hopefully someone will find this useful.

 

[Dicehunter]

So after 45 hours of playtime in Dragon Age: Inquisition I started to get, in some areas, massive lag spikes. FPS dropping to around 5, making it completely unplayable.

Luckily I found a very easy fix (better late than ever). Simply disable Origin overlay in game.

You can do this by selecting Origin (up in the right corner) -> Application Settings -> Origin in Game and untick the box "Enable Origin in Game"

And what a difference. I got an extra 5-10 FPS making it very smooth gameplay overall and no more random massive lagspikes and gamefreezes.

Hopefully someone will find this useful.

I noticed this in Bad Company 2 when I played the other week although the frame hit was in the 40's, EA need to address this as Steams ingame overlay doesn't have an fps hit.

 

[SieB]

I had the same problem with DA:I but used a different fix.

I was getting massive CPU spikes and stutter but what fixed it for me was installing VCredist 2012 that was in

Origin Games\Dragon Age Inquisition\__Installer\VC

After installing that all my stuttering and CPU spikes stopped.
This is a vid I made showing how bad it was for me that I posted on the Bioware forums a while back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo3iBV05XTo

 

[Highlander89]

I noticed this in Bad Company 2 when I played the other week although the frame hit was in the 40's, EA need to address this as Steams ingame overlay doesn't have an fps hit.

Aye, although I had some trouble with old Star Wars games in steam. I think it was Battlefront 2 that crashed when loading the game. And the culprit there was steam overlay.

I had the same problem with DA:I but used a different fix.

I was getting massive CPU spikes and stutter but what fixed it for me was installing VCredist 2012 that was in

Origin Games\Dragon Age Inquisition\__Installer\VC

After installing that all my stuttering and CPU spikes stopped.
This is a vid I made showing how bad it was for me that I posted on the Bioware forums a while back.

Oh man that looks horrible Compared to yours I had pretty decent gameplay, although I would get FPS drops of around 10 at times.

Tried to monitor CPU cores now in game and noticed they are on decent levels mostly all the time, except core #4 that is barely utilized at all. #2 and 3 is around 50%.

But man is it nice with everything maxed out (except shadows and effects) and buttersmooth gameplay. Averaging on 35-40 FPS but still without lags.

 

[SieB]

Oh man that looks horrible Compared to yours I had pretty decent gameplay, although I would get FPS drops of around 10 at times.

Tried to monitor CPU cores now in game and noticed they are on decent levels mostly all the time, except core #4 that is barely utilized at all. #2 and 3 is around 50%.

But man is it nice with everything maxed out (except shadows and effects) and buttersmooth gameplay. Averaging on 35-40 FPS but still without lags.

Yeah, it was totally unplayable when I first installed it but as soon as I installed that VCredist 2012 it fixed all the stuttering and CPU spikes and gameplay was nice and smooth again.
Think I was getting around 50-60 fps if I recall correctly with everything on ultra using 2x MSAA.

 

[Noz_God]

Thanks for the post SieB i have installed VCredist 2012 and FPS dips have gone

 

[Chewme]

You could also try console renderdevice.renderaheadlimit 0 if you are getting stuttering or cpu spikes. And pretty much all the BF3/BF4 console commands will work in DA:I also