Dragon Age II gets Hi-Res Texture pack for PC

[XRL8]

As in the title.

http://social.bioware.com/page/da2-patches

A nice gesture for pc community i guess ,waiting on good game reviews tho, cause i heard some disturbing things about the gameplay

[Piotrsama]

All cool and dandy.... but why the F didn't they include that from the get-go?

[Peakr]

Just when you thought EA couldn't do anything more ridiculous. I bet they were going to try and pass this off as DLC.

[zanzabar]

well dragon age 2 take s 7GB and dragon age takes 20, so i think that they cut down on alot of stuff and made it 1 disk with a bunch of copied textures instead of a unique world. and it was supposed to be streamlined so that normally means that its now hack n slash and linear. or its alot shorter

[DeltZ]

Here's some explanations for all of you:

Deadlines are important in business. They went gold with the game some weeks ago and didn't have time to get the textures all out the door. Now they have, it's free and downloadable pre day 1 release. If they waited, you'd have to wait till like april until dragon age came out. Not great for business.

Dragon age 2 is a lot smaller because they found someway to compress the level footprints by 70% and used a different compression on the sound as well removed a few fully voiced languages from the game. The game is a little shorter. Doesn't include the "origins" quests that were present in the original game. But it should be comparable.

[ripken204]

i knew today's date was important to me for some reason.... dragon age 2!
only if the res pack didnt take more than half a day to dload...

[killerxp100]

As in the title.

http://social.bioware.com/page/da2-patches

A nice gesture for pc community i guess ,waiting on good game reviews tho, cause i heard some disturbing things about the gameplay

I'm with ya on waiting to see how good it is. Played the demo, didnt like it as much as the original.

[ripken204]

i've been playing the game for the last 2 hours, with the high res pack...
this game is very demanding.

with a i7-920 and 6970, max setting, no AA/AF, 2560x1440, I am getting only around 30 FPS, still quite playable.
nothing is OCed.... yet. I have never had a need to OC anything, even Crysis runs max settings without a problem.

i am a mage, the graphical effects are so far for my spells, DA:O has better effects in my opinion.
the game is very sped up, everything is moving fast, it's quite annoying.

i can't comment much on the graphics so far, it's mostly been cut scenes and talking. I just arrived to a city where i think i can start to actually play the game..
it definitely feels like this is console oriented so far.
i really miss being able to zoom all the way up, but it seems fine so far.

[Carfax]

I'm getting terrible performance in the game so far, and this is on 480 SLi with a Core i7 overclocked to 4.2ghz. And I'm not the only one. I know several people with a similar set up as mine and they are all getting unsatisfactory performance.

It has to be the drivers or something, because graphically the game isn't exactly cutting edge.

[Peakr]

The beta driver on nvidia site is supposed to resolve some issues.

[tet5uo]

I think She's lookin good :0

This is just high settings, very high causes me a bit of lag.

Texture pack is enabled as well as dx11, just no advanced DOF or SSAO.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...BAE785A8E31EE/

[Dr.FuzzyBallz]

From what i heard, game seems to be major let down.

Thats what happens when you make a game in what 1 and half year of actual development of the game?

God ruined a perfectly good franchise, now coming out with another one "Dragon Age: Legends".. *sigh*

[XRL8]

I think She's lookin good :0

This is just high settings, very high causes me a bit of lag.

Texture pack is enabled as well as dx11, just no advanced DOF or SSAO.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...BAE785A8E31EE/

WTF is this sword ? Looks like final fantasy crap.It doesnt look "good" for me also on this screenshot :-/.
Pcgamer gave this 94, which i find ridicolous, because i would not give such a highscore to the best game of all time for me, which was Fallout 2.
Is there any gaming site which doesnt rate every game 70-90% ?
I mean bad games should get 20-40% score, and on the sites ive visited no such thing ever happened.
I guess the question is, are there any good review sites for pc games left ?

[trans am]

I guess the question is, are there any good review sites for pc games left ?

You're in it. I'll post my thoughts soon. I have a xeon 3540 and a gtx 460 1920x1200 res. just dled the nvidia betas. I'll report back.
our xs friend told me he has it running on his super rig (Core i7-980X 2x 580 in sli)and he cant run it maxed out on his rig. I'll ask him if he has those beta drivers.

[tet5uo]

Without the advanced DX11 features turned on it runs pretty good, but yeah , even with my 980x and tri SLI 480's I can't max it without dropping into the 40's of FPS, still playable, but barely.

I just use very high without the DOF or SSAO and get 75 fps.

[Buckeye]

First Dragon Age ran smooth as butter with my 2x 260gtx's in SLI.
Now with DA2 I have 2x 460gtx SOC for SLI and its choppy as heck.
I installed the high rez textures and tried it all maxed out.
I get a fair amount of textures going black at certian points tho.

Trying to find the sweet spot for this now.
My CPU is still a 975e @ 3.9ghz.

But I have been running this installed OS for about a year now, with everything else. Maybe it's time to do a fresh install LOL

[DeltZ]

First Dragon Age ran smooth as butter with my 2x 260gtx's in SLI.
Now with DA2 I have 2x 460gtx SOC for SLI and its choppy as heck.
I installed the high rez textures and tried it all maxed out.
I get a fair amount of textures going black at certian points tho.

Trying to find the sweet spot for this now.
My CPU is still a 975e @ 3.9ghz.

But I have been running this installed OS for about a year now, with everything else. Maybe it's time to do a fresh install LOL

doubt it's your rig other people having some problems too, beta drivers will get rid of black textures, but performance is still kind of poor (more so on SLI i believe)

[ripken204]

I just disabled all checkboxes but high res textures and my FPS jumped from 30 to 50
somehow when i disabled high res textures, i lost 2 FPS ??? and it definitely makes a huge difference with them on, so they are staying on

[Buckeye]

Interesting, I just dropped the setting down one to High and its smooth as butter now, no black textures now also.

[tet5uo]

The new NV beta drivers get rid of the flashing black textures.

[ripken204]

ok, this game is getting funner, but i still dont like how sped up the fighting is.
it's near impossible to plan a good attack.
if i pause the game, do a fireball attack at a group, unpause, and half a second later they managed to all run away and attack ppl 20feet away.
also, freezing is way sped up, people dont stay frozen for long, it's like less than a second...
i loved in DA:O being able to freeze someone then stonefisting them and having them explode, i havn't even had the chance to do that yet in this game

[SoulsCollective]

Game just unlocked in Australia.

Not liking the many gameplay changes, but I think the grahics problems must be nVidia-related. I'm running it on max details at 5760x1080 (Eyefinity) with DX11 and the high-def texture pack, no AA or V-Sync, and so far it's all as smooth as you could want.

[ripken204]

well you have crossfired 5870's.... i couldn't imagine that you would have trouble playing any games.
I have had 0 issues whatsoever with this game, also with an ATI card, I just cant have all of the settings checked unless I want to play at 30FPS.

[XRL8]

You're in it. I'll post my thoughts soon. I have a xeon 3540 and a gtx 460 1920x1200 res. just dled the nvidia betas. I'll report back.
our xs friend told me he has it running on his super rig (Core i7-980X 2x 580 in sli)and he cant run it maxed out on his rig. I'll ask him if he has those beta drivers.

Waiting for it then . From what ive seen. ive been pretty put off by gameplay ,but i dont know, maybe it gets better, storyline is good.It gets more complicated later on.If its going to be hack`n ill wait with buying to get it cheaply somehow.

[tet5uo]

Lots of blood and guys assplodin' which is fun hehe.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...D80900375B3CB/