Dragon Age: Origins HD4890 Gameplay

Dragon Age: Origins played on ATI HD4890

FPS: With Fraps - 30fps (intentionally limited), Without fraps: 30-60fps (V-sync On), Without fraps - 50-72fps (V-sync Off)

All settings on highest, 1920x1080 resolution.

System specs:

Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-UD3R
PSU: Corsair HX 520W
CPU: Intel i5 750 2.66Ghz OC'd @ 3.2Ghz (Freezer Pro rev.2 Cooler)
GPU: Sapphire ATI HD4890 1GB Vapor-X OC'd 900/1090Mhz
RAM: Patriot G-Series for Intel 2x2 4GB Dual-Channel @ 1033Mhz
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 750GB

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[GameSiphon]

I'm running this game pretty well with a HD4890 myself, but sometimes I drop below 60 to as low as 40. Could it be because I have a dualcore? How much would a quad help you think?

[DarkEch0o]

Depends, I found out that if you leave the Anti-aliasing forcing via the control center on, the game's AA is ignored and then it looks all jagged. (I thnk it's only on Windows7, dunno about other systems)

At any rate, does that FPS drop happen in heavily populated areas? Let's say in the Brecilian forest, is the FPS constantly at 40FPS? Or does it happen only in some areas? If the FPS is always low in populated areas, then it's the processor, since it has to handle a lot of individual NPCs.

[GameSiphon]

Drops in places like Denerim, Grey Warden camp and the town Morrigan leads you to. It also drops in bigger scaled combat.

[DarkEch0o]

Mine dropped in Grey Warden camp and where there's too much detail for the card to handle (with V-sync on) but that happens rarely. So I guess it's the dual core.

[GameSiphon]

@DarkEch0o

Well, VSync either caps the FPS at the refresh rate of the monitor or half of the refresh rate of the monitor if the framerate drops below the refresh rate. ( Lol, I just made a mindfuck :p )

[DarkEch0o]

Yeah, and since most monitors have 60hz, the FPS is always 60 with V-sync ... (Of course, not with a low-end rig.) But it also slows the game down in some scenes, as said, somewhere where's too much detail for the card to handle with V-sync on.

[urmomisfineinbed]

This game runs on Nvidia physx so ofc Nvidia is better for it. still get a stupid amount of FPS on it with my 5870

[SuperRoosterman]

ati rulez....... babey

[Mindereak]

yeah but i meant to say that 4890 si better than gtx260 in all games except for some games optimized for Nvidia, but 4890 is still a lot better.

[DarkEch0o]

Well, depends .... 5770 really is roughtly an equivalent of HD4870, it has more steam processor or something like that, twice more than the 4xxx series but scratch the DX10 support and the HD4890 is a lot more powerful.