Dragon Age II GPU & CPU Performance Test

What a silly thing to say ... I hope its more demanding. After all those with slower GPUs can just scale back the quality settings as they would with DA2. It just means those with powerful rigs get to enjoy it more.

DA2 isn't demanding as much as it's not all that optimized. I get terrible framerates in some places for no reason during cutscenes (the elven alienage is a good example) despite having two 5850's in crossfire mode. Everything else is silky smooth even in the most crowded fights. Mass Effect 2 had similar issues, but not nearly as bad as this.

It's a fun game and while I'm not going to rage because it's different than DA:O, DA2 really shouldn't be thought of as a game that pushes the graphical envelope.

While I personally don't have DA2 as I'm still happy with Origins, I'm curious to know how good the eye-candy is with those rather demanding looking benchmarks. Many gameplay reviews were rather critical of the 'rush job' feel to different aspects of DA2, which likely translates to them not spending enough time optimizing this game as well. So for those who own it, does it warrant a performance hit for the eye-candy trade-off?

I thought it might be useful for people to know that this game is very playable on the following mobile hardware;
1600 x 900, high settings, no AA, High Res textures disabled, DX 11

Win7 64-Bit
i7 720QM (Quad-core + HT, 1.6GHz)
8Gb DDR3
AMD Radeon Mobility 5650 1Gb
500 Gb, 16Mb Cache SATA II 7200 RPM HDD

I'd say that this game looks fantastic & is very playable on limited hardware, sure, it takes a bit of a beast to run everything maxxed but it scales down impressively.

I have a GTX260 and can't seem to install the new driver set - where do i find this file, and how do I modify it? links?

Thanks!

Why are the games coming out feel the need to skip dx10 and 10.1 even though the majority of cards out there support these technologies? These dx11 cards aren't even that great at dx11 anyway. You either get the old dx9 or the new dx11, so they basically skip 5 years of directx tech. Last time I checked my HD4870 runs anything I can throw at it and stomps the 5770 so why should I upgrade again?

For all those Ati users experince fps problem in DA2!!!!
i was messing around with my in game settings, as well as ati ccc settings!!!
and i managed to play the game flawlessly at very high settings 8xaa + dx11+ blur+ssao!!!!
download the latest ati 11.4 preview drivers...simply make sure you dont have the f#$%$% morphological filtering ticked!!! i listened to ati's lies about no performance hit when enabling morphological AA....and i got for it!!!! i have everythng in ati ccc maxed out 32xaa+64xtesselation
+vsync+ anisotropic 16x!!! i never fell under 60 fps in game!!!
and imagine i dont even i have hd 6xxxx i use 2x 5870 1gddr5 in crossfirex mode!!!!
enjoy!!!!

Please refresh the test with new drivers forceware 270.51

As far as I can tell those drivers had no impact on performance. I have re-tested all cards using this driver as we will be adding DA2 to our graphics card testing lineup soon.

I would like this guide to be updated with Nvidia's latest GPU GTX 590.
I don't know which should I choose, Nvidia's or AMD's latest Processor.

http://www.techspot.com/review/390-triple-monitor-gaming-performance/page5.html

Might end up with a "new" model to review next month

GTX595 ? GTX 590 v2.0 ? GTX 590 Ti ?