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    Dragon Age II Configuration Issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by American Madman, May 13, 2011.

  1. American Madman

    American Madman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey All,

    I just purchased Dragon Age II and am having troubles configuring it. In the configuration program it cant recognize the 335m, only the Intel card.

    I whitelisted all the DA2 programs - the launcher, config tool, and the actual game exe. The game launches and runs on the 335 without issue, but because of the configuration problem I cant enable high resolution textures.

    I have an R2 with an I5 and 8Gb of ram. Does anyone know how to get the high res textures enabled?
     
    American Madman, May 13, 2011
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    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    high res is only for dx10/11 cards: the game is running in dx9.
     
    thegh0sts, May 13, 2011
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  3. American Madman

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    I had heard that if you select DX11 in the menu, the game enables DX10 behind the scenes. Whenever I select DX11 high res is still greyed out.

    Is that what should be expected?

    Sorry if I'm sounding like a noob here.
     
    American Madman, May 13, 2011
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    yes, it means DA2 will only play in DX9 mode on the m11x.
     
    thegh0sts, May 14, 2011
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    Nope. At least in the demo, if you enabled DX11 it forced DX10. However there was significant performance issues and not that much quality difference in my opinion.

    Use latest driver obviously if you are not already and try right-clicking the .exe itself and launch using high-performance graphics processor.
     
    MasivB, May 14, 2011
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    You have to set it to run in DX11 (the game with automatically run it in DX10), then reboot the game and select the high res textures. Note I myself found it pretty much unplayable using the High res textures.
     
    Marxus, May 14, 2011
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    FPS is hovering between high 10's to 40 with high res texture
    Remember to download the high res texture pack to enable it :)
     
    DivineAura, May 14, 2011
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    Thank you for this! That resolved the problem right away.

    I too noticed that running it in DX11 mode with high res textures enables what I call "slideshow mode".

    I'm running it now using DX9, medium settings, with high res textures. It's running like a champ now!

    Thanks all!
     
    American Madman, May 15, 2011
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