**The Dragon Age Origins Thread **

WOW, how cool is that.
They even threw in a G15 display app :D

Well I have to say the way DLC is handled is very very slick, I like it a lot.
 
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n111ck said:
Anyone find this spanks the CPU - I have a 3.16 C2D and its at 100%??
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4GHz Q9550 and my core usage right now (well few seconds ago before I alt-tabbed): 80%, 77%, 85%, 97%. It's fair to say that the game is pretty CPU intensive :)

Still waiting for the e-mail from EA that includes all the DLC codes. The game was unlocked 26 hours ago in Finland and still waiting.. rumor has it all codes will be sent during Friday but that remains to be seen.
 
How do I use my cd keys (steam) to unlock wardens keep etc?

edit: nm.. redeeming the keys on the EA site didn't work, now they do.
 
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Login to the Bioware portal within the game then goto "Downloadable Content" on the main menu.
Theres a redeem code button at the bottom of the popup that will take you to a webpage to enter your codes.

n111ck said:
Anyone find this spanks the CPU - I have a 3.16 C2D and its at 100%??
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Cant say i noticed tbh.
Im getting about 40% utililisation atm.

As for all the people saying it looks like crap and the graphics are poor, PISH on you.
It looks ace in my opinion.

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Phinor said:
4GHz Q9550 and my core usage right now (well few seconds ago before I alt-tabbed): 80%, 77%, 85%, 97%. It's fair to say that the game is pretty CPU intensive :)

Still waiting for the e-mail from EA that includes all the DLC codes. The game was unlocked 26 hours ago in Finland and still waiting.. rumor has it all codes will be sent during Friday but that remains to be seen.
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I found this quite interesting which may explain the resource hogging on some rigs:

"Dragon Age: Origins - Benchmark and Results
In our benchmark scene our party walks over the market place in Denerim. Due to the amount of displays geometry and NPCs the CPU workload is quite high. In order to prevent a performance limitation by the graphics card we use a Radeon HD 5870 for our tests. The resolution is set to 1680 x 1050 pixels and we choose maximal details with 4x MSAA (in-game) and 16:1 AF (via the driver).


Dragon Age Origins (7) [Source: view picture gallery]
The multi-core optimizations Bioware integrated into the Eclipse Engine come into full effect: The Intel Q6600 is 75 percent faster than the E6600 (which runs at the same frequency) and the Q9650 beats the E8400 by about 70 percent. Furthermore Dragon age: Origins seems to be running smoother on a multi-core, too, and especially the streaming system seems to benefit. Even overclocked to 3.6 GHz the E8400 can't surpass the Q6600 while AMD's triple-core Phenom II X3 720 BE can do it. But more than three cores aren't used often by the game. The Phenom II X4 only benefits from its higher clock speed. Intel's Q9650 is slightly faster than AMD's top model, but is beaten by the smallest Nehalem, the Core i5-750. The Lynnfield is beaten by the Q6600 overclocked to 3.6 GHz (400x9 with DDR2-1200) and the Phenom II X4 965 BE with 3.95 GHz. At this frequency the latter one is about as fast as the Core i7-860 running at 2.4 GHz. A Core i7-920 overclocked to 3.5 GHz dominates the competition. All in all Dragon Age: Origins seems to prefer Intel processors.

Regardless of the huge variations in the results a fast dual-core or a small triple-core is enough to play the game smoothly. Since the streaming works much better with three or four cores we nevertheless recommend a multi-core processor if you intend to buy a new CPU for Dragon Age: Origins. The screenshots in our gallery have originally been taken at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 with 4x SGSSAA on the Radeon HD 5870. In combination with the overclocked Phenom II X4 965 BE the framerate rarely dropped below 25 fps. "

Source: http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...rks-75-percent-boost-for-quad-cores/Practice/
 
I bought my game off an online retailer. On the site they never mentioned anything about content and it didnt bother me

When I got it was happy to find I got the blood armour and stone prisoner for 25 quid :p

Then bought wardens keep for 4.79 online
For less than 30 quid I get all the extra storyline content :cool:

Lol at the folk spending 40 quid on steam
 
Archibald0 said:
I bought my game off an online retailer. On the site they never mentioned anything about content and it didnt bother me

When I got it was happy to find I got the blood armour and stone prisoner for 25 quid :p

Then bought wardens keep for 4.79 online
For less than 30 quid I get all the extra storyline content :cool:

Lol at the folk spending 40 quid on steam
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Yup, I wouldn't have even come close to buying the deluxe version without the 25% off, £30 for it all in one bundle plus a couple extra items I couldn't give a monkeys about but meh, might be useful for those early levels where you have crap gear.
 
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