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    Dragon Age: Origins

    Game » consists of 20 releases. Released Nov 03, 2009

    Dragon Age: Origins is an epic fantasy role-playing game featuring a rich story, personality-driven characters, and tactical, bloody combat. It is considered a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series.

    Turning off Shadows on the PC version of DA:O

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    #1  Edited By dystonym

    Hello.
     
    I have a really, really shitty graphics card (Radeon X1300) and I can't upgrade for another month or so. Now that I'm getting further into this game and spells and what not are flying all over the place, I'm getting awful framerates. I've tried turning EVERYTHING to as low as it can go, and I've gone into the .INI and turned EnableShadows to 0, but it didn't do anything. I can still see soft shadows all over the place which my card really has a problem with. Is there any other way to turn them off?
     
    Thank you.

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    #2  Edited By gike987

    If I remember correctly from the toolset, no shadow is rendered in real time (except the character shadows which you alreday turned of)  so it doesn't matter it's an part of the environment.
    This game isn't anyway near as taxing on the graphics as it is on the CPU. So check if your CPU is good enough first.

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    #3  Edited By MikeHaggarKJ

    Yhea this is probably the second most CPU demanding game I've ever played. Pretty surprising.
    It probably explains why the PS3 version is better then the 360 version, to.

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