Dragon Age: Origins Benchmarks and Graphics Tuning

PC Games Hardware has taken BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins for a spin on different hardware and operating systems in order to provide us with some benchmark results and a handful of tips for tuning the game properly on a typical PC.

Dragon Age: Origins – Which Windows is running faster?
Dragon Age: Origins runs fastest under Windows XP. In the most popular resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels our test system (Core 2 Quad Q9650, P45, Geforce GTX 285, Geforce 191.07 WQHL, 2x 2048 GiByte DDR2-1066) reached 65 frames per second. With Windows 7 61 fps were reached. On the last place is Vista with 59 frames per second. This means: Like most DX9 games Dragon Age: Origins runs best under windows XP. In direct comparison Windows 7 is about 3 percent faster than Vista 64.

Dragon Age: Origins – Conclusion
You don’t need highest-end hardware to play Dragon Age: Origins smoothly. With any graphics card better than a Geforce GTS 250 or Radeon HD 4870 the processor becomes the limiting factor. In matters of system memory you shouldn’t be too tight fisted. Even if 2 GiByte are enough for Windows XP you should nevertheless use 4 GiByte for all operating systems since this reduces the necessary hard drive operations.