So the latest Dragon Age game is finally here. Lots of publications' reviews are out so check them out for full reviews but some quick technical impressions:
I'm running at 1920x1080 on an i7 950 OC'd to 3.8Ghz, 12GB RAM and a 2GB 7870 also OC'd + using the very latest AMD beta driver.
Graphically, I'm running a mix of high and ultra settings and gameplay is smooth for the most part, cutscenes are worse and show a fair bit of tearing but run fairly smoothly - turning off vsync was a must for the cutscenes though as when it's on they were very stuttery.
Using the Mantle API was quite a lot worse for me - I suspect VRAM usage goes over the limit, going back to DX11 was an easy choice.
Game-wise, the PC experience is not all that polished - it's a bit of a fight against controls sometimes and not all that well suited to keyboard and mouse. I'm sure I'll get used to it.
After only a couple of hours I've seen plenty of bugs too - characters speaking the male and female versions of lines simultaneously, missing mouse interaction for dialogues, and now it seems I'm going to have to start over as NPCs think my character is the opposite gender to what he actually is.
It's too early to judge the wider gameplay out of combat (which feels basically like DA2) at the moment it's hugely derivative of other games (ESO in particular) and I can see some gothic 3 mechanics down the line, but we'll see.