A spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series, Dragon Historic period: Origins was the first game of its franchise. Unlike many others, BioWare was wildly successful in bringing this role-playing game to realization as a true multi-platform endeavor, spanning releases on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac, and of form, the PC.

Fans of the original game are no doubt excited nigh the recent release of Dragon Age II. Whereas many games these days are designed for console gaming and so ported to PC, Dragon Age II was initially designed for the PC platform. At the same time, BioWare has been determined to assert the console versions of the title are non but ports of the PC version, either.

Given our power to fit out PCs with vastly superior hardware, it pays off when playing Dragon Age II. Right off the bat BioWare released a free high-resolution texture pack download designed exclusively for the PC version. But as of import, the game exclusively supports DirectX xi on the PC providing cut edge rendering features such as tessellation, boosted dynamic lighting, depth of field and ambient occlusion (SSAO). When compared to DX9 nosotros can confirm that Dragon Age Two looks considerably improve using the more advanced renderer.

The developer recommends at least a Core two Quad Q6600 or AMD Phenom II X3 processor suggesting that Dragon Age Two will take reward of more than two cores. For those happy to play the game using the older DX9 rendering technology BioWare recommends either a Radeon Hard disk 3850 or Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS which are both very old graphics cards now.

Given the visual enhancements that DirectX 11 provides we doubtable that well-nigh of our readers are going to desire to take reward of this rendering mode. BioWare recommends at least a Radeon HD 5850 or GeForce GTX 460 for those wanting to enjoy the DX11 features. These are powerful graphics cards leading us to believe that the game is very visually demanding.

With this in mind, we'll solely focus on DirectX 11 operation using over a dozen graphics cards capable of rendering Dragon Age Ii on all its visual glory. As usual we'll also exist looking at CPU performance to see what kind of processor gamers are going to crave to take total reward of Dragon Age 2.

As a side note we should point out that terminal month a playable demo of the game was released, which will allow yous to become a experience of the game before investing your money. In the demo, players can venture through the game's prologue, choosing from iii different graphic symbol classes. Upon completion of the demo, players will unlock a special weapon, Hayder's Razor, an ancient dwarven blade which increases wellness, mana, and combat abilities, in the full release of Dragon Age 2.