Dragon Age: Inquisition update 2 launched a few hours ago across quite a few platforms, but unfortunately, it seems that it's introduced several new problems on the PC, besides fixing plenty of older ones.

Dragon Age: Inquisition launched last month across the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms, with developer BioWare delivering to fans a sprawling role-playing experience with massive environments, a rich story, and an intense multiplayer mode.

While the game was certainly quite impressive, it also suffered from quite a few different issues across most platforms, from broken quests to glitches while interacting with certain companions or non-playable characters, and crashes and errors seen on the PC due to certain graphics card drivers.

In order to solve some of these issues, BioWare rolled out a few hours ago Dragon Age: Inquisition patch 2, which served to fix a wide array of errors relating to quests, performance, stability, and other important areas.

The new update introduces new problems

Unfortunately, as spotted by many PC owners on Reddit, the new update also introduced a series of major issues with the game's visuals, as apparently the game no longer uses the settings input by users in the options menu.

No matter the actual settings you want for Inquisition, from low to high, or even ultra, the game doesn't actually run with them. Instead, apparently, the patch forces the game to run in graphics presets set for the PS3 or Xbox 360 consoles, even on PCs that are way more powerful than those older devices.

According to fans, there's no way to force the game to run at certain graphics settings by modifying its files so, at least for now, it's unclear how they can actually continue playing at the quality levels they want.

The issues affect many visual effects

Because the game now runs in last-gen console mode, so to say, many effects no longer appear, from scars and facial customization elements to ice and fire particles. Some textures are also glitched, causing specific characters to appear to have a wrinkled face instead of a normal one.

As of yet, there's no word from BioWare about a solution to the errors introduced by patch 2 for Dragon Age: Inquisition on the PC platform.

Even so, expect to hear some form of confirmation in the near future about a second PC-only update or at least a workaround to keep PC owners happy until the patch can be released.