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[BrunoB1971]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone is playing this game with a 64 bit operating system and if so if it is stable or not.

thanks

[Ymladdych]

I'm playing on on 64 bit Vista Ultimate, with all service packs installed. It's stable for me.

[didymos1120]

Win 7 Home Premium x64, all updates installed. I've had exactly one crash, and I typically have all sorts of other stuff running while playing, including the toolset.

[searanox]

There should be no issues with running the game on a 64-bit version of Windows (except perhaps XP), because they're fully backwards compatible with everything 32-bit. It's only with 16-bit programs that you run into problems. Usually issues with programs don't stem from the fact that the operating system is 64-bit, but rather they're due to UAC and other security and structural changes to the operating system as a whole.

[bstrothe]

Running on Windows XP Pro 64-bit here. Before patch 1.03 everything was stable. Now I get some pretty repeatable crashes to desktop, like every time I enter the Lothering Chantry. I guess Sten will just have to stay in his cage...

[sarx8172]

Win7 Home Premium here as well. I get an occasional lag if I have a lot of graphically intense stuff running for an extended period of time (i.e. when I spam mass AoE spells during the Final Battle in DAO). I do, however, experience the "memory leak" after a very long time of playing (like six hours or more).



This is with both patch 1.03 and Awakening installed, as well as all official DLC (and a whole lot of mods).

[Eurypterid]

I have it on my Win 7 Pro 64 bit rig, but the game's only patched to 1.02a. No issues with it.

[searanox]

bstrothe wrote...

Running on Windows XP Pro 64-bit here. Before patch 1.03 everything was stable. Now I get some pretty repeatable crashes to desktop, like every time I enter the Lothering Chantry. I guess Sten will just have to stay in his cage...

This is what I was talking about.  Windows XP 64-bit is based on Windows Server 2003 if I remember correctly, and is a totally different codebase from standard Windows XP.  As a result, compatibility cannot be guaranteed with most applications unless they are explicitly stated to run on that operating system.

[davidguest]

well I asked Ea about backing up my EA download cache & migrating the game to a new WIN 7 PC.



after telling me that I could not migrate the cache for antti-piracy reasons & would have to do a complete re-download, they went on to tell me that the game wa not written for or tested in any version of WIN 7 ( 32 OR 64 bit) so might not work.



now I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the 64bit WIn 7 was on sale at the time that DAO released.



you'd think that even EA would test their games with the OS that was at that time being shipped with most new Dell PCs.

[didymos1120]

searanox wrote...
This is what I was talking about.  Windows XP 64-bit is based on Windows Server 2003 if I remember correctly, and is a totally different codebase from standard Windows XP.

XP 64 was supposedly always pretty twitchy too, even with stuff intended for it. I never messed with it myself, so I can't speak from personal experience.  If you notice, though, a decent amount of software with Win64 versions will specifically not guarantee that it'll work on 64-bit XP.

[didymos1120]

davidguest wrote...
after telling me that I could not migrate the cache for antti-piracy reasons & would have to do a complete re-download, they went on to tell me that the game wa not written for or tested in any version of WIN 7 ( 32 OR 64 bit) so might not work.

Which is just a meaningless legal disclaimer for any OS not officially supported by the game.

now I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the 64bit WIn 7 was on sale at the time that DAO released.
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Yeah, it was.  As in, it was released just before DA was.  That means it was still in development when DA was basically done, since the release date for DA was determined by the fact that it was multi-platform. I.e., they could have released the PC version months before the PS3 and X360 ones.  They almost certainly did test it on pre-release versions of Win 7 (informally, I imagine), but they definitely weren't going to start altering the game for an OS that wasn't even complete yet and which, by the time the game was already more or less feature-complete, nobody except maybe beta testers, a few software pirates, and a subset of Microsoft programmers had installed.  That just ain't the way the software industry works.  You write for what's on the market, not for what's going to be at some unspecified date (and which, even if specified, is very much subject to change) in the future.

Besides which: it works fine on Win7 x64.  Or rather, it's capable of working fine.  Because, as we all know, for some people it won't work reliably at all, even on a 32-bit version of XP/Vista.  Also, here's an experiment for you:  call EA support about DA.  Now tell 'em you're running Win7 64. Wanna guess what happens?  Answer: They don't hang up and will actually keep talking to you. Now whether or not they're actually of any use to you is a different question, but they will try. But, then you knew that already, right?  Seeing as you talked to them about Win7 64....

Modifié par didymos1120, 25 avril 2010 - 08:07 .

[PT.Vohnsen]

Stable for me.... Very.

[JamesMoriarty123]

Win7x64 - Stable under 1.02a - Unstable under 1.03



Patch screwed **** up...

[Ganondorf2002]

I'm running Win7x64 pro with patch 1.03 and very stable. I'ts crashed only twice.

[Eurypterid]

davidguest wrote...

well I asked Ea about backing up my EA download cache & migrating the game to a new WIN 7 PC.

after telling me that I could not migrate the cache for antti-piracy reasons & would have to do a complete re-download, they went on to tell me that the game wa not written for or tested in any version of WIN 7 ( 32 OR 64 bit) so might not work.

now I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the 64bit WIn 7 was on sale at the time that DAO released.

you'd think that even EA would test their games with the OS that was at that time being shipped with most new Dell PCs.

I hate to say it, but they're either very confused or don't know jack about what they're doing. The box clearly states in the recommended specs and the system requirements: Windows XP (SP3) or Windows Vista (SP1) or Windows 7.

I'd send an e-mail back to them and ask them why Win 7 is listsed there if it hasn't been tested with the game.

[Mordaedil]

No issues, ran it in Windows XP x64 bit then Windows 7 64-bit.

[Oddball1]

Windows Vista 64bit Ultimate with 8GB's of ram, both Vista Service Packs, and a Core i5 750 cpu. Patched to 1.03, with DLC and Dragon Age Awakening installed. Recently installed a SATA 3 SSD, for my boot drive.

[adrichardson]

Rock solid on 7 x64 here too (1.02a). Re the OS support on the box - definitely ask support to explain why they're listing Windows 7 on the Awakening box if they haven't actually tested it.



Not supporting x64 was fine back in the XP/2003 days, but not officially supporting it under Vista/7 is a joke. Even Dells ship with 7 x64 now!

[CrustyCat]

davidguest wrote...

well I asked Ea about backing up my EA download cache & migrating the game to a new WIN 7 PC.

after telling me that I could not migrate the cache for antti-piracy reasons & would have to do a complete re-download, they went on to tell me that the game wa not written for or tested in any version of WIN 7 ( 32 OR 64 bit) so might not work.

now I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the 64bit WIn 7 was on sale at the time that DAO released.

you'd think that even EA would test their games with the OS that was at that time being shipped with most new Dell PCs.

Yeah, that's funny.  Especially since it is listed as a recommended OS on the case.

Kevin

[CymTyr2000]

Running 7 x64 Home Premium with the latest windows updates and most recent graphics drivers. After wiping my previous drivers totally clean and installing the latest ones, I've crashed once in 15 hours of gameplay, and I am thinking it was related to alt-tabbing several times within the course of a few minutes (I multitask often).



I had some issues with 1.03 prior to wiping my gfx drivers, but as far as 1.02 and before that I think I crashed maybe twice.



Only thing I notice with 1.03 now is that if the screen is filled with particle effects it bogs down my machine. I have a 260 GTX so I don't want to say it's my video card, but it might very well be.



If you wipe your gfx drivers clean with driversweeper and wipe them again in safe mode, and then reinstall the latest drivers, it seems to have cut down several people's ctd's. As far as the game not being tested in Windows 7.... I don't know, that's just horrible. It has 7 right on the box, as others have pointed out. If they never actually bothered to test an OS they say the game runs on, then I guess maybe EA really hasn't learned much after all.

[searanox]

Patch 1.03 tends to have issues with crashing, so I doubt it was any problem with your system. Certain area of effect spells especially tend to cause problems.

[didymos1120]

CymTyr2000 wrote...
 As far as the game not being tested in Windows 7.... I don't know, that's just horrible. It has 7 right on the box, as others have pointed out. If they never actually bothered to test an OS they say the game runs on, then I guess maybe EA really hasn't learned much after all.

 I speculated earlier that they tested it informally with pre-release versions of Win7, but that was before it was pointed out that they list the OS on the box.  If this were still November of 2009, it'd be plausible that it was a case of something like sending the wrong info to the people handling the packaging.  But at this point that doesn't fly: "Windows 7" is still being put on new copies, it's still listed on the official websites, and what's more, Awakening's box has it too, and the manual even mentions it.

So basically you either believe one tech support person (who has had a few weeks training in basic computer troubleshooting before being set loose on the phones, and very well may have known hardly anything about PCs before getting hired) needs to get their facts straight, or that EA likes living dangerously and courting class-action lawsuits by claiming, in print no less, to support an OS it actually doesn't.  EA is many things, and definitely makes some dumb-as-ass calls,  but they're not that stupid.  It's listed on the box, it's listed on the Awakening box, they tested it. 

Modifié par didymos1120, 26 avril 2010 - 03:12 .

[DjinnGuru]

Anyone having repeated crashes to desktop, read this thread:
http://social.biowar...58/index/189269
as #3 solved it for me.
I'm running DAO 1.03 on Windows 7 64-bit and was having constant
crashes before finding the workaround listed there. Now it runs great
as long as I do the workaround each time I start the game.

Modifié par DjinnGuru, 26 avril 2010 - 07:02 .