Okay, I'm pretty sure this is a well known one by now. Once you get to Ostagar you start hard crashing, to the point when even loading your save instantly crashes you. Some checking quickly showed me it was a problem with my line of graphics card (ATI Radeon 3800 series) and processor (AMD Phenom quad core), along with some fixes.
Well now I've downgraded my ATI drivers to 9.6, underclocked the card, set affinity to one core and whole spattering of small changes. It still crashes.
So, I've tried everything I've seen posted on how to fix this, but nothing is doing it for me. Was there a grand fix I didn't learn about that solved everything? Am I screwed for making the purchase? Any up-to-date info on this would be greatly appreciated.
My system specs:
AMD Phenom™ 9600 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
4gigs RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
The ATI Issue
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Beat Bandit
, juin 22 2010 07:41
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Posté 23 juin 2010 - 02:21
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Weird. It must be a problem exclusive to the 3000 series, as I've played this game with both a 4000 and 5000 series with no issues at all.
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Posté 23 juin 2010 - 10:13
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3800 and 4800 series. Since posting this I've seen a few other people make posts with the same problem too, just poorly explained because they don't know what's causing it. So, if anyone has found a cure-all, it's not just me you'd be helping. It's still a major issue preventing a lot of people from playing.
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Posté 24 juin 2010 - 08:51
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no kidding...a friend of mine seems to think its just card related but since he's on the other side of the country there isnt much he can do...
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Posté 24 juin 2010 - 01:48
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well i've had it working with a Radeon 4890 and a 5850 both loading without crashing and both were overclocked.
I'm running Dragon Age maxed out at 1920 * 1080 also Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I'm running Dragon Age maxed out at 1920 * 1080 also Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Posté 24 juin 2010 - 08:49
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I have it running on an ATI 4870 since release and have gone 3 patches and 1 expansion DLC without a single crash. Running Cat 10.5's now. If it was an ATI issue I would be crashing also, have you checked if its sound related? I have found most of the crashes people have are bad on board sound drivers. ( this is why I went Azuntech Forte XFI ), to many crashes with on board for me.
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Posté 25 juin 2010 - 01:41
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's more an AMD CPU issue, as the ATI 4850 ATI card I used with DA:O seemed pretty solid to me. I rarely had a crash, but was peeved off with gameplay bugs.
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Posté 28 juin 2010 - 06:09
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So does anyone have any idea's on how to remedy this at all then?
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Posté 30 juin 2010 - 02:15
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Playing on 2 Ati 4850 cards myself I would recommend not to assume it is an ATI video card problem. Dragon Age crashing can be caused by
- bugs in the Dragon Age patch 1.03, most notably in the audio subsystem,
- by processor, mainboard or video card overheating
- the power supply not keeping up with power demand or overheating
- system specific driver/software conflicts
I would really exclude all of the above before looking at ATI as very, very many people are playing this game with AMD+ATI hardware (even on Windows 7 64-bit) and are not crashing except for a few patch 1.03 related crashes once in a long while. So why would your game crash and not theirs if it was indeed as simple as the AMD+ATI combination?
- bugs in the Dragon Age patch 1.03, most notably in the audio subsystem,
- by processor, mainboard or video card overheating
- the power supply not keeping up with power demand or overheating
- system specific driver/software conflicts
I would really exclude all of the above before looking at ATI as very, very many people are playing this game with AMD+ATI hardware (even on Windows 7 64-bit) and are not crashing except for a few patch 1.03 related crashes once in a long while. So why would your game crash and not theirs if it was indeed as simple as the AMD+ATI combination?
Modifié par basdoorn, 30 juin 2010 - 02:24 .
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Posté 01 juillet 2010 - 04:27
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FWIW, disabling frame buffer effects in the configuration tool made the game far more stable on my Intel E8400/Radeon 5770/Win7 x64 box.
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Posté 05 juillet 2010 - 07:34
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hi! dont know if you got it fixed but update ALL microsoft c+++redist. ect. and dx9 things from microsoft website. i read it either of those have fixed crashing for some. my self haven't had any crashing but serious fps drops in ostagar and many other places. also i need to mention that there is trick to get hell of a lot more fps with amd cpu and i think that could also fix crashing just google it. example: DAO amd cpu boost. or somethig like that.
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vista 64bit
hd 5770 cucore 1gb
c2q 9400 2.6ghz
4 gb ddr2
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Posté 06 juillet 2010 - 01:19
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I've been using an ATI 4870, no problems at all, stock drivers on an e8500 xp system.
But I did have an overheating problem I didn't know about, till I checked things with the Real Temp program and found that my cpu voltage was set way higher than necessary, and the automatic voltage setting in the BIOS wasn't lowering it as it should have.
If your cores are overheating, that might be the cause of a myriad of problems with the game.
But I did have an overheating problem I didn't know about, till I checked things with the Real Temp program and found that my cpu voltage was set way higher than necessary, and the automatic voltage setting in the BIOS wasn't lowering it as it should have.
If your cores are overheating, that might be the cause of a myriad of problems with the game.
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Posté 06 juillet 2010 - 01:25
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Nope. Running on an Athlon dual core 3.2 mhz. No issues, whatsoever.ShinsFortress wrote...
I wouldn't be surprised if it's more an AMD CPU issue, as the ATI 4850 ATI card I used with DA:O seemed pretty solid to me. I rarely had a crash, but was peeved off with gameplay bugs.
