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[goldenember6]

I just made it to the town of Denerim (not sure of spelling), and my game started massively lagging and then crashed to desktop. Now whenever I load my game its a few seconds of serious lag and then immediate crash to desktop again. I am unable to move/progress in the town at all. I have updated all my drivers and downloaded the patch hoping that would fix it but no such luck.

Modifié par goldenember6, 10 novembre 2009 - 10:11 .

[C. Ouimet]

Does reloading a previous save in an area other than Denerim cause the same problem or is it running smoothly again?

[JP2000]

I have this too - loading a save in Denerim (just the first market area, other areas are fine) causes a CTD 90% of the time. No problems elsewhere in the game with this kind of thing (thus far), so I work around it by just saving elsewhere and going to the market area as sparingly as possible.

[RealPoseidon]

I have a variation of this problem... entering the market seems fine, i have no lagging or anything with it.

However if i make a save at the very entrance of the market, and then i try to load this save, it never loads, i waited for 30 minutes and then i saw in the task manager it's just not responding. Tried a couple of times - same thing. I believe every other area of the market is fine for me except this entrance.

[C. Ouimet]

To anyone encountering this issue, can I get your system spec if your playing it on the PC? There is a possibility it might be a driver issue or something else related to your hardware. If your playing on either console, which console are you playing it on?

[RealPoseidon]

Motherboard: Asus M2A-VM

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ @ 2200 Mhz

Video Card: NVIDIA 9800GT

RAM: 5120MB

OS: Windows XP Pro SP3



I updated my drivers and DirectX just before i installed the game.

[JP2000]

Motherboard: Dell 0CK520 (XPS720)

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 2133 Mhz

Video: Nvidia 8800 GTS 512 (on 195.39 beta drivers which made DA crash a lot less than the 190.62 ones)

Ram: 2048Mb

OS: Win XP Home SP3

[jonih83]

I am having the same issue, ir a bit different actually.

Never had any problems before or elsewhere.

But the game freezes in the market districts, I can still move the mouse and the music keeps playing though.

I has something to do, at least for me, with the center of the market district, everytime I go near the market stalls in the middle it freezes

I also noticed that if I save at the very entrance of the market district I can load the savegame, but if i run to the center of the market, and save it freezes on loading, the music keeps playing and the symbol keeps spinninh but nothing happens.



os: windows 7

AT 4800

[ArminW68]

One question to everyone who posted here that is not mentioned in your specs:
Which drive have you installed DAO to, and is that a physical drive or a partition?

I had very similar freezing/crashing issues with specific ares in the game (not the Denerim Market, but otherwise exactly the same as you all describe) that disappeared completetly after I removed the game from my D: partition and reinstalled it to the C: drive (basically, the windows home partition).

I had similar trouble with other games before, not all, but several. It seems Windows Vista, and from what I hear, 7 as well, has an inherent problem with partitioned drives and the way some games access them.
Have a look at your crash logs, if any. If there something about IDEports idle in them, try reinstalling to your windows home drive and see what happens.

Worked 100% for me...

Modifié par ArminW68, 16 novembre 2009 - 08:06 .

[ZootCadillac]

ArminW68 wrote...

One question to everyone who posted here that is not mentioned in your specs:
Which drive have you installed DAO to, and is that a physical drive or a partition?

I had very similar freezing/crashing issues with specific ares in the game (not the Denerim Market, but otherwise exactly the same as you all describe) that disappeared completetly after I removed the game from my D: partition and reinstalled it to the C: drive (basically, the windows home partition).

I had similar trouble with other games before, not all, but several. It seems Windows Vista, and from what I hear, 7 as well, has an inherent problem with partitioned drives and the way some games access them.
Have a look at your crash logs, if any. If there something about IDEports idle in them, try reinstalling to your windows home drive and see what happens.

Worked 100% for me...

Although it has worked for you I'm not sure that the reasonong you give has anything to do with it.
The fact is that anyone with some knowledge now knows that the C: drive should contain your OS and have little else on it for an efficient and smooth running OS. You make a partition large enough for it and then enough for the swapfile plus some overhead and you leave it alone.
Installing programs to the same partition as your OS is what ultimately brings around all those re-installs.
Windows needs hard drive space to operate, especially Vista and Win 7 if you are running on low amounts of installed RAM. I can't tell you of the amounts of complaints I've dealt with on photoshop forums where prople are running PS on the same Drive ( yes drive, not just partition ) as their OS including the HUGE scratch disk that photoshop needs and wondering why their PC runs like a dog.
FYI I'm running Win 7 Ultimate 64bit on my C partition with nothing but system specific programs installed there. I have most of my application software installed to a completely separate drive D:: (which is partioned twice ) and my games on another drive F: which is partitioned 3 times and my downloaded content sits on the external HD L:
I admit I'm a bit of a geek and know more about this stuff than the average PC user but beyond hardware failures I never, ever have system problems that I don't cause myself when tinkering.

[ArminW68]

ZootCadillac wrote...
Although it has worked for you I'm not sure that the reasonong you give has anything to do with it.
The fact is that anyone with some knowledge now knows that the C: drive should contain your OS and have little else on it for an efficient and smooth running OS. You make a partition large enough for it and then enough for the swapfile plus some overhead and you leave it alone.

I know that theory very well...
So did the guy that built my PC.
And in theory, that is all very nice and dandy.

In practise, there is MS Vista and MS Games for Windows that absolutely demand that settings and save files from games have to be located in the user/my documents/ folder on C:

And in practise, it has always meant that some games for my system simply refuse to work on the partition, especially those with Securom or other invasive copy protection measures.

In practise, Fallout 3, Risen, Venetica, the Fall and NWN2 currently work like a charm on D:

And on the other hand, Drakensang wouldn't even start on D, Divinity2 lagged like hell on D, and DAO had hiccups and freezes in certain areas and certain dialogue/cutscenes on D.
All 3 now work absolutely perfect on C.

I have no idea what the deeper reason is behind that, but for me it's a solution for now.

Just stating the facts...

[Selvec_Darkon]

Zoot is right about how it should be set up. But cost also comes into the factor. A lot of people cannot afford a three drive setup. I have that issue. You could even partion that OS drive into two partions and have the Swap file located on the second partion, then hide said partion to stop clients from installing stuff on it.



But in the real world, it's not always possible. Hardware costs money, and money isn't always avaliable for hardware.