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[Blasphemer]

Hello, I've been playing Origins (without any other DLC) without any problems. I beat the game and, logically, immediately bought Awakening. I purchased and downloaded Awakening off of the EA downloader and started running into this glitch where after 10-15 minutes, usually during a fight but a few times out of fights, windows would crash the program straight to Desktop, show it's little "Dragon Age:Origins has stopped working, Windows is trying to fix it now" Box, and then promptly end the program without me being able to do anything. I've looked through the forums, and I redownloaded 1.04 and updated the drivers for my hardware, and it worked better for... an hour or so. And then the crashes started up and became more and more frequent, now only occuring during fights and usually towards the end. What's going on and how do I fix it?

[Gorath Alpha]

If that's a laptop, you have a problem. The chipset's onboard video is too poor, and a laptop's graphics cannot be upgraded.

[Blasphemer]

It's a desktop so I could get a video upgrade if needed but it runs really smooth literally until it Ctd's.

[LadyKarrakaz]

ok, I see 2 possibilities



- you play at a 2 high resolution and you lack memory. Try lowering the game details and use your disk defragmenter tool (will speed the game a bit)





- second possibility, something is corrupted in your install.



Then I'd say backup your saves, uninstall and make a clean new install.



First DAO

Then Awakening

Then the patch

Use your defragmenter tool (very important for some games)



Try playing again.





Good luck.

[Blasphemer]

I've reinstalled twice now, and did it in the order you said there. The drivers are all updated and the crashes won't let me progress now. The game crashes even if I run on low everything, but it runs perfectly smooth until it simply crashes, usually right after a pretty spell effect goes off. It's only a problem with Awakening because Origins still runs (and ran) perfectly fine. Help! Are there any other suggestions/fixes?

[Blasphemer]

I've also tried the setting the affinity to each possible combination of cores, on low settings, and it just runs slower until it randomly crashes. Is the only fix buying a 100$+ video card?

[Gorath Alpha]

Not $100, unless you insist on allowing some storefront operator to gouge you. For $15-20 less than that, you can get a quite decent upgrade for a desktop machine from an online eTailer such as Newegg.

[Blasphemer]

Thank you for your help. I'll see if that fixes it

[Gorath Alpha]

The very first one is mostly a SCAM as far as how much VRAM is attached:

www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx

A Mainline Gaming card has a 128 bit memory system, which can readily manipulate 256 MBs of RAM for gaming.  When fast enough, such a card occasionally can handle 512 MBs, but never a full GigaByte.  That is on there just to look good, not to actually do anything other than suck down current and then waste it, generating heat. 

The 512 MB card from HIS listed a few spots downward is $75 after rebate, and should be just fine.


Gorath

[Balder84]

Blasphemer - a new video card is not likely your solution to this problem after all your current video card got you through Origins yes? - I'm getting the same crashing and error message but I'm playing Origins and my video card is an ATI 5870 Vapor-X.

I think unfortunately for us both this is a stability bug in dragon age and not a lack of good hardware. If there is a real fix for crashes I'd love to know too! Would be nice to get what I paid for!

win7
AMD Phenom2 x4 3.0ghz
ATI 5870
8g of Ram

Modifié par Balder84, 09 septembre 2010 - 02:00 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Your own circumstances differ a great deal from those faced by the OP.  You have an actual video graphics circuit board that qualifies for the definition of "Card", and is subject to more driver conflicts than is usual fior a Radeon. 

The OP does *NOT* have such a "Card" at all, and is faced with a far more questionable situation on drivers.  nVIDIA has kept on stumbling regularly the past two and a half years or so, such that perhaps 30% or more of their drivers are causing difficulties for Dragon Age game owners who own any but the very newest and most powerful of Geforce products. 

By moving from nVIDIA to AMD, he stands a much better chance of matching a driver up to this game!   (Although it does seem, in my estimation, that an HD 4670 will perhaps be even less problematic than the HD 5670s that I have pointed him at.) 


Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 09 septembre 2010 - 03:17 .

[Balder84]

hmm, that's a rather disturbing rate of driver incompatibility for this game....thanks for that info Gorath.



On the bright side Blasphemer a new graphics card is always good to have :-)