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[henryke11]

Long story short: nothing wrong wit DAO code, but all of us experiencing crashes to desktop (CTD) - less with 1.01, a lot of crash with 1.3... 1.4 helped a bit, but it's still crashing. Problem is (without the boring technical details): DOA making some corrupt calls for DX functions/parameters (especially when a lot of magic-effects and their sound FX happens) causing the game code to call illegal functions - and crash to dekstop. It's not exactly Bioware's fault, mostly a problem with DirectX, and DX versions.

There is an infamous "core affinity" fix for this (works for some ppl, doesn't work for others) - but it's only a workaround, also it affects performance, as you are forced to use only one (or two in quad-PCs) core.

Solution? Well, thanks for the community, this "illegal DX function calls" are already fixed by the wonderfull Fallout community, with a tiny DLL file. You can download it here:

For Nvidia cards download here

For ATI cards download here

Installation: put the DLL file into your game executables directory, usually in:
install path/Dragon Age/bin_ship/

Tested with 1.02 = 54 hrs of gameplay (10 session, average 6hrs/session) on max settings, zero crashing.
Tested with 1.04 = 28 hrs of gameplay (6 session) on max settings, zero crashing.
Not tested yet: 1.03 (don't use 1.03 anyway, its horrible)

Without the fix: constant crashing in big battles (especially boss battles), average 1-2 CTD on every 40-60mins.

What the Fix does

This .dll file is essentially a light-wrapper for a 'supported' video card's .dll, which tricks the games to use "older" DX function calls. In some games it affect visual quality of effects (in DAO we didn't noticed any difference). Works with almost all games, from Dragon Age tru Fallout3, FNV, etc.

Please note, this fix doesn't help with the famous memory leak problem (long loading times, etc.) - this is only a solution for the constant crashes. Also using this DLL together with Gamebooster helps more.

Give it a try - let us know... did it work for you?

Użytkownik henryke11 edytował ten post 23 listopad 2010 - 01:22

[SSV Enterprise]

Can you provide the full address to put the DLL file in?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it.

Użytkownik SSV Enterprise edytował ten post 23 listopad 2010 - 06:52

[Dragoniter]

Played a mage up until leavin Lothering, used Tempest a lot to test this fix, no problems. Ten minutes ago i crashed after 30 minutes of playing the Darkspawn Chronicles though. Just engaged some dwarves, nothing big really. I will further test this as well.

[Dragoniter]

Unfortunately it seems your fix doesn´t help or at least not much. Crashes still seem somewhat random, more frequently in large battles and when a lot of magical effects are displayed.Given the fact that there are a lot of people that do not seem to have any big problems with the game, i find it rather astonishing that after such a long time there is still no clue as to what causes those problems and how to fix them.



And there is that tiny little voice inside my head that says: Why should you fix anything, let BioWare do it.^^

[MofineBovine]

I am using a HD5850. I dled the.dll for ati cards and copyed it too D:\\Install\\Games\\Dragon Age\\bin_ship



A walking bomb explosion caused a CTD in my second battle.

[Ratyrogi]

there just wasnt enough space on the internet for a DLL it had to be compressed.. as a RAR no less... *sigh*
and people wonder why the PC game market is dying.. never have this much trouble making a game work for my PS3
thanks for the info about the DLL but im fed up with these crashes. my computer is better than the reccomended specs on the game box, i have already updated every driver my computer has and patched the game 4 times because of this and i still cant play for more than 5 minutes without CTD. i dont really feel like installing a compression tool for a file that may or may not work that isnt even supported by the company that made the game.
i think im just going to go get my money back and get assassins creed 3 or something.

Użytkownik Ratyrogi edytował ten post 01 styczeń 2011 - 06:47

[SeanBahamut]

Just tried this as I was getting crashes in Darkspawn Chronicles. It didn't help... not at all

My game seems to crash in the 4th area every time I try to kill the first lot of guys

Użytkownik SeanBahamut edytował ten post 10 marzec 2011 - 08:30

[Braxis X]

 Sorry for ressucitating the thread...

This seems to be my last hope for playing DAO without crashing every 5 minutes or so.

The thing is, the link is broken. Can someone please just upload it to mediafire or somewere we can download?

Thanks a lot in advance

Edit: http://www.mediafire...7klkv264b5hlas6 here is the link for the ATI fix, i couldn't find the Nvidia's one
It took me a lot of time lurking on the nexus to find that file because the link always returnet as an error. If anyone can share the nvidia fix, i'll be glad

Użytkownik Braxis X edytował ten post 03 listopad 2012 - 06:42