Hello, I just got DA:O today and I was having quite a bit of fun with it. However after the Harrowing my game started crashing to the desktop with no error message. It is random but happens frequently. It seems to only crash during gameplay. Sometimes I will crash when I loot an item, other times when I walk through a door. Several times I have loaded up only to crash after walking three feet. It does seem like each time it crashes some small part of the game (room/loot) is loading.
There are no error messages and when I checked the log it just said the game was shutting down. However I did notice that the DADM failed and terminated itself before the crash.
My specs:
MacBook
OSX 10.6.4
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 320M
I have tried a hard restart which only seemed to relieve the situation temporarily. I have not messed the settings yet but I plan to tomorrow.
Random crashes to desktop
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Skeinchug
, déc. 23 2010 05:32
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Posté 25 décembre 2010 - 12:36
Skeinchug
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Downloaded from direct 2 drive. The graphical settings are as low as possible.
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Posté 30 décembre 2010 - 04:56
Skeinchug
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Well I got to the wilds and it started crashing again 
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Posté 23 janvier 2011 - 11:14
Rhidor
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I have the same problem, it ALWAYS chrashes and I have to save after every battle, that is so annoying. I just think they dont tested it enough.
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Posté 27 janvier 2011 - 03:30
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Okay, I found out a way, how it doesnt crahses all the time.
After one hour played you have to quit the game and return to desktop for a few seconds, then restart the game. Its annoying, but better then the crashes where you have to restart the computer.
After one hour played you have to quit the game and return to desktop for a few seconds, then restart the game. Its annoying, but better then the crashes where you have to restart the computer.
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Posté 13 mars 2011 - 07:24
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ugh! I am experiencing crashing as well, though not 'to desktop' (which to me implies an app silently failing and returning you to whatever the last used app was). In my case the game just freezes completely all of a sudden and nothing fixes it except powering down my macbook by holding the power button for several seconds. Needless to say this is unnacceptable and very dangerous for all aspects of my computer.
Using iStat monitor I see that if I quit DA:O intentionally (which I will start doing regularly based on the advice of Vilae, which makes sense) I notice that the internal CPU temperature is very high, ~75 degrees Celsius. This is hot enough that the CPU itself probably freezes on purpose to avoid melting. I'm pretty sure this is something DA:O should be coded to handle.
Seriously guys, I just bought this new 13" macbook SPECIFICALLY TO PLAY DAO! But it crashes like this, so depressing.
Intel Core 2 Duo@2.4ghz, 4gb ram, NVIDIA GeForce 320M and an full SSD drive to boot. I should be able to keep graphics settings on high, but I have to turn everything all the way down in the HOPE that the whole game won't crash when I start a boss fight :S
If DA:O only works without crashing on a brand new 15" macbook then the specs should say so. In my case I have a brand new computer choking on the lowest settings, this makes no sense.
Using iStat monitor I see that if I quit DA:O intentionally (which I will start doing regularly based on the advice of Vilae, which makes sense) I notice that the internal CPU temperature is very high, ~75 degrees Celsius. This is hot enough that the CPU itself probably freezes on purpose to avoid melting. I'm pretty sure this is something DA:O should be coded to handle.
Seriously guys, I just bought this new 13" macbook SPECIFICALLY TO PLAY DAO! But it crashes like this, so depressing.
Intel Core 2 Duo@2.4ghz, 4gb ram, NVIDIA GeForce 320M and an full SSD drive to boot. I should be able to keep graphics settings on high, but I have to turn everything all the way down in the HOPE that the whole game won't crash when I start a boss fight :S
If DA:O only works without crashing on a brand new 15" macbook then the specs should say so. In my case I have a brand new computer choking on the lowest settings, this makes no sense.
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Posté 14 mars 2011 - 06:08
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jeremyclarke, do you have the latest patch? (1.04) I remember that behaviour was quite frequent before that patch. It still happens sometimes with me, but very rarely (maybe once every three months...).
Have you tried just waiting a few minutes? Sometimes the freeze is just temporary.
The GPU heating up (AFAIK, it's the GPU, not the CPU) is a problem with the Cider port since day one. If you haven't already, install smcFanControl and set the fans to medium or high before starting DA:O. That helps (a bit).
Basically, I have the same specs as you (MBP late 2008), but with an older graphic card (NVidia 9600 M GT) I can keep everything on max without problems... Ah, I just saw that, despite being two years older, the 9600 M GT is a bit faster...
Have you tried just waiting a few minutes? Sometimes the freeze is just temporary.
The GPU heating up (AFAIK, it's the GPU, not the CPU) is a problem with the Cider port since day one. If you haven't already, install smcFanControl and set the fans to medium or high before starting DA:O. That helps (a bit).
Basically, I have the same specs as you (MBP late 2008), but with an older graphic card (NVidia 9600 M GT) I can keep everything on max without problems... Ah, I just saw that, despite being two years older, the 9600 M GT is a bit faster...
