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[Kartarasha1]

When I move to a new location or load up a save game while in-game, the screen starts to flicker with black boxes and lines appearing across the screen. In order to stop the problem, I have to restart the program completely each time it occurs. I've installed the patch and that didn't fix it.

I've played with the graphic setting, toying from low to high, it doesn't affect the problem.

[cdragon_88]

if you're running an nvidia card, update to the newest drivers and disable phsyx acceleration from the nvidia control box. hope this hleps.

[RosInSF]

Kartarasha1 wrote...

When I move to a new location or load up a save game while in-game, the screen starts to flicker with black boxes and lines appearing across the screen. In order to stop the problem, I have to restart the program completely each time it occurs. I've installed the patch and that didn't fix it.

I've played with the graphic setting, toying from low to high, it doesn't affect the problem.

I have the same problem.  OS is Windows XP Home, SP3, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz.  I have DA:O v. 1.01b.  Video card is NVidia GeForce FX 8600 GTS e-PCI 256 Mb.  I have installed the latest WHQL-certified NVidia display drivers (195.86).  The video works fine everywhere but in the Dragon Age: Origins game.  The flickering occurs intermittently (about once or twice per game hour) when I switch areas or any room, etc., where I have to right-click on an illuminated door, etc. in order to gain entry.  I stop the flickering the same way you do, usually by quitting and restarting the game, but also sometimes by saving, exiting to the main game screen, and then loading the save (without quitting to the desktop).

I've notified EA officially, but they haven't replied yet.  Were you able to solve this problem?

[saikofish]

I have the same setup as you (XP Pro SP3, Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.13, GeForce 8600 GTS). Also do get flickering after an hour or so of gameplay which remains on the screen, but unfortunately for me it won't go away unless I reboot the computer entirely. I've tried restarting the save or the game, and neither help.



Disabling physx did not help me. I've replied in another thread and it seems to me that the common culprit is the GeForce 8600 card and perhaps XP.

[Gorath Alpha]

There does seem to be a specific conflict in this game between the drivers and the game when the card is an 8600, for many gamers, although not for all 8600s and not for all drivers, so it may be worthwhile to experiment with a variety of past driver sets. 

Gorath
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[Creesen]

I get the lines and the boxes constantly from start of game and nonstop during the game, can't even play most of it and I have a 9600

[RosInSF]

Thanks for your comments. I'm sorry that you also are having this problem, but I'm (selfishly) glad that I'm not alone! Maybe EA/Bioware will respond more quickly to fix the bug.



I wanted to add the following information.



My video card is an EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS (not FX 8600 GTS, as I said in my earlier message) e-PCI card with 256 Mb DDR-3 RAM. The problem also occurred with an earlier NVidia driver (I think it was 186 of June, 2009). So that's why I upgraded to the most recent WHQL-certified driver (195.something of November, 2009). Still the same problem. Yes, it usually occurs after about an hour of play. I'm OK until then. In addition, however, this time the game also crashed.



SPOILER FOLLOWS.



This is what happened. When I had the Rogue, Leiliana, in my party disarm the trip wire trap on the main floor of Arl Eamon's castle in Redcliffe, the trap was disarmed, but my monitor screen began flickering. So I saved the game and then exited to the main game menu, where I clicked on Quit in order to return to my Windows desktop. Instead of returning to the desktop, the dreaded "blue" screen appeared, saying that Windows had stopped the operation and caused a physical dump lest my computer be damaged and that the nv4_disp.dll (NVidia's display driver) had seemingly caused the problem. According to the message on the blue screen, the problem was that something tried to page something in a non-paged area. Since I have the latest NVidia display driver installed (195.something of November 2009) and since I have had no video problems in any of my programs except Dragon Age: Origins, I believe that the problem arises from a bug in Dragon Age: Origins. Maybe I should try a "clean boot" to see whether the game will run OK under those circumstances. Thanks!

[Vexandel]

I run a GT 8600 and found a workaround which doesn't require restarting. Whenever screen starts flickering,  I simply go to Video options menu and check ( or uncheck if checked) Vertical Sync (or whatever it's called). It solved flickering... until next area loads. At least I don't have to restart the game though.

Modifié par Vexandel, 30 novembre 2009 - 02:40 .

[DiFarrami]

similar issue, on a XP SP3 / 8600GTS, which runs pretty much all other new release games fine;

screen will start flickering eventually, performance decreases.

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! Current workaround:

! simply ALT-TAB the game to desktop and back, comes good for a while, no crashes.

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Looks to me like some slack coder forgot to unload the video memory until it bursts...

BIOWARE, please fix, this is a BUG and shouldn't have occured in the first place with a premium title. This is annoying, considering the graphics aren't really that flash anyhow....

[Aaleseh]

RosInSF wrote...

Kartarasha1 wrote...

When I move to a new location or load up a save game while in-game, the screen starts to flicker with black boxes and lines appearing across the screen. In order to stop the problem, I have to restart the program completely each time it occurs. I've installed the patch and that didn't fix it.

I've played with the graphic setting, toying from low to high, it doesn't affect the problem.

I have the same problem.  OS is Windows XP Home, SP3, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz.  I have DA:O v. 1.01b.  Video card is NVidia GeForce FX 8600 GTS e-PCI 256 Mb.  I have installed the latest WHQL-certified NVidia display drivers (195.86).  The video works fine everywhere but in the Dragon Age: Origins game.  The flickering occurs intermittently (about once or twice per game hour) when I switch areas or any room, etc., where I have to right-click on an illuminated door, etc. in order to gain entry.  I stop the flickering the same way you do, usually by quitting and restarting the game, but also sometimes by saving, exiting to the main game screen, and then loading the save (without quitting to the desktop).

I've notified EA officially, but they haven't replied yet.  Were you able to solve this problem?

That is precise the description of my problem. In the meantime I the driverversion is 196.21. But still no luck.
Has anyone found a solution to this problem at all. Every tred I read, comes up with nothing but various suggestions but essentially the same!

[dittybro]

i need help too ...i just got the game ..and play an hour ..the screen start flickering ...helppp ...its so annoying



and i'm using gefore 8600gt as well