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[worldcitizen1919]

I was able to run it on DX11 and high for ages but once I put the setting on very high it crashed. Also on high I was able to use AA so it's just the very high settings that there seems to be a problem with or need optimization.

I'm using a GTX 580 card

[Saint345]

I was (am?) also having periodic crash issues (dragon age 2 has stopped working).. I am trying something at the moment which *so far* is working.. and wondering if other people having this issue might want to try it too to see if it is actually a solution..

(This is for DX10/11 people btw)
Change your desktop theme to windows basic.. I know it sounds silly, but I have noticed many games have issues with the Windows Aero interface, and often running them under windows basic desktop solves the issue. So far I havent had the crashes since doing this, but need other people to try it too.

The annoying side effect being that the game refuses to start in fullscreen mode once you do this.. so each time you run the game you have to go back into options and re-select 'fullscreen' .. but if it gets rid of the crashes, is worth the trouble.

Please post your results if you try this.. the DX10/11 issue is a real pain, but I refuse to run in DX9, and shouldnt have to.

Intel i5 2500
8GB Ram
Asus GTX580
Dragon Age 2 1.02 + GeForce 270.51 (Beta) drivers (which incidentally fixed the framerate issue under very high settings, if you happen to have that problem too)

Hope this helps

Modifié par Saint345, 13 avril 2011 - 08:56 .

[Saint345]

Update: Didnt fix it after all.. took a lot longer to crash, but that could be purely coincidental..
the search continues...

[worldcitizen1919]

darkatreides wrote...


 Would be curious to see how it is working for someone with a 580...

Well I just bought a new GTX 580 last week and the game crashes like hell. Doesn't matter 270.51 with latest Bioware patch 1.02 it still crashes on DX 11 even if I turn off all other graphics settings and have a low resolution. Still crashes like hell every few minutes. plays beautifully then crash to desktop.

Just unplayable and made a huge dent in Bioware's untarnished reputation. Supposed to work with DX 11 why not? Paid for a new GPU and still have to play in DX 9!! Works perfectly with DX 9 no crashes at all.

Can play Metro 2033 DX 11 all settings maxed so I'm peed off terribly with this and Bioware. Two patches so far haven't helped so I guess I just won't play this anymore because I can't enjoy it knowing I have the hardware to play it maxed out.

[worldcitizen1919]

Makes me wonder how some reviewers are giving this 9's and 10's, Are they using DX 11?

Modifié par worldcitizen1919, 13 avril 2011 - 07:17 .

[Skarmaen Darkblade]

I'm royally pissed. Finished off Meredith and since the game doesnt allow you to save once the battle begins, the cutscene automatically takes place when you kill Meredith.... and guess what? The game crashed during the cutscene..... and I really want to know what happened! How did my actions on the story play out? How come Bioware didn't bother to create an extra tab just for video cutscenes?! This is like having your teeth pulled out without anesthetics. Grrrr!

[Solfaur]

Same thing here, granted 1.02 + 270.51 fixed the performance issues for the most part, the crashing is incredibly anoying. I'm running oc'ed 2x580s and even though the oc is basically 100% stable I gave it a try with standard clocks and game still crashes. Tried diffrent settings under dx11 and no change, constat random crashes survive... I'm really, really dissapointed with DA2 from many points of views but this takes the crown.

[Saint345]

I made a post in the DX11 thread about GTX580's ..
http://social.biowar...0212/60#7084401

I couldnt get mine to run completely stable until I underclocked it to around 756Mhz.. then the crashes went away.. the the crash frequency was pretty much directly proportional to the clock speed... so try underclocking your cards and see if that fixes your problem... you'll only lose 1 or 2 FPS anyway, better than crashing all the time.
 
Let me know how you get on, I'm interested to know how this works for other people.

Modifié par Saint345, 17 avril 2011 - 08:46 .

[Solfaur]

Thanks for the tip, I will make and underclocking Afterburner profile and check if it fixes the crashing. I'm a little sceptical because the game did crash almost as often when I set the cards to the default clocks as when they are 875/1750/2100@1050 mV. Anyway, I will give it a try when I get home and let you know.

[DimK]

Win 7 + DX11 = crashing every few minutes. DX9 - no problems.
GTX 570
nv 270.51 beta
4 Gb RAM
QX 9650

Modifié par DimK, 19 avril 2011 - 05:34 .

[Solfaur]

Saint345, made a profile with 750/1500/2000 underclock and so far good 2 hours of playing.. and NO crash anymore! I don't want to jinx it but it looks like your solution is permanent, thanks a lot.

[Saint345]

Glad it helped, no problem

[worldcitizen1919]

I tried it but same crashes as before.

[Saint345]

worldcitizen what kind of gfx card do you have? what is the factory clock speed, and what clock speed did you try it at?

[worldcitizen1919]

I have a Zotac GTX 580 AMP clock 815mhz. I went onto the Nvidia site and downlocked it to what the basic card clocks were on the GTX 580 Nvidia specs site but no go.

Edit: I found that I had not downclocked it properly as I was not familiar with the MSI AfterBurner program. Today I downclocked it properly and so far I've had only 1 crash when a cut scene failed to load but no in game crashes so far touch wood.

Modifié par worldcitizen1919, 03 juin 2011 - 04:28 .

[Superflex]

For what it's worth, I was crashing to desktop on DX11 with latest drivers on an evga GTX 570 SC regardless of settings as well. It worked fine when I downclocked to reference clocks, so I tried going back to factory OC and overvolting (ended up at 1050) using MSi Afterburner. This has been working well for the last couple hours, whereas prior to overvolting or downclocking I was able to cause a crash immediately by just spinning the mouse on the docks.
Now I have everything maxed in DX11 and framerates hang out around 35-52 outdoors. I find this acceptable, and could always turn down AA from 8x to 4x to get a little boost, since it's visually hard to tell the difference anyway.

[worldcitizen1919]

Saint345 wrote...

I made a post in the DX11 thread about GTX580's ..
http://social.biowar...0212/60#7084401

I couldnt get mine to run completely stable until I underclocked it to around 756Mhz.. then the crashes went away.. the the crash frequency was pretty much directly proportional to the clock speed... so try underclocking your cards and see if that fixes your problem... you'll only lose 1 or 2 FPS anyway, better than crashing all the time.
 
Let me know how you get on, I'm interested to know how this works for other people.

I didn't downclock it properly before but today I downclocked it exactly according to the Nvidia standard settings for the card including memory which I failed to do before and so far only a cut scene failed to load but no in game crashes with all settings maxed out DX 11 1920 X 1080

[worldcitizen1919]

Had another crash this time in game. The game just froze but didn't crash to desktop. First time this has happened. Still no crashes to desktop from in game yet but when it froze I had to alt tab out.

[Hornless Qunari/Human DPS]

I also have a friend who has these spec's

Pentium D 3.0Ghz
3GB Ram
ATI HD3870
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

alot of the games work but not Dragon Age 2.

Well dragon age 2 works on my pc flawlessly, but my friends pc is having problems. could it be his cpu is under the min spec?

cheers.

[MauSerna]

Dragon Age II used to crash on me during the cutscene in prologue right when flemeth would pick up a darkspawn and drop him to his death. My solution was to revert my Nvidia drivers back to 270.61 and presto the problem was resolved, so far I have not suffered any more freezes during the cutscenes.

The procedure that I used was the following:

1. Start Windows 7 in safemode
2. then Uninstall all Nvidia drivers using the control panel.
3. Normally this would be enough, however Nvidia drivers leave behind traces even though they
have been uninstalled. I used a program called Drive Sweeper (Just Googled it and was
able to download for free) to clean out any trace of the Nvidia Driver.
4. Once this was done, I restarted my computer.
5. Then I installed Nvidia Driver 270.61 on my computer.
6. Once the Driver was installed, I did a shut down waited 10 seconds and Rebooted (for good
measure) and presto the game so far works without this crash.

I know this might not work for everyone but it worked for me, just thought I would share. If you are wondering where you can get the Nvidia Driver 270.61 you can find it under the Beta and Archived section in Nvidia Driver Download's page. Do Not Use any driver that is 275.XX as they currently are to unstable with Dragon Age II.

For those that are wondering, my system specs are:

Windows 7 64 Bit (All Updates)
Intel Core i7-970
12 Gigs of Ram
Nvidia GTX 590 SLI
OCZ 120 Gig SSD x2
1000 Ultra Power Supply

I hope this helps . . . Good Luck

[brandon2u]

Mauserna you are a GOD!!!!

i can confirm reverting back to nvidia driver 270.61 fixed all game issues.
Priorwith 275.XX drivers i was crashing at almost every cut scene... very very frustrating.
Now, with 270.61 drivers i have not crashed in 5 hours! LUV IT!!!

Playing with DX11, Very High settings, and High Res Texture pack.

I performed a similar removal/install to Mauserna but used Driver Cleaner prior to clean install.

thanks again to all who take the extra time to help on the forums

Win 7 x64
Nvidia 270.61 driver
evga 590GTX
OCZ Vertex 2 120gig
Corsair AX1200watt psu
Asus Maximus III Gene mb
Geil Black Dragon 1600mhz 8gig (4x2gig)
Intel 875K 2.93 Quad Core cpu

Modifié par brandon2u, 19 juin 2011 - 02:47 .

[Andarthiel_Demigod]

Same problem here, the funny thing is that this never used to happen with my GTS450 and now that I upgraded to a 560GTX Ti it crashes after just a few seconds and I'm using the latest drivers too.

[Gorath Alpha]

"Latest Drivers" is a totally meaningless phrase. If you are using 275.33, those are crap for DA. Exactly as posted in the pinned sticky on top.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 24 juin 2011 - 07:43 .

[Gorath Alpha]

If you need the link to get to that post, here that is: 

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/7577373

[Kbottt]

I was having the same freezing issue. This seems to have resolved it. Running v1.03 with newest nvidia drivers as of 6/22/2011... (277.53? 275.33? something like that)
--In game video options:
DX 11 with 'high' graphics detail and the high resolution texture pack. Very high graphics makes the shadows and lighting look horrible and it freezes . AA and aniso @ 4x. I didn't checkmark any of the 3 boxes below aniso, just the high res textures.
--Launcher config video options:
Play in full screen; vertical sync, disable multiple render targets and disable aspect-ratio correction check marked. 
 The game looks much better then settling with DX9 and has not froze once for about 12 hours of staggered  playing accross 3 days, once for a 5 hour stretch.

My system:
Asus M37N-D AM2+ / Phenom 2 X4 940 BE / 8GB Corsair PC6400 RAM / EVGA GTX 470 1.28GB DDR5 / 800W Corsair PSU / Windows Vista Ultimate 64 on OCZ 128GB SDD / 700GB WD 7200 HDD Storage

Hope this works for you.