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[Okamik]

i cant see this being an uncommon problem though, so is it simply a case of not enough people reporting the issue?

[m3ds334]

Yeah I'm having similar problems. The crashing is usually occurring within combat. I think it only happened once during general exploring. It's pretty random, and I usually just start up the game again and get a bit farther, but probably once an hour it crashes. Keep slugging away for now.

Also, my specs are...

AMD Phenom II X4 965
Gigabyte Radeon HD 5870 1GB
4 GB Ram
Windows 7 32 Bit

So, it shouldn't be an under requirements problem.

[Warrior Guyver]

Gorath Alpha, would you recommend uninstalling, reinstalling, and only updating to patch 1.02a? I might try that myself. Because now it's crashing almost all the time. As the game went on, it started crashing more and more. Now I'm stuck in Soldier's Peak, unable to beat the last boss because it crashes. Before I would just reload and get a little further before the next crash but I'm stuck now.  My only other option is to just leave Soldiers Peak, skip the last boss which I almost end up always beating before the crash, skip the rewards, and just leave the whole add-on.  Not to mention I paid for Soldier's Peak, it wasn't a freebie! 

Modifié par Warrior Guyver, 20 mars 2011 - 12:41 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Warrior Guyver wrote...

Gorath Alpha, would you recommend uninstalling, reinstalling, and only updating to patch 1.02a? I might try that myself. Because now it's crashing almost all the time. As the game went on, it started crashing more and more. Now I'm stuck in Soldier's Peak, unable to beat the last boss because it crashes. Before I would just reload and get a little further before the next crash but I'm stuck now.  My only other option is to just leave Soldiers Peak, skip the last boss which I almost end up always beating before the crash, skip the rewards, and just leave the whole add-on.  Not to mention I paid for Soldier's Peak, it wasn't a freebie! 

Both Awakening and the last two pieces of added content require either 1.03 or 1.04, although because of my provider's pricing structure, I have a more restrictive connection than is normally adequate to sizable downloads, so I skipped them.  It's also my choice to run Winows XP, SP 3, on the gaming system, not Windows 7, although I own two copies of Windows 7.  

That being said, if you have no options about your OS, and you can't determine why it (and DAO) conflict with each other past 1.02A, that is the route I would follow.  It wouldn't have been that difficult to partition your Hdd when you first got W7, whether it was on a new PC or how, and create a dual booted system. 

That's what I did. 

G

[woloif]

Shouldnt have to do any of that, the game needs patching. i found the best thing that works for me is mainly the single core affinity, holy smite causes lots of crashes and shales rock barrage is broke and dont work at all for me, tried everything on these forums.

Core2 Quad 3ghz
Geforce 460 GTX
4 GB Ram
Windows 7 64 Bit

[ALIKATAZO]

i am having the same problem, sometimes i can play for more than a hour w/o crashes but just now, i was playing Leilana song and gave Tug's axe to the warrior companion and the game crashed, so i launched the game again did the same thing and crash again,. it worked the third try though...

my specs:
Amd phenom II X 4 965
4 gb Ram
ati 5770 X 2 (crossfire)

[sarahkay]

I've also been having spontaneous crashing issues. I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. I've tried turning the graphics and texture quality as low as they can go, but the crashes are no less frequent. I can't finish Orzammar, and it's kind of breaking the game here.

[jonas3333]

Also recently downloaded the game. Also recently experiencing crashes...
Didn't occur until today. Owned game like 3 days. Today, 4 crashes. . I hesitated purchasing this game as it's made by EA. Guess I should have done more than hesitate.

[aliastasia]

I agree with Wolof - it's ridiculous to set a specific partition in order to run a game, when the game itself is at fault, and not the gamer's system, especially when a lot of people are experiencing the issue post-1.03.
I am also not so certain Awakenings demands 1.04 - I installed it just fine without being asked for 1.04 last year, the game ran fine w it installed until 10.4/Witch Hunt.

One thing which seems to help as well, albeit annoying, is to restart the game now and then.
I think the crashes are caused by some memory or caching issue - which explains the slowdown, the crashes and the framerates - I am still running an Awakenings run-through, and I get ... enthusiastic lag and crash issues when I've done combat with a lot of Spacebar mashing, like i.e in the BlackMarsh. The slowdown definitely happens after something like that, and for me it works to totally quit and restart the game now and then.

Should we start a poll on whether we want this fixed?
If enough people vote, maybe they'll take that into consideration and try for a hotfix instead of a patch?
If we do so, we'll need to be really, really specific as to what we want fixed - i.e "Dragon Age is crashy" won't quite cut it, but i.e "Dragon Age Crashes on doing the following:" - and then we gather a list of similar crash-inducers as a sort of spec - this would hopefully make it easy on both moderators hopefully reporting/and or developers - there's nothing more annoying than ONE bug report contaning 50 different issues and requests

Is this something people would be interested in giving a try? As the code on DA:O probably is closed, there's no guarantee of anything.

/A

[cachx]

Joining the sentiment here. Constant crashing during battles. (A year later, Mana Clash still destroys the game, not fun).

Specs:
Windows 7 ultimate
AMD-Phenom 8650 Triple Core
3 GB RAM
GeForce 9600GT

latest drivers, directx and so on installed.

[woloif]

2 votes for me and Alpha lol

[Warrior Guyver]

I hope this bit of information helps all of you but I was having the same issues. Mine would crash constantly. Usually I would just reboot and try again but I got to a point where no matter how many times I rebooted it wouldn't go any further than the same spot, which was fighting the last boss on Soldier's Peak, which was purchased and not free. That was really frustrating, but what I did has worked so far. I was playing the game on 2 ATi HD 4870 X2's in Crossfire, I switched out of crossfire and tried the game on just one card and it hasn't crashed once and I've been running it for 3 hours straight. If your playing on SLi or Crossfire, switch out of it and run the game on just one card. I hope this helps all of you.

[Warrior Guyver]

I hope this bit of information helps all of you but I was having the same issues. Mine would crash constantly. Usually I would just reboot and try again but I got to a point where no matter how many times I rebooted it wouldn't go any further than the same spot, which was fighting the last boss on Soldier's Peak, which was purchased and not free. That was really frustrating, but what I did has worked so far. I was playing the game on 2 ATi HD 4870 X2's in Crossfire, I switched out of crossfire and tried the game on just one card and it hasn't crashed once and I've been running it for 3 hours straight. If your playing on SLi or Crossfire, switch out of it and run the game on just one card. I hope this helps all of you.

[Ariel216]

bah, bioware wont do anything, a year past and half of the game is bugged.

[DavionLip]

I experienced the same problems after just a fresh installation.

Using an ATI HD5850

[Obysk]

Warrior Guyver wrote...

I hope this bit of information helps all of you but I was having the same issues. Mine would crash constantly. Usually I would just reboot and try again but I got to a point where no matter how many times I rebooted it wouldn't go any further than the same spot, which was fighting the last boss on Soldier's Peak, which was purchased and not free. That was really frustrating, but what I did has worked so far. I was playing the game on 2 ATi HD 4870 X2's in Crossfire, I switched out of crossfire and tried the game on just one card and it hasn't crashed once and I've been running it for 3 hours straight. If your playing on SLi or Crossfire, switch out of it and run the game on just one card. I hope this helps all of you.

I will try switching out of SLI when I get home and see what happens. This may just be a work around and I still believe a proper patch would be the best route. Full support for multi-core processors and multi-GPU systems would be nice.

[Xzeiz]

sadly im in the same situation, random chrashes around every 15-20 min.
Bourght the game on steam, DA:Origins Ultimate Edetion.
Clean Win7 install and DA:O install.
Getting to a point where it takes all the joy out of the game.

Intel Core 2 quad Q9550
Ram 4GB
Gforce 560Ti (factory OC)
Win7 64 bit

[77Pat]

Similar happening to me. Crashed a few times during the main game, but upping the voltage on my video card helped. Now playing through Witch Hunt and it is crashing just walking around.

Intel i5 2500k (stock for now)
Asus 6850 (stock for now)
4gb ram
win 7 64 bit

[mekare78]

So...i was messing around with the installs again. as far as the pc shutting down, unrelated. cooling issue resolved =P

however...i noticed this weird thing, and it could be nothing, but hey. when I inserted the DAO disc, the icons and such that came up were for DA2. It still ran DAO, and I figured it was a weird glitch. So for kicks, I uninstalled DA2 and installed all the DLC for DAO and 1.04. It's been running perfectly since the DA2 uninstall. my husband says the glitch is probably nothing (and he's the computer guy), but I have a weird feeling there's something more to it, or the program would still be crashing.

[Obysk]

Obysk wrote...

Warrior Guyver wrote...

I hope this bit of information helps all of you but I was having the same issues. Mine would crash constantly. Usually I would just reboot and try again but I got to a point where no matter how many times I rebooted it wouldn't go any further than the same spot, which was fighting the last boss on Soldier's Peak, which was purchased and not free. That was really frustrating, but what I did has worked so far. I was playing the game on 2 ATi HD 4870 X2's in Crossfire, I switched out of crossfire and tried the game on just one card and it hasn't crashed once and I've been running it for 3 hours straight. If your playing on SLi or Crossfire, switch out of it and run the game on just one card. I hope this helps all of you.

I will try switching out of SLI when I get home and see what happens. This may just be a work around and I still believe a proper patch would be the best route. Full support for multi-core processors and multi-GPU systems would be nice.

UPDATE:

I did turn off SLI when I got home and set-up Windows to only use one of my three monitors. I did have the game playing, at full graphics, for about 45 minutes without ANY crashing. I know that isn't a very long test but my game would normally crash to the desktop after only 10 minutes or less.

I was also looking at the NVIDIA website for something unrelated and I found a page that lists "Supported SLI games", I didn't find DA:O on that list but I did find instructions for adding your own custom profiles.

The link is here -------> http://www.slizone.c...appprofile.html

I followed the instructions on that page and created my own profile for DA:O. I didn't physically make any changes to the newly created profile, I just kept all the default global settings (which are imported automaticly). I then turned my SLI back on, set-up my triple displays again (5760 x 1080 screen resolution), and launched the game. I was able to play for an hour and a half without any crashing.

An hour and a half of constant, crash free playing hasn't happened for me until now. I think my previous best was maybe 20 minutes. I will continue to test this to see if I have found a possible work around and report back to this post.

Anybody with an NVIDIA card should try adding a custom profile for DA:O by following the instructions through the above link. It doesn't hurt anything to try and if it does work for you then YEA!

[Obysk]

Obysk wrote...

Warrior Guyver wrote...

I hope this bit of information helps all of you but I was having the same issues. Mine would crash constantly. Usually I would just reboot and try again but I got to a point where no matter how many times I rebooted it wouldn't go any further than the same spot, which was fighting the last boss on Soldier's Peak, which was purchased and not free. That was really frustrating, but what I did has worked so far. I was playing the game on 2 ATi HD 4870 X2's in Crossfire, I switched out of crossfire and tried the game on just one card and it hasn't crashed once and I've been running it for 3 hours straight. If your playing on SLi or Crossfire, switch out of it and run the game on just one card. I hope this helps all of you.

I will try switching out of SLI when I get home and see what happens. This may just be a work around and I still believe a proper patch would be the best route. Full support for multi-core processors and multi-GPU systems would be nice.

UPDATE:

I did turn off SLI when I got home and set-up Windows to only use one of my three monitors. I did have the game playing, at full graphics, for about 45 minutes without ANY crashing. I know that isn't a very long test but my game would normally crash to the desktop after only 10 minutes or less.

I was also looking at the NVIDIA website for something unrelated and I found a page that lists "Supported SLI games", I didn't find DA:O on that list but I did find instructions for adding your own custom profiles.

The link is here -------> http://www.slizone.c...appprofile.html

I followed the instructions on that page and created my own profile for DA:O. I didn't physically make any changes to the newly created profile, I just kept all the default global settings (which are imported automaticly). I then turned my SLI back on, set-up my triple displays again (5760 x 1080 screen resolution), and launched the game. I was able to play for an hour and a half without any crashing.

An hour and a half of constant, crash free playing hasn't happened for me until now. I think my previous best was maybe 20 minutes. I will continue to test this to see if I have found a possible work around and report back to this post.

Anybody with an NVIDIA card should try adding a custom profile for DA:O by following the instructions through the above link. It doesn't hurt anything to try and if it does work for you then YEA!

[Obysk]

UPDATE:

Another 2 hours tonight of no crashing after adding my own profile. I'm running the game on all three of my monitors with all graphic options maxed out.

I would suggest people with NVIDIA cards try this fix for the crash to desktop.

[RaenImrahl]

Obysk wrote...

UPDATE:

Another 2 hours tonight of no crashing after adding my own profile. I'm running the game on all three of my monitors with all graphic options maxed out.

I would suggest people with NVIDIA cards try this fix for the crash to desktop.

Thanks for taking time to confirm your solution worked.  I'll add it to the round-up sticky on the next update. 

Cheers,

RI

[rogerano]

Just adding some more information to the general DA:O + SLI "issue".

I have Win 7 64bit, 570GTX SLI, latest drivers. When fighting Uldred I experienced a game freeze, every time, usually about half way through the fight, sometimes later. To be clear, 100% of Uldred fights would see the game freeze at some point during the fight.

I managed to complete the fight by turning off SLI and running on one card. Then I found the information in this thread.

I already had a profile for DA:O, however the SLI mode was set to the NV recommended setting. I changed that setting to ALT2 (ALT1 was horrible). I was able to complete the Uldred fight using SLI with the profile using the ALT2 SLI mode.

Hope that makes sense.

[enigmafirst]

DA:O should get a patch but with the others already out and a part 3 on the way I doubt it will happen. The only fix that works for me is just running the game on a single processor. Everything is slower and low FPS but that's the best I can do if I want to play with no crashing. My other Bioware games (Mass Effect 1 and 2) work fine but this one.

Modifié par enigmafirst, 31 mai 2011 - 12:53 .