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[Zaiven]

I've been playing Dragon Age Origins and have come across a serious problem.  I'm in the fade on the Templar's Nightmare island.  The problem is that whenever I go through the mousehole to fight the Ogre and the other creature in there, the game crashes after I defeat them.  This happens everytime.  A Windows error window will appear stating the the game stopped working and it's searching for a solution and then says that an unexpeted error caused the game to stop working and a solution will be sent to me if one is ever found.  This isn't the first time this has happened while playing the game, but it is the first time that it keeps happening at a specific point.  My computer exceeds the system requirements so I don't understand what the problem is.  Someone please help me out.

[Gorath Alpha]

Hardware is only the easiest part of the equation to decipher. Examine the "Read First" description and follow it, hardware and all, but in your case, pay particular attention to the rest of what should have been in your problem report already.

[Zaiven]

In my defense, the "Read First" post was randomly thrown in there with every other post. It should be more prominently displayed. When I tried the Google search, every post on there similar to my problem came from either people who kept replying that they had the same issue or people like you telling people like me to check the Read First post, so I wasn't able to find the issue on there either. That said, here is the information in order:

*Ultimate Edition
*EA Digital Download from Impulse
*Patch v 1.04
*AMD Phenom™ II N870 Triple-Core Processor 2291 MHZ
*6 GB RAM
*ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. There appears to be an issue. In the DA utility, it says that I have 320mb VRAM. However, whenever I use the systemrequirementslab.com scanner, it says that I have 2.9 gb of video memory.
*The driver info for that is: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll [8.17.10.24]
*My sound system is IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
*Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
*No third party mods are installed
* I have not modified the game in any way.
The rest of the information is provided in my original post. Thank you.

[Gorath Alpha]

I regret that I must give you bad news about that laptop. You have been ripped off. It does not contain any video card at all. A video card is on its own entirely separate circuit board, and is manufactured on its own separate assembly line. Only at the end, before the laptop mainboard and primary chassis are joined, is the graphics board attached.

Once welded shut, there is no graphics upgrade possible. Only the newest "Llano" variety of mobile CPU device comes with a game-capable onboard video device. No other such chips can do the job properly. All of them will struggle and strain, get overheated, and eventually kill the laptop when used for high intensity games.

What you have is a chipset video chip that has its roots in the HD 2400 GPU from four years ago. AMD has been putting all its efforts along the lines of Integrated Graphics into the "Fusion" APUs, of which the Llano is the newest and strongest, so the ordinary HD 4200 and 4250 are terribly slow, have very few shader processors, and have zero VRAM of their own. They must share the (very slow for graphics) main system RAM with the OS.

You will need to lower your screen resolution to ease the overload on that poor chip, and get a cooling pad, and start saving for a proper game playing machine. (Incidentally, I cannot be certain that the crashing is entirely related to the low quality graphics device, but see what happens when you make adjustments more appropriate to the hardware you have.)

[sami jo]

That particular area is very hard on sub-standard video cards. Big AoE spells, fade sequences, and the final battle may also give your system problems. Crashing at those points with low end systems is fairly common. As this game also makes heavy use of the main system resources such as RAM and CPU, the graphics card won't have enough RAM available to it during the high demand areas. That said, if you turn all the graphics settings to the lowest possible, you will probably be able to get through those areas. (though I would make absolutely certain nothing is running in the background that doesn't absolutely need to be--see the clean-boot tool listed in the Solutions Round-Up thread pinned to the top)

You may also be having difficulty because the game has some difficulty addressing more than two CPU cores. There are directions for setting the core affinity to one or two cores in the Solutions Round-Up thread pinned to the top of the forum.