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[theLastWanderer]

My favorite Origins story to play is that of a female human mage. So recently I re-downloaded DA:O onto my computer, happy as a clam, booted everything up, made myself a mage, and dove into the Fade. Everything was going just peachy - until I defeated the rage demon. Then, in that conversation with Mouse/the pride demon, my computer simply...stopped. Two seconds later, it started again, and then immediately stopped. Five seconds after that, it started, and then stopped again. Audio was playing fine, no stuttering at all, but on screen the visuals were going at something like 0.5 frames per second. I thought "what the hell?" and rebooted my game. Went back to the save, beat the rage demon again, and the same thing happened! Well, I figured there was a corrupted game file or something, so I made sure my drivers were updated, verified the integrity of the game cache (I have it on Steam), ran through all the rigamarole, went back, made a NEW mage character (deleted the old save in case it was corrupted), and the SAME THING HAPPENED. At that point I was irritated, and I went online to see if I could find a solution. Everything I tried, failed. And, the best part is this - it only screws up on mage origin. Every other origin? Ran just fine. So now I'm...shall we say unhappy?

Tech specs:

Computer: Toshiba A500-ST6621
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 2.80GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR2 RAM (manufactured by Toshiba for the computer itself, don't know the exact MHz)
HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB 5400rpm
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 4650 1GB GDDR3

I've run DA:O perfectly with this setup in the past. However, I did find out that it's been patched since I last downloaded and played it - 1.05? I'm guessing that whatever they did broke it - but of course, I can't roll back the bloody patch inside Steam. Or can I? I'd really like to fix this problem so I can get back to playing my mage without difficulties.

[ShinsFortress]

Hmmm, tricky. Laptops (especially "mobile" chipsets for the graphics) are notorious for having variable performance, especially for games like this (and are not officially supported). Maybe a bit more information (see the "Read first" sticky) will help us to help you. E.g. When you had it fine before, was it on a different computer? What else has changed?

[theLastWanderer]

The one thing that has changed is the HDD. But even then, I moved from a Hitachi Travelstar 320GB to a 750GB. Didn't even change the brand. When it was running fine before, it was running on this same computer, same Windows 7 x64. Both times: original release, downloaded from Steam, I've updated all drivers (and audio still plays fine regardless). I went into Device Manager and it said my drivers for my display adapter are up-to-date. Literally, nothing has changed except that hard drive.

Modifié par theLastWanderer, 30 janvier 2012 - 02:05 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Device Manager has no way to know what is or is not an up to date driver. Only the home site for the AMD and nVIDIA graphics cards can tell you that.   Device Manager consults Microsoft, and Microsoft isn't very timely in keeping up! 

P. S.  Some narrow-minded laptop producers demand that their products be black-listed to have more control over their buyers.  Very stupid of them.  But the Omega Drivers remove that foolishness. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 31 janvier 2012 - 05:19 .

[theLastWanderer]

Yes, I discovered that. Turns out, Toshiba doesn't support installing drivers directly from the AMD website - it only supports them through OEM, and the drivers it downloaded, failed. So it's actually an older driver, and I'm guessing that's my problem. So thanks for the help.

EDIT: Never mind, I still need the help - even after installing the newest, updated drivers it still dies at that one point. This is really maddening.

Modifié par theLastWanderer, 31 janvier 2012 - 12:13 .

[RaenImrahl]

Do you have any mods installed?

[Gorath Alpha]

theLastWanderer wrote...

EDIT: Never mind, I still need the help - even after installing the newest, updated drivers it still dies at that one point. This is really maddening.

Try the latest of the Omega Drivers.  Incidentally, I personally do not have any grip on the symptoms described, but the foolishness of having a laptop blacklisted this way is just that.  Really dumb. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 31 janvier 2012 - 05:56 .

[theLastWanderer]

@RaenImrahl: that was my first thought, so I uninstalled all the mods, cleaned it out, did a fresh install of DA:O and...nope. Same problem as before.

@Gorath: "Omega" drivers? Which one's that, specifically?

[Gorath Alpha]

There is a web site in that name. omegadrivers.net

He modifies drivers to make them usable across the range of cards, be they Geforces or Radeons. At one time, all of the laptop makers wanted to control everything, and they all made the two 3D companies of the time, ATI, and nVIDIA, filter out the laptops so the desktop drivers couldn't be used. He's been removing the filters for years.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 01 février 2012 - 05:40 .

[theLastWanderer]

Yeah, but I managed to bypass the filter to install the 12.1 Catalyst/8.930 drivers. So that's not it.

Modifié par theLastWanderer, 02 février 2012 - 12:18 .