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[any mouse]

The first issue I had with DAO was upon running the game for the very first time. Flicking to the options menu I set the textures and graphics sliders to "medium" and clicked accept. Cue CTD.
After that the game would not start - running the program caused a CTD.
So I used the external config program to put them back to "low" and the game run.

I left the options alone this time and started a new game. After the intial loading screen and the intro movie the screen was black and I could see and move the in-game mouse pointer. But no character gen screen popped up; still an empty screen. Then the moniter seemed to power down for a second and then show me the same screen as before, in-game black with pointer. After a few more power downs, I get a BSOD and reboot.

I try again with the same result, this time alt-f4'ing before the bsod. Into my task bar pops a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark - my display driver shut down as was restarted. I close the prompt but it reappears, in fact it pops up the same number of times that my moniter went black before alt-f4'ing.

Then I open another game with a similar graphics strain - TESIV: Oblvion.
Every few seconds I get the black monitor power down until I close the game, at which point I get the triangle in the task bar problem. Oblivion has never failed as epically as this before my DAO crashes.

So thanks bioware, your buggy game has knocked my graphics back to 2004.

[Gorath Alpha]

Just as I intimated when responding to you in the General Subjects forum, it's my best guess, bolstered by the above message, that you do not have a system that can load my saved game, let alone allow you to do much of anything with the program:

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon 64 / Pentium / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed:  ?.? Ghz (or AMD Performance Number)
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Vista ? (Oh, no!)
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024)
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 3650 / Geforce 8600 GT
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.??
 . . (use the numbers, not the word "latest")
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Model:

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 22 décembre 2009 - 04:05 .

[JironGhrad]

This could be an indication of the GPU beginning to fail. It might also mean you need to upgrade your drivers. Since you haven't told us anything about your system, it's hard to judge exactly, but DA:O is MUCH more demanding than Oblivion.

[any mouse]

There is no possible upgrade of my drivers thanks to HP's tinkerings. You're right Gorath I do not fit those specs but what games companys mean when they say "supported graphics cards" is "the ONLY cards where you can blame us if the game won't run". I am not complaining that the game won't run, I am using and older model and I only half-expected it to work. My problem is that even out of DOA I am having graphics problems, implying that DOA has done something very bad to my graphics.

[Gorath Alpha]

Although the chances are very good that you have some sort of video device, such as the onboard video chips in a laptop usually are, that falls short of the minimum pixel shader functionality (Dx9.0b), the first notch of SM3; there are far more video drivers out there all over the 'net for HP's various notebook systems. 

You may not be able to use the newly included Mobile drivers that ATI and / or nVIDIA (all depending on your HP model, of course) now have made available, but there are other sources.  Better drivers won't replace the missing Pixel Shader hardware, but will work a great deal better elsewhere.  Here's an excellent source: 

www.omegadrivers.net/

Since you have steadfastly refused to admit how far below the game requirements your old clunker actually is, the idea of "breaking" video can't quite be ruled completely out, however, my own best guess that you have onboard video, means that the motherboard and video are all controlled in the same pair of ASIC devices, so if the PC works at all, the video element isn't destroyed. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 22 décembre 2009 - 06:57 .

[sarmagedon]

sorry for the intrusion

Modifié par sarmagedon, 22 décembre 2009 - 07:23 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Sarmagedon, you need your own message thread. Any Mouse hasn't surrendered his ownership yet.

[any mouse]

I'm real annoyed guise. The errors that began after running dragon age now bring disaster any time my graphics card gets pushed. I have never had this problem before today.

[kraftykid114]

any mouse post your full system specs please, its nearly impossible to help you with that statement of "its an HP" or "doesn't meet requirements".

[whtnyte-raernst]

From another PC help topic:

whtnyte-raernst wrote...

...you could be having a heat issue.

Heat issues can be cause by:
CPU fan stopped, or clogged,
No thermal grease between the CPU chip and the heat sink,
Graphics card fan failure or clogged with dust.

I
had an Nvidia graphics card fail when the fan became stuck. It
literally melted the plastic standoffs that held it on the card. It
worked fine under "normal" Windows usage. When I installed other
software that pushed it beyond what Windows does, it failed.

The graphics card in question in my example was "working" in Windows XP Professional (things were a little slow)
I was preparing for the upgrade version of Windows 7 Professional, so I decided to upgrade XP to Vista.
The added stress of Vista's "eye candy" was enough to put the final nail in the graphics cards coffin.
When I opened the case, I discovered that sometime in the past (This was summer, must have happened last winter) a mouse had managed to get in the case and gotten wedged between the graphics card and the bottom of the case, stopping the fan from spinning. He must have been in there quite sometime because he was partly skeletal!

Modifié par whtnyte-raernst, 22 décembre 2009 - 07:46 .

[any mouse]

hp compaq 6720s

2 x 2GHz Intel core

2 gigs ram

Intel mobile 965 express chipset



inb4 graphics specs too low for doa



not due to temperature, no skeletal gremlins inside

[whtnyte-raernst]

Laptops can get hot enough to fry an egg when you push them beyond their design specifications.

I take it you don't have a cooling pad under it?

It could be you toasted a chip trying to push it too hard.



You can build yourself a basic PC capable of running the game for around $500 or so provided you already have the "accessories," mouse, keyboard, speakers, monitor...

[Valaskjalf]

HP Compaq Business Notebook 6720s - Intel GMA X3100



surprised it could run anything...