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[Girondelle]

The same problems occurred in my game. I had to play bossfights 4-5 times
to finish one without crash to desktop. None of this happened before the
installation of patch 1.03 and 1.04. While I managed to complete Awakening once
with a lot of patience, I was unable to use some of my favourite spells,
especially Mana Clash and Storm of the Century (Spell Might + Blizzard +
Tempest). In the main game I had to deactivate Holy Smite in Alistairs tactics menu
because it caused crashes too. There are still random crashes despite all
precautions, 1 in 30 minutes on average, the aforementioned bossfights not
counted. Installing Catalyst 10.12. didn't help in my case, but it was worth a
try, lower settings changed nothing as well.

I'm undecided on DA2 and will probably wait until all patches and DLCs are
released before I make my choice, depending on the stability of the final
product. Preordering it is out of the question, as long as Bioware offers no
fix for DA:O.  

 

System:

AMD Phenom II X 3 720 (C2 Stepping)

4 GB GSkill DDR 3 RAM (CL 9)

MSI 770-C45

HD 5770 GPU

Win 7 HP 64 bit

[Deathwing Commander]

I am experiencing random crashes as well since I got the Holy Smite skill. It seems to crash the game as do some sorcerer spells. Come on Bioware, you can do better than this ****!

[TeedlerBoy]

Same as most, it keeps crashing at what seems to be completley random occurences, i bought this game and it should be expected its not writtled with bugs or at least there should be working patches now. this is getting stupid we paid for your game you can at least fix your mistakes bioware.

[Aeron_Koss]

I'm recieving crashes during combat. I noticed that it may only be when I am fighting against Demons. Like the sloth, and desire demons for example. I never experienced crashes before I fought against a demon.

My first crash was when I battled that little boy possessed by a desire demon, him wanting to save his father. Sorry, I can't remember their names. (EDIT: I think this is at ser perth)
I couldn't even finish it, and decided to goto the mages tower next, since it's still part of the quest. Well now I'm crashing constantly in there. Also, nothing but demons.
I met a sloth demon, which sent me to his dream world. Yep, way more crashes.

AMD Phenom II x3 740 3ghz
Sapphire 5770 ATI GPU
750 watt ANTEC New True Power PSU
ASUS M4A785TD-V Motherboard
4gb 1600 Crucial Memory
Creative X-FI Gamer Sound Card
As of december of 2010, all my drivers, bios, firmware are up to date in ALL my computer components.
This includes ATI Catalyst 10.12 drivers. I uninstall previous drivers, use a driver cleaner, and then install the newest driver directly from AMD's website.

Modifié par Aeron_Koss, 08 janvier 2011 - 06:59 .

[r19ecua]

Hello everyone, here are my issues! I'm currently experiencing random crashing as I play DA:O Ultimate edition. I wish I could provide steps on how to reproduce this crash, but it just happens randomly. It usually only happens once or twice when I play, but it's very annoying!! It happens when I'm either walking around or in battle. I also have a feeling that it's my EVGA precision tools running in the background that causes some of the crashes, I'm not sure though since no error report shows up when it crashes.

Here are my specs:
i7 920 @ 3.4 ghz
8GB DDR3
1TB HDD
2x GTX260

You should know that I've rolled back the GPU driver to the previous version because that stopped the more frequent crashes for me. I once played this game without crashes and now it's beginning to crash?

Edit:  I purchased DA:O Ultimate edition through steam..

Modifié par r19ecua, 08 janvier 2011 - 04:28 .

[AntiEvil]

Count me in! I started receiving crashes during a combat sequence in Dead Trenches doing "Paragon of Her Kind". Was pretty stable up that point.



Bioware obviously either doesn't know or doesn't care about this issue; look at when this thread started - over a year ago! LOL. I don't think this issue will get fixed by the developers anyway...

[Sargon_]

Here is the official response that I received from EA support.

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Support.

I’m very sorry for the inconvenience that you have experienced with the game.This
could be due to several factors.please make sure that you have ended
background tasks to prevent program conflicts and free up resources for
the game.

Answer Title: Ending Background Tasks
Answer Link: http://support.ea.co...detail/a_id/885

Title: Clearing your Temporary Files
Link: http://help.thesims..../detail/a_id/44

Answer Title: Finding Devices and Updating Drivers
Answer Link: http://support.ea.co.../detail/a_id/25

Moreover I would like to inform you that the game is not tested on Windows 7 or
64 bit environment. There is a work around that you can try but still
there is no guarantee about it. You can try to run the game as
administrator, to run the game as administrator:

1. Right-click on the shortcut icon of the game on your desktop.
2. Choose the option "Run as Administrator".
3. Choose to allow the game.

If the game still not runs properly, Please try to play it in
Compatibility mode. Please visit the following link for the steps to
play the game in compatibility mode:

http://www.sevenforu...ility-mode.html

If there is anything else we can help you with, please do let us know.
Should you require any further assistance, please visit our support
knowledge base at
www.support.ea.com for a quick reference.

If there is anything else we can help you with please let us know.

Thank you,

Sincerely,
Cooper
EA Customer Support

Dragon Age was released around the same time as Windows 7, so I am surprised that they are claiming the game was not tested with Windows 7.  The Ultimate Edition was just released on October 26, so wouldn't it have made sense to test that version with Windows 7, since that is what a majority of PC gamers are using?  I am going to try to get compatibility mode to work with Steam and see if that makes any difference.

Modifié par Sargon_, 09 janvier 2011 - 05:33 .

[Captain Sassy Pants]

Game locks up during fights (Shriek ambush crossing a bridge in the Deep Roads, fighting the Broodmother, fighting the anvil-thingy). It's happened before, but not to this frequency. Pretty much every 30 minutes it crashes and I have to crlt-alt-del to get back to my desktop and see that I got a "Dragon Age has stopped working" error.



How this is still happening, is beyond me.

[TI999]

Experienced random crashes too with the UE from STEAM. Ok so this weekend I played a few hours and instaid of setting affinity on my CPU to 1 core, I just ignored it and set priority "realtime" for the game (taskmanager/process/DAOw/e exe/right click/set priority=realtime) after that no crashing anymore, not sure if this is the solution, but yeah no crashing anymore for hours play...good!

Everything else like compatibility etc, didn't work for me and also the use "-dx9" only didn't work...I'm on Win7-U 64 btw...don't take my word for it tough, I'm still not 100% sure if my game won't crash anymore...

[Faelix_Majere]

TI999 wrote...

Experienced random crashes too with the UE from STEAM. Ok so this weekend I played a few hours and instaid of setting affinity on my CPU to 1 core, I just ignored it and set priority "realtime" for the game (taskmanager/process/DAOw/e exe/right click/set priority=realtime) after that no crashing anymore, not sure if this is the solution, but yeah no crashing anymore for hours play...good!
Everything else like compatibility etc, didn't work for me and also the use "-dx9" only didn't work...I'm on Win7-U 64 btw...don't take my word for it tough, I'm still not 100% sure if my game won't crash anymore...

Just started playing and I´m crashing like crazy too... Started in the Fade then became more uncommon but now it's up to it again. I have a Q9550 CPU and a new 570GTX, so this really annoys me (Just quit Civ 5 cause of crashes due to bad programming, have a look at their forums... And then this...What the hell is up with game companies these days.)

I tried following the advice you mention, about the cores. But I don't get it I think:

Fix for Crashing to Desktop on Multi-core systems (also slows the memory leakage)
This applies especially to AMD processors but also affects some Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 quads!
For dual core set to CPU 1 only, for quad core set to CPU 2 and 3, for i7s set to 4, 5, 6, and 7.
 
Set processor affinity
Open
windows Task Manager. Right click on the Taskbar of your windows vista
desktop and select Task Manager or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Windows
Task Manager  
Click on the Processes tab
Click on the Show processes from all users button, at the bottom
Click the Continue button for UAC prompt
Right click the process (application) whose processor affinity you want to change
Click Set Affinity
Check the CPU(s) that you want the process (application) to run on and click OK

I can follow down to the Click the Continue button for UAC prompt message, but I don't see any continue button. Can someone please help me, I need to give up the game else.

Edit: Just read the last few pages here. I'm not going to buy their new game that's for sure.
 

Modifié par Faelix_Majere, 10 janvier 2011 - 04:10 .

[schnitzeljaeger]

If you experience crashes very early after the game start I'd look for other programs interfering. In my case jDownloader was running in the background and it was causing the crashes. I tested it a few times and it was clear that DA doesn't lake certain programs ;-)

[TI999]

Faelix_Majere wrote...

TI999 wrote...

Experienced random crashes too with the UE from STEAM. Ok so this weekend I played a few hours and instaid of setting affinity on my CPU to 1 core, I just ignored it and set priority "realtime" for the game (taskmanager/process/DAOw/e exe/right click/set priority=realtime) after that no crashing anymore, not sure if this is the solution, but yeah no crashing anymore for hours play...good!
Everything else like compatibility etc, didn't work for me and also the use "-dx9" only didn't work...I'm on Win7-U 64 btw...don't take my word for it tough, I'm still not 100% sure if my game won't crash anymore...

Just started playing and I´m crashing like crazy too... Started in the Fade then became more uncommon but now it's up to it again. I have a Q9550 CPU and a new 570GTX, so this really annoys me (Just quit Civ 5 cause of crashes due to bad programming, have a look at their forums... And then this...What the hell is up with game companies these days.)

I tried following the advice you mention, about the cores. But I don't get it I think:

Fix for Crashing to Desktop on Multi-core systems (also slows the memory leakage)
This applies especially to AMD processors but also affects some Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 quads!
For dual core set to CPU 1 only, for quad core set to CPU 2 and 3, for i7s set to 4, 5, 6, and 7.
 
Set processor affinity
Open
windows Task Manager. Right click on the Taskbar of your windows vista
desktop and select Task Manager or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Windows
Task Manager  
Click on the Processes tab
Click on the Show processes from all users button, at the bottom
Click the Continue button for UAC prompt
Right click the process (application) whose processor affinity you want to change
Click Set Affinity
Check the CPU(s) that you want the process (application) to run on and click OK

I can follow down to the Click the Continue button for UAC prompt message, but I don't see any continue button. Can someone please help me, I need to give up the game else.

Edit: Just read the last few pages here. I'm not going to buy their new game that's for sure.
 

Only thing I did is: launch the game as Administrator, then press CTRL+ALT+DEL that brings up taskmanager, then RIGHT click on DAO wich is running in applications, then choose "show process" then just select priority=realtime. This is on WIN 7 64bit.

[nfefx]

TI999 wrote...

Faelix_Majere wrote...

TI999 wrote...

Experienced random crashes too with the UE from STEAM. Ok so this weekend I played a few hours and instaid of setting affinity on my CPU to 1 core, I just ignored it and set priority "realtime" for the game (taskmanager/process/DAOw/e exe/right click/set priority=realtime) after that no crashing anymore, not sure if this is the solution, but yeah no crashing anymore for hours play...good!
Everything else like compatibility etc, didn't work for me and also the use "-dx9" only didn't work...I'm on Win7-U 64 btw...don't take my word for it tough, I'm still not 100% sure if my game won't crash anymore...

Just started playing and I´m crashing like crazy too... Started in the Fade then became more uncommon but now it's up to it again. I have a Q9550 CPU and a new 570GTX, so this really annoys me (Just quit Civ 5 cause of crashes due to bad programming, have a look at their forums... And then this...What the hell is up with game companies these days.)

I tried following the advice you mention, about the cores. But I don't get it I think:

Fix for Crashing to Desktop on Multi-core systems (also slows the memory leakage)
This applies especially to AMD processors but also affects some Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 quads!
For dual core set to CPU 1 only, for quad core set to CPU 2 and 3, for i7s set to 4, 5, 6, and 7.
 
Set processor affinity
Open
windows Task Manager. Right click on the Taskbar of your windows vista
desktop and select Task Manager or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Windows
Task Manager  
Click on the Processes tab
Click on the Show processes from all users button, at the bottom
Click the Continue button for UAC prompt
Right click the process (application) whose processor affinity you want to change
Click Set Affinity
Check the CPU(s) that you want the process (application) to run on and click OK

I can follow down to the Click the Continue button for UAC prompt message, but I don't see any continue button. Can someone please help me, I need to give up the game else.

Edit: Just read the last few pages here. I'm not going to buy their new game that's for sure.
 

Only thing I did is: launch the game as Administrator, then press CTRL+ALT+DEL that brings up taskmanager, then RIGHT click on DAO wich is running in applications, then choose "show process" then just select priority=realtime. This is on WIN 7 64bit.

Didn't work. Along with every other 'fix' i've seen.

[Funkjoker]

nfefx wrote...
Didn't work. Along with every other 'fix' i've seen.

Naturally. I didn't even need to try this "solution", as I knew beforehand that the problem lies within the game itself and not in any hard-/software misconfiguration.

The real problem is: BioWare doesn't want to cure it.

[TI999]

Really sorry if it doesn't work for you, I just try to help...played for another 2 hours with same settings without a single crash, so my fix must be doing some good on my system, maybe it is hardware related? I'm on a i7 980x and 3x GTX570 SLI, 12GB Dominator ram...

[Sargon_]

I just bought the Witch Hunt DLC and I crash 100% of the time when the first shrieks spawn in Cadash Thaig.  I have tried every possible workaround... process priority, affinity, compatibility mode, disabling all sounds, etc.  Up until now I have crashed a lot, but I have always been able to work around it.  I have tried reloading 15 times and have crashed every time.  Now what am I supposed to do?

[Aeron_Koss]

TI999 wrote...

Really sorry if it doesn't work for you, I just try to help...played for another 2 hours with same settings without a single crash, so my fix must be doing some good on my system, maybe it is hardware related? I'm on a i7 980x and 3x GTX570 SLI, 12GB Dominator ram...

Yeah, sometime people are just frustrated with trying everything and it doesn't work for them.
But you did help others.

These fixes should help some people. Some claims it completely solves their problems, others none of their problems.

With me, its sort of the middle ground. I still get crashes, but it's pushed back to daily instead of the every 5 minute mark.

Everyone should try those suggested solutions first, and then work from there. It may just have a chance of helping you out.

[Furtled]

Finally finished the game despite the crashes (which I suppose is a compliment to the game makers - usually when this kind of thing happens I go back to playing WoW). All I can add that might help some peeps is 1) save the game every chance you get and 2) if there's a lot of magic flying about try to control the char standing furthest away and pause to set up anything in the main fray.

From looking through logs I'm guessing there's something banjaxed with the graphics memory set-up within the game its self (likely some kind of cacheing issue), but I'm nowhere near technical enough to confirm that for sure.

Modifié par Furtled, 14 janvier 2011 - 08:29 .

[Scimal]

Bumping this again.



I just answered 3 other threads on this topic, and can't even tell them there's a fix in the works.

[LeraG]

*raises her hand* This stinks to high heaven! I cannot even get past redcliffe.



I'm going to go in there alone to fight, with no active modes and see if that helps. I've tried everything suggested and then some.



I do have a question...if I uninstall my game (PC Collector's Edition Store CD) and reinstall, does it patch automatic to 1.04? I forgot and too dang frustrated to even go read now.



Oh heck...I'm going to bed...I'm fed up.

[Trixor]

Sooo, i tried contacting Bioware's "live chat", turns out, it's just a stinking bot.

" Bill: Hi, my name is Bill. How may I help you?
Me: hello
Me: Let's get right to it: When is Dragon Age going to be fixed?
Bill: Please tell me what kind of issue you are facing with the game .
Me: how about all of them. Crashes, memory leaks, the works. From what i've heard and read, it's been like this since release, so, when's it getting fixed?
Bill: Please tell me on which platform you are playing the game .
Me: I got it on Steam about a week orso ago, and right now i'm at crash nr 100 (i've actually counted, to be sure)
Bill: Please follow some of troubleshooting steps .
Me: i've tried everything in there and, like many others, none of it fixes anything.
Bill: At least follow some of steps .
Me: again? no.
Me: This is not something we have to fix, this is something that needs to be patched. As i said, i tried all steps, i tried loads of the "community fixes" and nothing works.
Me: I even trimmed down my Windows services (have any idea how tedious that is?)
Bill: Please patch your game .
Bill: Patches for Dragon Age: Origins (PC)
http://help.dragonag.../detail/a_id/36

Me: omg, this is no live chat.. this is some chat-bot.. -.-'
Me: i'll remember this."

Modifié par Trixor, 25 janvier 2011 - 09:02 .

[Furtled]

Quick update. I followed the instructions and used the .exe file memory setting changes (originally designed for Fall Out 3) found in the link below, and it appears to have worked. Played with the graphics as high as was recommended for my system, went crazy with the magic and running into the fire and no crashes.



http://social.biowar...3999/31#2037048



Running the game on recommended settings, process priority set to high and running as admin - hope that helps and thanks to everyone who made suggestions upthread.

[sika40]

I think we should all be refunded for this game (DAO). Took me hours to install and finally got it running. Now crashing all the time.. worst game I own. And I have played a lot of computer games over a period of 30 years. I won't be purchasing DO2 or any other Bioware games in the near distant future, they got our money and have done nothing to solve this problem...

[jStarfall]

Decided to come back to this to finish up my Mage character prior to DA2 coming out, and now it crashes randomly.  Often in as little as 5-10 minutes after loading.  I do have some mods installed so I figured I'd go ahead and start a fresh character in the Awakenings campaign.  The game crashed in the middle of the character generation.  That would seem to rule out the mods I have installed, but I'm willing to listen to any suggestions.

Of course, maybe a computer restart will magically fix the problems.  Who can tell with these types of things.

[greywolf238]

I recently purchased the Ultimate edition, it's been a pain in the ass from the start, loads of install problems, got them resolved and it played ok for awhile, but now it seems to be crashing more often.

I have Never had so many problems with a game, this is ridiculious, I'm to aggravated to even play anymore.



Windows 7 x64

6Gb Ram

i7 950

Nvidia 460