This sucks, I don't know what to do or where to go to vent my frustrations and disappointment except this forum. I've waited...and waited...and waited...to simply get a functioning game months after I shelled out $60 (Only for them to promo it for $40 2 weeks later). I'm mind boggled as to why they would do this to the PC community...I have tried every hot fix, every workaround, and here I am, January 22nd, a die hard DA fan, spirit totally crushed.
SLI GTX 770 4gb x4, I7@4.6 GHZ, and everything overclocked and copper piped open loop water cooled. On top of that i typically Incorporate a ram drive and have a few SSD's dedicated solely to games. So it's not like i'm running with grandpa's OG mac...I can't play for more than 10 minutes without either A) CTD or
Blackscreen and upon re entering full screen or windowed mode complete audio loss and artifacts and screen tearing the likes of which I have never experienced. So after 39 hours of this (not even joking, i've brute forced my way through CTD after CTD) It's gotten so insanely frustrating that I can only laugh. In fact last week I made a playlist entitled "Dragon Age Inquistion" with 3 songs, Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley, Mad World by Gary Jules, Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, and just roll it before I fire up the game. It almost religiously crashes at the 3rd track and I laugh and die a little inside.
I replayed origins and DA2 before the release of inquistion just to prepare myself (logged 200+ hours). I threw my instincts and morals to the wind and decided to pre-order (I think it's destroying the gaming industry) and this is what we get in return? A heap of buggy garbage which by the time it's properly patched will be sitting in the origin bargain bin for $30 and picked up by people who didn't care enough about the game or the developers enough to support them at the $60 sticker price at launch.
What hurts the most is knowing this game will never be the experience it should have been. Despite some inherent flaws in gameplay mechanics, tactical camera, auto-attack, etc, the lore of Dragon Age and the emotions that these characters and universe have made me feel have kept me coming back hoping for that same experience...why rush out a game knowing it has issues and punish the day 1 fans who are most loyal to your cause? Instead of remembering this as an emotion packed epic journey through Thedas I'll remember it for the hair-pulling bugs and resentment. I'll never get to look back with fondness and recall this or that like I did with Origins...
It's time to make things right Bioware...