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[Handsome Hank]

My hypothesis: In general, while playing as a mage I get far more CTDs than as a warrior or rogue.  So something related to mages is causing me to CTD.

 

Over the past several days I rolled four new mages and timed their CTDs. I averaged them throwing out the lowest and highest play times.  I then tried to average the CTD times on my warrior and rogue.  These were all tested in the Hinterlands with the same party and same settings on nightmare difficulty for a period of five hours.  All mages had the same skills chosen entirely from the lightning tree and were of different races and genders. 

 

Mage 1 CTD Average: 28 minutes 

Mage 2 CTD Average: 37 minutes

Mage 3 CTD Average: 31 minutes

Mage 4 CTD Average: 1 hour 44 minutes

 

Rogue CTD Average: 4 hours 39 minutes (only one crash)

Warrior CTD Average: nil

 

My request: Sample size matters.  My experiences may be aberrant.  Or I may not understand what I am doing to cause these crashes.  The issue might not be related to mages at all.

 

It would be really great if others with CTD issues could help test this.  I still need to test the other skill trees to verify that it isn't something specifically in the lightning tree. Only one zone was checked.  Only Solas, Varric and Cassandra were used.  And the more samples from every class the better.  

 

If you would like to help me out, all you would need to do is record the time between your CTDs for a period and report your class, party, zone(s) and skill trees being used.  Thank you.  Any kind of help narrowing down unknown CTD issues would be useful.

 

 

Average CTD: 

Testing Time: 

Class: 

Party: 

Zone: 

Skill Trees: 

 

 

-DISCLAIMER-  This is not a complaint. It is not a bug report. It is a request for help, to have some useful data and possibly help Bioware resolve issues related to CTDs.

[Quaddis]

Man your game crashes a lot, i would be pissed.

[Handsome Hank]

Only when playing a mage for some reason.  And strangely, never in the mountains where you start (whatever they are called).  

[ReadingRambo220]

I would guess it has something to do with the spell effects; id suggest turning them down for the time being until future patches

[Tevinter Soldier]

played for 73 hours as mage. not one crash. although the goddamn dialogue bugs went into overdrive late game. it was pretty much "oh look a cutscene time to go to the loo/get something to eat/put dinner on/pick up the kids/check the car's fluids/ring the wife tell her to get take away because i forgot i put dinner on and burnt it."

[Kantr]

Only bugs I've had are the camera spinning around and around which also goes into the settings.

 

(speeds up in Tac Cam)

[Handsome Hank]

I just did a short test.  I was able to play a mage for about a couple of hours using just the fire and spirit trees.  I am starting to suspect that it is the lightning tree causing the issues.  I know many of the skills in the lightning tree are not functioning properly, so it could be a related issue.  

 

 

@ReadingRambo220

That was my first thought as well.  I have not noticed any significant difference with the settings turned down or up, aside from performance issues.  The tests were with everything on medium.  I normally play with every setting maxxed without any difficulties.  

 

@Tevinter Soldier

For the sake of curiosity, do you use anything from the lightning tree?  If so, what?  Knowing that could help me locate the source of the CTDs.  

[MKDAWUSS]

I've gotten it rather frequently. It seems to be mostly during conversations.

[Tevinter Soldier]

I just did a short test.  I was able to play a mage for about a couple of hours using just the fire and spirit trees.  I am starting to suspect that it is the lightning tree causing the issues.  I know many of the skills in the lightning tree are not functioning properly, so it could be a related issue.  

 

 

@ReadingRambo220

That was my first thought as well.  I have not noticed any significant difference with the settings turned down or up, aside from performance issues.  The tests were with everything on medium.  I normally play with every setting maxxed without any difficulties.  

 

@Tevinter Soldier

For the sake of curiosity, do you use anything from the lightning tree?  If so, what?  Knowing that could help me locate the source of the CTDs.  

 

just chain lightning and the one that randomly strikes every 13 seconds or so i don't use lightning tree.

[Handsome Hank]

just chain lightning and the one that randomly strikes every 13 seconds or so i don't use lightning tree.

 

Thanks.  That helps.  It definitely supports the idea that there is a bug in the lightning tree causing these issues.

[Kimarous]

What the heck is a "CTD"?

[CENIC]

I've had a couple CTDs and they seem to happen when I'm in tac cam and switching rapidly between characters.

I do have Dorian in my party and he uses Storm spells, so there might be a connection! I have a feeling it might be the spell effects as someone else suggested already.

[artgeek25]

played as a mage also 65 hours and only one crash to desktop i also had a gpu crash error but that was due to me overclocking.

[Jaron Oberyn]

Provided your on PC, you may want to let us know your specs. That seems to be more of an issue than the game. I've played mages for 2 playthroughs and haven't had any issues with CTDs. 

[Handsome Hank]

I have been playing a mage for 5 hours without a single CTD now.  All I did was not use any lightning spells except for chain lightning.  So I think it is definitely a lightning-related bug causing the crashes.  I hope somebody at Bioware sees this thread.  

 

M17xR4

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

i7-3840 QM 3.8 GHZ

32 GB DDR4 RAM

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 4096 MB

 

Everything has been updated and all suggested CTD fixes I could find on Google have been attempted.  My next step is to load up on lightning spells again and see if I get a CTD.

[Handsome Hank]

played as a mage also 65 hours and only one crash to desktop i also had a gpu crash error but that was due to me overclocking.

 

Did you use any lightning spells?

[Handsome Hank]

What the heck is a "CTD"?

crash to desktop