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[Drlxius]

kindbond wrote...

My recipe for no more crashes!

After getting stuck in the final battle of both DA:Origin and Awakening because of crashes (crashes that has plagued me since the 1.03 patch came), I finally remembered an old solution from the SWKOTOR game: Lock the game to only use one processor!

In details (on Windows Vista 32bit): Open Task Manager, find "DAOrigins.exe" (or "Steam.exe" before launching the game from steam), rightclick and choose "Set affinity..." and then lock affinity to only one CPU (ie: Clear the check marks from all except one CPU.)

After that I finally could complete the final battle in both games without any crashes!

My system spects:
ATI Radeon HD 4800 series (Catalyst version 10.3 - newest drivers)
AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 2.8GHz
Gibabyte motherboard, fully updated drivers
Windows Vista 32bit, fully updated
3+ GB RAM (has 4GB but the last cannot be accessed by 32bit windows)

And actually, with those specs the game runs fine on just one core , hope this can help others who have been just as frustared about the game as I have been!

Congratulations, it's also a nice way to lose a high percentage of the performance.

[Jallard]

The bottom line is that the 1.03 patch is a bust and presumably so is the Awakening. I know that some players have had no problems and really liked the Awakening game: But, from what I can tell from the forum the Awakening isn't anything like the original DAO game, which is what I wanted to see and hoped that that's what I had paid for. I haven't even received the game from GameSpot yet; waiting now 12-days for it; and, already having not even played it I feel ripped off and very disappointed. I am still debating on whether or not to refuse delivery and have it sent back. No doubt they won't refund my $39.99, but rather resell it for another $39.99. Maybe I will just toss it in the trash?!?

[Scorpiotic]

hoping bioware will patch the patch soon... for the game now laggs waaay too much...

really annoying, no flow in gameplay...

[boxinacat]

I can't see my character in the character creator. This only happened after I installed Awakening and downloaded the patch.

[gediv]

Haven't played in over a month.  Just bought Awakenings and installed it.   Then I see a new patch is available and I install that.    In the middle the long final balltle I CTD.

"Hmn...   don't remember that happening before, let's pop on the forums and see what the dealio is"  says I. 


"Grrrr..... The suits bend the enthusiasts over one more time, back to something else untill they get their schit together". 

PS. Bioware.   I never pulled the trigger on Mass Effect 2 (never thought I'd pass on that in a million years).   You started out making custom wood furniture, but you are turning into Ikea.   bleh...

[-Semper-]

you ctd once and stopped playing?! little bit exaggerated don't you think?^^

[Jallard]

The wind has blown from my sail with playing DAO, what with the bugs and, for me especially, the disappointing Awakening expansion game. I am currently in the process of reinstalling EGOSOFT's X3 Terran Conflict. At lease when things break down with their games they fix them promptly. They don't run and hide like EA and BioWare does. However, I will check back to see if these turkeys fix the bugs.

[Varenus Luckmann]

Game crashes randomly just about everywhere, at any time.

[Donovan Du Bois]

Ok i need help, i installed this patch and my game wont even start. the "Play" button does nothing and i tried the fix they used for 1.01 it didnt work. Im running windows vista 32 bit and didnt have a single problem before the patch. The patch auto installed with awakening.

[Inavette]

Drlxius wrote...

kindbond wrote...

My recipe for no more crashes!

After getting stuck in the final battle of both DA:Origin and Awakening because of crashes (crashes that has plagued me since the 1.03 patch came), I finally remembered an old solution from the SWKOTOR game: Lock the game to only use one processor!

In details (on Windows Vista 32bit): Open Task Manager, find "DAOrigins.exe" (or "Steam.exe" before launching the game from steam), rightclick and choose "Set affinity..." and then lock affinity to only one CPU (ie: Clear the check marks from all except one CPU.)

After that I finally could complete the final battle in both games without any crashes!

My system spects:
ATI Radeon HD 4800 series (Catalyst version 10.3 - newest drivers)
AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 2.8GHz
Gibabyte motherboard, fully updated drivers
Windows Vista 32bit, fully updated
3+ GB RAM (has 4GB but the last cannot be accessed by 32bit windows)

And actually, with those specs the game runs fine on just one core , hope this can help others who have been just as frustared about the game as I have been!

Congratulations, it's also a nice way to lose a high percentage of the performance.

This certainly helped me, it was a bit slow running only on one core but I played non-stop for 7 hours and not a single crash, hopefully it will last until the end of the game, which is soon, just to kill the mother now....Thanks...

[Jallard]

After waiting nearly two weeks I finally heard from EA Tech Support with the standard reply message: "Uninstall and reinstall the game. Be care to save your saved games first. Yadda, yadda, and yadda." Now, the only problem is how can I reinstall the digital version when the setup.exe files don't save to my hard drive?!? The download manager only says play?????????

[Vitreous Humor]

I can confirm that for me at least DrIxius' single-core fix works to markedly reduce or eliminate the Crash to Desktop for my game at least. But it causes the game to stutter badly in battle occasionally. I have a 3 core Phenom, I wonder what it is about multi-cores that seems to bring on these crashes?

[mollari22]

Vitreous Humor wrote...

I have a 3 core Phenom, I wonder what it is about multi-cores that seems to bring on these crashes?

umm...poor coding?

[coadsd]

I have a triple core processor and locking to 2 cores seems to stop all the crashes to the desktop but now the game does not run as nice. I did not start playing this game till after the 1.03 was released so I have never played this game when it ran well.

[coadsd]

anyone notice in the "Dragon Age: Origins Configuration Utility" that if you click on the system icon it will list only 1 core for your multi core processor.  Maybe that has something to do with the issue?

[carlosjuero]

Jallard wrote...

After waiting nearly two weeks I finally heard from EA Tech Support with the standard reply message: "Uninstall and reinstall the game. Be care to save your saved games first. Yadda, yadda, and yadda." Now, the only problem is how can I reinstall the digital version when the setup.exe files don't save to my hard drive?!? The download manager only says play?????????

You go into Control Panel -> Programs & Features (Vista and 7; Add/Remove Programs for XP) and uninstall it through there. Then the DLM button will change from 'Play' to 'Install'.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

More to report on my attempts to get 1.03 to run.

Used MS’s Virtual-PC 2007 on my Win-7 64-bit host, and assigned the host's DVD/CD drive to the VM Win XP-SP3 machine, where it mapped to Drive D: by default. Then did a full install of DA:O on the VM from the retail PC disc in "Drive D:".

The install went smoothly with the disc detected, and all folders and files found and read normally. But, when it came time to "Play", I got the "Failed to authenticate the disk" error almost immediately. No sign of disc access. No drive spin-up, no activity light, just the error message.

Anyone else tried to install the retail PC disc version in a VM?

My *guess* is that EA (still!) uses some copy protection scheme that relies on a direct call to the hardware, (even though Windows XP/Vista/7 isn't supposed to allow that) for non-standard access to some part of the "genuine" disc.

So, it's back to DA:O and 1.02 for now. At least there are still several specializations I haven't tried yet… (sigh)



--Thandal

Death becomes her

[Varenus Luckmann]

Enjoy.

Modifié par Varenus Luckmann, 29 mars 2010 - 04:15 .

[Varenus Luckmann]

coadsd wrote...
I have a triple core processor and locking to 2 cores seems to stop all the crashes to the desktop but now the game does not run as nice. I did not start playing this game till after the 1.03 was released so I have never played this game when it ran well.

"Ran well" still included a fair bit of crashes for a fair bit of people.

Supposedly not near as many as post-1.03, but I can't honestly tell a difference. I had random crashes with 1.00 and I have random crashes with 1.03. More, or less, I can't be sure.

[InebriatedPizza]

Again, another random crash, in the encounter with Beyha Joam and his band of merry men.

My character (Warrior) was under the spell of Paralysis and I clicked Allistair's Cleanse Area ability. It was as if clicking the ability caused the game to crash.

Earlier I also experienced a crash when slaying an Abomination. It happened just before the moment when the Abomination explodes posthumously.

Modifié par InebriatedPizza, 29 mars 2010 - 10:12 .

[Dawglicous]

While I think this whole Bioware Bazaar thing is cool, I find it sad that it seems they put all their time into readying that, while still giving no answers to the complaints on the patch here. I understand that they were likely busy preparing the Bazaar, but some acknowledgment would be nice at least. It's just seems that since only some of us are complaining and having issues, they have chosen to not concern themselves over it, because enough people are NOT complaining and just chugging through the game, bugs or not. I feel that if Chris Priestly or one of the Bioware team at least popped into one of the numerous threads about the CTD's, it would help a little. Yes, people would still be mad about the patch, but it's better then feeling like you have been left in the cold.

[mme8]

 I found that using just a single core helped me especially on the third staircase before the mother, which was unplayable when using two cores. I also found that I got rid of most of the CTD's by moving from 10.3 preview catalyst drivers to the final 10.3 catalysts but still had very poor performance. Is everyone effected by this issue using AMD processors?

[Zepplin_Rules]

3 weeks...

[mkmr]

coadsd wrote...

anyone notice in the "Dragon Age: Origins Configuration Utility" that if you click on the system icon it will list only 1 core for your multi core processor.  Maybe that has something to do with the issue?

Me too.
intel core i7 960
3.20GHz

Windows 7 reconizes all 4 processers  DAO only sees 1