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[lbgsloan]

Well, thought I'd check back after a few months to see if a patch addressing the load times had finally been released so I could start a second playthrough. Shockingly, there was; but now I get random crashes and pickpocket is broken. Any eta on a new patch to fix the broken patch? Of course not. Fantastic support as usual EA. How's that latest DLC suckerware coming along? Sorry Bioware, but your products are no longer worth considering on the PC thanks to EA. I don't care if you want to release medoicre expansions and DLC, but I do at least expect your products to actually work without serious techincal issues. I think it's just time to uninstall this buggy POS and forget about it.



Others are correct; with the expansion release EA very likely aren't going to issue any more patches for the original. That's how they operate and I feel like such a fool for falling for it one last time.

[Popeandy]

lbgsloan wrote...

Well, thought I'd check back after a few months to see if a patch addressing the load times had finally been released so I could start a second playthrough. Shockingly, there was; but now I get random crashes and pickpocket is broken. Any eta on a new patch to fix the broken patch? Of course not. Fantastic support as usual EA. How's that latest DLC suckerware coming along? Sorry Bioware, but your products are no longer worth considering on the PC thanks to EA. I don't care if you want to release medoicre expansions and DLC, but I do at least expect your products to actually work without serious techincal issues. I think it's just time to uninstall this buggy POS and forget about it.

Others are correct; with the expansion release EA very likely aren't going to issue any more patches for the original. That's how they operate and I feel like such a fool for falling for it one last time.

Agreed. We were all lied to we were all tricked and we lost out money. Why would Bioware do this? They had an amazing track record before why all of a sudden would they actually release such a terrible bugged out patch / expansion / DLC packs? I literally paid $40 for 6 hours of buggy gameplay with constant crashes. Not only that but I did not like the characters, the story, the combat was not fun anymore due to terrible balance, nothing from the first game seemed to impact Awakening, the ending was terrible and seemed to not matter what you even did from the first. Overall I really hope people are smart enough to read reviews before buying this. I unfortunately likely like many others pre-ordered the game as being a fan of Origins (which I haven't played since the patch release.)

But yeah much the same I came back after long periods of waiting I figured I could give Bioware some time to get something done but still no response back. Sad.

[sherlock65]

Sorry if (quite likely) already asked, but just quick reply me please as a rapid browseof some posts let me worried.

I just bought awakening. Haven't played for some time DA:O and checked what's latest patch. Discovered this thread and became quite terrified (I have 64bit 6GB and i3 and see several problems of CTD related with all of three, not to mention the other things).

WIth Origins I stayed on 1.1 because I didn't like many of the changhes in 1.02. I don't want to install an espansion and then spend more time in forum-searching for workaround to solve bugs than in playing the game!



My question: is it absolutely necessary to install 1.03 in order to install and play Awakening?



P.S.: if answer is "yes", this means I will NOT install DA:A until a newer patch solving problems comes out. (Of course in the meantime I will neither buy ANY Bioware game, and will do my best to talk about this thing on any social network I know, in order to use the "power" customers have in the era of viral marketing and Web2.0.)

[Edge12674]

YES! Awakenings and the Feastday DLC both require 1.03. If you wish to try either of these be prepared to walk away from playing the game for the foreseeable future. Bioware really dropped the ball on fixing this patch. It took MONTHS just for them to even post that they are looking into this problem. It may be several months more (if ever) before we finally see a solution!

[Xiol32]

Is there still not a fix out for the CTDs after 1.03?



This has been going on for months. It is completely unacceptable.



Bioware, you have seriously lost my respect.

[gizmert]

The game hasn't been worth playing since 1.3.



I tried for a while with regular saves, but I just can't be bothered losing so much progress if you forget to save. It's ruined an otherwise fantastic game. Very poor.

[Desasosiego]

Well... there goes Bioware...



Sad to see nice devs ending up like this, I'm glad I didn't put money into Awakening.

This is ridiculous.

[Phonantiphon]

Played it through with the patch - had no problems, and that was with the Awakening expansion as well. I think you're all being way too melodramatic.

[Jallard]

bassmunkee wrote...

Played it through with the patch - had no problems, and that was with the Awakening expansion as well. I think you're all being way too melodramatic.

At first I was pretty outspoken about all of the bugs, after installing the 1.03 patch --before I purchased and installed the Awakening.  As I stated in another thread the Awakening disk also had the 1.03 patch. After I installed the Awakening some of those bugs seemed to disappear. However, I am still crashing to the desktop: sometimes a lot and sometimes hardly ever. I learned to save often, though sometime I too forget.

I have played through The Awakening twice now and am working on a third play-through.

I was talking with a friend who is not only an avid gammer, but knows programming. When I was telling him about all of the bugs and the crashes to the desktop, here is what he said:

"A lot of times when you start or resume a saved game the video driver or the game itself is trying to render something in the saved game and when it can't the game crashes to the desktop."

Of late I have played for several hours without a crash. But being always aware or is that oblivious?  I can never remember!?!  I try and save extremely often. I don't know if that helps anyone, but this is my two cents worth?!?

Modifié par Jallard, 25 avril 2010 - 07:42 .

[Desasosiego]

bassmunkee wrote...

Played it through with the patch - had no problems, and that was with the Awakening expansion as well. I think you're all being way too melodramatic.

No we aren't. We are having issues that make the game unplayable while you don't have them, that's why you don't see the point.

See any progress on my chars? No? That should say a lot.

I don't think a rollback patch is too much of a burden, especially knowing that this issue is not only happening on pcs.

I'm sure you are very happy with your game, I can understand that you like the company as a fan, hey I used to be a fan myself, but yes, this is ridiculous.

[InebriatedPizza]

This one has stopped playing until we get a patch that fixes the patch.

[searanox]

InebriatedPizza wrote...

This one has stopped playing until we get a patch that fixes the patch.

I'm still playing Origins, but I refuse to play through Awakening with all the bugs in it.  Duplicate characters during dialogue sequences, scripting bugs, party member approval bugs, quest-breaking bugs, bugs that cause your character to teleport to inaccessable parts of the map, Power of Blood abilities not working, the fact that difficulty setting apparently has no effect whatsoever on how hard the game is... it really is a giant mess.  BioWare, you have a damned near unplayable product on your hands, and your customers are highly unsatisfied - to the point where they are not just refusing to buy your products, but refusing to buy all of EA's products as well.

[WonderGamer]

bassmunkee wrote...

Played it through with the patch - had no problems, and that was with the Awakening expansion as well. I think you're all being way too melodramatic.

I have a friend that said she doesn't have these problems, although she patched the game with the Awakenings disc rather than using the downloadable patcher.  Don't know if that makes a difference or not, but she also mentioned that she does not use MODs either.  I pointed out to her that Official MODs (DLC) are MODs nonetheless & she agreed to that & that she did use those; she uses no other MODs though.  Although I've heard people say in this thread that disabling MODs did not fix their issue, so the question in that matter would be did they patch with the Awakenings disc or with the patcher?  I'm guessing the issue is with the patcher, not with the patch itself.  I'm half-tempted to do a fresh install & patch directly up to 1.03 with no other patches in the middle to see if it makes a difference.  It may be that some data is getting corrupted/cross-referanced between patches that is creating bugs that shouldn't be there.

Modifié par WonderGamer, 26 avril 2010 - 03:12 .

[wolfwarp]

Jallard wrote...

I was talking with a friend who is not only an avid gammer, but knows programming. When I was telling him about all of the bugs and the crashes to the desktop, here is what he said:

"A lot of times when you start or resume a saved game the video driver or the game itself is trying to render something in the saved game and when it can't the game crashes to the desktop."

Of late I have played for several hours without a crash. But being always aware or is that oblivious?  I can never remember!?!  I try and save extremely often. I don't know if that helps anyone, but this is my two cents worth?!?

Thanks for sharing. I can relate. That happened to me when I mess with the mods with Oblivion. And if that is the case, I would expect BioWare to help migrating our saved files for patch 1.03 because a patch has to work for both fresh start of a game and for those who have invested close to a hundred hours into the game.

OK. I may start a fresh DAO toon based on your observation and would expect zero crash on patch 1.03, like my gaming experience with 1.02.

[dragonsouce]

bassmunkee wrote...

Played it through with the patch - had no problems, and that was with the Awakening expansion as well. I think you're all being way too melodramatic.

It's your hardware you lucked out what are your stats? And if your got no bugs why the H#ll are you even posting here? Just to call us Melodramatic? Do something constructive and post your stats.

Nearly every one who had problems Have CPU intell muli cores and or onboard sound cards the game just crashes . These are not strange or uncommon configration. EA Dropped the ball end of story.
these are my stats Windows 7 64 bit 2 sli Geforce 9800 gt 6 gigs of ram CPU quad Q9400
2.66 GHz
not steem real cd install
We are not lieing nor are we being melodramatic.

The game unplayble for quite a few people in my case it it crashes in combat after 2 minutes and freezes I need to reboot my PC to get out of the Freeze. 
The Game I payed for dose not run on the System it used to work on.

1.03 is  full of major errors. EA even Admited (as a excuse) that they never tested 1.03 on a windows 64 bit system. As they had the original game and the other patches as if that was are fault of the users and not them for being lazy or forgetful for not testing IT!(they forgot to mention that till after the release of said patch)

News Flash the game was not sold to us as being none system 64 bit Quad core compatable.
OR dose it say on the box I am looking at that it is only 32 bit comatable ? Funny My CD box dose not say any such thing.

So Why the H#LL did they not test it on window 64 as the did the rest of the patches and original game????
Lazy or stupid take your pick.

 
So YES we are kind of mad.


Since Technical Support
Will NOT even Answear us by email with sorry we are working on it!!!!!

Modifié par dragonsouce, 26 avril 2010 - 06:25 .

[Popeandy]

Bump. I will NOT stand by and see this thread die until the day the issues are solved. Bioware....make sure your game is working properly before you rush release it and get to work on the next project... though it may seem like a great idea to take short cuts and charge too much for Awakening you will hurt future customers. I say this as it seems Bioware can care less about players and just cares about how much money they can squeeze out of us.

[Jallard]

dragonsouce wrote...

bassmunkee wrote...

Played it through with the patch - had no problems, and that was with the Awakening expansion as well. I think you're all being way too melodramatic.

It's your hardware you lucked out what are your stats? And if your got no bugs why the H#ll are you even posting here? Just to call us Melodramatic? Do something constructive and post your stats.

Nearly every one who had problems Have CPU intell muli cores and or onboard sound cards the game just crashes . These are not strange or uncommon configration. EA Dropped the ball end of story.
these are my stats Windows 7 64 bit 2 sli Geforce 9800 gt 6 gigs of ram CPU quad Q9400
2.66 GHz
not steem real cd install
We are not lieing nor are we being melodramatic.

The game unplayble for quite a few people in my case it it crashes in combat after 2 minutes and freezes I need to reboot my PC to get out of the Freeze. 
The Game I payed for dose not run on the System it used to work on.

1.03 is  full of major errors. EA even Admited (as a excuse) that they never tested 1.03 on a windows 64 bit system. As they had the original game and the other patches as if that was are fault of the users and not them for being lazy or forgetful for not testing IT!(they forgot to mention that till after the release of said patch)

News Flash the game was not sold to us as being none system 64 bit Quad core compatable.
OR dose it say on the box I am looking at that it is only 32 bit comatable ? Funny My CD box dose not say any such thing.

So Why the H#LL did they not test it on window 64 as the did the rest of the patches and original game????
Lazy or stupid take your pick.

 
So YES we are kind of mad.


Since Technical Support
Will NOT even Answear us by email with sorry we are working on it!!!!!

Time of this report: 4/26/2010, 14:29:18
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I have the downloaded version of DAO Deluxe, but the Awakening was installed from disk.

Modifié par Jallard, 26 avril 2010 - 09:35 .

[atomaweapon]

Dang I remember way back when when this thread was 28 pages long, now it's ballooned to 40 and still not one single "HEY WE'RE WORKING ON IT" from Bio in this whole thing.

I mean I'm patient but sheesh, atleast say WERE WORKING ON IT!

Modifié par atomaweapon, 27 avril 2010 - 01:27 .

[Marcus Aurelius]

I must admit it is really annoying due to that 1.03 patch awakening I have no crashes in combat but in origins now I do, quite frustrating I find myself hyper-saving just so I don't have to do so much over and over

[Tymorin]

I might have good news for some people... (Skip to the last line if you don't want to read my story)



Before patch 1.03 I had played through all of the origin stories and beaten the game once. I felt like playing again and downloaded the patch only to find that the game would randomly crash in combat. At least the load times were better, and I played for about 10 hours saving often. In that 10 hours I bet the game crashed 6 times.



I had read on the forums already that 1.03 was buggy, but some people claimed they had no problems at all. I'm on a 64bit OS with a quad core, but what I think is *actually* causing my game to crash is playing characters made before patch 1.03. I say this because I've played 10 hours on a newly made character, and had no crashes at all. If I were to guess, its got something to do with how they changed the character sheets around.



It might look like only a graphic change from one page on the book to another, but maybe it could have something to do with it. It might be messing up because when your stats change in combat, from getting your armour sundered etc, the game gets confused. Because of the new format, it could be possible that when something changed on your character sheet and it can't find the right data to modify anymore.



Just something else to look at other than just purely hardware issues.



Long story short, try making a brand new character AFTER downloading patch 1.03 and see if you have the same crashes, because I have had no troubles with my new character. That still sucks if you were far along into the game, but until a fix is released you might have an option to play without bugs.

[K_man]

I haven't posted here for a while. I'm really angry I can't play the game I paid good money for. I've been engaged in email tennis with EA support - (who will NOT refund or credit me under any circumstances I've been told) - and this is in the latest email to me. I quote:

Regretfully we do not have information on if or when a fix will be put in place. They are however collecting data from the community and are examining solutions if they determine enough customers have the problem and the problem is technically addressable with a patch, or if a work around is possible. The development thread on this issue is http://social.biowar...9/index/541856. Certainly development will use the information gathered to ensure that this problem does not occur in future releases, however it is impossible to guarantee that this will ever be fixed in the current version.

That's where I'm at. NEVER, NEVER again. Bioware - it was nice knowing you.

[Desasosiego]

Long story short, try making a brand new character AFTER downloading patch 1.03 and see if you have the same crashes, because I have had no troubles with my new character. That still sucks if you were far along into the game, but until a fix is released you might have an option to play without bugs.

Yup, still crashing.

Specs, in case we do find something in common:

Win7 x64, 4Gb Ram, Asus Mainboard w/ VIA HD onboard audio, i7 860 CPU, nVidia 260GTX G card.

Edit: But this is nonsensical since game freezes in console version too, we can all dance running arround our machines summoning them by shouting their name 3 times in a row, it's going to do the same work...

Modifié par Desasosiego, 27 avril 2010 - 12:52 .

[Bassooner]

Good news! On their homepage BioWare announced new apparel for sale in its store! It's mod-able and guaranteed bug free!

[Morddrath]

I have been troubled with crashes too after installing the 1.03 patch.

I discovered that if I set the affinity to just 2 cores it isn't crashing as much. Its still somewhat annoying though,

[WonderGamer]

Bassooner wrote...

Good news! On their homepage BioWare announced new apparel for sale in its store! It's mod-able and guaranteed bug free!

Pfft.  It if requires 1.03 to run it, then I'm not even going to touch it until the new patch comes out (I already got the Feastday packages without doing my homework on the patch).  The new DLC packages are not worth the bugfest that 1.03 causes.