Dragon Age PC Tech Problems (Some warning would have been nice)

[Talendra]

It's the same with any game really. There are so many different combination's of hardware, some will have problems to start with.
I have 45 hours playtime (Yes I play way to much, bioware games always do this to me) and have not crashed once. As others have said, update your drivers, and if that doesn't help, hopefully a patch will fix it for you shortly.

 

[DTWolfwood]

luck of the draw when it comes to PC rigs :/

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I've never had any problems with it, unless you count dieing often.

 

[DesertHawk]

I've never had any problems with it, unless you count dieing often.

lol. Yes, Dieing is a common pastime in Dragon Age.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I've never had any problems with it, unless you count dieing often.

lol. Yes, Dieing is a common pastime in Dragon Age.

What really sucks about it is when you start racking up those injuries, because those injury kits seems to be rather scarce.

 

[Good morning blues]

Sounds like these problems are pretty rare, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if the reviewers never came across them. It's not like they're playing their games on several dozen different computers just in case it doesn't work on one of them, you know.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

I can't play the damn game either! It runs for about 10-5 minutes and then it explodes into an orgy of polygons and flickering! Not to mention this causes BSOD from time to time. I have updated the damn drivers to the most recent ones and still nothing. I removed Warden's Keep and it fixed it. I was very glad and played for about 10 hours yesterday. Today I return home and start the game. After about 30 minutes the orgy starts again!

How can I enjoy a game when it's trying to fuck itself along with my pc?

 

[Hiphophippo]

Whats your specs? It helps to know.

Forgive me, I dont have the exact specs for my cpu:

CPU: AMD 3.2 Ghz dual-core (I think)
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: Nvidia GTX 285
OS: Windows XP

EDIT: corrected slight spelling mistake.

My laptop is a core 2 duo 2.13, 4gb of ram, and a Nvidia GTX 260m running windows 7 and I don't have these problems at all. Maybe I'm lucky? Or maybe it's your xp.

I'm just grasping here.

 

[Crimsane]

I can't play the damn game either! It runs for about 10-5 minutes and then it explodes into an orgy of polygons and flickering! Not to mention this causes BSOD from time to time. I have updated the damn drivers to the most recent ones and still nothing. I removed Warden's Keep and it fixed it. I was very glad and played for about 10 hours yesterday. Today I return home and start the game. After about 30 minutes the orgy starts again!

How can I enjoy a game when it's trying to fuck itself along with my pc?

Sounds like a problem with your PC.

 

[ravensshade]

p.s. have this kind of problem when i play Empire: Total War. Late game you crash like almost after every turn

hah i had that in shogun if i earned to much koku or did real time battles with 2 sides of full stacks XD
anyway OT
i've yet to buy it but i have heard nobody i know complain about crashes

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Sounds like a problem with your PC.

No and if I hear this again I will explode into a fireball! I believe it was physx. I disabled it and sat the whole night playing (I just finished and am tired as fuck). I guess I will be sure tomorrow.

 

[Crimsane]

That falls under category of problem with your PC! As opposed to problem with game itself.

 

[Mr.Black]

Whats your specs? It helps to know.

Forgive me, I dont have the exact specs for my cpu:

CPU: AMD 3.2 Ghz dual-core (I think)
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: Nvidia GTX 285
OS: Windows XP

EDIT: corrected slight spelling mistake.

Why are you using XP? Since 7 is out you really should update. XP is severely outdated and you're gimping yourself by using it. They aren't making games tailored to XP anymore, it's all about Vista and 7.

 

[DRADIS C0ntact]

If it was a common problem, chances are I'd have experienced it. But my game hasn't crashed once. Maybe it's just a problem on your PC's end.

 

[Bjorg3in]

I can't play the damn game either! It runs for about 10-5 minutes and then it explodes into an orgy of polygons and flickering! Not to mention this causes BSOD from time to time. I have updated the damn drivers to the most recent ones and still nothing. I removed Warden's Keep and it fixed it. I was very glad and played for about 10 hours yesterday. Today I return home and start the game. After about 30 minutes the orgy starts again!

How can I enjoy a game when it's trying to fuck itself along with my pc?

This sounds like an overheating GPU problem. Try cleaning out your PC of all dust and dirt; if that doesn't work try overclocking the fan in RivaTuner.

 

[The Night Shade]

In my pc Dragon Age shows the blue screen every time i enter Denerim

 

[koichan]

I feel it may be due to the game maxing CPU usage

Sorry, i have to point out this part.

It may be you're having unrelated problems as well. But if your PC is overheating because of CPU usage you HAVE A HARDWARE/COOLING PROBLEM.

Doesn't matter how badly coded a piece of software is, if your PC can't handle 100% loading (all cores) of CPU and GPU at the same time without overheating the problem is your hardware not software.

Sorry for the rant, i'm just fed up of seeing companies get shouted at on forums for making games that actually properly use modern multi-core CPUs.

They should be praised for making proper multi-threaded code, not berated!

 

[Russian_Assassin]

This sounds like an overheating GPU problem. Try cleaning out your PC of all dust and dirt; if that doesn't work try overclocking the fan in RivaTuner.

Since I hate fucking around with programs and my pc components, I just disabled Physx and it worked like a charm.

 

[The Madman]

This sounds like an overheating GPU problem. Try cleaning out your PC of all dust and dirt; if that doesn't work try overclocking the fan in RivaTuner.

Since I hate fucking around with programs and my pc components, I just disabled Physx and it worked like a charm.

He's right, the problem you described sounds exactly like an overheating GPU problem. If you don't clean up some the problem can gradually escalate till even basic programs are capable of overheating your computer and eventually something gets cooked. Not good!

Just crack open your case and give it a good dusting. Cans of compressed air are cheap and easily found at any office supply store, use one of them to get the dust out of the computer fans and from between delicate components.

And even if it isn't the source of the problem it's still good to give your computer a good cleaning every once and awhile anyway, no harm done.

 

[Outamyhead]

I've only experienced the minimizing to desktop issue, that was resolved by getting rid of AVG 9, other than that, it runs perfectly on my system, and I have physics disabled since nothing really utilizes the feature.

Yeah it sounds like something is screwed up with your system, and yeah 20 minutes into a session sounds like a heat problem, damn good clean with compressed air in the GPU heatsink and fan, CPU fan could probably do with a clean as well, if that doesn't do it, then try re-seating memory and GPU, after that, I'd start looking at the operating system, maybe a graphics driver problem, or the OS is screwed up somehow.